Hi @Marie Tulin: I'm flattered by your Bogartian compliment. I am most delighted that "...there's a lot more viburnums in Lexington MA..." I am fairly certain that @kevin_5 and I both posted Viburnum dentatum bloom sequences back in the day (overlapping with the life of this thread; 2003 - 2006) listing the selections that we had growing at the time. Viburnum dentatum & Friends, it was titled. IIRC, it also listed more partnering recommendations, especially among the many hybrids that are available. Someone more capable than me might be able to hunt that down. If it turns up here on the front page, I'd be happy to eventually update it with all the many clones that I've had growing here at the Valley. As far as other species, I don't think I know of other species of Viburnum with enough different clones selected to actually create a sequence - except for maybe Viburnum dilatatum. Since it is considered invasive in a good part of eastern North America where it can be grown, I don't often contribute commentary on that one. Of the ones I used to grow, there was enough spread to have very early done blooming selections setting fruit ('Catskill') when the last selection was starting to bloom ('Michael Dodge' for me).

HI Trumpet lilies from seed are very easy. I have about 500 or 600 seedling going right now. Here is a link to a great resource on growing lilies from seed. http://www.open.org/~halinar/lilygermination.html Dennis From St.Louis

Congratulations!!! you did it. You learned something, well actually a lot of things. You do have the skills to sell what you grow. You do have plants that people will pay money for. A simple guide to pricing stuff - if you sell completely out of something then you aren't charging enough. You want to price your plants just at the limit of what the public will pay for them. If you're too cheap they sometimes feel that the quality is low. But if you're too high they won't return each weekend to buy from you (which is the best thing you could hope for - repeat customers). I shop around a lot. I pay attention to what other places sell plants for. If I have a plant that looks like a five dollar plant, I sell it for five dollars regardless of what it cost me to grow it (often less than a dollar). Even if someone else at the market has the same plant with the same quality for a cheaper price, I keep mine where it is and hope they sell out before the end of the day. If something doesn't sell well I retire it and figure out another way to price it and bring it back in a month. Like I break it up into smaller plants and sell them at a smaller size for a smaller price. I never sell the same sized plant for the lower price. The only thing similar that I have done is to bring back the same plants at a future date for a lesser price, but I take them out of their pots and wrap them in newspaper with a rubber band. Making them look like a bargain and not like the same plant at a reduced price. Once you drop prices, people will wait for your end of season sale or they will start haggling you for a discount (something I flat out will not do. I often explain that my garden can use the compost and proceed to take the plant home and compost it!). Every vendor has their own threshold on what they will do to make money. What works for me may not work for you. One year I had a bunch of Rosemary cuttings. I sold them for $1 each in a tiny cup. We are talking about a stick of rosemary for a dollar!! people bought them all day long even though I'm sure one of the cut herb people must have had bundles for $2 or so. Go figure - for some strange reason that spring everyone thought a sinlgle stick of rosemary was worth a dollar. It has never happened since. Yesterday I loaded light because I figured the holiday weekend would find everyone at the beach - wrong! they came to the market in droves. Most were just out sightseeing and showing the town's farmer's market off to visitors. Very few bought plants but the few that did bought over $20 worth so it all worked out in the end. The other vendors have convinced me to sell produce in addition to plants. I had considered this but didn't really want to compete with them since they are so nice to me at the market. But they claimed that they cannot have enough tomatoes at the market. That customers always complain about the selection of produce. So I guess I better put in a few more tomato plants just to be safe.

"I think most of you missed the point of the original question..." Yeah, I misread the original post before I made my first response. I guess I was reading too quickly or something. "A taproot will not form on a stem cutting of a plant that normally grows one when propagated from seed." Well, that's partly true, but not completely, depending on definitions. Some cutting grown plants, from species that typical grow taproots, can form some pretty notable vertical roots, somewhat like natural taproots. "And just to be clear, a taproot is for anchoring primarily." That's an over generalization, without the proper caveats. "Take a look at any literature out there concerning bonsai plants. Do they have a tap root? No. Do they need one? No. It is the other finer type of horizontal, vertical and surface roots that are responsible for the uptake of water/ nutrients etc." Maybe I am misunderstanding the intent of your comment, but I sure hope you aren't trying to imply anything about non-bonsai plant from that example.