i have white angel trumphet seed, marigold seed dwarf orange and yellow, large bright orang pumpkin seeds, money plant seeds will trade any for spinach seed, hollyhocks seed. thanks let me no oswego

I am wanting to do a trade. I would LOVE to try your: SOLAR FLARE variety and only need about 5 seeds. I have these varieties that I did not notice on your list: Burgess Lemon (only 5 seeds from Wintersown and several years old) Hovarth (only 2 seeds left from Wintersown and several year old) Peacevine Cherry (10 seeds from Kenyon Organics, probably 2 years old) God Love (5 seeds from Kenyon Organics, probably 2 years old) Abe Lincoln (about 10 from Livingston Seed Co, less than year old) San Marzano (about 10 from Organic Ferry-Morse, less that year old) I am rather new to this forum and unsure how to proceed. Is there a way you can message me to exchange addresses? I can send a SASE.

I'm glad you got your PD's and hope they do well for you. Mine are taking their time opening up, a tiny bit more each day. Glad I participated in the thread because we had tons of rain this year, and now I'll remember to water them in drier summers, did give them some this week because the bed isn't mulched and won't be, at least all over, until I get the self seeders established. The reason I got them in the first place was an experienced grower brought one to a late fall rose meeting and won a prize on it, well there wasn't much competition but it deserved it regardless. From where I was sitting, it looked like a wide paint brush with just about one-inch, soft "bristles", no center, wish I'd examined it more closely, very rich purple. I don't see how mine could possibly look like what I thought I saw in hers. And it seemed like a long single stem, like she could get way in and get a nice cut flower. Mine are so bunched on top, that I don't know if you have to prune or something to get a stem, doesn't really matter as whatever makes the flowers the most showy in the garden matters more to me. I asked her what it was, and it took her a long time to get back to me, the name she gave me just about had to be Purple Dome but was a little different, had the words mixed up but did have dome and New England. Before that, I had literally scoured the web looking for an aster like that as I knew it was an aster from the meeting. Now I want some pretty blue ones but so short of space unless I open up more areas or widen the existing ones I can which I don't do on a whim because it means a lot more maintenance.

token, are you sure about that echinacea? There is a very new introduction on the market, Echincaea purpurea 'Green Envy', but the only perennial I am familiar with the cultivar name 'Green Wizard' is a selection of Rudbeckia occidentalis. (sometimes echinacea and rudbeckia are used interchangeably - but incorrectly - by a few growers or seed suppliers) I used to grow this plant but it just didn't cut it for me :-) It is virtually all cone with a few tiny green sepals surrounding. While it did OK, it didn't stand out well and it looked just like an ordinary coneflower past its bloom, but from the day it opened! There are so many shades of green.....my favorites are the chartreusey-lime flowers/bracts of many of the euphorbias. And they last so long.