Hi Barb I'd like to trade for several things on your seed list - Sunrise Serenade Morning glory Calendula Solar Flashback Checkered lily Fritillaria Meleagris Catchfly Angel Blue I have several hardy geraniums, oriental poppies, and a few others from your list. Also have some gaillardias and agastaches in bloom now (cana, apricot sprite, apache sunset). I might even have a few bloodroot from spring, etc. LMK if you'd like to trade. (Sorry, but my trade page is totally out of date, so will have to see what is available) Here is a link that might be useful: my trade page

Vera, keep us up to date on that puny little MG vine. Maybe it's a mutant. My Sunrise Serenade completely covered the vine pole, and then some; it cascaded down in every direction after it reached the top. It was truly exciting to see and enjoy. The seeds I sent you were from those flowers. I wish I had not deleted all of the pictures I took of it, but I consolidated my files when I did a back-up floppy to install on the new computer. Last year, I grew some Heavenly Blue and some Star of Yelta, and this year I had a couple of volunteers from those plants, so I'm letting them grow up the vine pole. I won't know what I have growing until the blossoms start. Mary

I love Morning Glories too, and they will almost grow themselves, but what are you growing them up? If it is a trellis, or some sort of wire that has fairly large openings it is good...but if you're planning to put them on chainlink fencing, or chicken wire....beware!!! MG tendrils grow up and around any and every conceivable wire...which is a delight to the eyes....but miserable to remove come fall. I've even left it up over winter thinking the stems would soften by spring: they don't. It takes alot of finger strength and time to untwist each and every little tendril off the fence. With larger fencing you can sort of yank it down, clip, yank, clip, yank.

The color really is amazing some days. I know some looking at the pictures probably think the colors have been saturated by editing. But, the pics above are straight out of the camera. Of course, cameras add their own plusses and minuses, but, more often than not the colors are not as vivid overall in the resulting pics as what I see with my eye.