Hello, I was just wondering how much would the postage be on your honey suckle vines, wouldn't need alot of them, I first smelled them a few weeks ago at my brothers house when I visited him in Cali. He had two color flowers on his vines pink and yellow, I for got to bring some home with me, I have an ugly shed I would love to cover up, thanks, pumkingal-Lisa

I have PLENTY of Dogwood seeds and Pink and White Crape Myrtles. Looking for anything for zone 7 really, but mostly interested in unique flowers and trees/shrubs for my new property. Thanks! Deborah

Tell them to send it here! LOL not really. We get things that are mostly appropriate for our area, most of the things you mention are hardy here and routinely sold. A few more "marginal" things are also sold, but you gotta know what you are buying and take your chances. WHat I hate is people who work in box stores who think they are experts and have the nerve to give bad advice to customers. About a week ago I was a Lowes getting some mulch and this lady asked the "resident expert" with the ASK ME I AM A HORTUCULTURAL EXPERT tag on his shirt to direct her to the selloum philodendrons. I watched him take her directly to the Tropicals section (the selloums are in the Landscape section) and hand her a Monstera deliciosa. She said, "Are you SURE this is a selloum philodendron? My mother in law sent me to get one and I don;t know what they really look like" and he said "Oh yes this is it". Well I just couldn;t let her make that mistake, especially at $12.99 a pop, so I casually walked over and said, "Actually, that's a Monstera deliciosa and is not routinely used in North Central FL for outdoor landscaping, it has only about a 20-30% hardiness rate outdoors here, and that's if it's planted in an EXTREMELY protected warm microclimate of your yard. The Selloum Philodendron is a completely different plant that is 100% hardy here and I will be happy to show you what one looks like if you don;t know". The expert gave me the skunk eye, the woman said THANKS and I took her to the selloums. She was happy to have been spared the wrath of her mother and law and the inconvenience of having to come back and return the wrong plant. I know I should not do this, but I do it all the time when I hear someone giving rotten or incorrect advice or information to customers in box stores.

bvt2007... umm where are you located at? For us, by those definitions, "Blackberry Winter" would be appropriate - they were beginning or in bloom (depending on the various patches)... the Dogwoods bloomed here on my property and surrounding "locale" ahead of the Redbuds by at least a week and a half, probably closer to two weeks, then the Redbuds came on (right along with the forsythia) even as the Dogwood blooms persisted. Normally, for right here on the hill, the Dogwoods and Redbuds wouldn't have bloomed until mid-April, but they were kicking it in late February and all through March respectively. April had the Dogwood flowers persisting even while the Redbuds were transitioning to the next phase of growth. Those of us on the hill were concerned then about it, fearing what losses would be because we would inevitably get a cold snap. I don't think any of us expected temps as low as they were for the three days that most others also experienced. From what I'm reading on this thread, there seems to be a fair amount of variation from one garden/property to another as to what weathered through without a hitch and what got hit hard. All of my Oaks... the old Oaks... it looks like late Fall/early Winter again. I hope they have the reserves to leaf out again. The leaves, unlike some others I read about here, still had a lot of growing to do - MAYBE at 1/5th their full size, less in most cases. I worry especially for those that were already compromised but have continued to leaf out each year even when I expected they would just die - this might have been Mother Nature's "purging" for those, as if to tell them it was okay to go to sleep forever. While blueberry blossoms were struck - I think that might be a blessing in disguise. The bushes on the property here have given me bumper crops year after year instead of the "normal" pattern of high yield year, low yield year, high yield year, low yield year, and so on. I kept waiting to see when they would finally take a break. MAYBE with the cold snap coinciding with blossoming for some of them, they will have a break from production this year. Of course I assume that bumper crop production has taxed them too much, though they might be so healthy that that is why they could "afford" to do what they did for all these years. They were in need of pruning and suckers taken up, etc. though so maybe when they recover and I can see where there's new growth, I will actually get that trimming and maintenance done for them this year. I'm sure glad that most of my Brugmansia were still indoors, if nothing else. Don't think I could bear having to start over with those AGAIN... IrisAddict - Thank You so much for starting this thread. That freeze, was precisely what put me totally in the dumps on whether or not to even bother going to the swap in May and now that I know I was far from alone in the losses I feel.. well, not so alone. (Misery loves company?) I won't have as many ready-to-go started plants to offer, but I'll surely have at least some seedlings (resowing in cups) and if not already rooted, at least cuttings of some things to bring - and for other things I'll probably bring seeds so that folks can opt to sow for themselves. And it looks like the Fall swap might be even better since so many of us had the losses we did this Spring. So I'm already planning to attend that one as well. :) Trying to see a silver lining... Hermit