oh my goodness, I wish I lived "half way close".

Kathy

Kathy,

I'll try to tell it like it is after I attend the sale, but I know it will probably be hard to access all 4 sales since I might not get away from the Daff one very quickly...and then will move onto the Iris sale. I'm not nearly as big of a Daylily or Hosta fan/collector as I am of the irises and daffs.

Maybe you could plan a vacation next year around the sale...lol I'm not sure, but I think there may have been a similar sale in Indianapolis last Sunday...or at least there was to have been the annual Daff sale the last Sunday in July...according to my old note.

Sue

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chemocurl, thanks so much for the link! :) Yay for garden junkies! :)

Sue,

I attend the iris and daylily sales annually, but they are held separately. This year will be my first daffodil swap with my local daffodil society. I am pretty excited.

So what were your best finds at the sale?

Kathy

Here is a link that might be useful: here is what I got at the iris sale

So what were your best finds at the sale?

I went with $200...buying and splitting with a GW daff loving cyber friend.

Below is a list of the named ones I got.

1 BLB....$5....Ace of Diamonds 9w-r
2 PK.....$7....Chaste........................1w-w
2 BLB....$9....Excitement.....................3w-yyo
2 PK.....$3....Jonquilla.....................no info other than that is the nameÂ
3 PK.....$1....Keats.........................4w-y
1 PK.....$1....Merry Bells...................5w-y
1 BLB....$3....New Penny.....................3y-y
2 PK.....$1....Oregon Bells..................7w-w
1 BLB....$5....Owyhee........................2y-p
1 PK.....$1....Pentucket....................9w-gyr
1 BLB....$2....PollyÂs Pearl.................8w-w
2 PK.....$3....Rapture......................6y-y
2 PK.....$1....Sunny Miss...................7y-o
2 PK.....$1....Swift Arrow..................6y-y
2 PK.....$1....Thackery.....................9w-gyr
1 PK.....$3....Twin Sisters.................no info
1 PK.....$5....Boslovick......................11A Y-O

$80 so far, and as you can see, they are not really common ones, or at least not to me.

The rest of the budget went to packs of NO ID ones for various prices, and various quantities per pack...most 3-7 bulbs. The club had gotten together earlier in the season before digging at a member's house, and had tried to positively identify these NO-ID ones. They weren't positive on the names, so they chose to sell them as NO ID ones, rather than give them an incorrect name. I'm kind of guessing that they likely are not the more common ones, or they would have been in agreement on what they were.

I got NOID ones from divisions 1 through 7 and 1 in div 13, with the petal and cup colors listed.

I've never met a daff I did not immediately love except Rip Van Winkle and Von Sion...both look like they are having bad hair days. Several members there agreed with me on that one...lol

I was at the daff sale alone for over 2 hours, with a member helping me all the while. I think I was their best customer of the day, and they gave me a complimentary Society Membership. Whoo-Hoo!

I stopped by the iris sale then for a bit. Their TB were all $3, and the smaller varieties were $2. Not really being familiar with any varieties I was looking for, I passed except for buying just one...besides having already spent my budget.

There were georgeous daylily pics posted above the fans for sale. I just looked a bit, and it looked like they mostly ranged from $5 to $10...rough estimate. I was not looking for anything in particular, and was on such a daff high, I didn't buy any.

The hostas I did not take in at all. They were potted, and I noticed there were not many left at 11 when I left.

It was a wonderful morning, and I was glad I had gone alone. No one other than a daff lover would have been content to wait patiently on me to finish my shopping trying to get as many varieties as possible.

Sue