Quilt Mommy...Hi. I was a little confused about what you were asking, but your last post cleared up a few things, but I should clarify. You planted plants and you are looking for the original plants plus volunteer seedlings that you expected from your original plants by reseeding. Your Bachelor Buttons most likely was an annual and the original plant will not come back. Shasta Daisy is a perennial and the original plant should be up and growing already. Reseeding. Many plants will reseed. As delightp mentioned, the soil is still a little cold. If you are hoping to have plants that are known to reseed well in your zone, to do that for you, the best advice I can offer, is not to disturb the soil around the area of that plant. Don't add compost there, don't dig there, until at least the end of May, early June. Also if you have a thick layer of bark mulch, sometimes this will cut down on the amount of reseeding you will see. You also would have had to leave the plants to bloom and the seeds to form and ripen in the fall. It would also help if you look for photos of what the seedlings from that plant look like, so when you do get seedlings, you can tell whether it is the plant you want or a weed. :-) It is early. If you have allowed the plants to form and release seeds, and did not disturb the soil around where the plants grew, then I would say you may still see seedlings any time between now and the first week of June. I hope that helps. :-)

Definitely feel last year was responsible for this year's losses. The garden struggled as the drought went on and on last summer. Followed by no snow cover for half of the winter. And these are plants that I lost... Japanese Jack in the Pulpit 2 Pulmonaria âÂÂBertram Andersonâ A few crocus but not sure why Euphorbia Agastache âÂÂAvaâ Penstemon âÂÂPikeâÂÂs Peak Purpleâ Aquilegia âÂÂDragonflyâ All but a few reseeded Verbena bonariensis Most of those plants are iffy in my zone anyway, except the aquilegia, crocus, and pulmonaria. But I've had them for at least 5+ years without losing them. But, right now my garden is rebounding from all the rain I've gotten. Due to large mature trees surrounding my property in neighbor's yards, my garden can handle a lot of rain, better than it can drought.

Thanks for everyoneÂs comments. Another surprise is how Lowes is marking down this year. Example at my store, the mark down lady marks the $2.98 bloomless lantanas to $1.00 then they take half off that at the register, so 50 cents. It seems that if plants go past the initial bloom cycle, she marks them down when fresh blooming stock comes in. Got to check it every week though. I got everything this year from the mark down racks (except my mismarked peppers at Kmart. Still they were 6 plants for 1.19.) My biggest disappointment is how poorly my seeds do from a major seed company. They arrive in nice packages, just really bad performance, regardless how I try to care for them. Except the marigolds of course; they always do well. Well other disappointments this year include: Two ice plants that aren't doing anything; 3 marguerites which I pitched; a test verbena which bugs quickly ate; and sea tiff (which died). All experiments. The best positive surprise has been "Steel Blue" sages and dwarf red salvia "sallynia compact red"(perennial type). The lady at Lowes could not give these away when they had no flowers. Another surprise is how well my volunteer marigolds are doing. The volunteer black eye susans have to be controlled next year. Great blooms, just last sooo long and if they are in the wrong spot they overwhelm. I really want to try the blue salvia, which although marked as annuals are perennial in this area, I think. Anyone try them? Bob

you are a patient man joe ... i would have given up last july or so ... ken ps: bendable branches means the wood is bendable ... not alive ... what you are supposed to do.. is snip off a branch.. and see if there is a green cambian layer.. just under the bark ... that is the vascular system of the plant ...