I'm thinking about starting alot of red, white and blue flower seeds this winter for spring plantings. I wonder if many of you who grow nursery flowers or sell at farmer's markets had thought there might be an increased demand given the patriotic zeal these days?

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), October 11, 2001

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Ann, by spring the whole world may have changed so that black flowers might be in order, flowers grow fast, lets wait until then to see what is needed....

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), October 11, 2001.

You are absolutely right--but at least I'll have a patriotic yard even if no one else wants to:).

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), October 12, 2001.

Ann- You might be on to something. Look at it this way- even if things have settled down by then as far as the war, many people who never before even thought about displaying our flag are now doing so, and I imagine that many of them will continue to do so now that they have flags. So, maybe you can market your flowers to people for planting around flag poles, etc. or, in front of their houses to go along with the flags they fly from the front of the house. Maybe you could arrange such a planting very early in the spring, either at your own home, or by donating the flowers to a homeowner who has a flag, then get your local paper to do a human interest story on it, mentioning the fact that you are a source for the flowers. Good luck if you decide to go ahead with your idea, and let us know how it works out.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), October 12, 2001.

Our newspaper on Sunday had an article from Knight news service listing flowers to be used for a victory garden or barrels. Answer me here and I can send the entire list to you (my e-mail is down). Joanie

-- Joanie (ber-gust@prodigy.net), October 15, 2001.