Before I joined my garden club ordered bulbs in bulk for sharing. I hope we can do it again and also share seeds. We visit local ecological vegetable farms, public gardens and parks with special features, our own gardens and local private gardens of some fame. We organize a country walk in spring to a beauty spot where one of us has made a fire for a barbecue in advance. Last year we had a talk by a remarkable woman farmer who grows several old varieties of grains like spelt and visited her farm in summer to buy flour and taste and buy her bread. We arrange plant fairs on a small scale twice a year and sell our surplus plants and produce. This fall we will have a pelargonium competition. Each contestant starts with a cutting of the same size and the same variety (Wilhelm Langguth) supplied by a member who is a collector. Next week we will visit a local nursery after hours where we get reduced prices when we come as group. The owner gives a short talk about novelties and any plants of distinction. This post was edited by mariannese on Fri, May 16, 14 at 6:09

I would highly recommend Brent Ross from Cottage Gardens. I've ordered from him. His gardens are about 1 1/2 hours away from our place here in Upstate NY. I ordered since I didn't have time to go out to his place. He is also a member of the same garden club I belong to "FiELDS" (Finger Lakes Daylily Society). He definitely stands behind his plants so if you have a problem with plants you purchase from him (which I doubt you will) don't hesitate to contact him. Also he is very honest in his feedback of plants that you are thinking about getting or just have questions on growth, etc BEFORE you purchase. I know if it grows well at Brent's place, it will do fine here. I think in one of my posts I posted pics of one of his intros I got from him. I bought a couple of Emmerich intros from him as Karol was out of stock and also 1 or 2 Rice intros which Thorough Bred was out of stock. As a side note, Thorough Bred Daylilies-Rice Intros - that I bought directly from Annette do well here as well. If you do a search of this forum using Cottage Gardens as the search criteria, you will find posts made by others and I believe some posted pics of Brent's place when they visited. One day I hope to get out to his place and see it in person for myself. Good luck with your search. Julia

Kay, I loved that bloom too. Kathy, Seems you're correct : ) Elizabeth, Lol, about the pot ghetto. I'm already looking forward to us going next year. I know Hilde is. She already emailed me about how we should plan for late July next year. Cindy, Lol, no, he only picked on me! Like lying that a $5 lily cost $200. He probably felt bad about the stray bag. Driving away without everything sounds like something I would do. I'm so glad you enjoyed your trip! : ) Oh and I did something dumb. I found my NOID daylily from a post I made about a week ago. I had purchase what was suppose to be Storm of the Century in a plant coop. So going through the field, there it is. I forgot to take a pic of the tag!! Here's a pic. Rita, It is not difficult to spend all day there even in less than ideal weather. NJMomma, I'm glad you enjoyed them. Remy

Rita, You would love visiting all the daylily places out this way. Mantis, Thank you, I fixed the pic. The tag to the right in the pic was probably the correct one. Unfortunately the leaves are covering most of it. Jason and Rena, Thanks, it is hard to decide what to bring home while there, but Mozambique Nights really stood out. I always bring only so much cash so I have to behave myself! Of course what does Brent tell me this year, they now take CC#'s! I stuck to my budget though. I also brought home Morticia which I did not take a pic of, but it has always looked good there when I've seen it so it came home with me. And I got a huge clump of a NOID Munson for $5 which I also didn't take a pic of, and I should of! I liked the way it looked and Brent didn't know what it was. Since he isn't selling any being unnamed, I lucked out. Nameless is ok with me :) Remy