Thanks Miguel, I have their catalog :-). I think BorS explained their system of ordering to me. The truth is - I DO NOT NEED MORE CLEMATIS, LOL! We just moved to a new home. The lot is very small. Half of it spoiled (in terms of planting new plants) by mature Maple trees. I will have to figure out how to squeeze my Clemmies (about 40 of them now) in the garden after we will redo some hardscaping. I also have many Lilies and Peonies in pots. I would really appreciate if somebody can stop me! But you know how it works: you see a nice variety and you say: "Oh, this is shade tolerant! I need one!" Then you see poor neglected plants al Lowe's at $2 for the 2 Gallon pot. You think that they have to be rescued. And so on... The only reason I ordered from Bluestone this year is my greed. I could not resist their 1/2 off sale, so I ordered 4 more for $3-5 each. All four are doing great. I ordered from the Silver Star because I fell in love with 'Fransisca Maria' when I saw it in bloom at the local nursery. I added 'Mr Spenser Castle' because shipping cost will stay the same. I am so weak:-)

I am so glad to see this post. Kaitain4 thank you so much for the recomendation. I actually bought 2 from Eastfork on ebay and they are out for delivery today. I'm so excited to see them. I bought a couple of grafted maples from some other ebay stores and was delighted to see that eastfork are not grafted. I'm still planning to add some more and it didn't even dawn on me to go to their website. Again thanks

I did have a Chipper nest of 3 Chippers and one Cowbird.....didn't notice till it was too late. All 4 babies fledged. I did notice that more Chippers than just the 2 parents were feeding these babies. Quite a few in fact. SO (not that I like these birds) but it does not necessarily mean all the other nestlings died.

As you can see the cowbird baby is as innocent and dependant as the other babies. It has no idea that it has caused harm. By this point it is to late to do anything. Please keep an eye out for these eggs. This baby takes up 1/2 of the nest, there were 5 eggs when I first looked. This means 2 eggs were tossed. This is just a sad thing,luckily all 4 of these babies fledged, most nests are not so lucky. I was able to monitor this nest and knew all the babies were getting fed. Please dont let these eggs hatch. Nobody wants to harm a baby bird, I sure couldn't but seeing how these babies grow you may decide it's not so bad to render the egg "non vialable", there will be plenty of cowbird eggs in nests you cant see, I have a Cardinal with a cow baby now. They will survive, we just dont need so many of them. Thanks Konrad!