I would interested in sending postage for any impatients or agapetes. I live in the pacific northwest, a cool summer here. I also have a heated greenhouse for all my prize plants. Sorry, I have none on your list to send. I grow a lot of fushias, standard fushias and other. I have 4 begonias that are quite old, I save in the greenhouse. Let me know if this is fine with you. Darlene

Cathy, you have mail. Joy

Wendy, I just wanted to share my experience with Impatiens Balfourii with you...... I received some of these seeds in a round robin swap two years ago and about 5 plants germinated. I put them in a shady spot in the garden and marveled at them all season - where had they been all my life? Just beautiful and so different from the acres of bedding impatiens my neighbors put in evey year. That August I went into my usual "Ok, how do I collect seed on all these plants, including IB, that were new to me this year?" and like you had a hard time getting seed from IB. Maybe got ten seeds, far fewer than I wanted. So I started last summer with those seeds WS and they all germinated. I decided to put a bunch in a gorgeous new urn I'd gotten and they looked great (I think they are very elegant). Last August, I had a bit more success collecting seed and was excited that I would be able to fill in lots of shadey spots with this plant. Long story short (er!) I ended up being able to give the WS seedlings away this year because IB had heavily self seeded (or carried by birds - must be cause there were some 20' from the urn)all over my shady patio area. It looks wonderful. I have been able to transplant some of these volunteers to other places. I feel like I won the lottery and everyone comments on this unusal plant. No one had ever seen it before here until I had a friend over who sometimes works for a local MAster Gardner on her extensive beds. She said- "oh, you better watch this one - it's very invasive" So, for now, I am loving the volunteers.They have been blooming their heads off since June and never look ratty or tired. I bet you get some volunteers too and won't have to worry too much about seed collecting! Nancy

Alicia Very nice plant! I'm still waiting for mine to flower. Looks like we may be seeing a bunch of I. tinctorias for sale on ebay in the near furture. Each of those tubers should start a new plant I believe. Good Job. You can do cuttings on tinctoria but side shoot cut at the base of the main stem are always best. It will also set seed which is always nice. How to start them I am not really sure. But I think they would need a cold spell like balfourii.