Wahh! I just received the following message: "Hi, Ellie, I spoke with Dr. Deng and he said these lisianthus cultivars are not currently commercially available. They are still in the process of looking for commercial breeding companies to license these cultivars for production. You can stay periodically updated on their status by visiting the UF/IFAS Balm Research Center website. http://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Deng/ZDengcv.shtml Thank you for contacting the Hillsborough County Extension Service." Too bad :/ I guess I should just be patient? I'm quickly learning gardening takes patience haha (I am a newbie!! sort of...) What do y'all think?

Hello everyone! Happy New Year to you all 2010 WOW, I never thought this far ahead as a kid LOL. How time flies!! anyhow, I've been reading through the recent post and noticed that Mahoney's Nursery (way too far out for me in southern connecticut) is having a great sale and wondered if anyone knew of perhaps something closer to me that also is having a good clearance sale? I'm in Ansonia about 15 minutes from New haven/Yale campus ,I have a completely new garden so I need everything, trellises, planters ( really would like two huge ones and they are sooooo ridiculousely expensive ) statuary, supplies , yep everything. I'd love to hear about which nurseries in the area are well stocked with nice plants too! the only one I've visited has been Barreta, nice stuff but never seen them have a sale all year. I can't wait to start this year, last year I was so busy with my husband renovating the inside of the house that the outside ended up looking like a waste land with rocks and dirt, so sad. I can't wait to have photos of my own garden!!! :))

Despite the common name, the host plant for cedar apple rust are actually junipers, with Juniperus virginiana, eastern red "cedar", the most common host. Not all junipers will produce a similar hospitable environment or host for the pathogen. If there are nearby plantings of these junipers then, yes, the disease will always be a potential issue, some years worse than others. I would see if the nursery owner will replant with another species of tree.

Thanks Carol and SJN. Yes, it was getting very little sun, and I think it was TOO wet (if that's possible, because they love wet spots). My other one up on the hill doesn't get enough sun either, but it isn't dying back, so all I can think of is it was kept too wet. Neither have bloomed, so I definitely have to find a sunnier spot this year. My fall-blooming hibiscus (H. acetosella, H. radiatus) are doing great and I can't wait for them to bloom. Funny that it says they only go dormant in z8. That must be old info before they changed the zones, because my friend has one in Z9b (he sent me the seeds) and his goes dormant as well. Even when I was in Z10a, my perennial hibiscus went dormant in the winter, and some didn't come back if we had a freeze, but the Texas Star always did. I had it in z7a in SC, and it came back every year and bloomed like mad all summer long.