There is a tree nursery near me that does pot-in-pot planting. They bury a pot, then put the tree with the pot inside. This allows for the tree to be removed from the ground rather easily and the benefit is that the trees roots don't heat up in the sun. They add an irrigation system to this and that seems to be all they do.

Go ahead and order it cause if you order it in the spring it will be gone. When you get it, take it out of the wrapper it came in and dig a big hole in a flowerbed and bury it for the winter. Don't forget to mark where you put it. Then in the spring plant it. It will be just as green as the day you put it in the ground. I've been doing this for years.

Well, this looks like a good place to pop my question in. I have a 3 or 4 year old "Huldine", which I had assumed was growing from multiple stems (it's planted in some astilbe to disguise the stems shooting straight up into the branches of a small crabapple). This spring I took a closer look at it and it's really only l stem coming from the ground, but the buds on that old stem have become stems themselves (not sure of the terminology here), which is why I thought I had multiple stems. I have been afraid to cut it way back because of something I read in a clematis book that said that if you cut into an old woody stem, it might just "give up the ghost". I'm not sure whether that means that one particular stem, or the whole plant, but I don't want to lose this clematis. I fearlessly cut my old woody Sweet Autumn clematis down to 6" every year with good results, so maybe the book was wrong? Or is there a difference between cutting it down every year from the start, and waiting 3 or 4 years to do it for the first time? I'm not a total beginner with clematis - I must have at least 20 type 2s and 3s, but I paid a lot for this one particular one and don't want to lose it. Any help would be appreciated.

My first hosta garden was all from boxes that came from Home Depot...this was well before the hosta bug hit me, and before most of us had heard of HVX... As it turned out, MOST of the hostas I'd purchased in those boxes were Shade Fanfare and Fortunai Aureomarginata. The picture shows one end of that vast spread of hostas across my front yard. That garden is not there anymore, but they created a lush look and ground cover for me very quickly and affordably. The bright one in the front wasn't from the box store...that's Sunshine Glory. I didn't realize the beauty I had in the Shade Fanfare until I'd had them at least 3-5 years. 4 years ago I bought some Elegans in boxes at "GASP" Wally World. I did the same thing with them as the others and they are very beautiful today. I know what everyone says here, and I respect them and do try not to buy at those places, but for some people, it may be what brings them to this beautiful hosta passion. I know it did me.