More limelights! One side of my yard is wooded, and I planted 6 limelights about 6-7 years ago along the wood’s edge.

I will keep adding more, until the entire border has limelights, but it will take me a few years.

Which varieties are you considering? Have you had a look at Phoenix Perennials?

If I can still find it, I will replace the Pistachio I managed to kill last winter :-) I am also on the hunt for a deep blue mophead that is well suited to a container.....or more than one. Just depends what I find locally as I am not inclined to mail order

ive gone a bit wild with my pre orders this year… adding 3 additional limelights to complete my border, 4 royal remembrant veronica, 3 bridal astibles and a bareroot astible mix, 3 bareroot bleeding hearts, a hosta mix, and some garden phlox. oh and a sweet autumn clematis for my pot to climb our back deck!

i do have about 200 annual seeds started but i really would like to add some white baby wing begonias to our landscape and some supertunia vista too…

trying to keep myself busy with clean up and lawn care but lawn care is not my thing!

If I can still find it, I will replace the Pistachio I managed to kill last winter

Wait a sec 'gg', I thought you were going to replace P last year?

(But understandably maybe your move to a new residence got in the way?)

Moving had not even been contemplated at that point :-) But other than my tomato starts and a few annuals, I bought no new plants last year. In fact, I rarely even visited a nursery - a very unique situation for me.

Also, I never saw any Pistachios when I did manage to visit.

If I can find it, I plan to add H. 'Magical Revolution' under my Rhododendron 'Sir Charles Lemon'. It is supposed to be a dwarf re-bloomer, and I'm thinking its flowers would make a nice vignette with the amber and orange stem and leaf colors of SCL.

Also have H. quercifolia 'Gatsby Moon' coming this spring.

I would like to try H. integrifolia too. I have a new 3" caliper, 20' tall Quercus phellos (Willow Oak) that will some day be its host...at least that's the plan. Since this species of Hydrangea initially grows so slowly, I think I'll get it started a soon as I can find one. The Oak should be sufficiently large by the time the vine really starts to grow.

Nothing new and exciting, but plan to buy some Ruby Slippers oakleaf hydrangeas. Based on information I've found online seems to be one of the most cold hardy. So gonna give them a try now that I'm newly (and just barely) in zone 5A. I have Jetstream now and it's a nice foliage shrub, but has only bloomed once in 7 years due to dieback.

I am buying a Vanilla Strawberry that I intend to turn into a tree.

gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9), what a coincidence. I also managed to kill a Pistachio in winter but a long time ago). It was birthday present from my mother so it made me mad but now I am wondering if something is up if others are reporting the same. Mine was potted though.

rouge21 I may have lost a Strawberry Sundae last summer. I continue keeping it moist but not soggy/dry. If it does not return, I may need to buy another one. VS is too large for the spot.

My Pistachio was potted as well and had been thriving for several years........9, 10?? But the drainage hole in the bottom of the container clogged and the pot filled with a winter's worth of rainwater. I drowned the poor thing!!

Which varieties are you considering? Have you had a look at Phoenix Perennials?

Hey @mazerolm_3a, now that I think of it, unlike the last 3 seasons or so, I dont have any hydrangeas on my "to buy" list.

(I planted 3 "Little Hotties" last late May and I thought they were doing well but I then I spied them in late August and into the Fall and 2 of the 3 didnt look so good....it surprised me as panicles are pretty bullet proof. And so we shall see if they are alive in 2024)

(I use Phoenix only for reference as their shipping costs are way pricey)