Thank you for the pictures! I was really hoping to see something different, but the pictures don't lie. This isn't what I have, but it is just about exactly what I was expecting. I'm wondering if I might have been sent the wrong seed? It's hard to believe that I don't have any signs of any coming up anywhere....I planted a huge amount in several different locations. Thank you again!

I am sorry to say that I only have ironweed for trade this time...we are in the middle of one serious drought and I decided to leave what little there was to the animals that will need the seeds most for survival this winter. A few of the mast trees did produce amazingly healthy nuts, so I would be happy to send white oak, hickory (shagbark or pignut) if you would like. I may have paw paw but I don't know for certain until more leaves are off the trees. If none of these are of interest to you I would be willing to work out cash terms as well. If you can help me obtain blue mistflower it would be most appreciated. DG

kwilson...please oh please oh please...? I'll send you a note, ok? Terryr, sounds like how things are here. If there isn't a wall of corn planted right up to the roadside, by August the pigweed and ragweed and other stuff is so high you have to take a chance and ease out there on country roads-stop sign or not. We always look for the oncoming wall of dust behind an approaching vehicle--one good thing about gravel roads I guess. And the gravel here isn't just your standard limestone, it's this wonderful river pebble mix which gives you the eerie feeling that you are cruising along on a bed of ball bearings. Which is mightily unsuitable stuff for sudden turns, swerves and stops. The indigo...yep, it's prairie false indigo or white wild indigo-baptisia alba. I have quite a few plants around that I have been watching over the summer, but there is something drilling into them and eating the seeds. I don't know if it's a weevil going in from the outside or something that was laid as an egg on the flower and developed from within but all the fruits I've picked have tiny perfect holes in them and weigh next to nothing. This plant is actually doing quite well around here and I suspect some wonderful person is quietly seeding the roadsides and railroad right of ways because all sorts of prairie stuff is popping up in the last 3 years.

It will , no doubt about that! I live on the dry side of its range in Central Texas. It likes it in bottom land and east of me where the ground is richer and the rain more plentiful. It tried to take over my back yard area 25 miles east of where I am now in Backland prairie, I have killed them twice out here. I have no topsoil in the sun or part sun. The ground is all extremely porous calcarious marl and caliche. I am thinking of sinking a kiddy pool and filling it with topsoil and planting some. Believe me, that will be an undertaking in this rock but that should hold my pitiful water up by the roots. I can't water because I depend on rainwater harvesting for all my needs. My style of gardening is brutally pragmatic at times. I do love this plant. I have seen it caged and it grew MUCH taller and made a solid wall of blue and BUTTERFLIES like you would not believe when the migration hits. I want that bad. I do grow its cousin Ageratum havanese who is more shrubby and not a stolon spreader. It blooms white and blooms very late in the season. It will thrive in my conditions.