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DonnaMack wrote:
It's really a pleasure. I bought a house with a fair amount of gardening space and my learning curve was vertical! It's a lot of fun. Do enjoy the process. There are lots of us here to help.

Here is real tease for you. Balloon flowers come in more than one color. The blue (grandiflorus) was installed in my yard. I went and got seeds for perlemutter (mother of Pearl) and Alba. The white is particularly vigorous. When I find a plant I love, especially ones as tough as platycodons, I get the seeds and grow it in different colors.

Every plant in the foreground of this picture was grown from seed. But first, find what you love, and see if it grows in your soil and climate. It's a lovely journey, but I warn you, it never ends! And you wouldn't want it to!

Donna