Your plant from the two post looks like bindweed(but as the poster on the other tread pointed out, it could be a couple other things), but that flower you posted belongs to a bellflower(campanula) and doesn't go with the foliage at all. Those flowers would not of started off white and turned purple either. I think the vine has wound around a bellflower giving the illusion that it is blooming that flower. Find a white bloom from the vine and take a pic please : ) Remy

I grew Statice several years ago. I planted two packets of mixed colors. I got: white, off white, pink, apricot, lavender, blues and dark purples. I still have the ones I dried. I believe I have seeds tucked away somewhere in my seed boxes. Tomorrow I will dig around and see if I can find them. Wonder if they would still grow? I like to grow them for their beauty of course, but mostly to remember my dear Grannie. She died 13 years ago at the young age of 102. Her birthday is Feb. 7th and mine is the 9th. I was named for her, too. Mother says I am very much the gardening girl that she was and laughs whenever she sees me picking up broken plants from a nursery/garden floor or pinching plants and "stealing" seeds. I tell her they WANT me to take them home and love them to life. How can I tell them no? She chuckles and says, "You're just like Momma." Grannie was an honorary member of the San Pasqual Zoo in San Diego since it opening and frequented the place, going once a month, for more than twenty years. They sent her a free "ZooNews" magazine and bulletin updates on the animal births and events happening at the zoo. She always wore a big, wide-brimmed straw hat and dressed in blue jeans, a plaid flannel shirt and wore sturdy walking shoes. She carried a LARGE leather handbag on all outings. She used her cane as a pointer, to poke things with and investigate rocks she saw that she liked. Her ancestry was clear to see in her amazing resemblance to the Queen Mother. What a mug - firey red hair (still visible even at her last years), sharp, piercing blue eyes, intelligent, stern and quite serious. Her favorite thing about going to San Pasqual was pinching plants. She particular liked succulents and cacti, but not unknown to take "samples" of anything that struck her fancy, cute little Grannie. No one everquestioned her or said a word to her about it, if they indeed even saw her. She was little, ancient and heavily armed with a cane. I want some Statice seeds to grow for Grannie. ~ Annie

Hello Mark - corn needs a lot of heat - I never have much luck with it in my garden although there is very good corn grown in this area. Everything else should do fine for you - pumpkins take a lot of water - I got tired of being enslaved as the water mule so I don`t grow them anymore but if you have young children, they are a must have!!! If your garden runs east/west, you could try planting your rows north/south so they don`t get shaded out. You will learn a lot your first season about what does well in your particular situation, what you will move around for next year and what else you might like to try. Good luck and happy gardening.

My French lilac blooms have no smell at all, and the blossoms are very short lived in vases, so I am waiting for my old fashioned lilac to gain enough mass that I can harvest a few branches from it each year. The only other flowers I've grown that make suitable cut flowers are sunflowers and gladioli. Unless you count the spring wildflowers I place in miniature vases on my kitchen windowsill. Actually I have occasionally picked a sprig off of my bleeding hearts for these same tiny vases, and they last a long time.