I have been lurking and not posting, so I am way behind. Help me if I miss anyone. John, I am very much interested in the xanthona-looking ee if they have survived; also, Fuchia gartenmeister and Disney ginger lilly. I have Plectranthus ciliatus that looks almost like a coleus and another with silver leaves, also have var toadlilly (Samurai) and several named Tiarella (Snowflake, Choc mint, etc), Celandine poppy, etc. if you're interested. Brenda, I am interested in Furman Red Salvia, snakeroot, Jade Dragon Euphorbia and especially the Impatiens zombensis. How many Choc Chip Ajuga would you like? I have a Celandine poppy for you and can throw in named Tiarella and/or Heucheras plus Asarum arifolium. Tammie, any amethystina toad Lillies left? I have a Celandine poppy for you. Are you interested in a varieg 'Samurai' or Miyazaki toad Lilly? I would also like to have a few cosmos, cypress vine, morning glory and per. sweet pea if I have other things that you want. Arwen, I can bring you several different Penstemons for some blue star creeper. If I have anything else you would like, I am also interested in your diaca, glad bulbs and climbing spinach if it is Malabar spinach. Tanya, I will have a flowering quince, I hope, for you. I also have Amaryllis, amaranth, toad lillies, ajuga 'Chocolate Chip' and a large leaf variety, heucheras, tiarellas and non-native, hardy bleeding heart. I would like a few tomato seedlings (one each of diff varieties). Grandpa Ott morn glory. and an ice plant. Sally, I would love some of your Lysimachia "Persian Carpet' I almost bought some at PD's recent open house. I have Lys. 'Outback Sunset', or look at my trade list. If you have Bears Britches, I would like to trade for some of it, also. Adelle, I am interested in each of your evening primrose and the verbascum. Do I have anything you would like? Thrip/Robin, please let me know what you would like for a couple of perennial sunflowers, some Monarda (I have Jacob Cline), and the Heaven's Gate toad Lilly. Ais, I have a Trillium cuneatum to swap for variegated soloman's seal. I am also interested in your Black Barlow columbine and some anemone. I have wild ginger, foam flowers and other shade plants to offer. Shari, do I have anything you would like for some of the blueoak sage and/or the 'Sour Grapes' penstemon? Rootdigger, do you have any of the Tricyrtis 'Lighting Strike' left? If so, would you like some more Salvia 'Black and Blue, another brug or anything else from my trade list?

By bulbs I presume you mean rhizomes? If the rhizomes are dormant or almost dormant when you planted them then I would keep them in a cool place like the garage until you can plant them in the garden, which would be as soon as a the ground thaws. The rhizomes won't be hurt unless the entire pot of soil freezes, and that is unlikely in your garage now, in fact, soon you will want to move them outside at least by day to prevent them from getting too hot and sprouting too early. If the plants are actively growing and above soil level then that's a problem and you basically have to grow them inside until hard freezes are over, then plant outside. I grew them (both the white "grandiflorum" and the red "erectum") for many years in an Ottawa suburb when I was a kid. I had them in a small north-facing garden up against the house and they basically grew and multiplied and were happy. Their natural setting in Ontario is in hardwood forests, where they bloom before the leaves come out on the trees (so semi-shady), then leaf cover from the trees becomes quite dense by the end of May so they spend the summer in deep shade. The ground doesn't freeze very deep in trillium country so I would probably try to plant them in a north exposure up against a house so that the rhizomes don't freeze too hard in winter (or give them lots of snow or mulch cover). Definitely in shade. Some pics I took of trilliums in the wild... Patch of Trillium grandiflorum: Individual Trillium erectus (these don't often form patches, more like scattered plants:

Wow, I am surprised that there is interest in this thread, I had posted this ten years ago! I took a break from this site for years, but I am back with a slightly different screen name. I am still growing many of the double flowered trillium. It is my understanding that it is against the rules to be selling any plant material here on GardenWeb, and when this was originally posted ten years ago it brought out a number of people that thought because I was growing so many of these that I would agree to trade it for something that I had no interest in, or that I would just send them some because I had so many. That was a learning experience for me! Here in Ohio bagged Fafard soil mixes are still available, I don't remember which exact mix I used for pot culture, but it was one formulated for containerized perennial plants. Trillium would probably do well in any soil mix that has a percentage of fine bark in it, and one that drains well. Over the winter I would "trench" my potted trillium burying the pots in the ground just under the rim of the pot. It has been my experience that rodents have no interest in their rhizomes, there is a large population of voles and chipmunks here that have never ever bothered any of my trillium. It is the deer you have to watch out for - I think they can smell trillium for miles and are attracted to it like a magnet once it is producing leaves and flowers. Last spring I had deer eat a section of my trillium bed down to the ground and will put up fencing this year as soon as I see them starting to grow. They don't usually show any signs of growth above the ground until the beginning of April here, so don't despair, it is still early in the season. Be patient and they will grow for you. Here are pictures of my trillium bed last spring, this is Phlox divaricata 'Blue Moon' that blooms at the same time and is a nice companion plant.

