my order came yesterday and every single plant is healthy and huge - love their plants We are due a nice amount of rain Thursday into Friday so will be a planting fool today - some in the gardens and the rest potted up into larger pots. This is my 3rd year ordering at the 1/2price sale and have never been disappointed Dianthus - Doris Dianthus - Fire Witch Dianthus - Greystone Geranium - Lancastriense HEuchra - Bressingham Heuchra - Canyon Melody Lanium - Orchid Frost Sedum - Purple Emperor Hakonechloa - aureola Lynne

Melinda, so sorry to hear about your poor health but I sure hope you are on the mend soon. I am encouraged to see that you feel ok enough to post on GW!! Thoughts of good health are headed your way! Margo, so sorry to hear about your friend Mona being diagnosed with cancer. I hope everything turns out for the best. It's amazing how much things like this impact us all. I'm trying to narrow down choices for the yard sale. It's hard!! Shirley, As requested: my pet robin. As of this week, baby robin has finally become independent. Yesterday was the first day s/he didn't answer me when I called, which means the robin raising was a success!

jane...I missed you...must have posted at same time. Thank you...the "stems" (glassware) got broke in a moving process yrs ago & stuck up the tipsy-top kitchen cupboards ...I was not careful enough...ugh! ...and didn't have the appreciation for them as I do now! A few yrs back I got so excited cause while browsing an antique store on lunch break from work (with friends) I spotted the same stems ...or so I thought & I bought them because they had the same star on etched in the bottoms...so here are the 2 diff patterns I have...they weren't the same "stems!" Ughhh...so now I don't know the ID of either one: Here's the ones from my Mom (I think): Tried to take evening pic of table last night: Does anyone know about these "stems?" I do have an elegant glassware book ...still looking for ID. Thanks! Jeanne S. ...thanks, nana, for your comments, too! Appreciated!

I'm really surprised at the bad luck you've had with Bluestone Perennials too, walnutcreek. I order from them every year and always have excellent results. I hope when you try them again, you'll be pleasantly surprised! I did order from their sale this year, alisande. I ordered several delphiniums and Centaurea. And about the plant size... Bluestone always shipped small plants, at a very low price. But once they were planted, they sure took off and grew fast! I've always loved both the plants and the prices. Then, a year or so ago, I read that Bluestone was responding to customer wishes to ship larger plants. Then, this year, I realized their normal prices were about double what they used to be. I assumed that was to cover the cost of the larger plants. I believe the sale prices this year are about the same as normal prices were in previous years. But, I am expecting that I will get much larger plants then in the past. I'm looking forward to their arrival next week!