You can buy Job's Tears seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, (417) 924-8917 or 924-8887 or at rareseeds.com. The seeds they sent were not the deeper gray of my former plants, but a pale gray. The plants from these seeds are just now coming, so I do not yet know their color.

I would like to try the spring beauty in my shade garden and some amaryllis beladonna to go with the lycoris naked ladies I already have(surprise lilies). I have dark opal and sweet basil seed and fennel and dill and rhubarb seed. I have enough fresh tears of job to trade 25 seeds. I can spare 12 seeds of fresh cold stored witch hazel seed and several more from the seed I have stratified for spring. I have a few tiny seeds of mexican oregano(lipia graveolens)to spare. It flowers like mad but it makes very few seeds up north. The plants to not survive frost.I have yellow horn tree seeds and manzinilla olive. lots of hot pepper seeds from a recent trade. Thats all I can think of but LMK what else you are looking for , my seed box is packed

Hello Cheysgarden! I was just reading your Post, & sorry, but I have no suggestions on the "Job's Tear's' seeds for you, but perhaps I can ask around, whenever I go into Town from our Ranch here, OK? Your interest in the "Pussy-Willow" branches is what caught my eye. For the first time in my Life, I own a really neat "Pussy-Willow" tree, & just now learned about how to dry the "pods" from the branches, from off this Web Site here! I was out looking at my Pussy-Willow Tree just the other day, and the buds are fast going to seed now, & I haven't gotten in my Flower Press yet. (darn!) But... there is a little "story" behind that Pussy Willow tree of mine.... My Mother-in-Law has one in Town, & hers grew like crazy... I was wanting a Pussy-Willow Tree soooo bad, when we put our house in out here on our Land. Well... several years after we put the House in, my husband ask me if I wanted a "start" of his Mom's Pussy-Willow Tree? Of course, I jumped at it, but was also very "skeptical" about attemping to plant it out here, because I never had very good luck with much of anything... especially "transplants" & such--- Well, that was about 5 or 6 years ago, & Cheysgarden... you should see how "huge" my Pussy-Willow tree is now!!!!!! I am so proud of it, & also very, very happy that it thrived & has done so well. I had to clip-it-back even, because it got so big! I would gladly send you a branch or some "roots" from off of it, if you would like me to?? I see you live in the same Zone as I do there in IN; so this just might work, if I was to send you a "start" of my Pussy-Willow Tree. What do you think??? I'm not sure how well "grounded" that Tree is, but I would have to go out & take a look at it for you, to see if I could get you a good "starter" branch from it... Just let me know on this, alright?? Also.. I wanted to tell you, I went in and looked at your "Cheysgarden" Web Page, and just absolutely "loved" your Flower Garden Photo Albums!! Those were just beautiful, & my favorite was the "Garden 2004" you have Posted, with the "chair" made into a flower pot!! (this is always something I wanted to do, with an old chair & all~) I do have an old "Red-Rider" child's Wagon, ( I purchased at a Yard Sale for $1.00 ) that I have sitting out in the yard, & use as a flowerbed! I wanted to tell you, your flowers, & your flowerbeds were so gorgeous, & I enjoyed looking at your pictures, very much. Thank you for sharing! Feel free to post to me at any time, & let me know about me sending you a "Pussy-Willow" branch off my Tree out here, alright? I'll gladly do that for you... Hugs, ~ IndianPaintBrush ~

That's good to know about the lemon balm, FataMorgana. ;) Incidentally, some of my (unchopped) lemon balm is turning red. Does anybody have any idea why? Great point about marking the plants--after this latest fiasco, I vowed to do that from here on out. :)