did I send an envelope? Were you able to email me.Sorry I didn't start a log book yet. If you dont remember hearing from me, please send your address to hassanz@pacifier.com Thanks Posted by maricybele 8 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 24, 07 at 5:07 Any vegees/herbs you have left from this wish list of your seeds would be great! And of course I would be happy to send you some from my list. Thanks Echinacea"Doppleganger"H,9/06 ** Cucumber,Lemon,C,'04,still good ** Cilantro,C,'04(5) still good,grew some this year** Lavender,H,'05(2) ** white alpiwhite alpine strawberry,H,'05(4ne strawberry,H,'05(4 Honeydew melon,unknown,grown from trade seeds,H,8/07** French Breakfast melon"Charentais Red Chidori Cabbages; Pigeon Pink Pigeon Purple Piegon Red Hibiscus any tea variety Thymus vulgaris,common thyme,C,'04(?) ** Italian Large Leaf(?)** Napoletano(?)** >Origanum vulgare hirtum,greek oregan,C,'04(?) **

I tend to collect from all my flowering plants and they are a mishmosh collection, some bought before I started WSing, some grown myself from bought or trade seed. I've found that some seeds from hybrid plants (i.e.purple millet) grow just fine from collected seeds, while others are not true to the parent but sometimes nice anyway! I figure I'm not losing much (just some pro-mix, which I'll recycle for a pot or something anyway)by trying and I really enjoy collecting seed. My biggest frustration is that I will occastionally purchase a plant and get excited about the possibility of it flowering and setting seed (and growing more next year!) and it won't flower (some fancy plectranthus I bought this year) or it flowers but I can't find and harvest seed (Veronica "goodness grows"). The best thing about winter sowing is the very low "risk" - if even 20% of my jugs are duds, I haven't lost much. When I used indoor lights and had to baby everything inside it felt much more risky to try things I wasn't sure would work out. My advise...Get out there and collect some seed! I imagine that there is not a lot of time left in zone 6 as I am almost done in zone 7! Nancy

Fantastic list of seeds! I think it is just great that you have focused your life on nature at such a young age. I too would love to have 10 (maybe 5) acres someday to plant a wonderland of natives plants, and am already doing that on 1.25 acres. Difference is, my interest didn't come into sharp focus until age 45. :) There are quite a few seeds on this list I am interested in, and I checked your want list and I have a few on that list. Maybe we can do a trade this fall? Just a note - on your want list is Cynanchum louiseae - this is an extremely invasive non-native vine that is becoming a serious problem in the Northeast US. And it has the additional problem that Monarch butterflies will "sense" it is in the Milkweed family, lay eggs on it, and then it will kill the caterpillars because it is toxic to Monarch larvae.

Cardinal flower was my first guess too. Karen, thanks for sharing the picture again. It is just beautiful. Did you save seeds from any of the coleus? I am overwintering some I had this year as an experiment, but I didn't get any of the dark burgundy ones, that would match my front door. You have a great eye for design, which I lack. I have to have my daughter help me, who knows nothing about plants, but has a designers eye. We're a great team! I brought in a Kong coleus and I think I will get some seeds from that, hopefully, if you would like to do a trade.