thanks quilt mommy! I did sow some phlox so I am good in that department. Below is my seeds I sowed or plan to sow. Wow, I cannot believe I plan to have all of this sowed! I did most already but still have a lot! Karen 4 o'clock mirabilis - 2 4 o'clock mix agastache foeniculum agastache foeniculum agastache, apricot sprite amerarthe red 4' arctotis venusta, blue eyed daisy asarnia, chickabiddy vine aster Crego aster, dwarf mixed baby blue eyes basil bean, purple bush beans poledaylilly beans, Kentucky pole beans, tender green bush broccoli bunny tails grass annual butterfly bush, purple cabbage calendula, green heart and pink surprise canterbury bells canterbury bells celosia celosia, plumosa chico tom Cilantro cleome - spinosa cleome - spinosa cleome violet queen cleome, purple, pink, white columbine purple coreopsis coreopsis tinctoria coreopsis yellow coreopsis, dwarf red coreopsis, gold and reds cosmos cypress vine, red datura hybrid delphinium dill Dill- bouquet Echinacea purpua echinecca unknown eyeball plant fennel feverfew Gaillardia Blanketflower garlic chives globe amaranth purple globe amaranth strawberry fields glorosia daisy - black eyed susan goldenrodd, rough stemmed gourd heliopsis hibiscus manihot hollyhock - majorette ice Plant -mixed incarvillea sinensis, cheron ipomoea, alba moonflower jewels of opar jobs tears annual grass joe pye weed kiss me over the garden gate larkspur liatris spicata lime basil love lies bleeding lunaria silver dollars malope, glacier fruits malva pink, false mallow malva sebrina malva, white perfection marigold, tagetes Melampodium butter daisy mexican hat mexican sunflower -tithonia millet limelight, spray type Nicandra shoefly nicotiana alata nicotiana, deep purple nicotiana, variegated green flowers opal cups peas, little marvel pepper, colored bell pepper, early jalape pepper, hot wenks yellow pepper, mini bell pepper, red ruffled pimento pepper, sweet cho petunia - purple petunia mix phlox, drummondi poppy California poppy California poppy fairy wings, mix poppy, pink peony Portulaca pumpkin, round medium size rose of sharon - mix Russian grass rutabaga salvia blue bedder salvia, coral nymph salvia, lady in red shasta daisy snapdragon, mix snow on the mountain euphorbia Spearmint squash, yellow crookneck sugar snap peas sweet basil sweet pea vine takota daisy thyme, orange toadflax, baby snapdragons tom giant paste tom golden jubille tom Jeff's mystery pink oxheart Tom lil pink tom mortgage lifter Tom nyagous tom orange banana paste tom red home sweet tom roman candle TOM spear Tennessee green tom super sweet cherry tom tigerella tomato ace 55 trumpet vine turnip, purple top vinca Virginia yarrow yarrow mixed larkspur Amsonia tabernaemontana False Indigo, Blue Wild Indigo-Baptisia australis

I was able to plant a few more jugs this weekend and have more to add: I think too much sun impeded sprouts. Some jugs are very big, with half in the shade most of the day and half in the sun. You can actually see the line!! NO sprouts in the sun side. Cutting a milk jug through the handle, leaving a bit for a hinge works really nice for carrying jugs, but some sprouts, if the seeds are sown heavily, get beat up at planting time - unless the "lid" is removed. The handle indents on my milk jugs and a clean removal hasn't yet occurred. Since I loved the handle/hinge for carrying, and I'm reusing my jugs next year, I'll continue to sacrifice a few sprouts. My sprouts are (today) teeny tiny compared to what I could buy, so I did buy some plants. However, no way could I have the varieties I am growing without GW seed swapping and WSing. I killed almost EVERY sprout that I started GUL. Almost every WS sprout that's been planted is growing in my garden:)) The rabbits have snacked, but since I have little idea what I've planted (too many new-to-me-varieties in each jug), I haven't fallen in love with anything - yet. Although I am HOPING HOPING HOPING I have hairy balls;)

Thank you Karen - it is one of those beds that need major work - all beautiful spring/early summer bloom - now it looks like crap(excuse the word) but this summer has been so brutal even the foliage of the non-bloomers is brown and the whole garden looks fried. There is a crepe mrytle and some volunteer sunnies that are blooming and native mums will bloom later but I really need to get some more late summer color in there...... Lynne

Tiffy, my foxglove have stayed green all winter since the first seedlings went in the ground 3 years ago. They get buried in snow, get hit with a few nights of below zero temps as well as teens and single numbers without any snow cover. I can tell you this though. There is nothing prettier than seeing the snow begin to melt at the base of the foundation of the house and presto, last years green leaves of the foxglove are right there saying "hello, can you move this snow faster, melt it faster, warm up the temps already. Time to grow some new leaves, a bunch of stems and get those buds and blooms going already." Even if we get hit with more snow, it's a pleasure to walk on the front door and see that green there and now that those plants will keep on growing and keep on blooming year after year after year. I have no idea what kind they are. I got the seeds in a trade several years ago and where labeled "foxglove cream and pink mix". Apparently the seeds where either labeled with the wrong color or a hybrid and it does not come true to the parent plant. Either way, I love the colors I have. Next spring there will be a foundation of the house hidden by the blooms of at least 15 foxglove blooming. I've never dead headed them before. First year I had no blooms or stems from the seedlings, second year each had one stem. This past spring into early summer, each one had 3 stems and all of a sudden 2 more stems popped out of the plants and bloomed with a smaller show. that was a surprise. Blooming in November? Has it been really warm this fall for you? I've never seen that either? Fran