Laura,
You are doing a great job! You missed me 'cause when you said it was closed, I stopped watching it.... I'm glad you're open again. Do you have Helenium seed? I have balloon flower, lots of cockscomb, maybe some zinnias. How aout a SASE?
xxxxx, Carrie
CLOSED: Red Sun Sunflower, Helenium 'Moorheim Beauty', Fig Hollyhock
Hi Carrie,
I'm going to the post office today (I say that everyday, but today I have plants packed, too!). Let me just send you the seeds, and we'll work out the trade (or not) later. 'K?
(not that you have a choice - they're all but on their way...lol)
Hey Laura,
Thank you tremendously! In a package of "old" seeds someone sent me there is some Yellow Helenium - would you like that? I just know I won't use them. Even though my sister Helen's favorite color as a little girl was yellow, I think, like me, she goes more for oranger tones now. I mean my favorite color as a kid was purple, and how many purple flowers do I grow now? Well, besides NE Asters and crocuses.... oh, never mind. I'm drivelling again, or blithering, one of those words.
xxxxx, Carrie
Thank you, Carrie, but no, no yellow Helenium at this time. Red was my favorite color as a kid, and now purple, and I grow lots of both. My yellow is primarily Coreopsis and sunflowers, a little aesclpias (spelling),some perennial merigold (can't remember what it's called, as they were rescues from a friend's house), with some goldenrod about to flower soon. Orange is taking more of a place, in that I'm planting orange turk's cap type lilies when the come from the Bulbmeister (coop). I think it looks quite dramatic against purple.
Ok, I think everyone's seeds are on their way. If I missed anyone, dmail me.
I still have plenty of all, so if anyone else wants, I've got - just dmail your address.
:-)
Thanks for participating in my first seed swap - I learned some stuff!
Laura
Um, did you say PERENNIAL MARIGOLD? Wow. I have perennial sweet peas that aren't sweet but PERENNIAL MARIGOLD sounds like rather a coup! Tell me more... I understand you aren't offering a trade and I'm not sure I'd want one, but it intrigues me when annuals become perennial.
xxx, Carrie
Yep, I did. Let me get back to you on the name with a photo. That's what I thought she called it - I've got the tag around somewhere (maybe in the ground?). It was an emergency rescue in the heat of the summer, but half-hearted, and I just stuck them in the ground along with some sad Shastas.