Excellent news! I'm thrilled and happy to hear you kept the seeds still. As I mentioned last year I purchased the plants from Ritchers for our new home and they are sprouting this year. It's their second year so I'm hoping to have seeds to share again (I haven't forgotten I want to send you some more fresh seeds). I'm thrilled for you. They are such beautiful plants. They do well in moist areas with shade I have found. Dry, full sun areas can kill them. Exciting news all round, eh? Whoo hoo you're a Mama now! Congratulations and thanks for sharing the news. How exciting! Cheers, Peggy

Angelica flowering... I've heard about removing the flower heads (as soon as they show) on angelica to get it to stay in the garden longer, no dice. At least it didn't work for me. So I just let it flower - I love their flower heads anyways and are just resigned to planting new angelica. It's one of those plants I just love the looks of so I plant some each year. Sweet Cicely... I love the looks of the plant. It has a fern-like look with white flowers. How can you go wrong with that? If you find a location that the sweet cicely likes, it will come back each year for you. FataMorgana

I can tell you about the ones I've grown, though my climate is much different from yours. When you think about what to plant with rosemary, look for other woody, drought tolerant Mediterranean herbs. Lemon grass, being an Asian herb, needs much more water. I've planted mine (started from grocery store stalks) in between the artichokes, and here and there in places with varying degrees of available moisture. The ones growing best are in gallon hydroponics pots inside a trough that gets afternoon shade and an inch or two of bottom water a day. Lemon Balm very does well in shallower containers and full sun. This is another plant that I grew to the point of being rootbound, before dividing, and ended up with 4 or 5 plants from one start. It is drought tolerant, but like all herbs, it likes drainage, and grows better with regular water and haircuts. Lemon Verbena wants warm, warm, warm weather. I don't know how it overwinters in your zone, but probably not at all well. I keep watering my last year's (maybe dead) LV that i left in an unprotected outdoor container because we are still having cool nights and the plant SEEMS to be well rooted. At least it doesn't come up when I give it a hard yank, but it's not showing any life at all. This plant is so temperature sensitive that it will drop all its leaves at any sudden change, but will come back once the temperatures stabilize. If you have that problem, don't worry. if your plants are looking differently sick, then worry. If the root ball seems overly moist, try repotting to a dryer mix. If you want to keep the plant around next fall, do what I should have done and clip it down 2/3, bring it inside and let it redevelop as an indoor plant. Or take some growing tips and root them in smaller pots. But, alas, I haven't met Sweet Cicely yet. jan

I want to collect seed to send to a friend, right now the seed heads are still on green side but hard, can I collect now or do I have to wait until they turn black?