I was telling my grandson about your chocolate scented sunflowers. He was fascinated. He keeps asking me if I've arranged a trade yet. So I figured I better post, before they were all gone. I have some tall cannas--red flower with green leaves. I can email you a photo if you want. These cannas were actually passed down from my dad. They are probably about 25-30 years old--if not older. We've had alot of rain this week--so I can't get into them now. I'll email you and see if we can work something out.

Jennifer, I just emailed you regarding the cannas. I would love to trade for some of these seeds. I have various yard long bean seeds including the red noodle (trade, my own, commercial). I would also like your profusion zinnia (any short variety). Betsy I also have Asian veggie: winter melon and shark fin melon.

Grew them 2 or 3 years back when they first came out with them. Wasn't at all impressed, sorry. Low production, hard fruit, small, and no significant taste. I'd seriously encourage you to pass on them and when they came up for discussion on the Growing Tomatoes forum the response was pretty much the same. Not available in stores AFAIK - strictly a catalog offer. JMO Dave

Steve, You know that I lived in Alpine for 7 years. My garden was the best ever there and corn grew beyond with huge ears and sweetness. In CO I have yet to grow a garden comparible. The soil here is not the same, very few rocks unless in the mt. forest. In UT the ground seemed to breed rocks in the spring. Tilling was combined with throwing rocks into piles. Your area is close to the mountains and most of the homes were built without grading huge areas of earth. Sometimes I think the problem with most of our soil is due to the building process. They remove so much earth that we are left with nothing else to do but add plus feet of amendments. Getting back what once was takes years. Of course this wouldn't be the case for those that live rural. Willows: I rooted 5 small curly limbs in water this spring that came off from the wind. They rooted in a week and I planted at that time. Doing really well and have grown double their size.