I am looking for plants that bloom after like the lilies start dying off, mums, althea (pink) or any others you might have. Just throw offers my way. You may take a look at my list to see if I have anything you have. I can also send postage. Please reply here or email me at gpborger@consolidated.net I do tend to check my email more often. Thanks Paula

Hi Pardalinum, What kind of lily seeds - and where did you get them. (Do you think the NALS seed sale would have them next year?) I've been trying my hand at seeds. So far I have seedlings of Leucanthum, Lankongense, Taliense, and Candidum growing. Hopefully they make it through the winter! I was hoping my orientals would bloom in August and Speciosum would bloom in September. Instead my Orientals were done by the end of July and Speciosum started blooming August 1. I can't make sense of these zones - I'm zone 7 but my speciosum are a month ahead of yours in zone 8. We have had several weeks of 90+ days - maybe zones mostly refer to the coldness of the winter rather than heat of summer. Though our winters are relatively short - we do have a few 0-10 degree days in February. -Helen

So you wanted wildflowers but now you're going to try for lawn? Obviously the lawn will be a lot more work..... would you consider just mowing the weeds and such that you have now and calling it done? If you mow once about late July you will encourage early wildflowers, discourage bushes and trees, and spread the seed of whatever grasses have bloomed and set seed. Cut once or twice again in the fall to neaten it up for winter. I don't like goldenrod, so the later mowings will help control that.

Oh Joanne thanks for the compliment ! I hate to tell you this,,,,but I type exactly the way I speak! So what you read is who I am!!! That could be either good or bad I suppose depending on what soapbox I am on! Anyway, my true confession, I have no room for the pans of leaves I have started! They are on my kitchen table! One pan wasn't bad. Two to three and he said are those gonna stay there? I said "they are a work in progress so just for a bit". Hah! He bought it. He is such a sweetie. Did I say that my table has two leafs and sits six comfortabley? That is how big it is and now he only has HIS spot at the head of it to sit. And no, we rarely eat there. So I figure might as well use it,,,,right? lol Well, I now have no more room for any more containers of leaves. Hmmmm,,,,,I have been thinking of setting up my flourescent light 3 tiered shelf again. Trouble is it is down the basement. BUT that is also where my dolly dungeon is. Which would be great!!!! My ceramics, paint, kilns, stuff, porcelain doll body parts all waiting to be worked on. So if my plants are down there,,,,no big deal right? I would probably be down there so much more often! Ok, but now that 3 tiered shelf is holding porcelain doll body parts waiting to be painted and finished. So what do I do with THEM? If I pack them in boxes they will never get worked on. I already have possibly more than 100 packed up waiting to be sold as is OR finished! AND I have 2 five tiered utility shelfs of them! It is an old Michigan basement so not a lot of options. Not alot of available room. We live in an old farmhouse built in 1876 and we share with the occasional mouse. Would it eat my violets? I mean after all, I had a bar of soap on my work table where I paint and that little snot ATE it!!! A bar of soap! Not just a taste,,,he ate the entire bar! (I hope he had diarherra til Kingdom come!) I cleaned my brushes with that soap! Geeze,,,I would think leaves and blossoms would be a delicacy!!!! So, anybody got any bright ideas I have not covered yet? Oh yeah and my doll molds are also down there. They cannot be moved. Too heavy and no more room! And they have to be available for me to pour them! In other words,,,,the basement is my center of ceramic/doll operation--hence Dolly Dungeon. Oh dear,,,but you know, I will think of some way. I always do! But I will consider all suggestions! Rosie