They also had cannas, caladiums, glads, hostas, ferns, and lots of dahlias to choose from. I'm hoping that the roses won't be too far behind either.

I also stopped in at the Greenspot and picked up 3 different kinds of coleus for $1.50 each. So I'll be able to take cuttings from them soon too.

I figured I'd start a separate thread for all our "finds" so that everyone can get in on the good deals. :0)

Laurie

I also found 'centerfold' lily at HD..2 bulbs for 3.98 I think it was.

And Costcos $3 coupon just finished but even without the coupon, I think for the # of bulbs you get, the price is still good. I don't find the selection as good this year though.

Am I just noticing or does there seem to be more dahlias available everywhere this year?

Sierra

Thanks for the heads up gals!
Sharon

Sierra, I also thought of you when I saw all the different kinds of dahlias there! I don't remember there ever being that many to choose from either. There had to have been at least a dozen there.

I wish we'd get a Costco in Brandon. There's been some talk of one coming in, but until the construction starts you never know.

I have already added all the dahlias that I am going to this year. I keep my eyes closed now when I walk by them. LOL!!!! To many dahlia tubers so little garden....hmmm wonder if we really need that driveway anyway. LOL!!!!

Sierra

I've ordered plants, just about all that i can afford :) but i'm still wrastling with my Hortico gift certificate - do i order a bunch of perennials (i need them, i need them) or spend it on roses? What a dilemma......

Marcia, I just want to caution you about what I heard last year.....I have no experience buying from Hortico. I have a friend, that was not very happy with the roses he got from Hortico last year. He said some were really small and I think he said two didn't grow...He said they were going to replace some for him in the fall though.

Oh and of course you should only buy what you NEED!LOL!!!! Now if I took my own advice, I might not be sitting here wondering what to do with so many bulbs. LOL!!!

Sierra

Rosedust, I grow lupines, are you looking for seeds or advice? I have extra seeds for pink and blue if you want them. They will flower a little the first year if you start them reasonably early.

I also grow lupins.....they are very easy to grow from seed. As northspruce says, if started early enough the first year, they will bloom with the rudbeckias and cone flowers. The second year and following years they bloom much earlier. Lupins are a short lived perennial and will probably need to be replaced after a few years. They will also self-seed if you let them. In my garden about the time the flowers are finishing, they get infested with huge blue/green aphids.....but these aphids don't seem to bother anything else in the garden.

Sierra

I think I will go back today and buy that big bag of Acidanthera bicolor Peacock Orchids, maybe they will have something different in today as well.

Sharon

I tried the Sparaxis 2 years ago but it didn't sprout. These bulbs are all just starting to sprout so I decided to give them a try. The Crocosmia was in my SIL/BIL's garden last year in Vancouver and I just loved it. I'm thinking that it would look good naturalizing (hopefully) beside the house where I have put my 2 honeyberry bushes. It faces west so I'm hoping they can push the zone there. Trial and error, right?

You know, I don't even feel guilty this year when picking up spontaneous purchases. LOL. I didn't order a thing from anywhere and I'm going to indulge my cravings in the stores this year. FEED ME . . .

Shauna

Rosedust, yes I do love the Greenspot too. So I take it you've been to Brandon before? They've got lots of new stuff coming in this year, like usual. Last week we had a speaker from there talk at a garden club meeting about the new things for 2007, and they're actually getting in some Buck roses. Only three, but it's a start! They're also bringing in some bamboo that is hardy to zone 4. Has anybody ever tried bamboo? Oh, yes, I also have grown lupins for years, and like Gillian said they're very easy to start from seed, just remember to nick the seed with a bit of sandpaper and they'll germinate within a couple of days.

Sharon

Corms ;)

Shauna

Wow Shauna, you sure got a good deal on your Crocosmias!
I think because our Wal-Mart is still new they don't order in all the products and just order the basic normal stuff. Or perhaps the garden manager doesn't have a clue what gardeners are looking for. ;)

I did buy a bag of Acidanthera bicolor Peacock Gladiolus (45) and a bag of Caladiums (10) for $8.98 each. I reread your threads on the Caladiums from last year and I think I will keep them indoors till the middle of June and keep them in the greenhouse during the summer. I tried years ago with this plant and the poor thing just got whipped by the wind and didn't like the cold outdoors. Will see how they do.

