Collecting and saving Seed, hosta thoughts and Big Box landscaping

Kristl Walek s page was great-Marge thanks again for
pasing this on...I had spent too much time checking
websites with little info to learn more about seed
collecting and especially my collected Helleborus
seeds.
She has a few paragraps on this specific subject that
were more valuable than some entire showy websites out
there!
And the seed cleaning page---I immediately went to the
kitchen and gathered my husbands collander and wooden
bowl collection (he is the Cook in this family),
brought them out to the front and spent several
fruitful <g> hours this aftrnoon decanting paper bags
of chaff and seeds into a few cloth bags clearly
marked.
How great to hear these simple words of cleaning
seed-I had spent time with my grand-daughter, who
looks to be the upcoming gardener in my family,
collecting seed and cleaning by picking and blowing. 
I truly had not thought of wooden bowls and
collanders---duh!
Now that all my seed is cleaned, I'll start either
planting or saving -  depending.  I put half my
helleborus seed into several large pots and half into
what is now a hosta growing area, since the hosta are
going quickly this summer between the little "Hosta
For Sale" sign I put out and my family and friends.
I bought 100 unknamed row run hosta for $100 from
Gilbert Wilds last year, with the intent of selling
half for a couple of bucks each, thus making back my
hundred bucks and spreading the balance thru the shady
parts of the yard.  A through reading of their flyer
this year has easily named all the hosta, so they are
no longer 'unknown' and thus I feel better about
selling them.  The newish subdivisions that have
sprounted up all around me are full of folk who
haven't a clue and who are glad to put sonething
besides marigolds and pansies in their yard-they seem
to buy everything from the nearby Home Depot---tres
boring!
I got such admiration for a couple of  Phygelius (Cape
Fuchsia)...thank you Ms Dube for the great
plants<g>...that I clipped and botted a bunch of
starts that seem to be rooting just fine and that I
should be able to keep for my move/sell to the
neighbors..
What fun gardening is!

Elle in Cedar Mill Or  Z8--aka the banana belt of the
Willamette Valley...we can grow about anything here
except Bougainvillea.

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