This post has got me working on my list again. This time though, I am doing it in simple text format, so I can back it up on my thumb drive, sd card, my e-reader, and my desktop. LOL Here is my list of what all I am growing for this year. This does not include the seeds from the wish list swap either. ---Flowers--- Achillea Millefolium (Yarrow, Fireland) Adenophora (Lady Bells) Agastache foeniculum (Lavender Hyssop) Anagallis monelli (Blue Pimpernel) (an) Alcea niger (Hollyhock, Black) Alcea ? (Holly hock, Pink) Amaranthus paniculatus, Autumn Palette Arctotis venusta (Blue Eyed African Daisy) Asclepias Incarnata (milkweed, ice ballet) Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed) Aster divaricatus (Wild white aster) Aquilegia Canandensis (Red Columbine) Aquilegia ?? (Columbine Mix) Baptisia australis (False Blue Indigo) Berlandiera lyrata (Chocolate Flower) Castilleja Indivisa (Indian Paintbrush) Calendula Sherbert Frizz Clarkia amoena (Godetia) (an) Collinsia heterophylla (Chinese Houses) (an) Delphinium Blue Boy Delphinium Chinensis (Delphinium, blue mirror) Dianthus Plumarius Sweetness Digitalis Lutea (straw foxglove) Echinacea tennesseensis (Tennessee coneflower) Eupatorium purpureum (Joe Pye Weed) Fritillaria Persica (Persian Lilly) Gaura Geranium bohemicum (orchid blue geranium) Gentiana Andrewsii (closed bottle gentian) Geum Triflorum (Prairie Smoke) Glebionis carinatum (tricolor daisy) Hellebore Niger (christmas Hellebore) Hellebore Orientalis Hellebore ?? Lathyrus Latifolius (Pink Sweet Pea) Lathyrus Latifolius (Red Pearl Sweet Pea) Lathyrus Latifolius (White Pearl Sweet Pea) Liatris spicata (Grayfeather) Linaria Vulgaris (Butter n Eggs) Lobelia Cardinals (Cardinal Flower) Lobelia Siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia) Lysimachia Atropurpureau, Beaujolais (Purple Gooseneck Loosestrife) Lunaria annua (Money Plant) Lupinus Perennis (Wild prairie lupine) Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Tahoka Daisy) (an) Marigold Tall (an) Mimulus ringens (Monkey flower) Monarda Croftway (Pink Bee Balm) Monarda Didyma (Red Bee Balm, panorama) MONARDA LAMBADA (Bee Balm, Purple) Orlaya grandiflora (White Lace Flower) Penstemon whippleanus (Whipple's penstemon) Phlox ? (pink purple phlox) Poppy pink double (an) poppies ?? (an) Nemopila insignis (Baby Blue Eyes) (an) Nicandra physalodes (Shoofly) Nigella (love in a mist) (an) Papaver Orientalis (Beauty of Livermere) Passiflora ?? Passiflora incarnata (Maypop) Penstemon Barbatus (Beardtongue, Rhondo Mix) Polemonium caeruleum (Jacobs Ladder) Ratibida Columnaris (Mexican Hat) Rosa canina (Wild Dog Rose) Scabiosa (pincushion Flower) Shasta Daisy Crazy Daisy Shasta Daisy Esther Reed Smilacina racemosa (False Solomon's Seal) Stylophorum Diphyllum (Celandine Poppy) Tanacetum coccineum (Painted Daisy) Thermopsis Montana (False Lupine) Tradescantia Ohiosis (ohio spiderwort) Tritoma Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker, Flamenco) Verbascum Phoenicium (Mullien, Purple Mix) Veronica spicata (Speedwell Mix) Veronica Teucrium (Austrian speedwell) Wildflower Mix ---Vegies--- Tomato Black Krim Tomato Kellog's Breakfast Tomato Prudens Purple Tomato Rutgers ---Herbs--- Anethum Graveolens (Dill, Mammoth) (an) Bupleurum (Thorowax) Coriandrun sativum (cilantro Corriander) (an) Foeniculum vulgare(Bronze Fennel) Foeniculum vulgare (floreance fennel) Lavender ?? Matricaria recutita (German Chamomile) Origanum majorana, Lamiaceae (Marjoram) Prunella grandiflora (Big-Flowered Self Heal) Prunella vulgaris (Allheal) Ruta Graveolens (Rue) ---Berries--- Billardiera longiflora (climbing Blueberry) fraises des bois (alpine Strawberry) Lycium chinense (Goji Berry) Physalis alkekengi (winter cherry) Physalis pruinosa (Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry) Ribes aureum (Golden Currant) Ribes rubrum (Red Currant) Vaccinium Deliciosum (Cascade Huckleberry) Vaccinium myrtillus (European Blueberry Huckleberry) ---Shrubs--- Callicarpa American Beautyberry Caryopteris First Choice (Blue beard) Euanimous Americanus (Strawberry Bush) Viburnum Burkwoodii (snowball bush) ---Melons--- Cucumis melo dudaim (Quenn Anne's Pocket Melon) When I say I do not need anymore seeds I am SOOOOO not joking. I feel as if I am crazy, though I am sure someone has a bigger list than this. PLEASE TELL ME YOU DO!!

