my seed list was last updated 12/7/14. some seeds have been traded/used since then. but I have not found the magic link to update my list. can email current list to anyone interested.

Very beautiful, indeed! We also have a few Siberian Iris plants here and there throughout the gardens, and a few small, but very lovely, Dutch Iris clumps! I love Iris... all types! We actually had a very lovely tall white Iris blooming in October! We try to keep a variety of plants in the gardens, so there will be color all season long. From very early to very late. Cacti will be nice, especially because you don't see that every day in a northern garden! When I first began to garden here, I figured it would be best to invest the time and effort, and do it right. So, I laid out my bed patterns, stripped off the sod, double dug the soil, added sand and peat and plenty of composted manure and yard waste. It was hard work! But it was so worth the effort! And once I began planting the beds, I mulched them with wood mulch. That was 4 years ago, and now, the mulch is beginning to decompose and enrich the soil, along with the compost I add every spring. I re-mulch in the late summer or fall, mainly to help protect the plants from the winter cold. It pays to begin with all that back-breaking work, even though it's rough! It makes for a lot less work later, especially in the weed and grass pulling, and it makes for nice loamy soil to plant in! I'm sorry, AJ... we seem to have hijacked your thread, and gone off topic to talk about gardens and indoor jungles! I hope you don't mind... I'm including a link to my Photo Album... 118 pages filled with bulbs, roses, gardens, and a few family pictures. Some of the photos show the before and after of a few garden beds... they're arranged seasonally from the last page to the first, but in no other particular order... enjoy! Here is a link that might be useful: My Photo Album - 118 Pages of Gardening and Family!

Okay Sharon, I have a confession. LOL!!! These are the lilies I picked up at Costco last week. 9 Bahia Blanca 9 Expressions together in one bag and labeled 7 Angelique 7 Rodolfa together in a bag and labeled 18 star gazers one bag 9 muscadet 9 kissproof together in one bag labeled All the above are orientals, From experience the orientals do very well in my garden 10 Amarone Asiatic lilies 10 Suncrest LA hybrids together in one bag. These I potted up, because they were starting to grow. I didn't see any species lilies there this year...with the exception of some trumpets. I also planted several lilies last fall....so looking forward to seeing those new this year. Sierra ;-)

Above results name 73 different hostas. Since we are looking for the top 100 hostas, I thought to include the next hostas that received 2 votes. There are 47 additional hostas with 2 votes making a grand total of 120 hostas that are the very most popular Allegan Fog 2 Alligator Shoes 2 Aphrodite 2 Aristocrat 2 Black Hills 2 Blue Cadet 2 Captain Kirk 2 Cathedral Windows 2 Cats eye 2 Dawn's Early Light 2 Dream Queen 2 Ebb Tide 2 El Capitan 2 Fortunei Hyacinthina 2 Gin and Tonic 2 Ginsu Knife 2 Golden Tiara 2 Gypsy Rose 2 Jade Cascade 2 Jewel of the Nile 2 Journey's End 2 Kabitan 2 Komodo Dragon 2 Lakeside Cha Cha 2 Lakeside Looking Glass 2 Laura and Darrell 2 Leading Lady 2 Night Before Christmas 2 nigrescens 2 Paradise Joyce 2 Patriot 2 Piedmont Gold 2 plantaginea 2 Queen Of The Seas 2 Radiant Edgar 2 Shade Fanfare 2 Spilt Milk 2 Squash Casserole 2 Stich in Time 2 Sum it Up 2 Super Nova 2 Tokudama Aureonebulosa 2 tokudama flavocircinalis 2 Warwick Comet 2 Wide Brim 2 Winter lightning 2 Zounds 2 Papou Here is a link that might be useful: Papou's hosta website -Welcome page