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Hi all I'm a little late posting what I sent for the trade. You all put me to shame with using such specific latin names and for sending so MUCH!! This is my first tim edoign this- I hope my seeds WORK and arent dead! I THINK they are ok! Here is what I sent: 6 envelopes of pink coneflower 2 envelopes of a very wild native black eyed susan ( this one is very cool- nothing eats it and it spreads well.. good for any rockgardens or deer/groundhog problem areas! they eat my other susans but not this one) 6 envevlopes of another blackeyed susan. This one is more typical at the garden centers. 1 envelope with jsut a FEW seeds from my tall purple phlox. I think it is called Nikki ( about 3 feet high) 1 enevelope with a FEW red crocosmia seeds ( i think Lucifer) 7 envelopes of Cardinal flower ( Queen somthing was the name- dont recall entirely) it has red foliage/stems and flowers. very nice plants and the envelopes are heavy on the seed! the seed was surprising tiny!!) 11 envelopes of my Columbine- you all saw pics of it in spring. I think it is likely Mckanna Giant- I ant promise what color or hybrid of colors you will get from the seeds! Mine change slighty each year! 1 envelope of garlic chives 9 envelopes of a VERY pretty pure white bearded iris. It's a great medium size. Not HUGE and not those tiny ones.it has some yellow bread fuzz but thr rest is pure white. It may be my favorite! it is so elegant. if anyone gets my seeds and wants pics- please let me know. I wanst organized enough to send pics with them. Everything I sent is perrenial in my zone 6 ( and probably 5-9!) I'm so excited :) You all have great lists - I may have to redo my wish list for Tracy. Ooops

Hey Plaid! You are so nice! I'd hate for you to know how many plants I have killed in my lifetime while trying to figure out what would grow in heavy black clay soil in Texas and then in heavy red clay soil here! I am still learning, too. All we have to do is go retrieve one of these things before it drops off of page 30 or whatever....that's what we always do with the Tomato Problem Solver post on the tomato pest and disease forum. Someone just periodically bumps it up every so often so we don't lose it. Been missin' you. Where ya been? I've been outside mowing my jungle while swimming through the standing-water-in-the-yard....just a slight exaggeration! Dawn

Docmom, I am in central Oklahoma, zone 7. I have verbena bonariensis growing and am encouraging it a lot suddenly. I snubbed it for years but last year I intentionally threw out a lot of seeds to grow among little bluestem because I liked a combination I saw on a post here on GW of it growing with some grasses, it was by a person posting from a place called 'The Farm', I think in Canada. I fell in love. Its winter hardy here. When it got real hot, the early spring blooms died back but its blooming back in force now. I don't notice it being invasive but its so easy to pull I can't see it being a problem. In the past I'd sort of let a few stay in the ground which was good because it gave me seeds stock last fall. You can yank one straight out of the ground and replant it, which makes it extremely transplantable. This is some kind of reliably cold hardy lantana I got cuttings from two years ago, this one never shuts down and is the earliest to bloom. It blooms orange (with no pink) and its the heaviest bloomer of any type I've grown except for 'Dallas Red'. This lantana puts 'Miss Huff' to shame on performance and cold hardiness, the stems at the base of the plant were still green last spring and leafed out quite early. Dallas Red isn't hardy but is the fastest growing and most bloomingest non cold hardy lantana I have ever grown. A plant set out in spring will get big fast. I need to find out about this lantana or perhaps just name it myself. I think lots of people would be interested in it. It produces some seeds. I noticed two or three small baby plants under all the foliage and am waiting to see what develops from them. It has vicious thorns along the stems so I know there is 'Horrida' in its genetic makeup but its noticably different and superior in ornamental qualities than the L. horrida I grew from seeds I ordered from Native American Plants, its smaller, leaves are smaller, plant more compact and it has much heavier blooms producing very few seeds. The L. horrida I have are somewhat coarse, get very large and produce masses of seeds plus the plant shuts down in summer, so do the L. camara.