Spring is only 4 and a half months away.

Do you still want some hosta seeds? I harvested a boatload from my Sieboldiana elegans plants. It's one of the classiest of them all with solid blue-green leaves. I can send off a seed pack if you're still interested.

Thanks again for the HOOT!!!
Eileen

I've been ripping out the dead or done annuals, it's very satisfying ;-)

Welcome back.

T

Not counting today and the 21st makes it 47 days. Little over a month.

I plan to prep about 4 dozen more milk jugs this week, to add to the couple hundred hanging, in bunches, from the garage rafters. Soil bags are stacked in the basement so not to be like frozen blocks when I'm ready to sow this winter.

Now to get my rear in gear and get some seed swapping/trading done.

Sandy

If anyone needs pokeweed seeds, let me know.

To whomever sent me the Confederate Rose seeds two years ago...Thank you. It starts out pure white, fades to pink, and falls off the plant a deep mauve. It's so much fun to watch.

Reds and yellows dominate in the fall. The helianthus on the corner came from Carrie. I didn't cut them back like she told me to. I've moved them to the backyard already. I bet the roots I left will sprout again in the spring.

I'm checking in more as it turns cooler. I have my 50 containers prepped and ready to go in the basement. In a few weeks, I'll start filling them with soil and making labels with the last miniblind strips I have. I've collected few seeds this year. I've scattered a lot of seeds around the gardens. Larkspur and nigella seedlings are already up. Poppies should be coming along soon. We're going to get some rain these next two days. Life is good in the garden.

In that first picture is that red blooming plant salvia??

backyardgrown - I sent you an email.

It is Salvia splendens. Those were self-sown from Yvonne's salvia last year. We had a bad summer and I didn't water much. They only got about 3' tall. I haven't collected any seeds. I think I'll let them sprinkle themselves about next year.

Yes Trudi, that's the driveway bed. It'll be nicer next year. I have swaths of coneflowers and rudbeckia combined with red salvias, yarrow, and sedums. I can't wait to see those sprouts in the rudbeckia pots next year. I'm hoping Goldstrum comes true, or close to it.

Do you still want to try some of the blue bedder salvia, I have collected plenty of seeds from it. I have given out a lot of it already but I still have plenty of more to give. I do make up for the chaff though.

Your in about the same zone as me and mine comes back every year and it is an awesome cottage garden plant that blooms from spring I say to frost but we have had several frost and it is still blooming. Drought tolerant, even in my full sun with me not watering!!

If you want just send me an email and I will give you my address and I think a self addressed stamped envelope would be suffice. I kept you a pack to the side, for that just in case you still wanted some.

How did your salvia blue queen turn out?? My sister ended up buying some of that and that is a pretty neat little plant. Totally different than the blue bedder or victoria but it is cute.

Sorry you got snowed on Randi. I walked out and checked my alyssum and by golly it's still blooming despite the frosts & hard freeze we had. I've kept track and it bloomed June 14 to November 5--128 days--so far! Now that's what I call flower power!!!

Would you like me to check and see if my sisters is putting out any seeds that are ready to collect?? She just smiles at me when I go searching for seeds off her plants and follows me around getting bags for me. If you ask me I think she enjoys me doing that, but she would never admit it, lol.

Oh, and BTW--ya'll are down to 129 days!

Well duhh Carolyn, that explains it!! LOL