Oh btw, did any of you girls overwinter your Caladiums, if so, how are they doing?

Sharon

I ripped my caladiums out of their planter and replaced them with New Guinea Impatiens by July. They hardly did anything and were all stringy and awful. Like Laurie says, they would probably be a great houseplant.

Meant to mention that i got a round terra cotta thermometer at Canadian Tire for $4.99. I'm going to put it somewhere that i can see from my room so that i can wake up in the morning and know how nice it is outside already! :)

Sierra

Okay Sharon, I have a confession. LOL!!!
These are the lilies I picked up at Costco last week.
9 Bahia Blanca
9 Expressions together in one bag and labeled
7 Angelique
7 Rodolfa together in a bag and labeled
18 star gazers one bag
9 muscadet
9 kissproof together in one bag labeled

All the above are orientals, From experience the orientals do very well in my garden

10 Amarone Asiatic lilies
10 Suncrest LA hybrids together in one bag.

These I potted up, because they were starting to grow.

I didn't see any species lilies there this year...with the exception of some trumpets.

I also got a bag of butterfly glads
and 4 bags of dahlias. :O

Sierra ;-)

I don't need anymore daylilies, but iris, now thats a different story. hee hee. I have been checking for when Chapman puts his new website for 2007. I am really looking forward to seeing how the ones I got from him last year do.

I also planted a bunch of new lilies last fall, so can't wait to see them this year too. :-)

Sierra

Savona, we have had that darn flu bug too. We are finally feeling better, after two weeks. I have to say though that it didn't stop me from going to Costco last week though. LOL!

Sierra

Last summer I added a whole pile of dwarf and miniature irises, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how well they do this spring.

Shauna

This year I'm ordering Osmunda regalis purpurescens from Frasers, will see how this one does too.

We're going to Lloyd next week, hopefully their WM will have some Trilliums in stock.

Sharon

Savona, grand cru lilies multiply like crazy. I had to thin mine a couple times.

Connie, I have seen Cinnamon Ferns growing here, so I would think they are ok for zone 2.

One of my trilliums has started to grow. Yay!

Sierra

BTW, I also bought the Christmas Tree Hosta at Walmart along with a Frances William Hosta the other day. I plan on planting them up tonight.

Laurie and I exchanged cuttings the other night. Ivy for plectranthus. Thanks Laurie! I also want to plant up those rooted cuttings tonight.

Brenda

Sierra ;-))

I bought a kit of 3 tuberous begonia bulbs at superstore for $5 including the pot and soil. I had expected to pay the regular price (which I think was $7) but was pleasantly surprised to find them on sale. I probably won't put them all in that one small pot, but just wanted to mention that the tubers seemed fairly large and healthy. The only downside is limited color selection and none of the tubers were of the "hanging/pendula" variety, thus I also had to visit walmart yesterday (whose bulbs were healthy but smaller, but I know from past experience they grow pretty quick anyways).

Glen

Sierra

Sierra ;-)

Sharon

The bulbs were $10.00 and they were selling plants for $20.00 or few smaller plants for $10.00. The plants were tempting but luckily there were some practical people in line who suggested that they wouldn't be in bloom during the summer if they bloomed inside in a week or so : so I got bulbs to plant

Fern

Shauna

Anyway, if it ever does seem that I will be able to get into my garden, I hope to be able to add a Morden Blush and Parfum De L'Haye rose, as well as a couple more irises (I have absolutely fallen in love with them and try to add one or two each year), as well a couple additional prennials, including purple coneflower, oriental poppies, hollyhocks, butterfly weed, white delphinium and a couple daylilies.

Caleb

I also had a wonderful shopping day today too. I popped into walmart and they had some Windmill brand roses in those square containers for $8.97. And I couldn't believe my luck......they actually had some Double Delight roses! Last year, I looked and looked for DD, but no luck. They also had a good selection of hardy roses and they were own root too. Do you think they've finally heard us complaining?!lol

My day was made complete when I found a pack of 2 bulbs of 'Landini' lilies at superstore for $3.99. So as long as my rose and lilies weren't mislabelled, and they grow, I'll be one happy camper! :0)

Laurie

That's it for now...I keep telling myself.

