Thanks everyone! We must have moved in last year awhile after the flowers died because I don't recall there being anything exciting in that spot...it really is just a strip of weeds/sparse grass at the top of our driveway. The pictures I googled are a perfect match.

Okay, here's my damage report. Most of these were sown from older seeds (so may be weaker anyway), most had the tops all the way off, all were in the very tiny seedling state. We had three days of deep freeze at night, daytime highs hovering around freezing. What died: Eucalyptus 3 snapdragon containers - I was a little surprised at this, but they were very small, few sprouts Nepeta Blue Infinity Tithonias, 2 - this didn't surprise me Eupatorium coelistinum (which looked pretty weak when it came up, anyway) Surviving, but looking very dicey: 2 containers of annual poppies - still bright green, but weak lookinig Macaranthera Lupines (weak when they came up) Leucanthemum Crazy Daisy Inula helenium 2 hardy geraniums Saponaria ocymoides Queen of the Meadow Filpendula vulgaris Hollyhock, Blushing Juanita What sailed on through: Viola, Helen Mount Welsh onion Rudbeckia, Toto Monarda citriodora Helenium autumnale (native to this area) Eryngium Blue Hobbit Baby's Breath, Covent Garden Dianthus, Lady Jane Seymour 2 containers of dracocephalum Geranium Orchid Blue "Blue" poppy (I don't think this is meconopsis, but time will tell! :)) Echinacea angustifolia New England Aster (1 sprout - might be a weed, I'm not sure yet) Centaurea Aloha White Chicory Myosotis Bluebird Comfrey Geum, Lady Stratheden I am not worried about any of the losses - I have more seeds for nearly everything, and even if I don't have those specific varieties, I have scads of others. I am leaving the dead & dicey containers alone - there may be more seeds in there that haven't sprouted yet. But for those of you who are really particular about having a specific plant, I would advise keeping covers around in case of freeze, unless they are perennials that are strongly established sprouts - the really tiny stuff succumbs to the cold.

Oddly enough, I bought one from Logee's around 2009. It turned up toes and died almost immediately. I suppose I should have contacted them about a replacement but it was a really difficult time in my life. My dad had just died after I had been caretaking him for about 2 years, I was working on a doctorate, and I had a crapload of medical problems of my own that resulted in total disability within the year. Which, of course, took about THREE years to get the gubmint to acknowledge. So I had no income at all for about 3 years, then about 1/5th of my pre-disability income to live on. Since then, being on disability, the Logee's prices were exorbitant when compared to my income. I got the seed for these SUPER cheap, once I finally found someone who could get them to me while they were still fresh and viable. That alone took 6 or 7 years. These poor plants went for 3 months or more, along about xmas of 2016, without being watered once, during a bad period for my health. They all survived that, though the ones in the Growstone mixture survived it better. Since then I have not been up to schlepping them outside every time the temp gets above 50F as I did in my previous residence - which it does the majority of the winter here, but then they have to be schlepped back in again because it drops to below freezing again over night. Don't have the energy to move 20+ plants in and out all fall/winter/spring as I was doing initially. Also unlike my previous residence, I don't have grow lights set up here to keep them under over winter. So they just get whatever light comes in through the (floor length, so that helps) windows, which don't even face due south here (I had a south facing patio door and built-in window ledge that got GREAT light where I was before and a grow light set up). And it is later in the spring - nearly summer here - before the night time temps are reliably above 50F. So they are getting WAY less light than they were before. And yet - except for a handful that were still in the gritty-ish mix - they continue to grow and thrive. They ARE tough plants. I have a weird too-small-for-a-room, too big for a closet "room" that I'm going to turn into a plant room this winter. It's about 4.5' x 6'. Then I'll just keep them under lights again over the winter. Well, fall through late spring given how long it stays cold at night here at this elevation. When I finally move from here - I expect to move clear across the country as early as this spring, or next (if this spring, I WON'T be turning that room into a plant room) - I'm going to have a tough time giving ANY of them up, but tough as they are, I doubt they would survive a 3 or 4 day trip in the back of a moving van. I'm going to have to leave most of them behind.

Whats the worste that can happen? A slightly crooked tree? In nature a root grows down and chances are it will hit a small rock or shell or the root of another plant and end up bent off to the side,seeing as how its still small I'd say its not a big problem, if the trunk is crooked you can always straighten it with a piece of Cord, three strips of foam and bit of stout stick