I've never grown these before, but bought seeds today from Seed Savers Exchange. Here are their directions: Sow seed in the spring in a sunny, moist, well-drained area. Plant 1/4" deep, thin to 1' apart after germination. Seeds are very hard and may take up to 4 weeks to germinate, so keep moist. Plating seeds in the fall can also work well. Prefers full sun to partial shade and a rich, well-drained soil. Reseeds year after year. If transplanting volunteers, be careful not to disturb roots. Good luck! Any other tips would be appreciated.

Lenette, I top dressed the pot with compost and time release fertilizer this spring and have been giving them the same weekly miracle grow or bloom booster as the brugs and once a month epsom salts. They are doing really good this year. They must have liked the conditions in the garage over the winter, lol. My sister's plants all look so good and one of her brugs I gave her is blooming. It has been raining most afternoons here and she waters too, lol. I am going to take out a loan and get a sprinkler system, lol. Just kidding I wish I could. I told her I wasn't even thinking about the yard being in the pics and that my grass was brown and crunchy and she laughed. Hubby has been trying to revive it and all he is doing is making mud and running up my water bill, lol. I think I will give up on it and try to reseed it later. It was already pretty weedy and this drought has done it in even with watering. THe whole neighborhood looks like that except the people who have an inground sprinkler system and my next door neighbor and his manual sprinklers run day and night no lie. He just moved them around every couple of hours, lol. Well I can't get to my nephews tomorrow to take cuttings. He is out of town and the gate is locked so hopefully I will score in New Orleans or I will have to take cuttings from the business landscaping and get arrested, lol. Lots of blooms going on everywhere in Baton Rouge.

Hi Everyone It has been beautiful here the past few days! Got up to 18C! I can't believe it! I have been out puttering around in the garden every day cleaning up. I even have flowers blooming... in April!! I have some scillias, and snowdrops. The pansies are out, so are the tulips and oriental poppies, but no flowers on those. I will have to try and get out and put some shredded newspaper over top of the beds as it is just too early for these plants to be popping up! I sure hope my hostas don't pop up or they will get frosted. Almost all our snow is gone now. I was out on the patio today trying to get the Christmas lights down, but son put they up on the clothes line and I'm too short to get them off (he is a foot taller than me) and the line won't move, so he will have to come over and help me figure that out. *L* I had 50lbs of alfalfa cubes delivered last week to put around my hostas as they love that. I had the guy first put the bag in the garage, but then I was pruning one of the roses in front garden and up popped this chipmunk. Scared the heck outta me and he was surprised too as he squeaked at me. I think it was a chippie and not a mouse, so I had hubs move the alfalfa in the porch and I put it in a rubbermaid tote, as I didn't want the critter getting into the bag and thinking he had died and gone to heaven. *LOL* My clubhouse bed and hosta bed, which are raised beds 36" tall have shrunk down almost a foot. Soooo I will have to take the hostas outta there and fill the beds up with dirt again and replant the hostas. I won't be able to see the hostas much if I don't do this. I'm hoping this will be the last year I will have to do this, as I have already done it twice and I hate the thoughts of having to move these big hostas they are so heavy and it always sets them back. I will have to buy some more dirt, peat moss and manure to fill up these beds, one more time. *ugh* Marcia, I can't believe u have mosquitoes already! I know there are bugs outside but have no idea what they are, they are too small for me to see. LOL I just hope they aren't mosquitoes. I was going to buy styrofoam cups to put plants in but haven't yet. It is too bad u couldn't buy some styrofoam contaniers that the chinese restaurants put won ton soup in for take out. Hi Janet, I was thinking of getting our ponds going before son moves down south but it seems so early to me, I can't get use to the idea. *L* What is a stick type filter? Hi Sandralou *waving* Where are u posting from? What kind of gardening do u like to do? I was able to find a cat harness at Walmart. I took Wilbur outside and he ran under the patio and got himself off the harness, the first and last time I tried it. *L* I will have to try again but just keep him in the front yard. Tina, I still have green irises from last year! They never went dormant, don't know how they did it, very strange spring. How hardy is rosemary normally? Danni, I am glad that your bleeding heart survived, that is great! clairdo are your tulips blooming or just up like mine are? Everything is so early this year it is strange. Here are some pics of my spring flowers, not many blooming but at least I have some. :-) I think these are scillias. And here are some of my amaryllis which are now taking over the house. I should of brought them upstairs months ago. Take care Debbie :-)

Ok! I have a newbie question too! Ok it snows less than an inch. For most people in my little neighborhood the store is in walking distance. That store was jam packed with people getting ready for the "shut in" from the "snow storm" WAY ahead of time. The streets were totally empty that day. BTW, the snow melted the next day. They have an actual storm with possible tornadoes,a torrential down pour and lots of flooded out areas. The makings of a real natural disaster... Nobody even gives it a second thought unless their house actually floods. People were driving around like normal and saying stuff like,"Lots of rain were having..." I'm SO confused!!!PJ