Jacob's ladder - Blue & White mix

This is collected from local gardens.   

Thank you neighbours.

Three-toothed Cinquefoil

Garden grown but could have been wild collected.   Grows well in dry, sandy areas and open pine forests.  Blooms May - June.

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Mountain Cowslip or Bear's Ear

This seed comes from a volunteer plant in my garden.  It has settled in very well and is spreading.  I'm good with it, I love yellow flowers.

A mix from several gardens, a lovely maroon, a darker violet and a soft lilac.  Velvety soft blooms facing up over fern like foliage.  This blooms early spring, the foliage stays rounded and beautiful throughout our summers.  This is in my top 5 of favorite spring bloomers.  Very hardy.

This Saxifraga forms a large mat of dense rosettes.  Dainty spotted flowers 

Thanksgiving Cactus

This seed is the result of different crosses.  Peach onto reds and pinks and vice versa.  I've never succeeded in selfing a Thanksgiving cactus, pollinating one flower from another on the same plant.  Pollinating from a completely different plant does work and I would say 98% of the time, from my experience.  

I have succeeded in germinating this seed, 90 days.  100% germinated.

I placed the seed on moistened coir and put in a closed environment.  I like to use the plastic salad containers that have a fairly tight fitting lid.  Put it on the shelf, out of direct light, and waited.

Getting your Thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas cacti to reliably rebloom is quite easy, keep them in a cool area for a couple of months.  Mine live in my unheated plant room and bloom for months over the winter.  Water regularly.

Russian Stonecrop

I've found that most sedum are outstanding garden plants in colder zones.  They don't skip a beat when faced with mid-summer snow storms or chilly night temps.  They appear to be passed over by deer and moose as well.

 A mix from all of the sedums in the garden.

Hens & Chicks

This is a mix from what ever has bloomed in the garden in the past year.  I'm always on the lookout for new and different semps, so there is a good variety in the seed mix. 

This is on the deer resistant list.  Soft fuzzy grey green leaves form a rosette with spikes of pinkish blooms.  Tough plant, drought resistant as well.

This has always been on my favorite list.  The foliage is so very soft and the scent that is released upon touching the foliage is wonderful.  Old cottage garden plant that should be in every garden.  

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Common comfrey, ass-ear, consound, healing herb, knitback, knitbone, or slippery root.  Wow!    I haven't tried comfrey medicinally yet, haven't had the need and am not willing to dig the root yet.  Maybe next year.  Making a tea with the root is supposed to help heal receeding gums.  There are also precautions, so do your research. 

I love the blooms, and so do pollinators.  Watching fat bumble bees trying to get in to the flowers is very amusing to me.  

Aquilegia like foliage with airy sprays of white to pale mauve blooms.  Another favorite in the garden which also appears to be deer proof.

Fresh seed sown in fall will yield best results.  Fresh seed in stock. 11/23