I wish I could go. I try and make at least one trip to the arboretum and check out the progress usually in the fall to collect seeds, etc. Things sure have gotten a lot bigger since I graduated from there in 2000. I very much look forward to see how the taxodium trees along La Nina creek turn out in 5-10 years. The hybrids sure are fast growing!

I was there! Always go with some good friends who love plants. I said I wasnt buying that much because I have a sizeable pot ghetto that needs planting but the inside of my truck looked like a jungle - could not fit one more thing in it. They had some great roses - Greg Grant had propogated a climbing sport of Belinda's Dream - be interesting to see how this blooms. Also Big Momma's Blush tea - from his grandmother's old home in Acadia as well as a Thelma Wheeler crepe myrtle from her home - it blooms purple, saw it on a slide show at one of his talks. As usual I buy too much but I dont care, its such fun and you get things there that are available nowhere else. Got my 3 chinese fringe trees - they sold out fast. We ate at Posada's and decided to bo back by and see what was left and bought some more. It was a great day, perfect weather. This is one of the "must do" things in spring and fall. SFA has a fall sale that is also fun. It is well worth going to! I graduated from nursing school from SFA in 2002 - the chinese fringe trees that were young when I was there along the intermural field are now huge!

I ended up with some pitcher plants. The kid inside me need them. I'm going to SFA now, in the forestry school, so I tend to just pick up seeds when I find them too....

It's cool to hear from other lumberjacks.