Hi, Do you have a sample name of what you are looking for? I think that I've traded with you before - several years ago. I don't have any named hostas on my trade list - too lazy to type them in. Hope to hear from you, Penny GW-Penelope

Hi Jennifer, Interested in your: Bearded Iris: Helen Collingwood Stairway to Heaven Blue Suede Shoes Spiced Custard I can offer: Daylily: 'Lavender Vista' -- 1 fan 'Wine Delight' -- maybe, need to check when sun comes up and perhaps a couple more but this is 1st year had named daylilies, can only send 1 fan of any Coreopsis 'Zagreb' Narrow-leaved sunflower/Swamp sunflower - Helianthus angustifolius Northern Red Oak seedlings on 4th set leaves - WSown 1/15/06 Chestnut Oak - Quercus prinus, Fall Sown 11/28/06 - nearly 1' tall Ginkgo biloba - Maidenhair tree seedlings - WSown 1/1/07 Bald Cypress - Taxodium distichum seedlings, 1 year old Japanese Bloodgrass - Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra' Purpletop verbena - Verbena bonariensis Pavonia Lasiopetala - Texas Rock Rose/Wright's Mallow, 1 year old Perhaps some of these interest you, Katie GW: katie88

Guess these have likely been taken. Hope it's OK if I bump this down.

Well, I started this topic with a typo, but you folks just want to keep it alive to embarass me! LOL. I now realize there is a Iris forum, and maybe I should have posted there, but this is the problem with discussion boards and how they "age" and what traffic they generate. Someday soon we will be posting our thoughts and opinions to a wiki where the information gets more "concentrated" over time. If you ever want to get a small Interent group to compile information (a church group, PTA, gardeners) look into creating a "peanutbutter wiki" sometime. In the meantime, thanks for all the advice...I'll be digging up the bed the weekend before we pack the car. I will look to treat the bulbs with something to prevent any unwanted transport or critters. For pjtexgirl, seeing as how you are from the Mojave, one of my favorite plants is the creasote bush, Larrea Tridentata. Some people think it is smelly and ugly, but I think it is beautiful because it uses the least amount of water of any plant while producing natural oils that have beneficial properties. Indigenous and Hispanic people have used it as a panecea, and it is called the Medicine Chest of the desert. It is almost impossible to grow from seed. I intend to make some trips out to the desert (it's range is huge, and I'll only have to go to West Texas, but the Mojave has pure stands for miles)and gather plants to transplant. The leaves are so pungent just a small sprig can be used as a foot bath for Athlete's Foot. I brew a tea that I pour on the rocks of my Finnish sauna. You know how the desert smells when it rains? Well, that's from the volitive oils of the creoste bush. It's kind of piney and earthy at the same time. But many folks can't stand the way it smells, so it's not for everyone (like anchovies and liver).