Susan, Just checked out dogwooderitternet site and bought several plants for the coming butterfly season. His prices and shipping rates are extremely reasonable! Can't wait to get my order next week. Thanks for sharing the info! Mechelle

OMG, MissSherry - you're doing a meadow? That's fantastic! Do let us follow your project so we can see how it develops. I think that is an admirable adventure. Had to go feed my HEs and TEs (yes, Jeff! LOL!) this morning and I have lots of chrysalises now! I put my browning banana in a plastic bag yesterday and set it outside to hasten the "ripening" process so I will have some fruit for them when they emerge. It's rainy this morning so I will wash pots to get them ready for transplanting milkweeds and my new plants til I can get them in the ground. I am thrilled my Giant Milkweed is up from seed as well as my Caelsapinia gillesii (bird of paradise). If the rain stops by noon, as expected, I will get out and pull up more bermuda grass.......argh.....the laundry can wait; my clothes get dirty anyway LOL! I have one of those gorgeous Golden Delicious Salvia elegans that needs repotting already. I just potted it up 3 weeks ago and it has already outgrown its pot. I bought it at a local nursery in a 3" pot; potted up to a 6" deep pot, and shazamm! The foliage is just gorgeous. Those hot red blooms will look magnificent with that gold foliage come fall. I should have some happy hummers and Cloudless Sulphurs this year. Gonna have to look up your plants to see what they look like, MissSherry. Didn't realize there was a Delph that could be grown in the south. I have grown some Helianthus laciniatums from seed this year (seed was 6 yo and still germinated without storing it properly). They appear to be very vigorous, like the plant itself will eventually be. Also a good meadow plant. Susan

Susan, I got 2011 catalog from Bustani Plant Farm. I think we will have a meeting scheduled at OSU in late April, If time permits, definitely visit and hunt for couple of native plants. Thanks for info -Chandra

Hi Joe! My QMLO is going great, having gotten through my SE PA zone 6b winter with flying colors. It has almost doubled in height (to 19") from when I first received it last year, and is fully leafed out. I'm pleasantly surprised how dense the new growth is. In late winter I also picked up a Texas Live Oak (Q. fusiformis) from the nearby Lancaster PA nursery I learned about on another thread. It is 27" tall and also thriving. I could not be happier with their progress, notwithstanding their small size; my reading indicated that smaller trees adapt to being transplanted faster than larger specimens and often overtake bigger transplants, so I am content. I'm not much worried about the coming winter, having small, bottomless black plastic trash cans, held in position by small tomato cages, around both of them. The black plastic absorbs winter heat to create a warm microclimate around them, and the durable poly cans keep the critters at bay.