Hi,check my list for a possible seed trade.Your asarina joane loraine,pink bleeding heart,black eye susan vine,arabica and yellow gloxinia interest me.LMK if you find seeds that interest you on my list.Debbie

I have an old time tall blue iris that I got from our janitor at the county courthouse. He was thinning and replanting them. I don't know how old they are. They are very prolific and very pretty.

I see this is an old thread, but it is a familiar problem for us here in the mid-South where we have extremely hot summers. I was watching the local news recently and a rice farmer was being interviewed and he mentioned that very warm night temps. inhibit fruiting and encourage growth. He said that it isn't so much the daytime high heat days that cause plants to not fruit, but night temps. of 70 F. and above, which is exactly what we have been experiencing here from early June until just a week and a half ago. Finally our pole beans our starting to show pod formation as our night temps have been in the 60's. We have half-runner and Scarlet runner and both have flowers, and have been flowering but not pods. We aren't from this area originally, and no one plants pole beans. No wonder. They plant bush types and plant them early which is the correct way to plant bush type beans - early, whereas pole beans like to be planted later. We like pole beans better as they don't rot like bush types and they taste better (Blue Lake). I am seriously thinking of relocating just because of this problem. We've been here over ten years and were able to pick pole beans three growing seasons. The very hot years we had to wait until very late summer or early fall before our beans, peppers and tomatoes started producing. Not fun gardening. On the other hand, the okra is very happy as well as the yellow squash.

Hi Heather, I have a ton of little Ceanothus sprouts (americanus variety aka "New Jersey Tea") and you're welcome to a couple. It looks like my beautiful Chaste Tree (Vitex agnus-castus) succumbed to our terrible winter (boo hoo). I suppose there's a chance that it'll leaf out-- maybe we just need some warm nights. I'll let you know. - Bev