Hee hee. this is why I'm just going for a ton of things -- if I lose some, oh well, no big deal. What I've done with some of them is prepped the container, sown the seeds, but have NOT watered them yet. So they are still "stalled". If you're worried about a warm spell, you could do something like this and just not water & not set the container where it can get rained into. Or just go for it, and know that some seeds will sprout and die...and the late sprouters in the same container might make up for them, just like they'd do in the wild. Last year I waited for the same reasons you mention. (still lost things to dry spells) This year I have to take advantage of the time off work over the holidays. Whenever you start sowing, don't think too hard about which things to sow first. Just sow until they're all sown! You can find homes for them later -- and if some don't make it, you'll still have enough for your garden.

Wll, I'm having troubl typing sinc th 'E' ky dosn't want to work unlss I apply xcssiv forc. So if i forgt to pound on a fw E's blow, that is th rason. I rEally like both of your seedlings, espcially the first one. Christine

wow, Rita, you still have lots of pretty blooms.Love that WILD CHERRY ROUNDUP and ENDURING FREEDOM,too.That big sunflower is really pretty.I use to grow them every year too,and squirrels would eat the seeds before I got a chance to injoy them,and they broke the stalks,too.Thaat NY ironweed looks to be very tall,but I love the color of it.Love Purple's.Your roses looks so healthy and nice, too.Deer ate mine up.I was spraying them to keep the deer from eating them,and all this rain washed it off and the deer was out eating them.They stripped all the leaves off and every bud and bloom,so now all I have in roses is bare canes.,except for a few I have inside a fenced front yard,and they look pitiful too. Jean

Well, I might as well add some pictures from the past week or two to this post. Every time I get ready to go outside, it decides to start drizzling more heavily. It’s that on again off again type light rain. I’m amazed at the difference in colors some of the roses are showing now, compared to the summer pictures I posted above. Here’s a few for comparison. Mel’s Heritage November 2,2019. Mel’s Heritage color now that we’ve had cooler temps. Excuse the spent blooms. They’re very difficult to reach. They’re such a dark pink compared to the rest of the year. 1/19/20 Cornelia shows many shades in this older picture from 5/24/18. (I have NO idea how I managed to get this picture labeled and dated. I wish I remembered how I did it.) Cornelia 10/26/19 Cornelia 11/23/19; Cornelia’s blooms are getting a little deeper pink in the picture below. Cornelia 2/1/20; Cornelia’s blooms are now about as deep a pink as I ever see them. Lisa