Shelley

Marcia, I was expecting to see the bodybags, but was very happy to see these roses actually in a pot. I would hope they'd do better than the bodybag type as the roots wouldn't have to be trimmed quite as much.......but ya never know.

I'm a little nervous about the Landini lilies that I potted up yesterday, as they were a bit soft. I'll keep my fingers crossed that they make it.

Just checked on the 3 of them and one is starting to root. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXFingersXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Shelley

Shelley

Oh Shelley, that's good news about your lilies! My Landini still aren't showing any growth, but I'll keep crossing my fingers until they do.

Did anybody else pick up the Trillium grandiflorum, and how are they doing? The one bulb in my package already had a shoot coming, but a few days after I potted them up, it dried up and there's no sign of new growth coming.:( I don't know if I should go and spend another $7 on another pack if they won't grow again. Hmmmm...what to do?

Last week I also picked up hostas 'Patriot' and 'Wide Brim' at walmart. They had some pretty good growth happening in the package, although it was sickly white. But after a few days under the lights, they've got some really nice colour to the leaves now.

I did buy a blue gazing glass globe for my stand thou ;)

Sharon

Sharon I picked up a bag of trilliums at Walmart and it felt empty. I put it back too. >:0(

DH asked me were I was planning to plant all this stuff....I just laughed at him. Oh btw, there is a small area by the fence that needs a NEW FLOWER BED dug. LOL!!!!

As for my trilliums, One is growing well.....the other....Hmmmm...it didn't pop up when the first one did and I left it on the heat matt......then forgot about it and it dried out completely. I found it yesterday....so watered it LOL.....but I don't hold out any hope that it will grow now.

Gill when you buy bare roots or bulbs....if there is mold on them,just dip in a solution of bleach and warm water. If it is so moldy its rotten or mushy, then its too late, obviously.

Sierra

Of course on the way home I stopped by Canadian Tire and picked up a bag of iris holandicum (bulbous) and one of Anemones. Then to Lindenberg's where I bought two more Canas, Brown Sugar and Cleopatra.

Oh yeah, spring is most definitely here!!!

BJ in SW MB

Then today my mother corrupted me at wally world and I invested in the shady north side beds- 3 bleeding heart, 8 hosta, 2 astilbe (a gift from mom- that just got me started), 15 lily of the valley for that bottomless pit of a north side bed that dwarfs everything (even ferns feel like they've been shut in a dark hole back there!) So I had to trhow in a little bit of bak and mulch to redo the path through the front bed and to mulch all my new plants, and, well....

OH I can't forget, before today I acquired a bunch of rasberries to add to the ones I'm moving for a hedge of them, and enough seed to completely overrun my sunroom. OOH boy, I LOVE SPRING!

Hope you had a happy Anniversary Gill.

Shelley

Happy anniversary, Gil. Very good DH.

Shauna

Last night I bought...
Daylilies
Raspberry pixie
Catherine Woodbury

Roses..own root
Morden Ruby
Theresa Bugnet
William Baffin

3 colours of trillium, white, yellow and red. All are up in their pots. ( 1 bought at Sunnyside, 1 at Rona and one at Walmart).

Sunnyside had pots of non-stop begonias on sale for 50cents so we bought a flat.

We bought 2 flats of clearance pansies at Walmart. These are now in planters in the garden.

A one dollar martagon is about 2 inches high...we'll plant it out in a week or so.

Overall we've been quite restrained this year. Almost nowhere to shoe-horn in more perennials. We planted another 100 or so bulb packs last fall but still have some gaps. I have to learn to review spring photos to see the gaps which are filled later in the season by bigger perennials.

I almost bought a flat of mimulus (monkey flowers) from Walmart but resisted. They are one annual that seems either in large supply or almost none each year. They are among our favorites and we have a few planters dedicated to them.

On the hard stuff side we purchased another dozen pots at Sunnyside at incredibly low prices...two lights for a seed grower...and a pack of popsicle sticks for markers. We have dozens of bags of potting soil bought at Liquidation World over the winter but I'll regret I didnnt get more.

I sure wish we had more room for roses and clematis. Need to feed the addiction. Think I'll pop over to Canadian tire and look at their 'stuff'.

Shauna

Every year seems to have some less common plants that flood the market. This year I've seen these Hellebores everywhere. There's also a flood of phormiums at a few stores for a third of their former prices.

