Hi Maureen, I'm new to the seed exchange and just gettting back into gardening. I'm looking for small quanties of perennial seeds..nothing rare or unusual..just common seeds..but my problem is I am planting in semi-shade. Would you have anything that could help me out? Thank Y...Kathyou

Hi Ashley, please check my list and see if i have anything you like. thanks.

Ancient thread, I know. But as I'm still searching for suppliers of this columbine, I have a few things to note: 1) I shipped 3 mature members to my mom in Wisconsin (I live in Missouri) without any problem at all. They all survived and have put in at least two full seasons with her now. 2) I found one site that says that "Carol Ann" and "Granny's Bonnet" are the same variety. I found a couple of sites that say that "Granny's Bonnet" and "Dorothy Rose" are the same variety. 3) The botanical name of all three is reported to be "Aquilegia vulgaris". But that includes many, many cultivars and flowers of many colors. Makes me wish I could find a reference to the different cultivars. I'd really like to be sure I'm truly getting seeds for "Carol Ann" since that's what I already have in the ground here (though a couple were crowded out last year and I fear may not come back this year). It looks like Swiftgreenhouses.com is selling them this year to their customers / distributors. (And I did recover one of the "tag-stakes" that came with my original set of columbines, and the address on them led me to that website.) But of course, I'm not a business, so I can't buy direct from them. They've got a "broker list" there, but those too appear to be wholesalers.

Hello everyone, I've sowed 21 big and 15 small lettuce tubs since the 16th, but only now am getting around to posting. Last year I had amazing success with winter sowing, after about 50/50 the year before that. Now I'm out of containers :( I've put out a call to my usual sources, so hopefully more soon! Hope your all well and not too snowed under, we've got several more inches today in SW ON. In annuals: Purple cleome (2 of these) White Queen cleome (2 of these) Monkey flower Scarlet gilia/ipomopsis Biennials Sweet William Pinocchio Sweet William Beauty Holborn Glory Sweet William multicoloured heads Wallflowers- tangerine, ?colour, Italian mixed colours Siberian orange wallflower Perennials Italian bugloss Dropmore (2 of these) Alkanet Alba Delphinium Blue Mirror (2 of these) Sky blue penstemon Chimney bellflower Viola Heartsease Viola Bowles Black Canadian columbine Blue columbines Black columbines Cuty johnny-jump-ups Pam's Choice foxglove Blue Clips bellflower Monarch's Velvet potentilla Cervicaria bellflower Americana bellflower Peach leaved bellflower (bit of a pattern here :) Blephilia ciliata Echinacea White Swan Oriental poppy - an astonishing cherry red one Blue Lupines