LOL, I've been guilty of ordering from Spring Hill before, so I'm not surprised. Filipendula rubra, Queen of the Prairie, should be hardy to zone 3, so that might survive - it does pretty well here, but I'm technically in zone 7. It does like water, as I just found out, about 10 years after planting it. IMHO, you should pray that the tradescantia is too tender; you may find yourself ripping it out (along with your hair) in years to come. Here, at least, it's ineradicable. I suppose by "grab bag" they mean "we randomly grab plants and shove them in a bag" - I hope they priced this selection accordingly!

This thread has gotten so long again, it's almost impossible for me to open with my slow internet. I just posted and deleted, so am going to start Covid Humor #3. Please post your new things there!

Luckily my DH actually took Home Ec at school and is a fairly decent, if plain, cook. I taught DD to cook by the time she was 9 and while she wasn't a keen cook when she was younger, over the past few years she's really branched out. I think it's partly because her DH is a very good and adventurous cook (make his own naan bread from scratch, makes Vietnamese rice paper for rice paper rolls etc) and spurs her on to stretching herself. But, in a local restaurant where I once worked, we had a waitress who was completely clueless. She was supposed to be circulating an afternoon tea crowd with a tray of fresh scones with jam and cream. She came in announcing, "No one was taking any so I put them on the table out there so they could help themselves." I looked. Yep, there they were in full sun on a summer day. Another time we had a very busy night and I had a bunch of salt and pepper squid appetisers almost ready to go, but other stuff that needed attending to. I handed Miss Clueless the pepper mill and said, "Could you please finish this off before you serve them?" She stood there shaking the pepper mill and wondering why nothing was coming out. But I nearly choked when she suddenly said, apropos of nothing, "Do you only get chicken breasts from girl chickens?"

This thread is getting really hard to open again. Okay to start Covid Humor 4? I hope so....these are all so great and what do we have these days but humor, right? Here's a link to Covid Humor 4. Please post there! xhttps://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/6006639/covid-humor-4