Rosemary, my zone 6 is southeast Missouri, and the plants came from nurseries between where I live and St. Louis. Thank you for helping ID the plants I posted on the other threads. Four of us went on the shopping trip. My friend who drove, rigged the back of her car with milk crates and shelves, because we have gone on many trips together and we know we will need every inch!! We stopped at 4 places, the first stop was a cacti/succulent wholesale/retailer that we had heard about, but never visited. It was great, we looked through 4 greenhouses (there might have been another one we didn't visit), but 2 of them had all sorts of succulents growing in trays for wholesale. One contained more unusual and rare plants, and the last one was sort of a combination of the two. We could have spent much longer there, and are definitely going back. We spent the whole day shopping, drove about 250 miles round trip, and by the time we stopped at the fourth place, the car was very well packed! Here's one I didn't show the first time. It's called Kalanchoe 'Fantastic', growing in a gallon pot which it is about to burst out of.

It's a shopping jungle out there (even here in the middle of nowhere), especially when you add in a lot of travel time and have a number of stops. I don't know how anyone can use shopping for "therapy" or "sport", and I've never been bored enough to think shopping will cure it. I go to Wal-Mart 7 a.m. Sunday morning (or earlier) a couple times a month - and avoid it any other time of the day, or day of the week, to avoid crowds. Groceries - Wednesday - 8 a.m. - best meat bargains and the clearance shelves are loaded. General shopping - Every other month - and when it's "shopping month", I only go out the first week and the last week of that month - and often only go out once because I'm a great list maker. I agree with Annie - with home food storage you can "shop" at home. These are some things I order in bulk and have delivered to my front step: -Charlie's Soap (laundry - 1,250 loads per bucket - lasts 2.5 - 3 years) -Grandma's Country Cream Non-fat Dry Milk Powder - 25# pail - lasts 1-year + -Morning Moo's Whey-Based Milk Substitute - 37# pail (I order it from Sam's Club to save on shipping) - 1-yr. + -Honeyville Grain ($4.49 shipping for entire order and I order about twice a year during a 20% sale) - freeze-dried fruit/vegetables/meats, almond and coconut flour (although I'm making more of both at home with almonds and unsweetened coconut purchased in bulk), hi-maize resistant starch.... -I order many of our staple food items on-line: coconut palm sugar, coconut oil, etc. -Grainlady

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Thanks for the info Emily.