I am very open to anything even empty cards. I love Christmas cards and I think we got 2 last year. Lol I love edibles (especially tomatoes, beans, winter squash and melons). I had a bad year last year and lost most of my herbs ( I have chives, Italian Basil and Parsley) and a lot of my flowers for some reason I have mostly yellows left. I live in East Tennessee, zone 7-8 depending on who you ask, But I also love houseplants and things I bring in the winter. I have acres to fill and welcome anything that you recommend. I am especially looking for odd and unusual edibles and flowers, especially black ones my daughter is working on a Gothic garden. Flowers: Zinnias Amaranths Bee balm coreposis cosmos marigolds I have yellow Dainthus Phlox Poppies Coleus Columbines Daturas or Brugmansia Lantana ( I loved this and mine died) Celosia Red hot Poker Anemones Hollyhocks Nasturtiums Lilys Any bulbs ( I only have yellow daffodils) Edibles Herbs: Basils (I have Italian), Anise, Sage, Thyme (especially wooly or creeping), lemon grass, any I missed Beans: Lima, Fava, Lentils, the long ones, Good Mother stallard, Jacobs Cattle, Calypso, Fort Portal Jade, Runners (Especially Sunset or Painted Lady), Mayflower, Painted Pony Melons: Jenny Lind, Collective Farm Woman, Valencia Winter Melon, Apple, Banana, Bidwell Casaba, Kajari, Tigger and Amish Melon, Mother Mary's Pie White Wonder Watermelon, Golden Midget, Navjo Winter Watermelon, Orange Tendersweet, Moon & Stars. Early Moonbeam Watermelon. But I'm open to any cantaloupe or water melon types. Tomatoes: Any Bumblebee, Isis, Dr Wyche, Pink Accordion, Black Icicle, Chocolate Pear, Paul Robeson, Violet Jasper, Reisetomate, Jersey Devil, Brad's Atomic Grape, Blue Beauty, Cream Sausage, Red Pepper, White Cherry, But I am open to any. I just love tomatoes. Peppers: Orchid, Black Pearl, Fish Varigated and Purple Beauty Pepper. Again I'm open to anything. Squash: Ronde de Nice, Gelber Englischer Custard, scallops, Yugoslavine Finger Fruit, Turbans, Red Warty Thing, Galeus D'Eysines, Candy Roaster, Acorn, Butternut, Cushaw, Iran, Sweet Dumpling, Thelma Sanders Brussel Sprouts Broccoli Cauliflower Lettuces: I have black seeded simpson and Bibb Goji Berry Ground Cherry Prickly Pear Cactus Pumpkin on a Stick Walking Onions Garlic Leeks Spinach Fennel Peas Cucumbers: crystal apple, sikkim cucumber, armenian yard long, Boothebys Blonde, little potato Eggplants: I have Black Beauty Carrots: Odd colors, good growers, Parisienne Gourds: I have Birdhouse wheat rice quinoa Orange Jing Okra Star of David Okra Peas Spinach corn: Any unsual or popcorn types, Indian Berries, Mini Blue or Pink Popcorn, Bloody Butcher, Cherokee White Eage, Oxcacan Green, Bear Paw, Hop McConnell Speckled Please don't let this list give you the opinion that I'm picky. I'm not and I'm very grateful for anything received for the Holidays, even just a kind thought as you read this note. Merry Christmas to everyone. Now I'm off to grant some wishes myself.

Many of the groundcovers/living mulches/perennial tapestries that once clothed my garden have by now been stolen or otherwise removed, so I'd love to have seeds of easily direct-sown flowers, herbs and/or vegetables that can be kept to 3' or lower with which to cover the ground. There are short or dwarf forms of many flowers that Celia Thaxter grew in her island garden off the coast of New Hanpshire(?) in a diagram of her garden, accompanied by a list of her flowers here: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/thaxter/garden/garden.html Anything from her garden or similar that might help keep weeds down would be much appreciated. Some suggestions are: Asters - ones like tiger paws? other? Coreopsis - threadleaf Cosmos - dwarfs, like Popsocks etc Dianthus like "Picotee Pinks (D. chinensis x D. barbatus in our time), Sweet William Helianthus angustifolius(sp?) - Willow Leaf Sunflower - leaves are slender like willow leaves - not in Celia's garden, but she would have loved this if she had known about it - not all floppers welcome on my slopes, but this one would be wonderful anything blue and spikey like larkspur, but doesn't expire because of Maryland summer heat & humidity Anything attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees Mallows including malva, althea (dwarf), etc. Marigolds- any - like Tagetes tenuifolia(sp?) - Cottage Red Mignonette (Reseda odorata) Poppies - Eschscholzia like 'Rose Chiffon', Papaver alpinus, P. nudicaule(sp?), P. paeoniflorum Silene - any Zinnia - low growing - Chippendale? disease resistant like Profusions, haageana, Zahara If all goes well, I'm hoping this will approximate my New England grandmother's garden of long ago

Sorry I'm late on acknowledging 3 cards and saying thank you for some lovely seeds! January was a bit hectic for me but now I'm looking forward to planning my 2019 garden! Patrob- thank you for the lemon thyme, cosmic purple carrot, Pac Choy, and black seeded simpson lettuce. I'm excited for all of them! Tammy (mcc371)- thank you for the oriental greens and crystal apple cucumber! Excellent choices! DirtDaddy- thank you for the great selection of lettuce, red varieties are a particular favorite of mine, and French Sorrel!

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