Fran really I had NO trouble with either of them. I just use a shallow pan or plastic shoe box and sow on the surface and cover with vermiculite and mist daily I had them both to germinate within 7-10 days. I have grown many times. Black moundry I have, but would have welcomed more from tammy, my seeds that I started this year I already had plans for, but blue fescue you can winter sow also I did last year, but this year started some in greenhouse in August they were in gallon pots by jan. Second sowing which you are getting was Feb and they are now in 4 inch pots, but could easily go up. HMMM did you sow on the surface. I have found that with grass seed it is imperative to use pans and not plugs or divided seed start containers. Just fill a container with dirt and they love it. I did not use bottom heat for the blue fescue, but did for the moundry. Black mondo which I was looking for is just a black mondo grass. Thompson and Morgan has seeds I may try it is so expensive for plugs, the same for Japanese Forest GRass, but I guess I will have to bite the bullet in the fall. NEW REQUEST Lotus from DON and Spider lily if you have anymore please. Here are my offers that are confirmed please not some will have to be mailed out later PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I MISSED ANYONE AS I WILL BE MOVING THESE TO A SEPERATE AREA SO I DON"T GET THEM MIXED IN WITH RETAIL> Tammy Purple Fountain Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Water Hyacinth confirmed Marian Lemon Grass Purple Iris Aquawise Fiber Optic Grass Pony Tail Indian Grass Lemon grass Becky Dwarf Umbrella Palm Anacharis Bigmoma4ever Anacharis Wendy Lemon Grass Purple Fountain Grass Dwarf Sweet Flag Fiber Optic Grass Ruby Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Anacharis Water Hyacinth confirmed Water Lettuce confirmed Mouse Lemon Grass Pony Tail Grass Indian Grass Fran Blue Fescue Pony Tail Lemon Grass Indian Grass Sweet Flag Ruby Grass: Chinese Silver grass: Carex Prairie Fire sedge Dwarf Umbrella Palm Corkscrew Rush Pickeral Rush Water Hyacinth confirmed Water Lettuce confirmed I will send you some daylilys also. Chris Blue Fescue Pony Tail Lemon Grass Indian Grass Purple Fountain Grass Ruby Grass Chinese Silver Grass Carex Prairie Fire Sedge Bunny Tail Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Corkscrew Anacharis Pickeral Rush Water Hyacinth confirmed Water Lettace Confirmed Dixietn Pony Tail Lemon Grass Indian Grass Purple Fountain Grass Corkscrew Don water lettuce when available I will mail out need address water hyacinth when available I will mail out need address Blue Fescue Ponytail Lemon Grass Fiber Optic Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Hope everyone is well. I would have been on sooner but when we got back from New york the air was broken, then that night laid down to sleep and couldn't I heard a popping noise saw a flash and the tv had shorted out, by the time i got up to unplug it it...

Hi Ingrid! Yes everything up here in NorCal is behind because of the weather. At my house, we didn't get as much rain during the earlier storms in the season... but we are getting storms now and it's delaying everything. Roses, strawberries, other plants and flowers. I'm trying to stay positive and think about their nice strong root systems developing. That stained glass photo was in the chapel that we saw on the tour... it was a morgue at one point. It was a great tour given by a woman named Judy. :-)

1) I think you need some matching mounding shapes on the opposite corner by that cone shaped conifer. 2) I have had plain old-fashioned annabelle hydrangeas growing in such a space. Michael Dirr, the shrub guru, claims he's seen them growing in very dark dry shade, so I tried it in a bad spot. Their form was open-ish rather than dense and full, flowers were sparse, but they were cheap and green & filled up the hole very nicely with a different texture. They add a bit of loose height to a naturalistic grouping of hosta, ferns, variegated Solomon's Seal, a carex for linear shape, all over a base of plain green sedum. The carex and sedum stay green all winter for me, with the hydrangea flower heads persisting above. My planting is very informal...a sheared yew and one of the larger hosta, or a mass of a medium-sized one, would give a more tailored look if that is your preference. Pachysandra or epimedium would also offer a tailored evergreen groundcover, even if originally in just a single patch in your white gravel while you wait for them to grow enough to spread further. Oh, and you could put a bright vase shaped hosta in your urn beside your door, if you want to repeat that shape and integrate the urn. But do trouble to shop a proper nursery to choose from the 100's of varieties of hosta. The hosta board here would be able to suggest a vendor in your area who has a display garden, and there are excellent online hosta specialists who mail order very fine plants, but I strongly recommend against buying hosta from the big boxes, though I think they're fine for simplest hydrangeas or ordinary yews. Hosta have some disease issues being spread by cheapo irreputable vendors, and you want strong plants that haven't been prematurely forced into weak growth.

If Cannas need a lot of sun then they won't work. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check those out. I do have an irrigation issue, I have 5 sprinklers servicing a section of my yard. One of them is located in section where there is a block wall on two sides and a large hedge on the other. Therefore because it gets a lot more shade (only gets 1-3hr of sun) but gets the same about of water, it is a lot more damp.