Hit the Dirt; Unusual Catalogs, Unusual Plants

Good morning. This is Saturday present we ask you to hit the dirt. I've been engaged in one of my favorite winter occupations browsing through plant seed catalogs. I found some unusual catalogs and some interesting plants. Mention of a plant doesn't mean that it cannot be found elsewhere. It just means that is where I found it. The fragrant path from Fort Calhoun Nebraska is a catalogue worth exploring for seeds of plants feel scented garden. Here is salvia Transylvania Transylvanian sage that grows to two feet and has deep green wrinkled or rugosa leaves. Sage scented and spikes of deep blue hooded flowers and hear to other heavenly scented Jasmine and woodland tobaccos negotiate on a negotiation of Sylvester's and for the patient. There are seeds for fragrant flowering shrubs such as sweet pepper Bush folia high country garden specialize in plants for the West and garden with a warning that some do not do well in the humidity of the East. But many of the plants will do well in the northeast and are worth trying if you enjoy Penns demands as much as humming birds and butterflies do. You'll find a good selection here. 15 species rated to zone 5

10 of them to zone 4. Finally of pens to mend pens to one pin a fold is blooms for six to eight weeks in the summer and has proved a profusion of orange tubular flowers and bright green needle like foliage. Testament PALMER I think wild Snapdragon grows to four or five feet and the spikes of fragrant large pink flowers in summer and distinctive gray foliage. Remember the past I'm as light to grow in Sandy well-drained soil and will not tolerate Clay Harrell herons wood nursery in Kingston Washington is owned by a plant collector Dan Hinkley and his partner Robert Jones. They collect in Nepal and China Korea and Mexico. Never the whole plant. Only the seeds and those conservative conservatively and with care. Over 200 pages in the catalog are crammed with trees shrubs vines and perennials. Twenty six species of Allium 17 of Napa top 11 species of the Electra. There is a large collection of asters species and asked a cult of us many a suitable for our area.

Some call it a vase a hello Lacy for blooming in a rich lavender. The three foot checkers are rich purple red and the dark purple treasure of the blooms in sturdy three foot stems in late summer. A different back to back to Jhalak here that has has some of the cut blue grey foliage and white lookin like flowers. That are Willow as with colorful stems. Say that Steph Noids with purple violet stems that stand out in winter and say to Alba with striking silvery white stems. Pasty as against a dark woodsy background the stunning winter effect. You'll find the zone designations a little on the conservative side. Many zone five plants would probably do well here rather than just be borderline. The other village from nursery catalog from Holt Missouri has a good selection of trees and shrubs. Here's the hard to find European beach. A dwarf double flowering mock orange Philadelphus minute just snowflakes only grows to two by two feet in five years and is extremely fragrant and the large

Abella twell grows to 6 feet and has very fragrant flowers flushed with maroon at the center. There are large selections of lilacs elms and viburnums including by Brown in February a tight upright shrub with fragrant pink flowers and there are more species of maple than I have seen anywhere Bussey garden specializes in perennials and a great collection they have. There are two outstanding Snick groups I missed if you go around most poor area with purple stems and creamy white ones. And if you are really a collector there is the rare Simeus appear to Ramos a brunette which has fragrant pale pink ones and black purple laced foliage and stems. If you want the standard three your wallet had better be bulging. Karate in North Carolina comes the plants the lightness or catalogue the nursery States its goal is offering the best the newest and the strangest in perennials to gardeners around the world. There are very a gated leaved foam flowers to relet Darkstar pinwheel and

Snowflake. There is a white cardinal flower cut in August. Gladys Linley and one with Dusty muted plum colored flowers left fresco for the unusual there are a voodoo lilies and for the hostel there are pages of them 12 in all from sweet potato pie to Crepe Suzette and then maiden to Elvis lives their green blue gold crumpled variegated round pointed tall wide to wall something for everyone. I still have a pile of catalogues and still more coming. I'll delve into them once in a while. Need more information. Email me Sally K. at Downey's dot net or send a stamped addressed self addressed envelope to me care of you in all and 0 4 4 3 1.