thank you so much for those lists....
crap -- I just shopped today at HD and wallyworld... I wonder if they would take the plants back. ~~ Maybe I'll call tomorrow.
I bought a firebush, pentas, petunias, alyssium, Zinnias, and another shrub i can't think of the name, but has red blooms.
many of the plants you listed above, I do have seeds for. [I have hundreds of Blackberry Lily seeds & Gaillardia]
I had heard from a neighbor [she's a transplant from OH 16 yrs ago] ~ she commented that many of the perennials that do so well up north [Echinies and Monarda] do not live long down here due to the long growing season.
