Hello, I would like to trade for some Jerusalem Artichokes and maybe other things. I have 6-7 different colors of old fashioned rose bushes. Light pink to dark pinks and a yellow. Some are very double and others aren't so double or are single. They have been in my family for several generations. I also have iris, large blooming ones and some that are over 100 years old that don't have such large blooms. I have vinca ground cover, lilacs - single & double lavender, currents, bush cherry, elderberries, native plum, and 1-2 year apple tree from our lone apple tree. I look forward to hearing back from you. Lola ~ Zone 5

Yep, that is gorgeous. I love Sweet william and had my first WS blooms this past spring (see "WS Beauties" thread). It has also reseeded around a little, and I moved a few seedlings to new locations for more blooms this spring. However I noticed that on google images that is the ONLY photo of the Kaleidoscope variety. That makes me wonder what it will actually look like, when regular people grow it and don't stage or doctor up a photo.

countrycarolyn: I won't give them a haircut then and leave well enough alone. The main thing is to get them planted, will give them a month for the roots to work on down although it sounds like they're tough and could just have stuck them in the ground without repotting. ladyrose65: You confirmed the dianthus, too. Where did I get the raspberry seeds? I've been all over everything, search engine here, google advanced, my old computer fired up twice and got into my mail but it hangs now. I can't post real names and didn't find the raspberry trade, know it was somebody on this forum. In my mail I did find mastergardner2003 but she sent me the currants; I found conniejw who designed that beautiful space in front of my garage with some special software she has. I know it wasn't they. This name sticks in my mind of having corresponded with, brandmulvaine. It might have been she but I couldn't find the trade emails. Also I traded with Carol (hosta) but know it wasn't raspberries. It will be prob 3 yrs before I get any seeds. Was going to buy some at amazon but they wanted $9.95. But I'll post a link where the plants are much cheaper because I might have bought from there if I hadn't found mine. Oh yes, I'll keep the sprout pics and may take more later if they look promising. northerner_on: Strange error, not so much here but what I went through trying to find that raspberry exchange. I'm not sure I sent anything in return; if I did it might have been alyssum and lupines I had a ton of that I bought. Now the lamium, that is not a pleasant prospect because my yard is a total mess. It's already worked it's way through that small garden space and may smother some of my plants and working north into a bare spot. I've got a terrible invasive behind the garage and want to cover the fern and do roundup on the whole mess. Then I'd like the lamium there if I knew how to transplant it. Evidently it roots easily, grows a ways, puts down roots, then more with more roots is how it travels. Yes I have two other lamiums, one variegated and one plain, I think, with pink flowers. They haven't been such a problem at all. I just ripped them back a little when they were threatening my new brunera, have had several years now, haven't gotten into the lawn, seem to want to move toward more shade. So thanks so much everyone for the help and advice. Now the hard part. Getting them in the ground in the right places. My backyard is pockmarked from tree chunks falling last summer, and I shouldn't even walk in it but do very carefully. Am 69 and fell when the lawn guys were here but easy fall. The tree people last year wanted $800 to fill the holes, nothing doing after spending $3000 to have the tree taken down which was cheap for that. One of the best tree companies wanted $10,000 included stump removal, no way. but if I break something, maybe I'd better get some topsoil and pay somebody to fill them in. I want to be able to enjoy this again without all this other stuff to mess with, and just because things are difficult now, I don't want to give in to a sense of futility. Here is a link that might be useful: Bristol Raspberry Plants

After going to seed most likely not. It would be interesting to know if they still come back tho. When I gave some of my original wintersown seedlings to my neighbor hers did not come back after setting seeds. There are several biennials that can be tricked into behaving as a perennial and there are some plants which depending on the climate can be short lived perennials or biennials. For me my Sweet William came back bigger and better then the first bloom season... June 7th... Although this pic was taken on April 13th, this is exactly how it looked from fall thru winter... Vera