I can't find anything about the white ones coming true or not, but Eastern Redbuds should be wintersown. They need the cold to germinate and may be helped with a little rub with sandpaper before sowing. I've already put mine in the containers since they must have cold treatment to germinate. Don't expect flowers for 2-3 years or more. Very poor germination rate too. Hope that helps. Sow lots!

Fantastic list of seeds! I think it is just great that you have focused your life on nature at such a young age. I too would love to have 10 (maybe 5) acres someday to plant a wonderland of natives plants, and am already doing that on 1.25 acres. Difference is, my interest didn't come into sharp focus until age 45. :) There are quite a few seeds on this list I am interested in, and I checked your want list and I have a few on that list. Maybe we can do a trade this fall? Just a note - on your want list is Cynanchum louiseae - this is an extremely invasive non-native vine that is becoming a serious problem in the Northeast US. And it has the additional problem that Monarch butterflies will "sense" it is in the Milkweed family, lay eggs on it, and then it will kill the caterpillars because it is toxic to Monarch larvae.

FataMorgana- I research various plants in my yard for salve use and other, I've seen the Henrietta site. Some plants I have used in salve include stinging nettle, ribwort plantain, Heal-All (Prunella), St. John's Wort, Rosemary, Akebia, Western Red Cedar, Lady's Mantle, Rose petals, Agrimony, Sage, Thyme, Calendula, and I nearly always put in some Comfrey. I only use around 3-8 kinds of herbs at a time of course. So I guess I would also be a nerd, or amateur herbalist. I've only had one batch that didn't seem to work well, it got kind of hard and crumbly. I don't know what ingredient caused that. I use a pint or quart canning jar filled full of herbs then filled with olive oil, and put it in a water bath in a crockpot on low. 8-12 hours later I strain and add beeswax to harden. I find the salves very useful and beneficial. I also dry herbs for tea. I'm not very good at using herbs that require using the root as I hate to kill the plant, though it's possible to dig down on one side of a plant to chop off just a few roots, I've tried that with Comfrey. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing all my new Goldenrods, hopefully the plants will be big enough to bloom this year? So far no germination on my Baby Gold seeds from ebay,:-( I'm excited to be adding another genus to my plants that sounds very useful.

Update: June 17th, woke up to heavy, pouring rain in the night, wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't came down at a 45d angle perfectly from the NE. Found the covering on my totes compromised. They were in a corner, up against the north side of the house and east side of cement front steps with a 2 foot overhang on the single story roof and a 6 ft. tall, fully branched/leafed sand cherry shrub protecting them on the North side. Nice bright area with a little evening sunset hitting the north wall of the house just above the totes. So there I was at @ 2:00 in the morning putting things back to normal. The pail with the Thuja was half full of water. Brought things into the garage. The cups were floating around at different angles with media mostly outside the cups. Checked for roots and found no sign of anything happening there so decided to discard the Thuja so that is finished. Tsuga wasn't hit as hard, water was plenty high and a few of the cups partially tipped. They were tighter grouped and only one or two had the media partially disturbed. All of them were thoroughly soaked from the rain. The Tsuga looked reasonably good, some have a few dead needles but there are a few, if not several, that are entirely green and some of them show what appears to be a small amount of new growth along the stem and branch tips. I can see no signs of mold or fungus. There is some algae evident but I assume this is because of the small amount of diffused sunlight the tote receives now that it is outside? We'll know more in another month or so. I don't plan to do anything with them until at least the first week in August. Picture of what things looked like before the storm: We (almost) never get rain at that angle. I had rubber binders around the top, holding the plastic on but the rain came so hard and fast that it stretched the plastic downward and filled up the sag in the plastic until it was so heavy that it pulled the plastic out from the binders allowing the water to pour in. Murphy's law?