Hi Ann, As it happens you chose ones I do have extras of. The "cost" is three first class stamps - four if you wish for me to provide the bubble mailer. Just so you know, if my post office does not require all three stamps I will keep the extra to cover the cost of my seed envelopes which are $17 per box of 500 (usually they only require .58 cents for an envelope less than an ounce, but it depends on who is at the window when I take them in). One of the other people who took me up on the offer (and I sent them over 10 packets of seed - most with more than 100 seeds included) was very upset that I kept the extra first class stamp so I want to be very clear so there are no further misunderstandings. I am not trying to "make" money, but it would be nice not to lose it. I also need from you. A copy of your want list and a filled out return label. If you don't have a sticky one no problem I'll be happy to tape it on. Please put your gardenweb name in there somewhere too. I also have the following left if you want to add any of these to your list: Adenophora lilifolia (Ladybells) Amaranthus 'Intense Purple' (Amaranth) Campanula alliarifolia (Bellflower) Campanula persicifolia (Blue & White Mixed) (Peach-Leaf Bellflower) Campanula rapunculoides (Rapunzel) Celosia argentea (Tall Plumed Mix) Digitalis purpurea 'Exelsior Mix' (Foxglove) Digitalis x mertonensis (Strawberry Foxglove - short lived perennial) Heuchera Palace Purple (Purple Leaf Coral Bells) Hypericum tomentosum (Wooly St. John's Wort) Lychnis coronaria 'Angel Blush' (Angel's Campion) Nicotiana sylvestris Ophiopogon planiscapus (Mondo Grass) (only 3 packets left of 15 seeds each but I can collect more) Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat) Thank you and best wishes, Jase

Can't help you too much on this one, Aloha! Have never grown it or any of the Hypericums myself! Here's some kind of general info that may--or may not--help you make a decision! First, if I'm following your "genus" question the way you mean it! Hypericum is the genus, and calycinum is the species. So the one on the Noxious Weed list is the same genus but a different species (H. perforatum). I can't tell you if the calycinum will ever be added to the list, but just because something is the same genus that's on the list doesn't mean it has the same "problems" as the particular species that's on the list. For example, oxeye daisy is on the list, and it's on the B List! Oxeye daisy is Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, and "garden mums," genus Chrysanthemum are never gonna be on the list--guarantee it! Before it was reclassified, oxeye daisy used to go by genus Leucanthemum, species vulgare (yeah, that means "vulgar," or, actually, more like "common!"), but there are (were before they were reclassified too!) also lots of other Leucanthemums. For instance all the Shasta Daisies used to be classified as Leucanthemum x superbum but then were reclassified as Chrysanthemum maximum! (Actually I don't know if any of those have been REclassified back to their old genus/species again or not since I've been "out of the business" for over ten years now!) But, the point is, that there are a LOT of genus Chrysanthemum things, and the ONLY one on the Colorado Noxious Weed list is the oxeye daisy one! Oxeye daisy, by general appearance, looks just like the "other" Shasta daisies, but there is "something" genetically different in that species that makes it invasive enough to get it on the list! So the genus alone doesn't really tell you anything! I guess it's conceivable that a whole genus would be banned, but I suspect that's extremely unlikely. There are several different species of the same genus on the list for some things--but that still doesn't mean there's anything "wrong" with the other species in that genus--or that other species in that genus may be added to the list at some time--but it could happen! Just no way to know at all what may be determined to be a problem at some point in the future! I LOVE Hypericum flowers, but I've never grown one--of any species, mostly because all the ones I ever came into contact with looked like they would spread a lot--as in, coming out of the holes in the bottom of gallon pots! Anytime I see something coming out of the holes in the bottom of pots I consider it a stop sign! Wish I had done that with the Zauschneria I'm now trying to get rid of! But with the one you're looking at, the spreading is actually desirable, so that wouldn't be a problem for you! When I was at Paulino's we didn't sell calycinum, but carried a spreading one, H. reptans. Don't really remember much about it! We listed both of them in the "perennial bible" I carried with me for reference, and neither of them is listed as xeric! The notes I have after calycinum say: large flowers, aggressive, and semi-evergreen! I also looked both of them up on Kelly/Timberline's current list, and he doesn't show either as xeric either, so don't really know how well it will/would do without water! Hopefully there will be someone else around here who has actually grown it that can give you some advice on that. Since you got one I'd say plant it there and see how it goes this summer! For the slope you're describing, any of the succulents would work and be very xeric. Have you looked at the Need help selecting a groundcover plant thread? I listed a few of the succulent things there, but there are lots more. If you decided to go that way you could mix things up a little to get some variety rather than all just one thing, but I don't know the exact situation, so maybe the "all one thing" would look and be better for your area. The Turkish Veronica, Veronica liwanensis, mentioned in that thread is also xeric and should work, and the Master of All Xeric Groundcovers, woolly thyme, would work too, but to me a great big patch of just that would be pretty boring! If the Hypericum you got turns out to be xeric enough, and you like the overall appearance, it sounds pretty nice! Wish I could give you some more specific info on it! Skybird

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Richter's has St. John's Wort Richter's Herbs but not Jewelweed. Are you anywhere near a nice shady, moist woodland where one can usually find jewelweed growing? The tricky part is catching ripe seed - as you may guess from its alternate name of touch-me-not -- the ripe pods explode upon being touched, hurling the seeds in every direction! However, if you find a good stand of jewelweed seedlings growing in a woodland where it is not illegal to disturb the plants, it transplants very easily. And it often grows so thickly, you are kind of doing the stand a favor by thinning them out!