I'm glad I found this thread. Lots of good ideas, and pros and cons I hadn't considered. A public garden I tend is in the back of a 2-story church with vast, white walls that receive full sun most of the day during summer. In Sacramento, that can mean several days of 100+ weather. We don't get any rain through the summer, so everything needs to be hand watered in the hot, rainless months. For the past 3 years we've used blue morning glories, which are like perennials in our climate. We usually have several days of below freezing weather in the winter which tinges some of the plants, but usually never kills. Careful pruning before spring makes frosted spots invisible. I have not planted any morning glories myself. They have self seeded or continued to grow like perennials. Everyone loves them, but are willing to consider something else. There are places where I need to pull down dead vines, but most of it continues to grow. Last year it joined forces with an extremely vining rose and took over the lower half of the building. Then it was difficult to cut back with all the thorns. It also has turned the corner of the building getting entangled with other plants. It jumped to the palms and hollyhocks in the nearby raised bed. I'd like to find something that is more low-maintenance especially since this is a volunteer-tended garden. Is there anything besides close vigilance and pruning to keep the vining rose from playing with whatever is on the wall? It is planted very close to the wall. I've considered letting it take over, but it's not a big bloomer, especially if I let it grow wild. Perhaps best solution is to dig it up. The bright blue of the morning glories is very exciting against the white walls, so I would need something with lots of continuing color to keep everyone happy. If the vine lost control and kept growing up to the second floor and roof, we would have no way o trimming it back. I've considered passifloras, but was told only one species might survive Sacramento's very hot summers. I do like Black Eyed Susans and the flowers are bright, but not sure they are right for that spot. Jasmines might be too invasive although they smell heavenly. I don't know any that have bright colors either. I don't know the name of the existing vining rose. It has thorns. Not an option of replacing it with a rose that's more manageable -- no funds at all and digging it up would be a big pain. Nasturtium would be WONDERFUL but it needs the coolness and moisture of the Bay Area to thrive here. I haven't found a good spot yet that is shaded enough for a small patch of nasturtium that would bloom in early spring and again in very late summer. Maybe staying with the morning glories is the best way to go? I could be more aggressive in keeping it confined to the one wall, then pull all of it down about December. By spring it's all grown back and starts blooming the minute the sun shine hits it for longer periods of the day. But it never reaches the second story walls. Is there something else you all could recommend within the confines of my situation? This year I've been promised a sort of small arbor around "U" shaped bench seating. My job is to create some overhead shade. I'm leaning toward grapes. Since this garden isn't secured, we don't want to create completely opaque sides that might mask 'other' activities at night. Someone also mentioned tomatoes -- hadn't considered that.

I planted a bunch of two liter pop bottles over the weekend -- just in time to be buried in the snow! I need to sit down and really think about what I want to plant, how I want the garden to look, and -- what the heck! Everything looks good with freen, right? This weekend I planted cerinthe, balsam, sweet william, white thunbergia, cypress vine, chamomile, and tomatoes -- mortgage lifter, yellow pear, banana cream and grape. (I'm particularly curious about "banana cream" tomatoes!)

Evolvus Arizonica - soak or nick the seeds, plant. Hedioma hyssopifolium - scatter on soil,scratch in, keep moist. Phaecelia parryi - scatter seed, keep moist. Sphaeralcea fendleri venusta: Globe mallows are easy. scatter on soil,scratch in, keep moist. Talinum brevifolium - Dunno, but I'd try scattering part on well-drained soil and mist it daily. It's in the portulaca family. Hibiscus coulteri, Hibiscus denudatus : soak or nick the seeds, plant 1/8 or so deep, keep moist. ********** The trick is to duplicate a "wet winter" for them.