If anyone has seeds to trade please check my list... I also have a few trades of a reddish/brown short (2-3ft) sunflower and many trades of a giant sunflower... PLMK S

That's fantastic!! great job Tom and congratulations! Isn't it amazing the unexpected result from a crossing!? and guess what could have be the surprise for those who raised double or semi-doubles forms in the past!

Hi ! You're right: the first bloom seems to be viola sororia and the second one is viola priceana :-) Not at all viola odorata anyway. All the best - Thierry :-)

I don't mind but those that run this website consider any naming of any business as advertising, which is forbidden. But, since they seem to be allowing all sorts of bad posts on other forums I doubt they will notice this one. My personal favorites are www.secretseeds.com and www.plantworldseeds.com both of them are not what I would call violet specialists. I looked them up while searching for other seeds - so don't go there expecting a wide array of viola seeds. It just seems to me that all the large plant companies sell seeds that all come from the same seed source - a defect in one crop I grew showed up in all the other seed sources as well. I trade a lot of seed with local gardeners (please don't ask me for seeds, I'm all out) which is great fun activity but germination rates are low. Another problem with the larger catalogs is that their prices per seed have really gone up - so unless it is something I really want, it just isn't worth it. The packets from the small British seed shops are small and obviously hand packed - but they contain more seed, so they come out to a better deal. For those of you living in Europe. Here in America we don't have these sorts of businesses. There may be seeds for sale at lots of stores, but all the packets are the same. There are no small shops that specialize in unusual plant seeds.