"Heidi" wrote in message
om...
Stay warm everyone! I just went to Target and they have started to set
up their seasonal section with gardening tools, patio furniture, etc...
Spring is in sight. Or so Target thinks. But then I'm here in the
banana belt (NC). Are the stores up north teasing you all with garden
goodies?

Heidi

well actually last week the Lowes I work at set out the seed trays,
compressed Jiffy pellets and a display of seeds from Sutton's and Ferry
Morse. I've already succumbed to buying some to try again. Despite that
Lavatera is considered an annual in England, it's a perennial here. I also
had to try the Agastache Apricot Dprite and will sow the seeds tomorrow so
they'll have time to stratify. Along wiht the sowing of white Nigella and
the Iceland poppies. The Nigella is named Mrs Jekyll White g. I also got
some packages of wild gaillardia's. I adore those flowers! Now if only my
unusual rolled petaled gaillardia's I happened on two years ago as a
leftover seedling in a four inch pot at Lowes and that returned last year
and had more flowers that I carefully allowed to dry between flowering
before I gently crumbled the seeds back into the pot the original plant was
living in. Then I got the new White FLower Farm catalog and what greeted my
eyes but my rolled petaled gaillardia they call Fanfare..........so I had it
first!! WOW! I sent Victoria my picture and made a picture of the catalog's
picture so she could see the photo. I only hope mine returns with more
plantlets this year! Looking forward to the Hellebore's now............and
the emergance of the Blood Lily tongue.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy HOller overlooking English
Mountain where it was bEOutiful today, Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset
zone 36