Thanks, Amy and Nancy. What a year it has been, though in all the wrong ways. I'm looking forward more than ever to 2020, or even to October, which at least is coming soon. Amy, Do you know what stripped the kale? Have you seen any cabbage loopers or anything? Maybe fall armyworms? Sadly, at our house, when the kale is being stripped, it usually is our own chickens feasting on our kale. I love Beck's Big Buck, but its size does stun a person when they are new to it. I like to slice them and oven roast them. You can sprinkle the sliced with a little olive oil and seasoning and create okra chips that are (to me) much tastier and obviously healthier than potato chips. With the cucumber plants and as moist as it has been, I'd suspect disease more so than pests. I hope y'all have a good weekend too. Nancy, There's three kittens and they all look just like their mother except they are going to be bigger than her. They are growing fast now that they are eating regularly. I think they are about five to six weeks old and beginning to get a little bit more used to my presence every day, but it is going to be hard to tame them. Still, I am making progress. One of them no longer runs and hides immediately when it sees me---it sits and waits to see if I am bringing food. lol. With cats, you can develop a friendship over food, so I'm off to a good start there. I need to spend a lot of time trying to tame them over the next several weeks and it likely will involve putting a large cage in the garage and moving their cat food dishes into it. Once they are used to eating in the cage, hopefully I can catch them in the cage and bring them indoors to start working to tame them. It needs to happen while they are pretty young, or they'll be impossible to tame. As soon as we get them caged, their mom will go to the vet to be spayed so that she won't have another litter of kittens. If I can't tame them, they can become barn cats/garage cats, but I'd rather tame them so they can enjoy being around humans. If we let them remain feral, it will be hard to catch them in order to take them to a vet for shots and medical attention as we'd have to trap them and then they'd be upset, hysterical wrecks. I'd like to avoid trapping if at all possible. I guess I can spend the non-gardening season taming feral kittens. I'm amazed they've survived living outdoors this long because we have raccoons in the yard every night and coons will kill and eat kittens (or even adult cats). This kittens basically have survived by climbing up into the engine of our Dodge pickup truck to sleep at night. You have to lift the hood, check for them and make sure they aren't in there before you can start up the engine....every single time. They also like to hide on top of the tornado shelter, which is covered by a large trumpet creeper vine that gives them lots of cover, so if we can peer into that mess and see them, at least we know they aren't under or in the truck. Have fun with the church group tomorrow. I'm sure the house and yard look simply splendid. I love our house when it is perfectly clean and tidy, which generally doesn't happen nearly as often as I'd like! You know, there's a level of everyday clean or family clean but then there is holiday/visitor clean. I love it when I take the time to get it all holiday/visitor clean BUT I don't love it enough to keep it that spic and span every day of the year either. I hope you get a good night's sleep so you do not feel exhausted tomorrow! Today there were new monarchs in the garden. I don't know if they hatched here, but they were enjoying nectaring at various plants. It is too soon for us to be seeing migrants here, so these are local more or less, one way or another, though they could be regional or local butterflies beginning to mass prior to migrating. All the butterflies and bees are why I don't rip out any plants too early....any more, it is all about them in the garden, not us. I looked at the plants at Home Depot today (inside the garden center, I forgot to look at the ones outside on the sidewalk) and they are starting to compress them down into a smaller area, probably in order to make way for holiday merchandise. They still had some shrubs and perennials, and some fall annual warm-season color, but nothing new for cool weather yet, and I forgot to check to see what Wal-Mart had. They had a lot of tropical plants that would look lovely indoors if only we didn't have cats and dogs that would destroy them. We were buying paint at HD to paint the house, a job which has been on our To Do list ever since we got the new roof put on the house, which I think was in July. We totally changed the shingles from light colored to dark colored and wanted a new paint color that would look better with the new color of the roof. We've just been waiting endlessly for cooler weather to arrive because who wants to paint when the heat index is 108 or 110 or 112? We cannot wait too long now that it is almost October or the nights will start to get too cool for the paint to dry properly, so we are going to start painting Saturday. I would have started tomorrow but Fred's funeral is tomorrow afternoon, and I don't want to go to the funeral with paint in my hair or anything. I'm seeing a definite pattern change in the behavior of the hummingbirds over the last week or two. Several weeks ago, hummingbirds were flocking to the feeders all day---flying back and forth from blooming plants to feeders in a dizzying whirl of activity that went all all day long. I knew they were our locals eating extra food to put on the fat they need to help sustain them on their journey south to Mexico. It was amazing to watch and then it ended, and I knew at that point that the males were headed south, though we still had females and juveniles feeding all day long but not in such a crazy frenzy---they seem a bit calmer. Over the weekend and at the start of this week, it appears the females and juveniles too had headed south, and we had a day or two with practically no hummingbirds. Now we have migrants. One way you can tell is that they appear suddenly at the feeders early in the day, feed like mad, and then pretty much disappear. I assume these are migrants eating as they travel south. Then, in the evening you'll see more of them. I don't think it is the same ones that I saw in the morning. They seem tired, and content to sit on the feeder perches and feed a long time before drifting away before dark. Then, in the morning, they probably feed again and leave on the next leg of their journey, and then new travelers come in, sometimes in the morning hours, and sometimes in the early evening hours and repeat the process all over again. They're definitely spending more time at the feeders, and somewhat less time at the plants in the garden or around the house. There's nothing feeding in between the morning crowd and the evening crowd. It is fascinating to watch it all happen. Oh, and also at Home Depot today, there was one lone hummingbird who was visiting all the flowers and was so thrilled. It was just happy and chirpy and the whole nine yards and not at all bothered by being in very close proximity to people. I forgot to ask if it is a regular visitor there or just passing through. The garden is full of sulphur butterflies, and some of the candletree leaves are being devoured, so we may have sulphur cats. I just haven't had time to check. The partridge pea plants in the pastures still are in bloom but there's much fewer flowers on them now, so I think they are about done. I'm glad we have the candletrees to fill that niche of time in October after the partridge peas finish up because their blooms won't last much longer. Helenium, goldenrod and and a few other fall bloomers fill all the fencerows and any pastures that aren't regularly hayed or grazed down low, so butterflies and bees have all the flowering plants they possibly could want right now, and that's such a good thing. Our weather was slightly cooler today, but still hot, though our heat index did not break 100 today---yay! The HX was 99 but that is am improvement and we'll take any improvement we can get. Have a great weekend, y'all. Maybe cooler weather is coming next week. Dawn