Thank you everyone! I know these took awhile to type up but I really do appreciate the feedback! Nanadoll, glad someone is growing Ascot! Definitely will have to give mine some more space than planned as I have it against the house where it stays quite warm. Also, Do you grow your Golden Celebration on a trellis or self standing? Seil, you are the reason I have ordered Angel Face. The photos of yours are just wonderful! You say yours is very hardy, thus can I expect little cane dieback? The space I have it planned for gets quite windy. Secondly, I will definitely need to find a new place for Memorial Day if it gets 6-8 feet so I am glad you mentioned it. Also, I was under the impression that Cherry Parfait and Fire & Ice are the same rose (HMF has the names linked I believe). Are the two you mention very different? I currently have Fire & Ice ordered and I see Regan lists them seperately. Odd. Thank you for the tip of Dublin Bay! I might plant a low one in front of it to cover the bottom. Kate, Regarding my list, I am sure I will be on here complaining after spring planting but the catalogs kept on coming! Thankfully I started digging holes in the fall and got through some, now just need to watch the dogs out in the yard with the snow cover so they don't accidently fall in! Thank you for the thorn tip on Elina, will need to stick her in the back so I can prune things in front without getting stuck. Also glad you mentioned WS2000 - I definitely did not have it planned for a 6ft wide spot! Doodles, I tried to stagger all of my deliveries (I have ordered from Palatine, Regan, DA, Chamblees, RVR, Heirloom, and RU) and pretty much don't plan on sleeping, eating, or bathing until I am done (although if this goes like my 2013 resolution, I am in trouble..). You and I both have a lot of work to do! Michael, I was way off for Tess. I assumed the HMF listing of 3'-8' would mean it would be closer to 3' in my zone so it definitely gets moved! Thank you! I was spacing 36" on average so most of these plans should work Lsst, when you say C.Marlowe has a delicate look does that mean you would suggest moving it toward the front of a bed to enjoy it versus further back? I had it spaced further back since the flower color is so "pow!" Thank you again everyone!

Sorry, not a prayer. Listings for zones colder than USDA 9 are either mistaken or based on experiences with other, hardier introductions than the classic fragile limpid drooping one. A few examples of this are being kept for awhile at present in Seattle (USDA 8) but when it gets cold enough one year these are liable to be lost. What about one of the hardy weeping junipers?

I would say that Swan's "late bloomer" means September-October...to them. Consider a planting date of mid to late May. If you can plant earlier, you can bloom earlier. If you start inside, you can bloom earlier again. All my Dahlias this year were from Swan's. I have had blooms come as early as 73 days, and as late as 216 days. Consider 73 days an early bloomer, and 216 late. I have mostly stayed away from late bloomers. This fall, however, I'm going to try and start the late bloomers much earlier than the early bloomers in the hopes of "normalizing" them (e.g. getting them to bloom closer to the same time.) This does mean starting tubers in early December for those late bloomers. If you're not up to that, then consider you'll have a lot of green in that spot until, hopefully, just before frost...and then maybe get a full flower (which is usually the 2nd or 3rd bloom) before the frost kills it...hardly worth the effort in my book. Cheers, Russ

Hi! I'm originally from Queens and find it hard to imagine many salvias surving our brutal blizzards, except of course for the ones that die down. 'Lady in Red' sets a lot of seed, as do the other coccineas, so even when it does die down you should have plenty of seed stored away for spring sowing. The seeds germinate very easily. The end of May I sowed some seed I had saved from 2 years ago and they are already big enough to pot up - in less than a month's time from sowing. This is a great, easy salvia. Cait