after 8's

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Here is a link to a bunch of seed and flower catalogs. Maybe you might find them in one of these. Some of the catalogs will allow you to browse through them on line …

Hope this helps … :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Could they be called “4’oclock”. They grow about 2’-4’ and have yellow and pink flowers.
They are available in seed packets in the spring!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I have red 4 o’clocks if you want some seed from them.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

HI BON, I would love some seeds! I will send you my address, this is aweome as I can plant them this fall for next year!

-- Toronto, Ontario

I just love these things, they put on a huge colourful show!

I have had the red and white, but not the yellow!

yes, they are after 4’s.

-- Toronto, Ontario

They are called Four o’clocks. Big beautiful plants! You can dig up the tubers and store indoors over winter.

-- "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..."

I wouldn’t go to the bother of digging them up, they self-seed, you will had tons more next year.

funny we call them after 4’s, because they bloom after that time.

-- Toronto, Ontario

I agree, the Four o’clocks do self seed, with seeds that look like little bullets. The tubers make for a good strong plant with earlier flowers though.

-- jroot

ohhhhhhhhh never thought about tubers making a good strong plant with earlier bloom, something I didn’t know!

so this is why people dig them up, makes sense now, thanks!

so, when the plant has died, just dig up the tuber, put in it a paper bag, store in the basement where its cool and plant in late spring?

but when planting a tuber, does it matter which end is up?

-- Toronto, Ontario

Always plant your tubers with the new shoots,eyes or old stems facing upward.It is too hard on the new shoots to have to grow down, curve around the tuber and then head upwards.Hope this helps.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

thanks Bon it certainly will help with future ones!

-- Toronto, Ontario

I don’t think paper bags are good. Either a box of sawdust or peat moss or hang up in an old net bag; the kind you get oranges in.

-- horsetail, Fergus, Ontario

I have always covered my tubers with peat moss and wrapped them in lots of newspaper and put them in the fruit cellar.I’t cool there but doesn’t freeze.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more