PM2, Heirloom Roses is having a sale - $7.95 on roses. I didn't look closely at the e-mail they sent (trying to avoid temptation!) so I'm not sure what's available, but maybe you can find something there.

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Dee

It's too late in the season to deal with Heirloom's babies.

Have I been shopping? I was going to start a thread called 'Woe Is Me: Late Summer Sales' but you beat me to it, PM! My sisters have been taking turns coming up to the cape to see my mom for the past few weeks, and I've found myself at all the local nurseries with a cart-load of plants, somehow, a half dozen times.

Re Roses: I only grow the die-hards, but Fairy is at its peak now, if you're interested in a low maintenance shrub rose, and it's certainly available everywhere.

This wouldn't help you, but I found terrific annuals left at my fave small nursery here, Flower Garden Farm on Sandwich Rd in Falmouth - really unusual stuff, things I can't even find via google. Maybe I'll post some photos ... sometime. Good selection of perennials too; I picked up some All Gold Hakone grass (among other things) that I've been coveting for awhile. Then, Mahoney's doesn't have a major sale on, as far as I can see, but they have a good selection of shrubs in the red tag area - picked up a Little lamb hydrangea paniculata, a H. serrata 'Preziosa' and a similar one whose name escapes me that's got the same coloring but is more of a lace-cap.

Pondscapes has a good woody plant sale and lots of stock left - they're on 28A in Pocassett, not too far from the Bourne bridge.

Now where the heck am I going to plant this stuff???

I have overdone it in years past, and I did do the Three Sisters sale in May and bought plugs at GMT in May too. [not mail order] So I am pretty well set except for a few extras. Some areas of my garden are definitely filling in and have little room for additions, but I have at least four more areas that need a lot of work, so I am not in any real danger of having no room left. [g]

I have a large pot near my gate, that I have tried annual groupings and a vine, one year. Nothing has satisfied me so far. I'm always looking for another way to sneak in another rose, so I thought, why not try one in the pot? I'm thinking of a non stop bloomer, like a miniature rose, or a shrub rose? It is late to find one though. I discovered this year that I am able to keep the two roses in my front, full sun garden bed, looking very good and getting some rebloom. Someone who is an organic gardener gave me a few tips and so far I'm tickled with the result. I added compost in the spring, plus an organic fertilizer, plus alfalfa pellets and it has made a big difference. I did the organic fertilizer and alfalfa again after the first flush and this year is the first time I've had rebloom. This is my third year with these two particular roses. Last year they looked so awful with a lot of insect damage and one flush of bloom followed by horrible foliage and nothing else, that I was planning on yanking them and giving up on roses. I cut them all the way back with no leaves on them in June waiting for some help to dig them out, and they came back with decent foliage for the rest of the season and little else but earned a reprieve. So this year I feel like I can make a go of it, but I'll wait for next spring to try one in that pot.

Dtd....you must have a garden full of Hydrangea. [g] I seem to be getting a collection going too and they are having a wonderful year! Even the oakleaf seems to have enough water.

I have some projects developing for the fall that didn't get done this spring so I need a few things. I only have a couple of pots hanging around to plant at the moment.

I called NEWFS looking for the fern and mosses, but they didn't have them. I did find Blanchette in Carlisle did have a few miniature plants I was looking for. They don't have end of the season sales for some reason though.

Thanks Dee, I think I will go with mad gallica's suggestion to wait until the spring for those. Thanks for reminding me about Heirloom, though.

It must be too early for much plant shopping or sales. Maybe everyone is still on vacation. :-)

pm2

On Rte. 4 near the border of Barrington, Northwood, and Nottingham, NH (so I'm not sure which town it's in) there's a nursery called New Beginnings Farm. Every day that I pass it on my way to & from work I'm tempted to stop, but so far there hasn't been time. From the road everything looks quite healthy. Currently their sign says 50% off annuals and 30% off everything else.