What have you ordered for 2009_Part 10-likely the last part!

Mornin Bill.

good morning :)

Ha ha that's quite a name! : )

I'm trying to put an Iris order together, can anyone recommend a nice white and a blue Bearded Iris that bloom late season?

Speaking of iris I was very excited to learn that I could have iris down here ^_^ According to the Iris Society of Tucson, they go dormant in the summer and don't need water then at all! WHOO HOO!

Huh! I could not live where there is no iris!

white & blue= white standards & blue falls. or a blue on white plicata pattern? Not sure of season of bloom on any. You will have to ask Dee . "irisloverdee"

Trying to decide what to replace my dead JM out front with. Now toying with the idea of three smaller trees instead of one larger one. That has some advantages, including being able to avoid the area near the dead stump and main roots. Will be easier to plant.

Go with your first idea.Trust your instincs

Can't remember my first idea.

go with the flow

dig out the stump and plant the venus dogwood - it is not as hard to dig out a stump as it would appear, especially a jm stump - that gift cert. from fairweather can go to other plants:)

Not just the stump, but big roots. Digging them out will rip up all the surrounding plants.

roots are easier - just cut the roots where you need to cut them - i had 70 100 ft. white pines here and i always running into huge roots that i am sure dwarf what you will deal with - i usually dig the whole slightly larger than needed and then hack the root out with the back end of my pick, axe, or sacrifice a replaceable saw blade - i usually think of the yankees, giants, or eagles when i start hacking, goes pretty quick:) you can maybe think of the annual mets collapse at end of the season

I have to think about it. One other advantage to three smaller ones is that they are more likely to provide more horizontal foliage - and therefore more shade to the underlying shade-loving plants - than one larger one.

I use tree loppers for roots that are 2 inches.

These roots are way bigger than two inches!

OK

I want two different ones, one mostly blue and one mostly white. When I say late season I mean like how Schreiners lists the bloom season. I got one called Cheyenne Sky from them last year and it was listed as a late season. I want to add a white and blue that bloom with it. I thought the colors would look nice together. I've been browsing and found a few but there are so many choices, and I'm sure some are better performers than others. I just have basically no experience with Iris and am just looking at pretty faces. : ) I seem to like the whites that have an orange beard, mostly because that's how Cheyenne Sky's beard is and I thought they'd compliment eachother. Two whites I am looking at are Arctic Fox http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=102071
or Lark Ascending http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=102087 They are listed as mid late though. The only white I could find listed as late is Porcelain Angel http://www.schreinersgardens.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SIGO&Product_Code=PORC
Two blues I am looking at are Honk your Horn http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/67015/ or Walking on Air.http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/60910/ Leaning towards Walking on Air...


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Lark Ascending is really tall. I would go with actic fox as not as liable to soar above the others.

Good idea, thanks. Cheyenne Sky is listed as 38" so I figured I could either go with Lark Ascending behind it or Arctic Fox at 32" in front of it. Since it's already planted in a spot where I'd have to moveit to put something behind it, the shorter one will be easier. : ) Now I'm just worried they will bloom too early. Do you know if Mid lates usually bloom at similar times as lates?

Oh goodie my Lee Valley order arrived just now. I do love opening packages. Got the transplant shovel,fork and long handle bulb planter. All seem just right in weight and size for me to use easily. Wish it wasn't such a long wait to get them dirty.

Nice!

I got the transplanter too. Its heavier than I thought but I cant believe the craftsmenship.

They make great stuff.

Even the small hole in the top of the long handled weeder lookes hand drilled.
I put a leather strip thru it so I can hang it.

very nice

Hmmm....think I should try these?
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-7804-echo-blue-f1-pelleted.aspx?source=facebook_pslisianthus_122009

I just brought h ome a Hoya from HD. Oh and does it count I ordered some curtain rods on overstock.com? : )