Pacific Northwest Gardening: "Where have all the PNWers gone", 0 by ambergrace1612

ambergrace1612 wrote:
Hello all,

I am new to this web site and I must say that I am a little overwhelmed. I stumbled upon it by accident. I received an email that said something about the best and the worst mail orders and since I have had such bad luck ordering from the mail I thought I would check it out and ended up signing up.

I am in a house with my fiance and for the first time I have a yard that I have free reign over...with one stipulation, no annuals allowed. I don't mind that though (he digs the holes for them plants and I do the rest.) I am a full time nurse, in the National Guard Reserves and I am a full time student for Criminal Justice. I don't have a lot of time to be replanting each year. So truthfully, annuals really do not work for me.

I love roses and put about 40 different kinds of them into the yard last summer as well as another 40 or so perennials. I am looking for more this year, but do not know which websites are the best to order from. I got burned last year and ended up with a bunch of plant s that I had to guess at how to plant.

I ordered 24 Rosa Rugosa's thinking they would be established plants like you buy in a store and I got bare root plants that looked like twigs with a few roots on them. They did green out before fall but then they turned yellow and I am not entirley convinced that they will come back.

Oh well. I guess we live and we learn.

I look forward to chatting with you all!

Amber