would love to trade... have some morning glory, just bought for this year and rose of sharon, moonvine, marigold african medallion yellow, 6 seeds of cosmos sonata mix colors. will be getting other seeds from family this week. please email me back if you are interested. I do have some daylilies. I bought from a lily enthusiast I do have pictures of the blooms but i forgot the names. i can email pics if you want to see. Billie

I'm not so good at knowing strains but, I can tell you that I bought seeds from Mr. Fothergills, TM, and Garden's North. I've had good germination on all of them. Valueseeds has some Primulas listed on their site now (including Candelabras, which are not perennial below Zone 6.) I've mostly Fall Sowed mine (using WSing method, but doing it in the fall) and brought them indoors for the winter. I have about four to six varieties indoors now-- two of them were Fall Sowed last year, and bloomed this year. I didn't get a chance to get them in the ground). I did Fall Sow a couple others which I planted out as seedlings (hoping it was soon enough for them to survive). I think Primulas are big in England....so you may want to check out Chilterns cataloge online. They seem to have a wide variety. Also, I don't know what the difference is exactly between Polyanthus and Primulas...but sometimes seed companies include them under the same name. Linda Here is a link that might be useful: Primulas at Chilterns

I have lots of primrose all around my yard in lots of different colors and they are all blooming. Most of my plants are getting very large and can be divided into a dozen or more each. I have them in pinks, reds, yellows, burgundy, and purples. They've been blooming for several weeks already and show no sign of slowing down. I've saved seed each year and when I set new plants out, they bloom in late summer and fall, then come back strong the next spring. I plan on saving seed again this year. You have to watch the flower stalks closely, and as soon as they turn brown, cut them off and put them in a container to completely dry and the seeds will just fall out. If you don't catch them early enough, look closely next year and you'll find seedlings near the mother plant, as mine do self-seed. I've even had to dig them out of the grass, as the seed fell onto the lawn and the new seedling grew there. I'd be willing to share seed after I gather some.

I'm blaming it on this thread, I seeded two flats of the 'Cowichan strain' primulas the beginning of the month in a seed starting mix covered with a bit of sand. These trays are also covered with clear plastic domes to keep the birds from scratching in them and also to keep the %$#@ slugs and snails off them. Since they like cool weather to germinate they are outside sitting on my potting bench in the lath house. One tray is seed with mixed colors, the other with just blues, I'm hoping at least one of the blues will be the same as the one that was stolen from my garden years ago, these will be moved to the greenhouse once they are up and growing. I noticed today they are starting to germinate, such tiny specks of green I went in and got the magnifying glass just to make sure, these old eyes aren't as sharp as they used to be. AGAIN yet another theft, someone has been in my greenhouse and pinched my very nice min/max thermometer, one you set manually, a Christmas gift from our oldest boy. Needless to say I was pissed off, sorry but that is the politest phrase I can think of at the moment, the greenhouse is now kept locked all the time which is also a pain you know where, especially when you're standing outside the door with arms full and remember the door is locked and the key is in the house. Camp, the cardiocrinum seed still has away to go before it's ready for harvesting but it's getting there :). Annette