I am interested in the following hosta if they are available: Sea Fire Fried green tomatoes Eskimo pie I have a few different heuchera. I also have a double pink columbine, huskers red penstemon, and an extra raspberry splash pulmonaria. Denise

Fresh seed will germinate sometimes in a week, after they go dormant from drying, they can take up to a year or longer. I have had different species take several months, and my own fresh Velutina seed from my plants about a week.

I will be interested to see if one of the two roses I have on fortuniana will make it through the winter and early spring transition period. The other one is in the basement, alive and leafed out again. I just hope I get a nice blooming period this year. Last spring we had 2 weeks of spring. It went from snowing and in the 30s in mid-April to the 80s and 90s in May. I am hoping that everything outside will make it even though I have just had a large tree limb crash onto the garden flattening all sorts of stuff because of the weight of the snow. There are tree limbs all over the area that are down, and another snowstorm and cold is due in for this weekend. There are people in the area that still had no power as of earlier today. Hopefully that situation will be resolved.

Sultry, I wonder if your crazy squash is a natural hybrid that is especially vigorous--do you have a photo? It sounds quite hilarious. I only get the random sunflower, courtesy of the birds and their black oil sunflower seeds I provide. You are so lucky to get those butterfly friendly plants to reseed for you. Wanton, I would love to see photos of these wonderful plants you mention. We just don't have the rain to support such neat displays. Our main displays on the draw below are huge swaths of blue flax which appears again and again if we get the slightest bit of precipitation. I grow a few of these in my flower beds. Katob, how wonderful you get some free hydrangeas. No way would that nice gift appear in my desert flower beds. I am jealous. Campanula, I would love to see photos of the tiny seedlings you describe, and I am utterly unfamiliar with--I know you don't post photos much, though. Below is one of my reseeded Red Rocks penstemon--really looks like a red rock, doesn't it. Also some randomly reseeded snapdragons amidst planted ones, and others that have come back from last year, which is a regular occurrence. And finally another photo of my striped semi double rudbeckia (it makes great bouquets) that has hybrized from my plain ones, along with a second type of striped rudbeckia, a single that isn't so dramatic. Diane