Shelley

Reminds me of when we were in Cuba a few years ago. At the resort where we stayed there were some very mature bougainvillea vines that just covered the whole parking area in front of the resort. They were a dark reddish purple color. Just gorgeous!

Brenda

I tried years ago overwintering a Bougainvillea indoors for the winter with no luck, but it wouldn't hurt to try again.

Good luck with yours.

Sharon

I picked up:
Crabapple "Royalty" - bronze/red leaves, pink/purple flowers
Apple "Norland" - all their fruit trees are $28/ea.
3 Martha Washington geraniums "Ballet" " Imperial" & "Elegance Rose Bicolor" - all 3/$12
Petunia "Red Morn Madness" - 36/flat
Impatiens "Super Elfin Blue Pearl" - 36/flat
Lobelia "Saphire" - 36/flat (All the flats were $10/ea)

Then we went to Home Depot:
Crabapple "Dolgo" (for making jelly) @ $36
And Saturday I popped into:

Co-op H&G and got:
Lysimachia "Goldilocks"
Brachyscome "Blue Zephyr"
Osteospermum "Orange Symphony"
Ivy Geranium "Red Peppermint"

Home Depot:
Red/Yellow/Green Peppers
Chili Pepper
Jalapeno "Mucho Nacho"

Walmart:
Calibrachoa "White Imp" & "Rose"

Fortunately all three trees are used to being outside. My sun room is full to bursting at night, but my greenhouse has lots of room to spare during the day (and once it warms up for the nights) ;o) I'm hoping that happens soon, because as soon as I have to transplant my latest bunch - four flats - of seedlings into their own pots I'm going to be in a heap of trouble!! (My zinnias have sprouted in three days!)

Oh so fun though!!

Thanks Shelly "Enabler" ;o) I may have to pick up one or two more plants yet this spring...that Bougainvillea is very pretty, I'd love to try it if I can find one!

Verena

1 rhodo
1 SDB iris
1 jacobs ladder.

Now where am I going to put that rhodo for best chance of survival....hmmmmmmmm.

Oh Verena, if you keep going back to the Costco garden center...they get new things in quite often. I think my Dh was looking for the planters that I got last year with the osteos in.....they were gorgeous....he did mention that they didn't have them....so.....hopefully they will come in soon. They did have some beautiful begonias...but I pried my little fingers off them and slowly, begrudgingly walked away.haha!

Sierra

Verena

We don't have a Costco in Brandon (yet...maybe someday).

Sierra, which SDB iris did you get?

This last week's purchases are...

At Somer's Country Gardens...
-$3 for Gaelic sunset pulmonaria (lungwort)
-$3 for strike it rich pink gem heuchera (coral bells)

At the Greenspot I bought...(also getting my 10% discount)
3 new perennial sedums (new to me..) (plug size for $1.50 each, zone 3
-Blue Boy hens and chicks
-Angelina sedum
-Purple Beauty hens and chicks
-A brug (don't know the color but it already has little flower buds on it) for $8.99.
- plugs of plectranthus for $1.50 each
-Zulu Wonder
-Troy's Gold
-Frosted Jade
-a plug of Marinata potato vine for $1.50

At the Neepawa hort day I picked up (no taxes)
-Amethyst Mist heuchera (coral bells) for $4 (zone 4)
-Red Ruffles coleus for $2.50
-Dark Star coleus for $2.50
-Euphorbia, Diamond Frost

Walmart had..
-mini roses (4 in a pot) for $1.97. Bought 1 for a planter.

Went to Winnipeg last Friday and bought...
At Jeffries in Portage La Prairie...
-Emily Carr rose for $10.95
-Patty's plum poppy for $2.95
-Purple Emporer Sedum for $2.95
-Royal Wedding Poppy for $2.95
-Cobweb hens and chicks for $2.95
-Geranium, sanguineum album for $2.95

At T&T Seeds in Winnipeg I bought
-Kristin miniature rose...$17.95 potted up already. (my daughter's name is spelled the same way. Had no choice but to get it.)

At Shelmerdine's in Winnipeg I bought... (more expensive a place to buy perennials but I loved these perennials that I had not seen before...I couldn't help it)
-for $4.50 ...trailing perennial potentilla (little yellow flowers the size of a dime)
-for $15...David Ward pulmonaria (lungwort)"A very attractive variety with mint green leaves with white edges. Blooms are a raspberry pink."

