I would like to order several hundred lilies and have had good luck with Bloomingbulb.com (smaller bulbs, but good flowering and pricing) and wondered if anyone knew about when they clear out stock for the year. I ordered last year but don't remember if it was Oct./Nov? Thanks.

This was my order from Lazy S'S (received in April). Excellent plants. Big healthy. I ordered plants that could not be found locally for less. I ordered from Bluestone a few times and had some plants that were the wrong color...but, due to the size of the plants, it was a year before I knew they were wrong. They sent me new plants a year later...but, those were also the wrong color...the salesperson on the phone decided to go out to the greenhouse and personally gather the plants herself as she was embarrassed by all the mixups..those were the right color. They told me to keep all the plants and I gave the wrong colors to friends. I would order from Bluestone again if they had something that I couldn't find locally. Everything on their website that I want is also available locally for larger plants and similar prices.

Good for you!! Volunteers/freebies are always welcome......at least if they are actual flowers and not the kind of weeds that spread like wildfire if you look the other way for a day or two. :) I always purposely leave the seed heads on a lot of my plants. I try to deadhead the ones that are extremely prolific, but don't always get to them either. I do it over the summer, but try to leave them in the fall so that the birds can eat them over the winter. That is why people are always asking why I have so many plants to give away.......especially 'rose of sharon'. I must have given away a hundred of them or more over the last couple of years. Thats not counting the ones that I didn't let get too big. Once they reach about four or five inches, I can't throw them away, so I let them grow a bit bigger and give them away. I figure the greenhouse that is a few blocks from me has been wondering why their sales of 'r of s' has gone down! LOL! I guess your clue as to the fact that it was a flower should have been that it wasn't growing out of control, but behaving and not growing too much. Your patience (forced or otherwise) really paid off!

Anyone want to split an order with me? I'd be happy with 8 new plants. Contact me offline at ltitle2003 at yahoo dot com -- I'll be putting my plants list together -- and you'll probably go home with a dozen more plants from MY garden when you come to pick up your order!