RE:Cotoneaster and acquiring seeds.

I feel strongly that we gardeners should be a sharing sort, but that we also
have a sense of what's right. I knocked on a door for weeks and got no
answer before I snagged a purple pod of a Hyacinth bean from a neighborhood
light pole. I wanted to have permission but couldn't catch anybody at home.
I couldn't find it in a catalog. In this case, both the seeds AND the blooms
are what makes the plant so decorative, and taking pods is no different than
taking blooms. This is something which I teach my kids not to do unless they
have permission. If a gardener told me that I would have to steal them, as
in a story told yesterday, I would immediately beg that person (while
smiling a gardeners smile) not to train me to be a thief or to teach my
children such a thing. The best pleasures are freely given and taken  and we
are all responsible for being on both ends, or else the circle breaks down.
Lets acknowledge that acquiring seeds covertly has its cheap thrill (yes I
admit it), and go on to cultivate our own better angels the same way we
cultivate our flowers and children. (I am encouraging, not scolding)

In addition I have a cotoneaster question. I have seen the ground cover
cotoneaster on both coasts, but not in the heat or cold extremes of the
central plains. Does anybody know of a any low growing varieties seen in the
Zone 6 area, especially more centrally located. I have tried things from
Pennsylvania's zone 6, but sometimes they can't take our Kansas heat. 


	Tim Chavez
	Wichita, Kansas, zone 6
	No hard freeze yet, over a month late and I'm not complaining.
Roses, mums, verbena, all are blooming fine.
	Some things have withered from the night cold which seldom dips to
30 F. My garden is going to sleep more gently this year and I am enjoying
it.
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