And a whole bunch of lilies from the lily nook
-Blackout
-Cocktail twins
-Lavendar Ballerina
-Kansas
-Aurora Borealis
-Elodie
-Mango
-Orange Art
-Pup Art
-Wizard
-Painted pixie
-Best Seller
-Clubhouse
-Carmine Diamond
-Ice Diamond
-Indian Diamond
-Kentucky
-Party Diamond
-Tropic Diamond
-First Crown
-Sunny Crown
-Visa Versa
-Triumphator
-Stargazers (3 for center of pots)
-L. cernuum
-L. cernuum album
-L. leictlinii

Anyone willing to come help me plant these lilies and others all up??

Brenda

I wish that I lived closer to some of you girls. It would be fun. Well, at least we have internet.

Shelley

Wouldn't it be great if we in the FN could all live a little closer to each other? Not so sure what our DH's would think. But the internet sure makes the world that we live in a lot smaller.

Janet, you are going to love your Winnipeg Parks rose. That is the one everyone comments on when they come into my yard. It is a short red rose and always makes it through our cold winters without protection of any kind.

Forgot 2 more acquisitions ... from Laurie...thanks!..in our trading...I got a Matt daylily and an Azure Skies Iris.

Brenda

Wow Janet, that really is one stop shopping at Costco!LOL Yes, I'm sure you'll love all 3 of your new roses.

So that's what you ordered from the Lily Nook Brenda. I kept forgetting to ask you. You will have a lot of digging to do, won't you? You're welcome for the iris and daylily. I hope you like the iris because that's the only one that I'll be able to give you, as I've pretty much gotten all the ones I have from you! And thanks for Barbara Mitchell. She'll have to get potted up today. Btw, DH wasn't sure if he should look in the bag or not, since you had put the initials "BM" on it.;^)

I don't think that I had mentioned on this thread that I had picked up a mandevilla vine 'Red Velvet' from the Greenspot for $3.99. Also from the Greenspot I picked up $1.50 plugs of:

-Large leaf (can't remember the Latin name for it)
-2 annual vinca vines (was able to split them into 4 individual plants)
-Bacopa (was able to root 3 cuttings, so now have 4 individual plants too)
-Potato vine (one green, one purple)
-Another yellow leafed vine, I think it's a lychnis, or something like that? That's the downside to plugs, you don't get a tag with it, but the price makes up for it.

Also at the Neepawa Hort day, I picked up Heuchera 'Amethyst Myst' and Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'. The euphorbia is supposed to be excellent for hot, dry conditions, so it should do well for a sunny container.

I also got my Lily Nook order in. I got:

Blackout
Jive
Navarra
Ice Diamond
Elegant Crown
Visa Versa
Urandi
Zagora
Triumphator
L. cernuum album

I noticed on Sunday that Home Depot was starting to put out some perennials and shrubs into their greenhouse, so I'm sure that the rest of the box stores will be doing the same very soon. :0)

The SDB iris was labeled mix....but this one was blooming. It is yellow and different from the yellow that I already have. It also has the most beautiful fragrance.

Sierra

I picked up 2 Priscilla® petunias and managed to take 24 cuttings off of them. Certainly the much more economical way of getting a flat of those types of plants.

Shauna

Shauna, the Petunia Police are coming, whoo whoo. LOL Didn't you do enough hard time last year?

I got my Lily Nook order today! I got
Cannes
Dreamland
Champagne Diamond, L.A.
Party Diamond, L.A.
Pink Superior
Dot Com
Moneymaker
Royal Present
Tropic Diamond
Urandi
Zagora
Acapulco
Dizzy
Muscadet
Souvenir
Rio Negro
Willekie Alberti

I hope the Orientals do ok - they will be planted with my roses so they will get mulched in the winter.

Lavender Ballerina
Fata Morgana
Jive
Angel's Touch
Pink Superior
Elegant Crown
Sunny Crown
Muscadet
African Queen
Amethyst Temple
Golden Sunburst

Nothing compared to some of you! LOL

You know it was funny, (well not really) the other day when I was out trying to take pics of the wee bulbs....I was laying on the ground and thinking...what if a mouse pops out...would I whack it with my camera. LOL NO!!!! Then I got thinking of all the mouse poop that was on the ground.....eeewww. So I didn't get very many good pics.

