Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnasota sells seed packets of Geum triflorum.You get 100 seeds for $2.00.They have a huge selection of natives.Everwilde Seeds also sells them.

I'd love to trade some seeds for your Prarie Smoke. Purple/pink blooms and dry soil. Just what Christmas means to me. I've got: - Frogfruit - Cowpen Daisy - Fall Aster - Candlestick Bush - Porcupine Grass - Blue Mistflower - White Mistflower Do any of these sound interesting to you? Xtal

The pictures may have been of the seedheads which are very attractive. The flowers are small, pink drooping and bell shaped. The seed heads are large and feathery. Late freeze may have been the problem, killing the buds. I live in Southern Ontario and mine are just blooming now, will see seed heads in another few weeks. We expect freeze until mid May and most of our plants hold off blooming till then. The rule of thumb with perennials is "first year sleep, second year creep, third year leap". So do not expect much in the way of flowers until third summer. And with a late freeze, may be next year.

Half my milkweeds are popping, and there's not much happening to the pots that were on the right side of the T5. I'm worried that the light was too close to those pots and they cooked. I took the baggies for humidity off of those pots. It looked and some amplexicaulis seeds were still good, and the pot tipped over and a bunch of soil spilled out. LOL Another mishap. I just packed everything back in and sprinkled sand over the top for good luck.🙏🙏🙏 There's at least 1 fungus gnat flying around. Maybe if I run the metal halide light when the T5 is off, any fungus gnats will fly unto it and get fried. Is there a dunk or something I could use when watering that would kill them naturally? So I'm worried and I just put more seeds into moist coffee filters for 30 more days CMS. This is backup in case the other ones never pop up. I give people who sell plants or run nurseries a lot of credit, because it's a lot of time consuming work, taking care of plants. I'll check out those grasses you mentioned. I wanted to do about 50 percent of the front lawn in shorter grasses and sedges, and I want different textures intermingling, so these curly grasses can help do that. The garden half will be all crazy, imagine having Prairie Dock with its ginormous leaves in the front yard.