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Hi Melissa, I'm interested in some of your seeds... - Cardinal Climber - Salvia "Scarlet Sage" - if it's NOT the one as ubiquitous at garden centers as pink impatiens!! I am looking for the taller, looser one. - Pepper "Pasilla Bajio" - Pepper, mini ones (is this a mix?) - Nasturtium "Jewel Mixed Colors" - if it is a small, non-vining type - Zinnia "Thumbelina Mix" But with all those... all I have on your list is the german chamomile! Is there anything else on my trade list that interests you? Lori

Nan, Zinnias go hand in hand with powdery mildew, and black-eyed-susans get it too. We live on an island, mildew happens. Sigh. Go to a good nursery, or Home Depot, Lowes, Wally World, etc, and look for a product called Bayer Rose Food and Treatment (or some similar name), it's in a silvery blue bottle and has granules you strew about the plants. It's systemic and does a great job at preventing PM on roses and it works great on zinnias, rudbeckias and balsam too. The Mexican Zinnias seem to have better resistance to PM than the others, and of them I like the parti types. But for just knockout beauty in the garden you can't surpass Cactus Flowered Zinnias, they are my absolute favorites. They are butterfly magnets too, the monarchs, swallowtails and morning cloaks are always on them. Most of the time the Cactus Zinnia are available in dollar store packs, but you can get them from any garden center or catalogue. Just a suggestion, get a piece of oaktag and map your garden on it then tack the posterboard to the wall in the garage or slip it between your mattresses. I do a mapping each year of my tomato beds because I need to save their seeds, most of the flowers I don't map, and likewise you don't need to map the things you know well, just scribble down a general location and name of the special plants, you can even glue or tape the seed pack to the oaktag. I always put markers out in my garden, written with a commercial sharpie too so they don't fade, but I've seen them blow away in severe storms and Liz, the most wonderful of dogs, will sometimes snatch them out of the beds and chew them up into unreadable piles of shreddies; so for a back up a map is very helpful. T

Searching for some seeds of this Big Red Sage. Anyone have some extra this year? Can trade palm seedlings, datura, agave ferox pup, or SASE. Check my list.