1 - looks like campanula (bellflower) 2 - looks like chelone 3 - may be Dames Rocket 4 - looks like bellflower again (seeds all over the place lol) 5 - phlox 6 - chelone again 7 - heeey, it's bellflower! lol 8 - yes - columbine/aquilegia...baby ones...they will get big and flower eventually 9 - Artemisia vulgaris 'Janlim' (Oriental Limelight) That's my best shot

After being told these wouldn't live indoors, I tried some cuttings. I put them under an aquarium light. They all rooted and have been blooming off and on all winter. They are now trailing out of the pot. I think those who can't over-winter them could easily grow them indoors. People use simple aquarium lights for growing all sorts of plants indoors. Every cutting I tried rooted and grew well indoors. I'm pretty sure they would grow in a bright window without the extra lighting.

Yes, but those Chinese provinces are big, and it also occurs in Quinghai province on the Tibetan plateau...500 or so miles north of the mild zn 9/10 parts of Sichuan, and a world apart in climate. Compare Xining at 7000 ft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xining to Chengdu at 1600 ft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu then to Kunmimg at 6000 ft.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming So since it occurs on the "cold" side of those western Chinese mountains, it is very hardy. Update: it's actually very interesting that Wuhan & Chengdu are at the same latitude, Chengdu is at a higher elevation of 1600 ft; but the record low for Chengdu is only 21F, for Wuhan it is -1F. It seems those mountains and plateaus protect the areas immediately to the south of them from the worst of the cold. That's why on the USDA zone map of China there's a big upward blip of zn 9 & 10 in the west, but the bands compress faster there, too, as you go up into the cold Tibetan plateau. Yellow on this map is 7, so since this Spruce is native to the area where Sichuan, Quinghai, and Gansu come together, it is indeed zn 5 there. This post was edited by davidrt28 on Sat, May 3, 14 at 16:29

Thanks, Peter and Ig. The PM is already spreading to the acorn and butternut. I soaker hose long-watered yesterday and I pulled the gray, dead PM leaves off and put them into the trash bin. Someone I met suggested fish emulsion feed. Of course, I cannot now locate that small green bottle of stinky liquid. The soil drains well. Weedy area and some Heritage raspberries or maybe they are wild blackberries are sprouting up here and there. It's a constant challenge. I'm tempted to experiment on the two front zucchini plants: immunox on one and "copper spray" on another. (What sort of copper spray? Any drawbacks?). The butternut squash up hill at my neighbor's isn't particularly full, but doesn't have any noticeable PW either. It rained last night and this morning, so that should help. With no rain or moisture, how could any Epsoma or 10-10-10 break down to get to the plants? Question: if overhead watering contributes to Powdery Mildew, PM, then what about rainfall? Is rainfall any different than overhead watering (assuming minimal back spash of soil onto leaves)?