I'd be interested in the lady's slippers and Laced Romeo carnation. I could send you some hardy geraniums or date palm seedlings, if you'd be interested in those. In geraniums, I have Buxton's Blue, phaeum, Purple Haze, unidentified blues (pratense types), Wargrave Pink, and a small plant of Splish-Splash. Probably some others too, which I'm forgetting at the moment. If interested in trading, you can e-mail me from my member page.

I have haemanthus (albiflos?) seeds for trade, which are pretty cool. These are actually either corms or bulbils, not seeds, 7mm translucent and you can see a green protoleaf inside ready to go. Anyone else like some? If you would like to trade a small drac offset or sauromatum offset, I can send extra postage. Contact me via my regular email shown on my GW page, and put the word 'SWAP' on the subject line so I know it's not spam. Thanks! --Rr

Art61, I'd definitely be interested in your cardinal flower seed if you find you have any extra once you've filled your own needs. I let all my native columbines self seed and there is already a new patch of tiny babies starting despite the horrid drought we'd had for about a month. IMHO, protection of the red mulberry is only one facet of what needs to be done. You can plant as many pure red mulberries as you want but if the gene pool is disturbed by the continued importation and planting of the white mulberry, ALL planted or natural red mulberries will continue to be at risk. We have an old, very unkempt arboretum here in Woodstock and it has a mature white mulberry and I'm going to firmly request that it's time to take it down. It can be replaced with something of a more native nature, even if it's not native to our general area, at least it could be native to Canada or Canada and the north-east of USA. It's a danger to our native stocks and serves little purpose in the arboretum which is not the attraction that it should be in our booming little town. Now it is down to finding the time to write the appropriate persons about taking down the tree and see what comes of it. Good luck in your search for your mulberries. I'll let you know if I find any unaffected red mulberries (not likely since there are so few pristine red mulberry left in the whole of the country...they say as low as 80 trees left in canada) in my neck of the woods and collect some seed for you. Here's an eye opening article from the University of Guelph that shows the state of the Red Mulberry and how the white mulberry needs to be eradicated in order for the red to rebound. IMHO with such a small genepool as only 80 specimens, the species may already be doomed as small gene pools almost always mean death to a species as they are not able to survive disease and infestations as those in cases of diverse genepools. At any rate, here's the article: http://www.uoguelph.ca/research/news/articles/1998/preserving_legendary_mulberry.shtml Barb southern Ontario, CANADA

I have fresh (yesterday) hellebore seeds. I believe it is "Red Lady". May be interested in hosta. Let me know.