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Jan 23, 2016 7:52 PM CST
Name: David Laderoute
Zone 5B/6 - NW MO (Zone 5b)
Ignoring Zones altogether
Seed Starter Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Level 1
I been preoccupied and have not got much accomplished. Sighing! lately Crying Grumbling

Finally got some Milkweed stratified. Should have done it 2 months ago!! I do my cold/moist stratifying in moist sand which I have found works well for me.

Redring ** (Hard to come by)
Spider or Green - A. viridis **
A. incarnata - White
A. incarnata - Cinderella
A. incarnata - Soulmate
Poke
Tall Green
Prairie
Butterfly Weed
Climbing
Woodson's Swamp
White - A. verticillata
Common
Showy
Purple - to get a reasonable price, had to order from France!!
Heartleaf
A. tuberosa - Hello Yellow
A. tuberosa - Ice Ballet
Narrowleaf
Swamp/Rose
Oval Leaf
Antelope Horns - A. asperula **

** Notoriously hard to grow - I have tried before - this is 3rd or 4th time

[I have 9 types of milkweed that are tender and will start in February. Would give anything to get some Meads. It does grow here, but is threatened.]

I planted 3 Elderberry cuttings:

Bob Gordon
Wyldewood I
Adams

Other seeds started:

Lemon
Asian Pear
Red Banana - likely sterile but what the heck Green Grin!

11 MedJool Dates - 6 in soil, 5 in wet paper towel
Seeking Feng Shui with my plants since 1976

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