AS for the potatoes, when is the recommended planting date for your area? Here, we plant in August so July seed potatoes are not a big deal. You just keep them cool or a month. (they need to mature when your soil is below 80 degrees, but it's okay to start them when it is still very hot outside. They put on lots of green top growth and then start forming tubers when the weather cools down.) I've bought old seed packets and I'd do that again in a heartbeat (not onions or other seeds with a short lifespan, but certainly tomatoes, etc.)

This sale is very very tempting. The only reason I didn't jump on it as soon as I got the email is I have a few of the roses in each of the collections and don't really want to duplicate too many more. Kate, here's what wikipedia had to say about the sale of J & P: "On April 10, 2007, Harry and David Holdings sold most of the assets of Jackson & Perkins to an investment group headed by Donald and Glenda Hachenberger. The Hachenberger investment group also owns an interest in the Park Seed Company." I had heard the Wayside/Parks people were also running J&P, which accounts for the changes in marketing I've seen in the past year. If you look at the catalogs this year, they do all sound like they're written by the same people. Same with the emails. My late season purchases from Parks and Wayside grow just fine, and since this sale is so early, I'm having trouble resisting! Ceterum, I hope you have someone there who can look after you until you are 100% again! Cindi

Got: New Dawn Parade Grandmother's Hat and likely will get one more. Some sold out really quickly. Now I only need to learn to prune New Dawn to do this: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.139160 And learn to prune Parade to do this: Here is a link that might be useful: Parade

Such restraint you 2 have. I stopped at my favourite greenhouse to check for something to revive my overheated hanging basket & came home with 6 delphs, 2 obedient plants, some Z2 yuccas, most of a flat of sweet billy - she threw in the 6 pack of trailing lobelia for free lol.