Hi! I have quite a few named daylilies and your perennials sound exactly what I'm looking for. I also have lots of shade plants, many natives and rare. I'll attach my list here; have a look and let's see if we can trade. I also have madonna lilies, chinese trumpet species, etc. If you don't see it, just ask. Happy Spring! Lily Seeds I have to trade: Canna edulis Canna, others Roses, too many to list here Other seeds - hundreds; too many to list, just ask Seeds I am looking for: Coffea sp. Dahlias Plants I have to trade: Very large variety of Cacti & other Succulents Jack-in-the-Pulpit, native variety Dutchmen's Breeches, pink and white flowered Maidenhair Fern Male Fern mosses Trout lily: white with pale pink flowers and heavily purple mottled foliage Solomon's Seal Variagated Solomon's Seal Sedum tel. "Black Jack" very black foliage Sedum "Angelina" Agave pups, 3-4 types More cacti & other succulents than I know what to do with! Hatiora & Rhipsalis' Peonies; too many to list Mayapples Purple Sessile Trillium Purle foliaged clover, hardy to zone 5 ****Terrestrial Orchid, Aplectrum hyemale. Very rare. Native. Easy to care for. Will only trade a few to maintain the balance in my woodland habitat. and only for a really special trade. Gooseneck Loosestrife Heirloom Daffodil, 1620, N. telemonius plenus. naturalizes well and each bulb mutates at will. All are very double; some are all yellow, some look like peonies on a bad hair day with white, green and yellow petals. Heirloom Daffodil N. actaea. Orig. "Poets' Daffodil. Bluebells, Virginia - Mertensis virginica gentain blue native fragrant woodland phlox. 18 in. tall. Bamboo, Yellow-groove Native red & yellow columbine groundnut - Apios americana - few trades Cinnamon Vine - few trades - Dioscorea batatas Variety german bearded Iris Lime Balm - yes LIME Catnip Daylilies: species H. fulva Autumn Red Catherine Woodbury Coryton Pink Fairy Tale Pink Joan Senior Ruffled Apricot Honey Redhead Currant Red Bells of Gold Peach Blow Pink charm Big Kiss Miss Jessie Open Hearth Strawberry Candy Regency Summer Bamboo Blackie My Ruffled Jewel Emma's Pastel Ruffles Lady Neva Orchid Corsage Memphis Knight Elfin Illusion Hostas: Spilt Milk Sun Power Aphrodite Sum & Substance Blue Angel So Sweet Patriot many more... Lg. variety ornamental grasses Cannas: Cleopatra, Black Knight, Journey's End, Bengal Tiger, few trades of each Saffron Crocus-limited number French Shallot bulblets Plume Poppy - Macleaya cordata Lemon balm Surprize Lily - Lycoris sqamigera Giant Butterbur - Petasites japonica var. 'Gigantia' Garlic Mustard aka Jack by the Hedge - Alliaria sp. Several types of Cryptanthus Hoya, Mexican rope Osmanthus longistylus - rarer native form of Sweet Cicely. tastes the same; easier to care for. Looks similar. Angelica atropurpurea Seneca Black Snakeroot Roses: Here's the list of roses available & the list of ones I can offer cuttings from: Species: R.x hibernica - Wild Irish Rose R. woodsii R. rugosa typica R. rugosa alba R. davidii R. pomifera (alpine rose) R. foliolosa R. harrisonii R. nitida Others: Ballerina Sir Thomas Lipton Rosarie L'Häye Hansa Therese Bugnet Cuttings: Old Blush Narrow Water Scot's Briar - R. spinosissima Stanwell Perpetual The Gift Zepherine Druhin Veilchenblau R. xanthina Blanc Double de Coubert R. alba semi-plena - White Rose of York R. damscena officinalis - Apothecary or Red Rose of Lancaster Kazanlik R. moschata Commandante Beaurepaire Don Juan R. mulliganii Moonlight R. acicularis Betty Prior Dorothy Perkins R. pendulina R. eglanteria - apple-scented foliaged Eglantine rose of Shakespeare Carefree Delight R. glauca Many more; too many to list; just ask! I also have over 300 plants from which I can trade cuttings, such as: Arctic Kiwi male & female, Viburnum opulus var. rosea, Red twig dogwood, 15 or so different varieties of Elderberry and the same number varieties of willows; etc. Plants I am looking for: Sedum roseum aka Rhodiola rosa - will make a trade for this very worth your time!!! Thalia sp, fragrant Amer. Water Lily Clubmoss Trillium grandiflorum Azolla Bananas; any variety Kaffir Lime Fairy Moss; floating Water lettuce other trilliums Dahlias: purples, cactus forms, tempt me. Cattail Agapanthus, any blue variety Bald Cypress seedlings water lilies, minis - hardy Lotus, hardy Wild blueberries Wild strawberries Wintergreen Wild ginger, European - Asarum europeum Grecian Foxglove - Digitalis lanata water hyacinth BULBS! Tempt me! Crinums Hardy water plants: scouring rush, water fern (floating), Pickerel weed Bog Plants Woodland plants Canna 'Stuttgart' Canna 'Australia' Lavenders- ANY! but, stoechas, any others Rosemary - any form; upright or prostrate Lady's Slipper Orchids Thymes Species roses, such as: Rosa carolina, R. palustris, R. arkansana, R. californica, R. primula, R. virginica, R. ecae, R. moyesii, R. canina Other roses: The Fairy, Little White Pet, Lavander Pinocchio, Cafe Ole, Basye's Purple, miniatures, purples, multicolors for hobby hybridizing.

