Hi, Albert; I WS Little Bluestem last winter and had good results. I sowed the seeds in the traditional milk jug in February - transplanted the whole HOS thing (it looked like a grass mat!) to a patio pot about 18" diameter in late May. The babies did well all summer and are sitting snow covered in their pot right now. I will separate them (and $ell them for Money!) this spring. Am not familiar w/ your Sand Dropseed, but I bet WS will work for you. BTW, I just used Miracle-Gro potting soil in the patio pot. You might want to add some compost to the sandy area where you intend to plant this grass to help hold the moisture. Best Wishes, Carol

Its sounds like your issue is with the delivery company. Home delivery is not an exact science. You can use a large common carrier who will be much faster and deliver your order next week except that there will be a very high probability that your order would be damaged. What are the options then available to the retailer such as this company?. I can tell you the last thing the company wants is for your order to be delivered damaged. The only way to accomplish this is with a home delivery service such as the one they use A and O. Most of these companies originate in North Carolina. The companies schedule routes to the various areas, such as the Southeast, the Northeast, the Midwest etc., the West Coast etc. These companies will run a truck to each area. They will collect orders from their retailers and no matter what their retailers say, no matter how much they push and cajole that truck will not leave until it is full. They can't. The home delivery business is a low margin, low profit business, if they were to ship half full trucks the delivery company would soon go out of business. Most of these delivery companies go to most of the areas every 2-5 weeks depending on the location. Unfortunately as was your case and for whatever reason, you were not able to keep the next date to your area and apparently they go to your area every 3-4 weeks. 4 days advance notice by the way is fairly typical. If you miss a truck you have to wait for the next truck. The only way around this would be for your retailer to find another service to deliver your order sooner if one would have been in your area sooner. You purchased your sleeper in December 2014 ( you don't say when in December) and it is now March 2, 2015 it really hasn't been an outlandish amount of time for a special order. Your delivery issue could really have happened with any retailer as they do not own the delivery companies and are subject to their schedules.

Yes, I can help. I built one last year, much as you describe and I can share my experience. Email me and I will send you a contact number. kerryyoon@gmail.com

I took the British Rosarian course and thought that it would be interesting to discuss or even give talks, about roses and share my love of them. What I found was that gardeners had very strict ideas on how to grow roses, and they didn't like being told something different. Here is what I figured out why they got upset. Most people have deep remembrances about roses because it was usually their grandparents that grew them. The grandparents had to do a lot more work then modern rose growers do because of the lack of sprays plus no access to any information about roses. So when a gardener grows a rose it is almost in honour of their relatives. Someone telling them that what their grandparents did is not done to-day is like a direct criticism of people they love. I only do talks in the PNW because that is where my growing expertise is. My talk in Florida could sound like gibberish. Rose growing is very controversal ,then throw in people's love of certain shape or types of roses and you have the making of an argument. Then throw in the type of books you get telling you how to grow roses ( only book that donates a white chapter to pruning), and it gets even more complicated. A whole chapter to pruning a plant!! I wonder how many gardeners have carefully read and re-read the chapter, stepped in front of a rose with their clippers in hand and broke down into uncontrollable weeping.The controversy that floats around roses is never ending. Now stepping down off soapbox.