That's right... you're a night owl, like my husband! He's never available before noon, sometimes later... but then, most geeks and hackers work night hours! If you tell me you're also a coffee-holic, I'm going to be freaked out! Because of his ADD, we bought a Bunn double burner, industrial coffee maker from Sam's Club, and we go through so much Folger's, we ought to buy stock in the company! I'm more the up-with-the-sun type person, out in the garden early in nice weather... and I hibernate in winter like a little bear! Even though amaryllis and other lilies are my favorite flowers, I also have a thing for mini roses and most perennials... I've recently begun learning about orchids, and hope to get more when I'm confident I can care for them properly... my Phal is losing leaves, but it is growing a spike and has a new root nub peeking out from under the leaves... I think I may have over-watered it... hopefully, it will recover... And... I have few other houseplants, like my ponytail palm, mother-in-laws-tongue, spider plant, 2 english ivies, african violet, and a few others... it all keeps me busy and out of trouble! I can't wait until it's time to start seeds for spring... then I can plant the seeds you sent me! I even got a second heat mat just for the volume of seeds I plan to sow this time around!

Do you have daylilies or true lilies, Gloria? Can you describe your plants or post a picture? "I want to plant more Daylillys in the same area (I should have just let the seeds fall). IF I PLANT NEW ONE'S NOW WILL THEY COME UP FULLER NEXT YEAR? IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE TO PLANT? I live in Allentown PA which I believe is zone 6a?" Both daylilies and lilies are perennial plants, with daylilies growing from a crown, leaves above and roots below, and with lilies from a bulb, with a stalk and leaves above and roots below. In both cases, assuming crown and bulb are OK, the plant is alive and should return next year. The droopy leaves may be what you're seeing because the daylily is going dormant. (Due to drought?) Although it is a bit strange - I'm in PA and I have a garden full of green daylily leaves (and, mostly, brown scapes). Question is, is the crown or bulb OK? Is there anything there in the ground or did something happen, like, say, eaten by a vole or crown rot or something? "I want to plant more Daylillys in the same area (I should have just let the seeds fall). IF I PLANT NEW ONE'S NOW WILL THEY COME UP FULLER NEXT YEAR? IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE TO PLANT? I live in Allentown PA which I believe is zone 6a?" And also.... If you'd let the seeds fall, and if they were to germinate, you'd end up with first-year seedlings next year, which might not even flower. If you plant new daylilies to replace the ones you have/had, they'll come up fuller probably only if you plant bigger plants. :) Allentown is probably zone 6B. Regardless -- I've been told that we should try to get our daylilies in the ground by Labor Day. But that's not to say you can't still plant. You might want to do it fairly soon though. Once the ground freezes, you might want to place rocks or bricks close around the crowns of the new plants, to prevent frost heave over the winter. But before you do any of those things, you probably want to check to see whether your scarlet daylilies are in fact still alive. :) ...scarlet lilies. I sure would like to see a picture, if you have one. Maybe they're lily lilies.

I'm in south puget sound area the pacific northwest (US). We had a particulary bad bout of spider mites and powdery mildew late this summer. Pretty frustrating. Anyways, I still have poppies blooming. I started some in april and a second planting in june. Some of the june ones bloomed by august; others are just starting. Late summer was unusually dry here. Then we started getting our usualy cool, grey and wet weather in late september. A couple of my pods which were just about ready to harvest for seed started turning green again so I pulled them and viola! all the seeds were fully germinated! Darn!! My first Hen and Chicks plant bloomed in early september. I only got two flowers from a single plant, so I really didn't want to mess up the only seeds. I brought this plant, which was in a pot, onto my enclosed back porch. Unfortunately, the plants aren't getting enough light for the younger pods to develop. I have no supplemental light source, so I had to choose to keep the HnC pods dry. Does anyone have any hints on how to deal with late season poppies in the pac northwest?

I'm glad Dan has been able to share Worsleya seeds, esp with K. As posted before, my seeds came from NSW Aust. Germinated in perlite. 1 seed didn't germinate, one rotted, one yanked a couple times by a bird then died. 1 survived. That plant has been grown over the years in 1/3 peat moss & 2/3 washed granite gravel. It has divided into 6 plants and is doing well outside in Houston TX. But... has not achieved adequate size to bloom in 10 years. I have increased fertilizer a bit more this year and growth is better. Pat