Thanks, everyone. We have Chicago Peace, Fragrant Cloud and Peter Mayle, and love them, though PM needs more time, I guess, to bloom more (2 yo own-root), and Chicago Peace just doesn't bloom much. Fragrant Cloud blooms all the time! For some reason, I pictured Frederic Mistral as almost ATTRACTING thrips/rain damage....guess I'm wrong? I was thinking you'd say Valencia...it looks GORGEOUS and I hear so much about it!! I somehow knew someone might say "Buxom Beauty" (though I thought I read that it shattered quickly?) and "Dolly Parton" LOL "Voluptuous" sounds nice. Krista, no, I don't have New Zealand....will look up on helpmefind again. That's the word (SUBSTANCE) I was looking for! Yves Piaget I already have on my list...unfortunately, Peace, though FAMOUS, is very boring to my mind....have seen it locally in our city garden....just too blah for me! I also don't understand what it is about Tiffany that everyone raves about....I can barely smell her. Maybe I am just not able to smell that kind of scent. :0( But thanks for trying! :0) Great ideas, everyone. Thank you! :0) Phyl

Just another note of interest..my 3 pods of selfed Mocca split open yesterday and they were all still noticeably green when they split, not the usual crinkled yellow like all the others. I got a lot of variation in these seeds..different sizes, some smaller seeds with the swollen embryos, (not as large as the ones above though) and many of the larger seeds didn't appear to have any embryo in them at all, they were totally flat. Of the seeds in this pictures not all that many appear to be viable..I'd say only about 1/3 of them appear to be good. Nothing earthshaking, I just don't recall seeing such variation in sizes in other seed batches, or maybe I just wasn't looking... I did have one pod on Exotica x Mocca and those few seeds appeared to all be uniform aside from the usual chaff...none of those have germinated yet for me, but it's been less than a week... Donna Donna

I love your Lobelia, and wish I could grow it here, but it's too dry, and I don't have enough shade. Are those Zinnias mixed in with it in the second photo? Your Asclepias tuberosa pictures have made me decide that I am definitely wintersowing some more of that this year! I left the pods on, so that I could collect the seed, but I have noticed some weird bugs on mine too. Will they eat the seedpods? Yesterday, when I was working in the garden, a hummer was just 3 or 4 feet from me, happily drinking out of the Agastache 'Apache Sunset', and I was wishing that I had my camera with me. Thanks for sharing your photos with us! Bonnie

I have all that you want, but you have none that I want. Sorry I would love to trade Crasulady2@dslextreme.com When your pictures are posted I may change my mind. The Lav. # means nothing to me with out a name. or picture.