Hi pvmiscaccount, Welcome to The Seed Exchange. Please see addressing newbie and newer member issues for instructions on getting your member Page email link set up so that you can easily be reached for trading. You might also want to post at The Native Plant Exchange too. Though that forum/exchange is rather show, someone might have some things you are looking for as well as being interested in what you have for trade. I have Asclepias tuberosa from 2010, as well as Asclepias Incarnata from 2009 and may have other natives of interest to you some later. I am interested in your Anemone patens and especially interested in your Gentiana andrewsii - Bottle gentian (Possibly soon) ...no rush though. chemocurl...aka Sue Sue

Hi Kate, I'm a bit late - wondered if you might still be interested in a trade? I have several from your want list and feel free to take a look at my seed exchange list to see if there is anything else. Hopefully you can find several others that would be interesting to you. Here is what I have that matches your wants: Campanula thyrsioides (From Trade) Castilleja integrifolia Chelone glabra Clematis serratifolia (Trade) Dianthus deltoides 'Nelli' 2005 seed - tested great 07 Delphinum occidentale Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost' (from Trade) Pedicularis crenulata Veronica incana I didn't go over your exchange list very thoroughly. Thought I'd wait and see if you were still trading and if so how many you could find on my page (I can add more or pare down to match), but at a glance I would be interested in at least the following: Aconitum Ivorine Cimicifuga simplex 'James Compton' Clematis 'Alionuska' Clematis integrifolia rosea 2006 Clematis texensis 'Gravetye Beauty' Delphinium tricorne Hosta, Streaked Breeders Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais' Oenothera minima Eremerus himalaiacus Please let me me know. My email is plantaholics @ bellsouth.net (just take out the spaces) in case GW doesn't put it in again. Best wishes, Jase Connor PS: Thanks again for the wonderful seed you sent me for Christmas! Here is a link that might be useful: My trade page

Fantastic list of seeds! I think it is just great that you have focused your life on nature at such a young age. I too would love to have 10 (maybe 5) acres someday to plant a wonderland of natives plants, and am already doing that on 1.25 acres. Difference is, my interest didn't come into sharp focus until age 45. :) There are quite a few seeds on this list I am interested in, and I checked your want list and I have a few on that list. Maybe we can do a trade this fall? Just a note - on your want list is Cynanchum louiseae - this is an extremely invasive non-native vine that is becoming a serious problem in the Northeast US. And it has the additional problem that Monarch butterflies will "sense" it is in the Milkweed family, lay eggs on it, and then it will kill the caterpillars because it is toxic to Monarch larvae.

All my winter sowing was stunted this year and I wasn't able to use hardly any of it. I don't know what the trouble was and it wasn't late start b/c I put mine out the first of February. The beebalm and other perennials I started by wintersowing are still only 1 and a half inches in height. I'm going to just put them in a protected area for over the fall and winter and see if any return next spring. This was my final year for winter sowing. I've never had a good return and this year I did both winter sowing and then also did seed-starts inside the house and the indoor seed-starts were 5x+ larger than the winter sown stuff after only a month. I sowed Bottle Gentian right into the ground but that was this spring so most of the seed will likely lay dormant until next spring because it hasn't been cold stratified yet. I would take a spatula and put your little seedlings right into the ground now and see how much they can get established before winter sets in. Using a spatula and taking up large pieces of your flat of gentian will be the least stressful to the already stressed plants. Really loosen up the soil where you are going to lay the plants and then give the soil a good watering before you lay down the spatulas of seedlings/soil. Wait a day and then water them lightly as needed.