Is anyone else making diagrams and plant/seed wish lists yet? With temperatures in the teens the last couple mornings, I've been daydreaming a lot about my garden. Luckily it's seed catalog time! They are tempting pieces of eye candy. Actually more than tempting. Downright convincing. After deciding that my garden is greatly lacking in one of the most important elements, fragrance, I starting flipping through them.
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I have decided to add the following fragrant annuals:
1. Old Fashioned Vining Petunia - Evening fragrance.
2. Sweet Alyssum - I think I have a packet of Carpet of Snow that I never used. Nice for edging and filler around other plants.
3. Nicotiana sylvestris - Fragrant in the evening. Large! Planting near porch to enjoy the fragrance at night. Hoping to entice some beautiful moths as well!
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There are so many plants to choose from. It was almost impossible to finally decide on just these three. My perennials, veggies, fruits, and shrubs take up most of my gardens, but I do have certain areas I try to keep open for annuals. I think these three fragrant annuals will help to fill out those areas quite nicely. I've never grown these before, so experimenting with them will be a lot of fun.

Free Heirloom Tomato Seeds

At the beginning of the year I found a site called WinterSown.org. If you are interested in starting plants from seeds, whether to save money or try varieties not offered locally, WinterSown is a great site to reference. In addition to all of the free information and downloadable brochures they do offer free seeds for a SASE. You have to print out their address page and fill in your wish list. In return they do ask that you save seeds in the future and mail them in so the free seed offers may continue for others. It's not required, but for the amount of seed they give you, it is worth the small cost of postage to mail them seeds from your harvest. Plus you'll feel good that you're helping out others, so I highly recommend checking out this site.