Thank you, I have searched & searched for the manufacturer that makes & sells the dandy pots to Garden centers but it escapes me. They will probably have to use dixie cups. Maybe they can have a few dandy pots out & give the kids the option of using the free dixie or buying the dandy pot at the groups retail cost. I have a business & tax number & could order & store the extra's for them. I'm sure the group would divide up the extra's & buy them at cost themselves to fill a larger order but I just can not find the info. One in the group is going to a flower show this weekend & will look for the info. The internet has never let me down before. thanks again.

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The alleged heat wave is already here. Eighty-something degrees is not normal for March. Not, not, not. I am starting to dread this summer if we keep staying hotter than usual. (sigh) This spring is turning into a rerun of last spring, minus the fires. We do not need any sort of rerun of last year in any shape, form or fashion. All the purchased tomato plants I put into large containers in February are blooming and setting fruit, and some of the cherry ones have fruit that is almost full-sized. The home-grown plants are smaller, but the 53 that are in the ground are growing at a pretty good rate and starting to bloom. I hope they hurry, hurry, hurry to beat the heat. I started putting tomato plants into the ground a full month before the OSU-recommended transplanting date, and I am starting to worry that even that won't be enough to offset this early heat.

Scoutjr, I see your original post was a while ago, but if you haven't had the work done yet, then I would like to offer my professional opinion. If the guy who gave you the quote gets offeneded or won't do the work unless you use his plants, then something is wrong and he is not the guy for you. Ultimately, landscaping is a service industry and you are the client, whom we are there to serve. Yes, it can be good if we get to use our own stock or source the plants wholesale, but to be honest, sometimes I'm not sure if the mark up even covers all that is entailed in fetching and caring for the plants. Anyway, the point is that if you are willing to pay for the labor (the cost of which includes appropriate overhead, ie. fuel, insurance, etc...) then we will plant whatever you want wherever you want. Of course we will tell you if we think it is not such a great idea, and we will not guarantee the health of the plants. It gets a little more complicated if you are hiring someone for a design/install, rather than just site work and planting. Still, the bottom line is that you are the buyer. When I am not a landscaper, I have a little bit of a life, and sometimes I have to hire contractors. I just had a guy come and repair some damaged sheetrock and trim, but I told him just to do the hard stuff, and I would do the finish work (painting, etc...)so I could save some money. He didn't say "oh no, either I do all of it or none of it". Is that a good analogy? Am I writing myself out of work? Also, many clients do their landscaping projects in phases. If we are reasonably sure that you are serious about actually doing phase 2, and phase 3 then it's really not so bad for us, as it guarantees future work.