i wonder why delivery of live plants is restricted???? arent you kinda defeating the purpose of such ... by importing seeds ... e.g if they are invasive to your region .... or host to bugs or disease that could wipe out one of ORs many horticultural industries???? ken

Sorry - but this is just my opinion. IMHO, you will get a much longer bloom season by using two or three different purples with different bloom season. And if you want this area to really show up, try planting groups of maybe three purples and three yellows, three purples, three yellows - or groups of fives. Always use uneven numbers. For mass landscaping and curb appeal from a distance, this is how to get a great effect. We used mass plantings like this for the front of our club bed ( the part that we knew would be seen from the highway.) The colors we chose were reds and yellows. We planted groups of five plants each- some we used were ( yellow and gold) CONDILLA, SMUGGLER'S GOLD ( RED) ROSE CORSAGE, a red Munson - the name just left me, and a few others. Traffic STOPS during bloom season. This is across about a 250' front border.

It is very pretty, hope you ID it. Shadow

Not too many names yet...they were really waiting to find out boy or girl to start the search. I think there are 3 that have kinda been 'okayed' by both....Kason Michael, Jackson (Jack) Edward, and Hayden Michael. But it is way early...so I am SURE it will change. Sept 7 is the due date...but all this time I have thought it was Sept 4, so that is what I am going by! LOL Not sure if I will be sewing the nursery or not. Kalie is looking to see what she likes, and we will go from there. But you can BET that I will be doing ALOT of additional sewing once she gets it figured out. =) Linda...you KNOW that "C" word (Iowa State Cyclones) is a bad word in their house! We hit some 2nd hand stores yesterday and I found 2 little IA Hawkeye (Iowa & IA St are BIG rivals!) outfits! I told Kalie I was going to pick up a Cy outfit just for fun...but didn't.