Well, the catalogues are beginning to arrive, the weather is cooling and it is almost time to start planning for next springs garden.
Before planning though it is fun and I believe healthy to dream a little, to let a vision begin to form and to share that dreaming and vision with friends.
So the next few weeks I will share a little about what I am finding in the seed catalogues and what I am thinking what I might try next spring.
Today I received the "Thompson and Morgan" catalogue. This is a very old seed company from England that has a large outlet in the United States based in Indiana.
You can order from tmseeds.com, call toll free to order 800-274-7333 or mail your order to:
Thompson and Morgan
P.O. Box 4086
Lawrenceburg, IN 47025-4086
Something that makes my mouth water in the TM catalogue:
A great selection of pole beans. I really love to grow pole beans because they produce over a longer period of time, stay much cleaner and grow to a greater length. I have found though that pole beans are a bit more difficult to grow in Kentucky. There shallow roots do not get enough water in the very hot weather so you will need to water more often than when growing in the northwest..
The bean that is most intriguing to me is the Fasold. I quote from the catalogue, "Very early to crop, with a long harvest period and decorative mauve flowers. Produces a huge harvest of long, fleshy, round, mid-green stringless pods that are slow to develop seeds, with superb flavor. 90 days." How could I ever resist mauve flower, stringless and superb flavor?
Irresistable Cut Flower Plants:
The many varieties of Rudbeckia are so fun to grow. They have many of my old favorites but they also have some I have not tried. Some of these are annuals and other perennials. The Cherokee Sunset is a mix of double blossoms with coppertones, golden hues, dark reds and bright yellows. This surely one I want to try. 
The heliopsis golden double hybrids look very tantalizing. I have grown a similar perennial for many years with the single blossoms. It will be fun to find out if these will survive here in Kentucky.
The Bees Knees sunflower mix is pollen-free and has a beautiful pallette of colore. Can't let that pass either.
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