I would love to trade for some of your daylillies. I can trade cannas, surprise lilies, or other plants if you are interested contact me at gwat1@swbell.net Thks

hi i have a ton of german iris tall mixed colors mixed with reblumers med and dwarf, all originally from jackson jerkins i would be interested in some oak, plmk c

I find Hornbaker Gardens very expensive but having great variety of hostas. My favorite is Sunrise greenhouse in Grant Park IL which has over 400 varieties with excellent prices and knowledgeble people as well. Got bunch of hostas from them and so far they doing great. Went to Hornbaker yesterday and did not find their clearance sales satifactory- at this time of year most nurseries are selling everything 50% off in our zone. Sunrise greenhouses started having buy 2 get one free after Aug 25 and I was most happy recipient ;) They also were having OOPS sales for $2 where labels got lost so I picked up several plants which I am pretty sure identified as Clifford Stingray, Reptilian, Sleeping beauty and still have yellow leaved NOID. Am going to take it to Foxwillow Pines this weekend for Hosta happening event where owner of Hostapatch Nursery will be helping ID hostas by their leaves. I overwinter significant amount of pots. If they are iffy or hardy only to zone 5 perennials you want to give them decent protection such as coldframe. Hostas will do great if you put them either in unheated garage or under north house wall, water them well, let them go dormant, turn them on the side and dump big bunch of oak leaves over it. I do not have mice or voles so having big heaps of leaves is not a problem in my garden. I overwinter hydrangea macrophyllas which are only root hardy in my zone similar way and have nice blooms as well. Also I had several purchases made from Northern Grown perennials, Hallsons and Chuck Plemmons " The hosta man". Received huge divisions with long roots, was most pleased.

did you grow yrs in pots? what pot size were they in when fruiting started? mine are in 10" still to keep small sized (were 2, I chucked the 2nd last fall though), and I do fertilize with miracle grow and vigoro intermittently. they are on wicks, so continuous liquid feed and they are neither dry nor waterlogged ever. so grow nicely when outside. well, I guess mine will NEVER fruit, 'cause I am in the apt and I have to reduce its size to continue to grow it sort of dwarfed.. it looks good on the balcony as is, gives some shade to caladiums under it. now that I know how to grow it i'll just try to buy a calamondin already fruiting as a small indoor plant: they often have them in Chinatown here. I killed my first one . correction ;)..scale ate it while I was on winter vacation..:(( but the seed was from it's fruit.