Stunning, as always! What a joy it must be to spend time in your gardens. Is there a trick to growing alliums? I, too, planted a lot of those "purple sensations" and they are absolutely stunted! They are only 6-8 inches tall and the globes are very, very pale in color - light mauve, I'd call it. Doesn't matter, really, since none are visible unless you crawl to the back of the beds and search! Where do you suppose I went wrong?

HI Tracy! You and I are about the same zone..! I have the same problem- BUT- I can tell you that what you have- i dont.. and what I have, you don't!!! Here's what I have that is either STILL blooming now or just about to open- hot colors: orange & red asiatic lillies..( when they open- i'll post) Monarda- red columbine- still going like mad! stella d'oro daylily just opened. I htink you have this. Pinks/purples salvia ( garden sage jsut starting to fade and salvia ( may nigh tor somethign similar) is just coming into full glory pink monarda dianthus juuuustt starting to open lavendar ( two pathetic blooms on a pathetic plant- but time wise this should be perfect) Sea Thrift- pink Garlic chives/onion chives. ( mine havent' bloomed yet but some of the neighbors are in bloom now!) blue spider wort... easy to grow,spreads a bunch, critter resistant and actually is BLUE! looks great with orange! Mine is JUSSST about to open.. it may even have one flower open today. it can do a wide variety of sun & shade.. but it does need some shade.. not full sun white- in my rock garden i have a TON of daisies that spread like wildfire astible is also about to pop.. and as for May- you GOTTA get some daffodils.. I JUST planted soo many this winter- we had a warm front and someone gave me them so i hurried to dig them in in February!!! and I had over 200 daffodils in April through end of may! ps- I also plan on getting alium for sure- but that not a late spring bloomer for us... it would be fading now I beleive.My sis's is fading for sometime now.

Could just be microclimates too. The golden rod two miles down the hill from me has been in bloom for almost a week; mine is nowhere ready to bloom. I'm always at least a week behind several of my friends who live on the other side of town or the next town over, who are all at lower elevations. Then there are things in my own yard that bloom at different times - for example, bulbs near the foundation or near the driveway and fence (extra heat and protection) bloom earlier than bulbs out in the front exposed more to wind). Same situation as defrost's. And could be varieties, as DTD says. For example, you say your hostas have finished blooming. I have hostas that bloomed a month or more ago, some that bloomed a few weeks ago, and some in bloom now. Different varieties bloom at different times. Have you noticed if your plants bloom *earlier* than these others that you are still seeing in bloom? The other suggestions are good too - established plants blooming longer and more; the efects of sunlight, moisture, soil, etc. I too feel your pain... especially when the garden I see in full, long, glorious bloom is in an esplanade at a gas station....sigh. Good luck, and don't get discouraged! Dee