Hello Gardengal, Nckvilledudes, Buyorsell and everyone. I loved the Yukiokoshi. It is a stunner. I really admire the petal formation. Since we're sharing... I just came back from picking up two more Clems that I have been wanting for quite a while. I bought Josephine (evijohill) and Arctic Queen (Evitwo)! I am very excited about these new additions. I will be clearing out some japanese iris to make room for them on the trellis. I love the fall sales, they were marked down 30%. I was very pleasantly surprised to find them at my local nursery. I was just getting ready to make the leap and order online.

Okay, I'll bring some fig cuttings. Thank for the offer, but I have three figs trees which is all I have room for. Does anyone have seeds or small plants of the little vine LOVE IN A PUFF? If you do I'd like to get it going again. Reworked the beds it was in so thoroughly it didn't come back this year. BTW, I found some four inch pots of PORTERWEED at ARE so don't need those. Hopefully, I'll have some to share next year. See you all about this time tomorrow :-) MacArthur Park opens at 9:00.

I just potted up 60 tiny seedlings into 4" pots. I have seen them down at Barton Springs Nursery but they are not there always. mine will be ready for the ground in the fall. I can also grab a bunch of seed for you so speak up.. I do not normally save the seed ( fall time seed), I throw some in a couple of pots outside and then wait for them to sprout in the spring. They do not volunteer on my land. They might volunteer on sandy soil or clay. They are a FAR south texas plant native but cold hardy in OKC. and I have one plant that is 15Years old, so I guess the deer haven't been interested in it yet.

It is fun to want plants that you see, but I've learned that if they are hard to find, they are probably not suited to my area. It's rare for plant info to include a warning like "can't tolerate warm humid nights" or "doesn't handle dew well," but I've discovered there are such, especially among cute little succulents. Anything that even mentions "alpine" will not be able to handle the heat & O2 levels at my location. I know to interpret "part sun" as "no direct midday sun," and even "full sun" plants can do better without literal all day sun. Trying to create a perennial garden from seeds has been, for me, a romantic notion but in practice, has never conformed to imagination. Plants that start from seeds drop a lot of seeds, which is great if you want solid patches of things. As a new gardener, you hear that and think, "Yeah, I want patches! Look at my empty spaces!" But after you've realized one spring that you have 1,729 seedlings around your beloved patch of 49 plants, you can change your mind about some plants, and/or sometimes give a single plant an area you originally thought would have a mix of different plants. Sprouting a seed and having a plant thrive are totally different things. I don't know if anybody has done it, but I would not personally automatically translate trouble with seeds or seedlings into meaning that that plant can't grow well at my location. A garden is never done, and weather/nature will participate to the good and the bad, so don't be too rigid about expectations unless you have the kind of budget where you buy a whole instant landscape. When I bring plants home, it is to see if they like it, not to knock myself out by providing some special care. If I feel like I am letting the plants decide, it feels more optimistic, and is definitely more fun when they do thrive. The benchmark can't be either every plant I bring home thrives or I'm failing at gardening. That's way too high. I can't say what anyone else would enjoy but I have more fun when I consider the whole thing an experiment, and myself an observer, vs. "in charge." I can add or remove plants, but they have to grow themselves if they want to. I am also very impulsive about this, especially since I've never before tried a lot of the plants that I buy in this location, having started gardening here only about 15 yrs ago. I'm sure it looks like a work in progress because it is. Once I've collected enough "keepers" so that the spaces are filled, there will need to be some re-arranging & moving of the little fru-fru plants away from the bigger things that have grown over and around them. All part of the fun to me. There's a reason some plants are so ubiquitous, like marigolds and Zinnias. The seeds sprout readily and quickly reach blooming stage. Not picky about weather as long as it's above freezing, not picky about needing too much rain, so cute and pleasant to have around. I've never seen anyone ask, "How do I get rid of these Zinnia or marigold sprouts?"