Savona, my greenhouse is completely empty....I'm afraid to put anything in there right now....better to be safe than sorry. You can't get though my laundry room though.....oh well...guess I don't have to do laundry for a while...JOKING LOL!

This is a pic of the SDB.

Anyone know the name?

Sierra

Sorry, I can't help you. I have over 30 different irises that have yellow of some sort in it. But none of them matched perfectly with yours. The beard was the wrong color or mine was more of a gold or had no edge of white around the falls.

My Baby Blessed I think is the closest to your iris. Although, it does not have the white markings down the side of the falls like yours does but it in the same shade of yellow yours is.

Brenda

Is Baby Blessed scented?

Sierra

Brenda

Verena
Only a short drive from Parkland

Shauna

LA Party Diamond
LA Royal Present x 3
LA Tropical Diamond
OA Fancy Crown x 3
OA Elegant Crown x 3
OA Sunny Crown x 3
OT Northern Star
OT Northern Carillon
OT Red Hot
OT Zagora
O Muscadent

I'm already waiting for them to bloom. Especially the Orientals and crosses.

How is your Landini doing Laurie? All of mine dried up bulbs that I purchased earlier are up.

Shelley

I bought a hanging basket in a light sage-y green, two yellow nemesias that i couldn't find here last year, a yellow iris rhizome (can't remember the name right now) and some seeds. That's it! :) Gale gave me a kind of rice grass, a castor bean and a container of plants she says are called "Jewels of Opar". We had a good time visiting the nurseries, but there were not a lot of enticing blooms in either one. Funny how some years are light that.

But i'm all hepped up to get to our local nurseries and clean them out of callibroacha! LOL

I really don't need much to buy this year, everything I've got so far has been ordered thru mail orders, saved from last year or I have started from seed. I'll probably wait till Mothers Day and pick up a Fuchsia basket and I'm thinking of buying a Weeping Birch, will see ;)

Sharon

I'm the opposite. I'm always looking for plants this time of year not in bloom and not about to bloom. What entices me are good strong plants that will bloom when they usually do in our area and not coaxed into early bloom in the greenhouse they were grown in.

Yesterday i received begonia tubers from Vesey's and today the rest of the order came:
Egret flowers
Dwarf Oriental lily mix (planted in a container)
Tradescantia mix
Geranium Birch's Double
Hemerocallis Thundering Ovation
Echinacea Sunset
Ferns - Ostrich, Cinnamon, Christmas, Maiden Hair

Most of the plants were pretty good-looking. Only the Maiden Hair fern had no growth coming from the roots.

Everything is potted up and in the cold frame with an extra tarp over it. There's just no more room inside. And there's still Dominion and Botanus to come - Breck's too, i think. The joys of addiction! LOL

And I picked up 4 of Lysimachia congestiflora to put into pots. I thought the colour would be nice mixed in with wave petunias.

I also picked up a Rock Star iris and a Summer Wine Ninebark.

Shelley

Shelley

Mother's Day and my birthday in June are two great excuses to purchase something for myself. I have done the same thing!

Brenda

Today I went plant shopping,

first I checked out our new Wal-Mart in town, oh my, somebody is not looking after the plants. All their annuals were either frost bitten or dry, dry, dry, it was so pitiful that I walked out disgusted.

I then went over to a local greenhouse just out of town, she's expensive but at least they have a healthy selection and they look after their plants.

I bought....

Bacopa ‘Snowstorm Giant Snowflake’ (2)
Begona ‘Non-Stop Pink’
Bidens ferulifolia ‘Solaire Yellow’
Euphorbia amygdaloidal ‘Efanthia’ (hopefully it will be a perennial here)
Impatiens Encore Wine (3)
Lobelia Trailing Sapphire (4)
Petunia Supertunia Double Peppermint (2)(7cuttings)
Portulaca Margarita Rosita (2)
Verbena ‘Superbena Dark Blue’ (2)

Here's the flower of the Peppermint Petunia, I just love it, took some cuttings as well (don't worry Petunia police, I will not sell them) ;)

Sharon

I bought a Passiflora 'Lady Margaret' and a Hibiscus 'Luna Red' a couple of days ago. I'm really looking forward to the Passion flower blooming. It's got 17 flower buds on it already and it's about 2' high. This year, they will get no iron chelate, though, no matter if they get chlorotic or not. Just slow release.

