I dunno, if it is just me, but when I am looking for "something special" I don't typically head over to my local Sprawlmart, or Crappy Tire (CDN store) Does not matter what this "something special" is, perhaps something in Home Decor, or perhaps a dinner item... you don't find "special, exotic or interesting" usually in these places. You find mundane, ordinary, and functional, along with 5000 carbon copies of the same product. Not so say that it may not all be perfectly nice, afterall, arn't most of the same ol' seeds that are kind of "ho hum" perfectly "nice" in their own kind of boring way? Gotta get out of the big box and to a smaller retailer who actually wants to EARN your business. Many local nurseries around here offer some very neat and more rare varieties!!

I know the gentleman who bred Hydrangealicious. It is more meant for colder, shorter seasons with higher disease pressures where it should perform much better than many others on the market. We've entered more of the niche marketing for roses. Tom Carruth seems to have started the trend years ago with his more honest wholesale catalog descriptions. He would state a rose required heat to flourish; lasted better in cooler, damper climates or required several years to show its stuff. CP-Star is now doing similarly. They didn't push the Eyeconic series where black spot is extreme as they aren't strongly resistant to that line of fungi. They also didn't push Hydrangealicious where the seasons are too long and the shorter flowering season of the rose might be an issue. I've seen the Phloxy Baby here in local nurseries and it looked charming. I didn't purchase it because the flowers are so small and petals appeared so fragile, I questioned whether they would hold up in the extreme heat and sun of my hill. All of the bud and bloom plants I saw in nurseries had fried flowers, which could have been due to the extreme weekend and lack of watering, but for something in a mixed border, this one should be good. It's a Radler rose and is touted as being "very disease resistant". It's also classed as a polyantha, which is a very nice touch. It's been a long time since there was a major introducer here adding to the poly class. It's a neat example of the wide diversity available in roses. I think it might also make a wonderful standard. You should take a look at it. The name is a bit of a clumsy marketing move, but we've had others with names reminiscent of other flower types (Phalaenopsis, Aster, etc.). Kim

There is only one cultivar of Fothergilla named Blue Shadow. It is a branch sport of Mt. Airy that was discovered by Handy Nursery in Oregon (I think). Many of the cultivars in the trade are now being referred to as Fothergilla x intermedia after genetic research showed that many of them were intermediates (or hybrids) between gardenii and major. Mt. Airy is a hybrid and therefore the branch sport named Blue Shadow should be properly labelled as Fothergilla x intermedia. Only thing to make sure of is that you do not end up with the cultivar Blue Mist which is a Fothergilla gardenii selection and does not have the intensity nor vigor of Blue Shadow. Absolutely beautiful plants once they get going! Enjoy them but do watch out for rabbits early on!

This place sells a wide variety of daylilies and ships all over the country: https://www.oakesdaylilies.com/shop/ A search of their inventory did not bring up the varieties you named, but they have so many daylilies of all types and colors that you could probably find some that closely resemble the ones you are searching for. I count 1500 varieties of daylilies that they offer. I've had very good luck ordering from them. EDIT: Forgive me; I got my wires crossed. That's what happens when I attempt to converse before I've had enough caffeine. Phlox and daylilies are my personal favorite perennials, so when I went looking for perennials in my list of links, daylilies were what I found. Unfortunately I'm of little help when it comes to phlox. All of my plants came from local nurseries and none online. I did ask one of these nurseries to order a red variety that they did not have on hand, and that worked out well. So I guess I would second the advice to request that a local nursery order the varieties you seek.