Annica, Thank you SO much for that lead!!! I just sent off a big order to Easy to Grow Bulbs. i'm getting peonies for a great price. I checked their feedback on garden watchdog and WOW people are pretty enthusiastic about them. I am looking forward to that order. Really appreciate you including that sale code, too. Sue, I order from Buggy crazy every year...2 orders in the past month. Lisa sends wonderful huge bulbs. Her feedback on garden watchdog is very good, and I've left her quite a bit of praise there also. She's very honest about bulb quality. She said this years' bulbs would be a bit smaller since the weather didn't cooperate, but still her bulbs are way bigger than almost anyplace else. She just has higher standards, I guess. Ladychroe, I guess I got confused on holidays. I was thinking the others started sales right after Halloween! I knew it coincided with start of some hunting season, because I treat myself to a bulb order each year when my husband leaves on a big hunting trip. This weekend is opening of pheasant season, so it must have been goose or something else. Silly me. If anyone else sees sales, let us know! Thanks. Cindi

Hi Ellen, According to the picture they are very pretty, but they are not perennial tulips. Chances are that they would only offer one good show and that would be the spring of 2010. I have often found mixed tulips to mainly be all one color, and not much of a mix at all. Sue...off to plant more daffs Here is a link that might be useful: Some perennial tulip varieties

Hope it was a good one. I've bought a lot of perennials, annuals and garden ornaments from Lake St.--not so much trees and shrubs.

For those who live to the south, the Cape Cod Conservation District is holding its fall plant sale the same dates, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, and Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Barnstable County Farm, Route 6A, one mile east of Barnstable Village. For more information see the district's web site at www.capecodcd.org or call 508-771-8757. Their web site is a little messed up, but I found a description of the event on another cape web site. Here is a link that might be useful: cape cod cons dist fall plant sale