I just love threads like this -- the ideas are so wonderful! I have had the exact same combination in a huge bed for the last 5 years. Marigold 'Golden Guardian' -- not a patula, nor an erecta, but a single orange with ferny foliage -- combined with Salvia 'Victoria'. I have moss roses with zinnias in a different fairly large bed, and orange cosmos 'Bright Lights' in front of my white trumpet lilies. Then impatiens in the shade. Needless to say, although I love them all, I am ready for a change! Through trades, I have gotten a TON of seeds, and I am excited about each and every one of them. Buuu-uuut there are still some things I want to buy. One is Celosia cristata 'Orange Temple Bells' that JaneVx mentions above. Makes an excellent cut flower, and is "newer" looking than the other kinds of celosias I can find at the garden centers. The other things I want is an annual chyrsanthemum called 'Court Jester'. Parks has one called 'Merry Mix', but there is something fishy about the directions which tell you to direct sow after 1st frost, or two weeks ahead indoors, but then they go one to say, "Just when the summer color is fading from your annual bed, Merry Mix bursts into bloom!" Might have to rethink this one -- sounds like I would go all summer with green plants waiting for cool weather. Triple_B had a comment about Venidium, and this chrysanthemum has those dark rings, too, which I dearly love. (But it is NOT as cool as the Venidium with rings that look like like they were applied with eyeliner in some places.)In any case, I am ready for something new and different, even if it's only orange marigolds with STRIPES! LOL! Lime

Hi again, If you are interested in some of my seeds, please give me your trade list and your email address so that I can contact you. I am not interested in SASE. I donate most of my extra seeds to my "Seeds for Classrooms" program that I arranged with the local school board and schools (6,000 pkg a couple months ago). Other extra "useful" vegetable and herb seeds get donated to disaster relief organizations. Hope to hear from you about your seeds for zone 3 hardy and interesting perennials and shrubs. Happy Gardening

Eisenia hortensis (European nightcrawler) appears violet, purple or olive brown, sometimes with pale striping in segment furrows. Its clitellum is on segments 26-32, its first dorsal pores between segments 4/5, tuberculata pubertatis on segments 30 and 31, its prostomium is epilobic and its setae are widely paired. Eisenia Fetida (red worm), is...different. ;) To seriously answer your question it's hard to tell if a single worm is either species. The biggest difference, of course, is size and the EH is normally a darker color. But, to tell a juvenile EH from a juvenile EF, you would probably have to be someone specially trained to tell the difference and would need a microscope. All that said, here's a photo showing the difference between mature worms. http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worms/european-nightcrawlers-eisenia-hortensis/

2. Atriplex hortensis - Red Orach 3. Viola - can't quite see if it is Pansy or Violet