If you are hard up to get things settled at your new home, go to a beverage distributor or a place that may sell soda or beer in the shallow cardboard boxes. They aren't very deep and won't hold up very well after watering but you can set them up as a temporary garden to hold some soil and your plants. This will allow your plants to have some air circulation and much needed sun. Lay them out near the area of your new flower gardens. It'll buy you a bit of time and you won't loose any plants to being stuck for too long in a plastic bag. (Plastic bags are definitely the way to go for transport!). I moved my gardens a few years back in the rain. It actually worked out quite well but was very messy. I dug up my clumps and put them in the truck without plastic bags! I'd never thought of using them. My plants moved very well. Best of luck! I feel your excitement!!

LOL!! Me too Ricky! I just "DO" my garden all day long. Kate, when I was getting spinal injections and I had to remain perfectly calm and still even tho the injections burned and hurt, I would take a deep breath and recite flowers/plants alphabetically until they were done...the pain management Doc was alarmed the first time to hear me whispering, then he finally got used to me rattling off plant names. They actually kept it in my chart where I left off last injection visit. They would tell me prior to the shot...start with dischidia!! Right now I wake thinking about my tomato seedlings daily...and dream about 'em too! When something consumes you, just be glad it's gardening!

Hi Storey, Would love to get your P. coccinea and thunbergia clock vine but don't have any of your wants. I do have some white fragrant crinums, yellow flag iris, blue/purple with yellow beardless iris, red pine cone ginger, EE "Chicago Harlequin" and amaryllis, not Red Lion, but they are dark red. If you want more cannas, I have tall yellow with orangy splashes around throat, perhaps "Richard Wallace". Thanks, Betsy

Sorry, but your question made me laugh- I just did the same thing moving 1200 miles with pets and a handicapped relative. We did purchase our new home (on a contingency) before the old one sold, so that was added stress, but it can be done. I did all my new house shopping online and bought sight unseen although local relatives did check it out and provided me with 100's of high resolution photos of every inch of the property. The key in my case was to get organized and stay that way. I had a notebook with sections "selling FL house", "buying KY house", "services FL", "services KY", "actual move" involving truck and car rentals and hotels and so on. Keeping all the phone numbers, FAX numbers, and notes in one place helped tremendously. We also did use a POD to store items while our old house was being shown, but unfortunately PODS did not deliver where we were moving, so I had to transfer all that stuff over to a rental truck when we were ready to go. I hired KY drivers to fly down to FL and drive my rental truck so the husband and I could each be free to drive a car- he drove with his Mom and I drove with the pets with separate hotels along the way to limit the stress. We had a weeks wait to get possession of our new home which we solved with a combination of hotels and relatives- I refuse to board my pets so this was my only option. It is a huge task- the only way I made it through was to look at one thing at a time- the storage stage, the selling stage, the closing stage, the moving out stage, the driving stage, the moving in stage etc. All at once it is simply too much to undertake but when you look at it one stage at a time it becomes manageable. Every time a step was completed I gained confidence in my planning and began to realize that it all just might work. We are now two weeks in our new home and still can't fathom how it all came together and worked in the end. So plan, plan, plan, stay organized, and be flexible to changes because problems will crop up. I have to say that selling the old house was 99% of the stress involved in the whole situation- once you see the light at the end of the tunnel in that regard everything else is easy. Relatively :)