did I send an envelope? Were you able to email me.Sorry I didn't start a log book yet. If you dont remember hearing from me, please send your address to hassanz@pacifier.com Thanks Posted by maricybele 8 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 24, 07 at 5:07 Any vegees/herbs you have left from this wish list of your seeds would be great! And of course I would be happy to send you some from my list. Thanks Echinacea"Doppleganger"H,9/06 ** Cucumber,Lemon,C,'04,still good ** Cilantro,C,'04(5) still good,grew some this year** Lavender,H,'05(2) ** white alpiwhite alpine strawberry,H,'05(4ne strawberry,H,'05(4 Honeydew melon,unknown,grown from trade seeds,H,8/07** French Breakfast melon"Charentais Red Chidori Cabbages; Pigeon Pink Pigeon Purple Piegon Red Hibiscus any tea variety Thymus vulgaris,common thyme,C,'04(?) ** Italian Large Leaf(?)** Napoletano(?)** >Origanum vulgare hirtum,greek oregan,C,'04(?) **

I haven't updated since the start of April, so here is what has happened so far. 1) I extended my strip by another 25 feet or so. (I'm calling it Curb2.) I dug it out so that the middle of my strip is lower than the edges, creating a mini-rain garden/bioswale. In the other part of the strip (Curb1), the middle is higher than the edges. This means mulch if forever spilling onto the sidewalk. I bought a bag of 65 bare roots and corms from Costco for about $20. The 50 Liatris have since come up. The 5 Echinacea, and 10 Kniphofia did not. Popsicle sticks mark the plantings. I later added a couple of 'Blonde Ambition' blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), a common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), two tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) and one 'Silky Gold' tropical milkweed. 2) In Curb1, I added: *two 'Black and Blue' salvia *two Hill Country penstemon *three little bluestem. (I have so bluestem plants, I don't know what to do with them! I potted up a dozen, threw about 20 in the compost pile. It's a little sad, since it took me a whole year to grow them.) *two Gregg's mistflower *one snake herb (Dyschoriste linearis) *two Salvia greggii--one 'Purple', one 'Nuevo Leon' *one creeping red sedum *eight groundcover thymes--one 'Doone Valley', 7 'creeping' I labeled the milkweeds, so I wouldn't accidentally dig them up in the spring, before the leaves emerge (like I did this year). 3) Things I removed: The red yucca that I had planted in Curb1 was not doing well. I dug it out and it now lives in a pot on my patio. It was replaced immediately with bamboo muhly (Muhlenbergia dumosa). The gaura I planted in the spring died in the heat. My Agastache "Blue Boa", that after looking good all spring, suddenly declined, dried up and died. I tried to save it, giving it extra water, drenching with ammonium sulfate (in case it was cotton root rot), but nothing helped. In it's spot, since I was afraid it might have been a soil borne disease that killed the agastache, I dug out all the soil--about 12" wide and 8" deep--and replaced it with compost and expanded shale. I've planted a 'Mystic Spires' salvia, just last week. 4) Things really started to fill out in June I even got some milkweed blooms! (Asclepias viridis) (Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Gold') (Growth in Curb2)(Please excuse the purslane. I thought I'd try it as a living mulch. 5) Today (Late July) Curb 1 has finished for the summer, and it looking tired. (I believe that I'll get another flush from the Walker's Low catmint in the fall.) I'm impressed with how much the Gregg's dalea has grown (the silvery groundcover in the foreground). Last year, in a different spot, it hardly grew at all, and the nurseryman I purchased the plant from told me that it was a slow grower. I guess it just needed to find the 'right place'! Curb 2 is looking great.

I've seen Hoary Puccoon out on the Hi Lonesome Prairie southeast of Sedalia, MO in a field that didn't look particularly sandy, more just like good ol' upland Missouri tallgrass pasture. It was in an area that had been burned recently, along with various grasses just emerging, Nothoscordum bivalve, Viola pedata, and Castilleja coccinea. So I don't think it needs sand necessarily, but whether some other organism needs to be there seems like it could be a possibility.

Any of those photos could be of flowers in a ditch. Please name the one that you have previously identified. Lithospermum caroliniense does have flowers with that yellowish-orange color, so it may be the ID for your second shot. I'm guessing that's the one you've already identified, since that is only one of two photos with date stamps. I generally don't answer questions with several flowers, because each of them deserve their own post. When Google, etal, capture photos from combined posts (like this one), you often see photos mislabeled with the names of other plants in subsequent photo searches.