I was checking on Fragrant Plum, and someone in alkaline Missouri mentioned that it's a stingy bloomer, BUT probably more prolific in a more acidic soil like the east coast. I also have questions about Wild Blue Yonder since it's on my order from Chamblee. I wonder does it make a good cut flower, how's the fragrance? and does it tolerate alkaline soil? I put soil acidifer for Rhododrendrons & Azaleas on my roses before the rain, and the result has been great: dark green leaves. Thank you for any info. on Wild Blue Yonder.

Does anyone know if it's the same one that grows in the Southern states? I used to have one that I got from a roadside ditch in Georgia. I loved it and would like to get another one.

Re: Daffodils, store bought or not I agree with esh ga that daffodils are generally a hardy lot. However, those of us in the warmer sections of the country--Zones 7B and higher--need to be careful in selecting daffodil cultivars for the landscape. Not all daffodils are reliably perennial in our climate. Two excellent cultivars for the South are 'Ice Follies' and 'Carlton.' These cultivars and a number of others come back dependably year after year. However, my favorite daffodil is the endearing little Lent Lily (_Narcissus pseudonarcissus_) that was brought over by the earliest British colonists--the "wild" daffodil that marks the sites of the vanished homesteads and gardens of our Southern ancestors. Along with Roman hyacinths (_Hyacinthus orientalis var. albulus_), the Campernelle narcissus (_Narcissus x odorus_), and snowdrops, or snowflakes, (_Leucojum aestivum_), the Lent Lily offers a delicate beauty that is missing from its modern horticultural counterparts. I agree with others who have said to get permission before digging up these roadside treasures. We live in the country and have had a recent problem with plant thieves digging into a bed of spider lilies (_Lycoris radiata_) planted a little too close to the road. The plant thieves stole one clump of bulbs and left another clump lying on the ground. I assume the thievery was interrupted by a passerby. This happened while the bulbs were blooming in late August or September, so I rescued them and planted them temporarily in a large nursery pot where they put up their foliage. I plan to replant them somewhere else a little farther from the road. Old House Gardens would be one good mail-order source for Lent Lilies, or "wild" daffodils, and other heirloom bulbs. They have a fine Website and an excellent reputation. Brent and Becky's Bulbs is another excellent source for hundreds of daffodils and other bulbs. They, too, have a fine Website and an excellent reputation. The Southern Bulb Company is a third excellent source for heirloom bulbs. The Southern Bulb Company also has a fine Website and an excellent reputation. But please don't dig without first getting permission. As a passionate gardener with a sentimental attachment to many of my plants, I was quite distressed upon discovering the theft of our spider lilies that originally came from my grandmother's garden and, no doubt, ultimately from an older Southern garden than hers. They are a living link to my Southern horticultural heritage.

definitely Campanula but what cultivar I couldn't say