Re: TB -- Lowe's, Walmart & Home Depot

I ignore the iris, but I assess stock of daffodils and tulips the week before 
Thanksgiving, and then go back the week of Thanksgiving and buy the 
drastically reduced bulbs that interest me. Last year I for a wonderful red 
tulip at Walmart at $1.00 for the bag of 30, so bought ten bags. I got a 
similar quantity of daffodils, and there were two bags of anemone's which I 
had never grown before and they performed beautifully interplanted among my 
iris. Our climate is mild enough there is no problem planting bulbs the first 
week in December.

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Always looking for something to interplant among my iris for some summer 
interest, I bought a packet of dahlia seed and got about 20 plants last year 
which grew to about 30" and bloomed all summer with a variety of flower forms 
from simple to complex, in shades of beige, yellow, lavender, rose and bright 
red. I saved seed and they came true this year and I have a magnificent front 
border. I lifted my tubers last year, and go some early bloom from them, but 
this year's seedlings  were slower to flower but seem to be blooming longer 
and show no sign of slowing down.

Bumble bees love them and sometimes there are three bees entranced on one 
flower who are not disturbed at all when I go about deadheading spent flowers 
on the same plant.

For me I am saving seed only from the red tones recognizing that I will get a 
mixture next year. I plan to segregate the seed from the yellows which I do 
not want, but I am sure I will have plenty of both.

If there is anyone who wants seed, please send me a SASE and specify "from 
yellow" or "from red tones."

James Harrison
Asheville, NC
more or less zone 7

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