Harborrose, I will keep you updated on the progression of Suzanne and Altaica. If you like Alba s-p, you might want to look at getting Alba Maxima, I have them planted side by side and I can hardly tell where one ends and the other begins. Love that blue-grey-green foliage. Persian Yellow's fragrance was strong when I first opened the box---said to be an unpleasant smell, but I like it, reminds me of the scent of eglantines. I look foward to doing more business with HCR. Try them, you will like them!

Kay, you have definately put in more new beds or enlarged beds both this fall and spring than I have. It must seem like I had done so much because I am the Queen of moving things around. Which is what I was doing last year. I do have that one section that used to be veggie garden which is my major project this spring. It is going to be daylilies, lilies, TB Iris, Siberian Iris and lots of spring bulbs. I have Joe Pie Weeds here for years. I love them because they grow so tall. In the summer when they flower they are so big people think they are shrubs, not perennials. I do love High Country Gardens as they have plants that one can't find anywhere else.

Irish Luck and Kiwi Full Monty are both listed as Mediums. But as you can tell from Don Rawson's photo of Irish Luck, it is a very vigorous medium! And, Kiwi Full Monty is also a medium, and it is vigorous too. Therefore, I do not know what to tell you about locating KFM. Someone else who planted Striptease near their walkway had to relocate them because they outgrew the location, overwhelming the path. I think that thread is running around on the back pages of our forum somewhere. My plants in pots are easily adjusted to their growth and also easily hidden when they look ragged. I can move out to prominent spots the top performers. In that respect, I am lucky. But, eventually, if things do not go right, the lump under the rug where I sweep my mistakes gets to be mountain-TALL. :) Do you have ideas where it will go? Fill the bed as you intended and wait for KFM to make its move. Either it likes where you put it and grows like a demon, or it pouts and you move it. Personally, it has grown nicely for me with never a time it did not look good. I'm very pleased with all my Striptease family. Another one, as you can see in the family photo I posted above, that grows similar to KFM with that loose open look, is Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Whether the two remain similar in form as they grow, only time will tell for me....Maybe I can cheat by checking photos of mature plants, eh....(only problem being, no mature YPDB is in the library photos).

Those look great! I hope you end up with lots of happy, healthy growth by the end of this season. :)