I bought one last year at the Open Garden and it has half dozen or so big buds with the frilly sepals ( I think that is what they are called). The anticipation of the buds opening is killing me! Anne

When I first moved here, the Bluestone print catalog was my eye candy/Achilles' heel/Pandora's box. Everything I ordered from BP is planted and has thrived the past 9+ years in my various garden beds, including multiple hellebores, black snakeroot, baptisia, 'Leonard Messel' magnolia, abelia & clematis, among others. Now that I've achieved what I set out to do 9 years ago--create garden beds that attract & sustain pollinators--I'm no longer as obsessed with adding more plants/shrubs to my over-stuffed beds. I was briefly caught up by dramatic/fascinating new cultivars of old garden anchor plants (Shasta daisy, daylily, blanket flower, Echinacea, even hardy geranium). The past few years have showed me many of them are unreliable and don't perform in the garden as expected based on the catalog descriptions. Honestly I'm not sure why they send so many....oftentimes it looks like the same catalog but with a different cover, That was one compelling reason why I stopped ordering from Bluestone--the catalogs were always the same but just with a different cover (+higher prices). So long as there are new gardeners just beginning to discover their green thumbs, I expect there will be paper garden catalogs to tempt them altho' I'd expect Web-savvy gardeners will turn to the Internet rather than their mailbox. I don't have a Smart phone or any of those other technological miracles that 95% of the earth's population is so addicted to and continue (for now) to use Google to look up information when I can't find it in my own reference books. CMK - But I'm the same way with books ;-) I too have lots & lots of beat-up, dog-eared paperback & hardcover books and refuse to even consider the cost of a Kindle. I can't see any point in buying something I already own.

Have fun browsing Mora, I've ordered a few things last year from my catalogue and the low delevery charges were a bonus. Heidi, I looked in my catalogue for the shipping and handling costs from Gardens North, here they are, delevery charges for Canada... up to $15.00------$3.50 $15.01 to $30.00--$4.00 $30.01 to $45.00--$4.50...and so on+GST and PST These costs must come up when you place your order on-line I'm guessing??? Over the past couple of years I've been transforming from a plant purchaser to a seed planter. What a GIGANTIC difference in $$$'s spent! Great gardening to all, Justine

I'm unable to help with the first and last part but I can offer a little input on the wedding flower part. I would think that whatever flowering plant is used should have blooms sturdy enough to last throughout the ceremony and reception. What about (the appropriately named) bridal wreath spirea, lantana, gaura or lavender? Also, attractive leaves and foliage create a beautiful arrangement on their own. You mentioned ivy that's already growing. You could always bring a few of the attractive plants and bunch together their foliage with some flowers to create a textural arrangement with them. Even though I got my wedding flowers at Central Market, it was basically textural with sage leaves, fern fronds and a few others I can't recall with inconspicuous white flowers mixed in like baby's breath and star of david. Then we just wrapped the stems in cream and black satin ribbon.