Gurney's Seed Company ought to have just about anything you want. For the more exotic or hard to find, you might try Whatcom Seed Company. Both have websites.

Thank-you. If anyone has some of the seeds I listed above and would like to trade let me know :-)

Would e-bay be a safe place to buy these plants?

I bought seeds off ebay once. NONE of the seeds did squat.

I bought trees off ebay twice. They were either dead when I got them or quickly died.

Everything I've bought from a nursery website has lived, so far.

YMMV

BTW, how much land do you have? 10 acres? You seem to want a lot of trees so you must have a lot of land. Personally, I think I'm probably putting too many trees on my 1 acre. In 20 years, I probably won't have any sunlight for my flowers.

KC

My property is only 1 acre like you.

Now that you say you have an acre, it rings a bell that I've asked you that before.

At the beginning of February, you posted a list of the plants and trees you currently have. It was one heckuva list. And now, you want to add a bunch more?! I'm trying to get a handle on where you are putting all this stuff. Do you do mostly container gardening? Is your yard filled with raised beds? How tall are your current trees? I just keep thinking about my acre and how all my current trees provide so much shade that I'm limited in what I can do without taking out older trees.

Black willows and tulip poplars are both fast growing trees. Each can reach 50' in 20 years (supposedly, a black willow can do it in 10 years). You have to put some thought into where they are going before you put them in the ground because they are going to shade a big part of your yard before you know it. Also, the black willow is not a strong tree so you need to place it where it won't fall on your house.

Both trees can be kept shorter by judicious pruning, which I refer to as "BF bonsai". I plan on keeping my Tulip poplar about 6 to 8 feet tall.

"BF bonsai" :D I like that.

I can definitely see where you are coming from. The butterfly house where bananasinohio volunteers does that. I sorta do it with a box elder maple that came up on its own in one of my big flower boxes. I put cecropias on it in rearing bags. They strip the tree but it grows like a big weed and quickly has leaves again. It is probably 6' tall.

Anyway, I had not considered that and thank you for pointing it out.

KC

Hi. Well kcclark, it just warmed up and is sunny here so I will take some pictures of my yard and load them to my computer and post them on my website so you can see them. :-)