The thing about wrongly labeled trees is you want to keep the original tree and get another. Usually nurseries don't guarantee the correct identity of the tree, only survival. It would be a can of worms, in a way, to guarantee true to name as it would be difficult to verify. I used to manage a site where 50 Green Gage plums from Adam's County Nursery were planted that turned out to be a J. plum sometimes called Japanese Green Gage. Adam's take was home growers wouldn't know the difference and they weren't selling any to commercial producers so no harm no foul. They also said there was no established true Green Gage. Pretty shoddy reasoning from my perspective. These clients had tasted real Green Gage plums in France so the trees weren't worth much to them but the installation and maintanence cost them thousands of dollars. I consider Adams CN to be a good source of trees and like other producers for commercial production, they are usually reliably true to name. Stark also produces trees for com. pro. so my guess is that they are more reliable than many outfits that only serve home growers. I'd order from them way before going to Gurney or Millers for instance.

The tomato soup has multiple growths when i got it. The mac and cheese had just a few. Both stood still for a handful of weeks before putting on growth. I was able to pick these from a hundred or so of 4 inch pots... all of which you could see were just plugs potted up recently. the soil isn't the best (not too rich) and free draining. I won't claim too much responsibility for the size at this point.. they are growing though.. so that's a good thing.

I wouldn't assume that just because you have one doubleheaded bloom that it is due to a virus. At the beginning of the summer, several different types of plants of mine had one or two of those, but all the rest of the blooms since then, have been perfectly normal. I did pinch those off though, so they didn't produce any seeds. I remember a couple like that early last year too, so I don't think that it's necessarily a sign of disease. Bonnie

erika - I'm using the sprout chart for Zone 6 on the Wintersown.org website too. I didn't need the entire list so I just selected the rows of the table that corresponded to the perennials I WS and pasted them in a Word document. My sprout chart is just 2 pages. I like that it captures botanical name, common name, date WS and date sprouted--makes it so easy to keep track. So far 26 varieties out of a total of 66 have sprouted so that's more than a third. My first WS attempts I used recycled foil salad bar containers but once I read about milk jugs I switched. I definitely prefer the milk jugs but the stokesia, globeflower & Echinacea seeds I WS in the foil containers have all sprouted. Planting out is going to be interesting!