Chance for free Four o'Clocks!

[beac]

The Herb Companion is offering a chance to win three packs of Four O'Clock seeds:

• Post a comment in the comments section below telling us if you grow four-o'clocks or if you remember them in your mother's or grandmother's garden.

• End date: August 8, 2011.

Good luck!

http://www.herbcompanion.com/in-the-herb-garden/garden-giveaway-its-time-for-four-oclock-flowers.aspx

I'm assuming one is meant to hold on to the seeds and plant them next spring.


If you win, you have to send me one pack! ;) JK.

[pengillian101]

1. Cool beans, beac!

I won't be entering because I don't communicate in writing very well.

After reading others' entries, it reminded me of my Gramma's flower garden. Dang if I hadn't forgotten all about the afternoon blooming flowers. Great memories from the late '50's.

Hope if a DU'er wins, they share their story here and some seeds with you :hi:

[beac]

2. You should enter!

Your middle sentence above would be perfect. :)



Anyway, I'm sure the winner isn't chosen based on the eloquence of their words, but rather a random number generator will pick a post and that person gets the seeds.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. What do you mean, you don't communicate well?????

Your post is quite literate. Go for it. :hi:

[Paper Roses]

4. Just entered. I have planted Four O'Clocks for years.

It seems many people are not familiar with this flower. The colors are vibrant, the blossoms big and bright. I think they are one of my favorite flowers. I save the seeds each year and plant them again the following year. This years crop is a little disappointing but so are all my other flowers. The heat has done a number on them. I will still have seeds but will not have enough to give to friends.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. We have some planted next to the house

the warmth keeps them alive over the winter, and the roots go deep and stay cool in the summer.

I didn't know there was such a demand for the seeds! I'll have to save more than the usual handful this year. :)