Keep searching! By the middle to end of summer, lots of bulb companies will have their websites updated with new listings of bulbs... and the Fall 2008 catalogs will be available! If you Google "fall bulbs" or "amaryllis" or "hippeastrum", or any key word combination related to indoor forcing bulbs or bulbs for indoor forcing, you should get lots of results with tons of links to follow! Companies that sell Tulips and Daffodils often sell Hippeastrum bulbs, as well. I searched last fall for online catalogs and retail sellers of hippeastrum, and I found lots of links to stores and places to order from! One of my favorite places is Royal Colors... John Scheeper's is another good bulb company... Brent & Becky's, Blooming Bulb, Dutch Gardens, Nature Hills, Garden Import, and the list goes on... A Google search for amaryllis bulbs should net a good amount of places to begin looking! Here is a link that might be useful: Royal Colors

Susan, The Hoary Edge has been reported in pretty many counties in PA but not mine. I'll have to keep a lookout for it in the future. BAMONA lists Desmodium, Lespedeza, and Baptisia for LFPs; I have the last two here, so I guess I'm prepared and didn't even know it. Like I mentioned, I also have the Amorpha. I think we're too far north for the Southern Dogface, darn it. I hope that you'll be able to raise Silver-spotted Skippers sometime in the near future. I agree about the skippers being so cute! I've always had lots of them in the garden every year, especially this year, and they really go for the Verbena bonariensis. I didn't raise any cats, though, before this year, thanks to the Amorpha fruticosa. We don't have any locust trees right here, but I know that there are some down along the creek, so I imagine that that's where they lay their eggs every year. Now they can also come here to start their families. I've always liked SSSs; they seem so friendly. Yep, I bet that they lay on your neighbor's wisteria. I used to have several of them here before I got into butterfly gardening. The darn things never bloomed, so we ripped them out...those things are hard to kill! Wow, you're way ahead of me with the seed ordering! I never tried Cosmic Red Cosmos...they sound pretty! I did have some kind of orange cosmos here. They butterflies liked it but it reseeded so much that I didn't plant it again after that and haven't had it now for several years. I just might try the kind that you mentioned. I also planted some heirloom tomatoes this year, Marglobe and Brandywine. I don't know why but the Brandywine tomatoes split so much, so my husband said to cross that one out for next year and not to plant so many of the ones that I do plant. We really had way too many of those and peppers. We gave the extras away, so they didn't go to waste, but it was a lot more work for me than would have had to be. I also like to plant for the hummingbirds! I plant Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red' (same as you), Scarlet Runner Beans, Four o' Clocks (I plant red ones and white ones), and I have a plant in a hanging basket that I just love (and so do they). It's called Windberry. The flowers are red and look like small petunias. It flowers really nicely! I've tried fuchsias but never had luck with them. Now I wish I had planted the Aster oblongifolius. I always saw mention of the A. laevis and the A. novae-angliae, so that's what went in my garden and I've regretted it ever since they went to seed for the first time in 2008. More seeds than a person could plant in a lifetime! lol Maybe it's just me, but as I get older some things are becoming a bothering and deadheading certain plants is one of them. I'm glad that I'm removing them. If you need any TMW seeds, let me know. I'm sure I'd have enough to share with you. I didn't manage to get seeds from my red porterweed, but I brought it inside so at least will have it for next year again (cross my fingers it doesn't die on me in here). The flowers looked so pretty planted behind my Dusky Millers. I don't notice any places selling it around here. I had gotten mine in the mail from a friend when we were exchanging plants, and I really like it. It sounds like you really saw a good variety of butterflies! You get some that I don't get like Gulf Fritillaries. I wish I could get some of those southern butterflies, but I'm happy with what show up here. I have passionvine here, but don't ask me why. I don't get GFs, and I've only ever found Variegated Fritillary cats on it a couple times (I think that was either in 2007 or 2008). I do think the flowers on the P. incarnata are so pretty though. My tithonia was blooming too until just recently when the frost hit it. After a few frosts and especially when it got down to 24 deg. here the other night, that pretty much nipped everything in the bud. I got lots of seeds from it, though, for next year. I didn't get around to planting it last year and regretted it. Ha, I don't know about your last statement...most days I feel like I can't keep up with it. It would be so nice to have a work crew come and help me! :-D You and I will have to cross our fingers that our Purple Milkweed likes being in the pots. Here are some pictures of two of the Silver-spotted Skipper cats that I had here...

Right now, tomatoes are my LEAST favorite reseeders! They grew everywhere this year, even more than last year. Must have been in the compost and not cooked enough. Hating goldenrod - it tries to take over and there are several different kinds here; I was coddling one thinking it was Balloon Flower. Love: Alyssum Petunias Forget me nots Cosmos Ageratum (they don't flower as fast as indoor starts) Violas, but they petered out this year after a 5 year run First year trial: blue woodruff - asperula - is supposed to reseed. I threw some seed on the ground just a few weeks ago and it is already blooming. Hope it comes back. It's a lovely delicate blue flower.

I'm growing greens in large stock tanks this year on a deck, so can get some free from slug and vole predations for the first time. The lettuces are perhaps too crowded to form big heads, the arugula and the baby bok choy is bolting. An unusual green I'm enjoying is Brassica juncea, Ruby Streak and Golden Frill, from Evergreen seeds. The Ruby Streak is bolting, but the Golden Frill is larger and not bolting yet. It is making long leaves with lots of frill, finely divided, so it is quite crisp, yet still tender. I'm going to have to keep trying on the lettuce. I've found that some greens like Wild Red Kale, and turnips left in the ground for spring greens, need to be planted by July 15 in order to get large enough to make it through the winter. I had some excellent bok choy one year planted in the fall, but can't seem to duplicate it. It won't make it during the winter, though. A wild green I enjoyed up until frost last year and in early spring this year is Sheep Sorrel, for a sour lemony taste.