Shauna

WOW Sharon, that petunia is gorgeous.

DH bought me an early Mothers Day gift today -- a Morden Belle (Parkland Series) Rose Bush. I already know where it's going to go! He did good hey? Considering he bought it all by himself! 8^)

Plus I did a favour for a friend earlier this week and she brought me a flat of all sorts of annuals -- Geraniums, Verbena 'Burgundy', Nemesia 'Sunsatia Banana', Licorice plant, Silver Nettle Vine, and Argyranthemum 'Vanilla Butterfly'. I was totally floored and not expecting that at all --- but they are awesome! 8^)

I've been working for the past couple weeks for a friend who just had a baby so I haven't had much time for browsing the nurseries but once she comes back I'll hopefully find some good deals (OK, yeah, less choices probably though -- LOL) I can't believe it's already 'planting out weekend' already next weekend. Time has sure flown!

Anyway, my mother's day present was 3 hours alone, 3 nurseries, and buying for the new walkway flower beds. Ok that's not all I bought, but still..

Huechera, some pretty purple trailing clover, tatting fern and interrupted fern for one of the north beds.

Creeping thyme and blue falx for the "boulevard" rock garden.

Peppers and a couple extra tomato plants I didn't start from seed for the veggie garden.

Oh yeah, the reason for shopping: several lupine and columbine and 2 cranesbill geranium for the walkway beds.

I have also acquired in the last couple weeks lots of summery bulbs- acidanthera, tritelia, etc, several different lilies and glads, two comtesse something or other clematis, a honeysuckle vine, a new trellis for the clematis- well you all get the idea!

if you google 'torenia cutting' there is a lot of people who take cuttings and also keep it over winter as a houseplant. I wonder if you would want to put it under your lights though? What pretty colors it has and very eye catching!

Heuchera pulchella is apparently an extremely small heuchera but hardy to zone 3. I would love to see it in person.

Brenda

I'm still waiting for their other pots of perennials/ shrubs to go down next week. There's a cutleaf golden cut-leaf Elder reduced down to $13, but I'm going to wait to see if it goes down some more ;)

Any new deals you have found lately?

Sharon

I also picked up a gallon Prunus x cistena Purpleleaf Sandcherry for sale price of $6.94 ;)

Sharon

Sierra :-)

I have enough plants now. I won't acquire any more.

:>

Last week I went shopping at Lindenberg's. In store they are clearing out their perennials at 40% off.

So, I bought...

Supreme Sultan TB iris... $2.39 regularly $3.99.

American Halo, Fair Maiden, Sleeping Beauty and Sea Lotus Leaf Hostas all $3.29 each instead of $5.49.

First Frost, Summer Breeze and Great Arrival Hostas all $5.09 instead of $8.49.

Monarch's Velvet Potentilla followed me home also for $2.99 instead of $4.99.

I also picked up some Japanese peonies for $10.19 instead of $16.99. I bought Kukenu Jishia, Bride's Dream and Glowing Candles.

The herbacious peonies I bought were Springfield, Eden's Perfume, Kansas, Laura Desert, Tom Eckhart, Pink Cameo and Edulis Superba. They were reg $6.99 and I paid $4.19.

Daylilies...I will plant and hope that they are true...if not then I may just have to give them away or sell really cheap. I bought Black Stockings, Fire and Fog and Moroccan Sunrise all regularly $7.99 and now on for $4.79. The daylilies that were regularly $5.99 and on for $3.59 that I picked up were Edge of Darkness, Cherry Valentine, Canadian Border Patrol, Paige Pinata and Daring Deception.

Each year I go and get stuff at their clearance sale. Sure is a lot cheaper. They are bare root so I just plant them up immediately and they do fine.

Thank goodness perennials can grow in a pot until I have time to plant them. I have done some cleaning through the beds and found a few spaces already and the rest are going to be placed in my new walking garden where the old holding garden used to be.

Brenda

The daylilies will be a great deal...if...they are correct when they bloom.

Brenda

Shelley

Verena