What have you ordered 2010 #3

We are coming from here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1069410/

Well here we are on the final glide path to spring. Yeah!!!! The fever is going critical and pretty pictures are more tempting than ever. Let's here what lovelies are going to make their new home in your garden.
I have been surfing all the sib. iris sites to start a list for a new bed next year. I have been good so far not to order any more but it isn't easy.

This message was edited Jan 31, 2010 3:07 PM

Well I have two beds I'll be concentrating on. One is new where I added a garden structure. I want to plant hostas, ferns and epimediums around it. Needless to say it is a shaded area. The other bed is my original bed which I am reworking replacing old with new which include new salvias, burnet, jacobs ladders, daisies, bluets, nepeta and stokesia. I had to curtail my "want lists" to stay within a reasonable budget. We have about a dozen beds not counting areas along the fence lines. Have a new source of compost I'm dying to try out. Also I'm converting some areas of my vegetable garden into flower bed nurseries for new seed/mother plants. Building a new potting shed too.

wish I had room like that. No shed here. chinese puzzel of tools in the garage.

I keep looking out of the upstairs window at one bed which is clear of snow. Covered with leaves as it as become shaded so not much in it. It is backed by a 4ft tall rock which came out of the cellar when the hold was dug for the house. Around the rock are blueberry bushes. Behind a pine tree.

There used do be a collection of dwarf iris plants, but now too much shade even for the small ones. However, 2 or 3 'Raspberry wine' monarda keep hanging on & a few DL 2 named & a couple of a friends seedling which he gave to us as they were not going to be introduced. Afew iris plants still linger & will be moved when we have space for them. A 'Frosty Morn' sedum has bit the dust, as well as a couple 'little Sunspot' hosta & bleeding hearts. A few daffodils hybridized by a friend bloomed last yr., but I would really like to put in a few other plants to make it a great bed again.

Well It looks like the serious and detailed planning has begun along with some lovely plants having been ordered. I have my new shovel and garden fork, new sprayer and the plants (way more than I should) ordered. Now if only we could order up an early spring with just the right amount of rain at night and lovely warm sunny days to play in the garden. There must be an item number for that in one f these catalogs.

Irisma, Sounds like a great place to renew.

Frank, that sounds stunning. I love epimediums, but not the prices. Yikes.


I am working on a mostly shrub bed with bulbs and a few other mostly white flowering summer plants with a touch of blue (I think) It will connect two existing beds, but one is fair game as it has only bulbs with annuals over planting them and it is tiny. The space already has a couple of shrubs which may need switching around to get my mostly white look. I have more things to add especially little guys for along the edges. I think I may throw in some sun tolerant white flowering hosta too Patti

Eastern Sweetshrub Venus X Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii
Viburnum farreri White Perfume
Div. 1 Asiatic Hybrids Lilium white
Liatris spicata Alba
Allium schoenoprasum Snowcap
Div. 7 Oriental Hybrids Lilium Siberia
Cornus 'Variegata'
Helleborus -multifidus-subsp. hercegovinus
Hemerocallis Ice Carnival
Salvia guaranitica Argentine Skies
Phlox Minnie Pearl
Caryopteris x clandonensis White Surprise
Cornus Silver and Gold
Exochorda 'Niagara' Snow Day™ Surprise
Gaura lindheimeri So White
Arisaema candidissimum
Helleborus niger
Daphne mezereum

another impressive list patti, sending me off to goggle again:)

patti here is Caryopteris snow fairy that i have and would good in that bed:)
http://www.deerxlandscape.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=87417&p_catid=114

Nice! This is going to be a really pretty bed. I'm liking that 'Minnie Pearl' phlox.

Nice list Patti! I'll be all day looking some of these up. LOL

I haven't ordered it, YET but im really drawn to this hot pink daylily...........
http://www.mariettagardens.com/Catalog/S/Strawberry_Yum.html

that is a nice one celeste

Yum is right, what a beauty. Well darn, I have been trying to avoid that site. Made me look. LOL

LOL, I know, I spent all morning there.

Found a dozen I would love and only half way through the Bs. Good thing there isn't any room for most of them. You noticed I said most, no no can't get any more this year. But this one is really nice. http://www.mariettagardens.com/Catalog/S/Sarah_Hawes.html

Decided I should skip around it might be safer, then again maybe not.

This message was edited Feb 1, 2010 11:20 AM

Bill I had not seen that caryopteris. We only have 'Blue Mist'.

there are several offered on the deer resistant plants site - i ordered several last year, very reasonably priced.

Thats a pretty one Pat and a tall one too!!

Yes and I was thinking to maybe use it in back of mostly blue, purple and yellow sib. iris with stella DL in front. Not good, have not started this years new bed and planting and already am plotting for next year. Yikes

I was checking my e-mail and got one from BJ's wholesale club(don't know if you guys have them) they are like Costco or Sam's.
You can order 26 hydrangea stems(Valentine's sale) for 64.99 for the pink and 68.99 for the white....Yeah, just the stems!!!!

LOL Kinda pricey ain't it. So how much does it cost to get a flower on top? ^_^

ordered some sib iris's and also some hellebore's from the coop going

where did you get your Sib. iris's?

polly

Do you remember which sibs you ordered? I am collecting names for next year.
Did not realize I had a great source right here in Ma. and right next door in NY.
I plan on blowing the budget on them next year. Ah a new obsession, fun.

here you go pat - no expert here just what i liked

1 – Barbara Schmieder

1 – Chilled Wine

1 – Dance & Sing

1 – Jeweled crown

1 – Reel Cute

1 – Seneca Midnight Blues

1 – Sheebang

1 – Strawberry Fair

I believe Polly is working on this years website.

Thanks Bill. Oh what fun. I have a lot of those on the list. Off to look up Chilled Wine.
JoAnn I did notice some of the sites are still from last year, will be nice to see what is new and different.

I think Polly changes hers every year.
Ordered from her last year for the first time.

For budget reasons, remember thae older ones are still good & the price drops every yr. because there are more plants available. I didn't like some real older siberians, but Chilled Wine reawoke my interest. But we grow a historic one, 'Salem Witch'. given the fact that we aren't far from the city, we assumed that we should grow that one.

Ngam, Here is a great thread started by Boojum, who grows as many Siberians as one could ever want, plus she takes amazing pictures of them. I have many now because of her. Here are few I like especially, but I will be ordering more from Siberian Iris Garden as soon as she opens it up for the spring season, she says, tapping her finger! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/850508/

Don't have any sibs but do have a few bearded. Have a bed of oriental lilies which we plan to relocate along our front fence. Much nicer for display.

HELP ME STOP
I was all done looking at plants.
I have spent 3 months with lilies.
time for sibs.

Thanks Patti. Your samples are really pretty. I just looked through it and you are right it is a good one full of beautiful iris.
IrisMa isn't always the way though, the newest goodies always cost the most. Same with the new echies. If you can wait(no way, no how) then the price comes down over time.
Since I don't have a lot of sibs now I can get some less expensive models and two or three (or more) of the more pricey ones. I will have a good long time to get the first list together and all of you are being very helpful.

LOL JoAnn, it is a sickness you know. I can't help you, I have the same disease. But what a way to go. :)

Placed an order for the next phase of the orchard......

1 Starkspur® Golden Delicious Apple Semi Dwarf
1 Prairie Spy Apple Semi Dwarf
1 Zestar!® Apple Semi-Dwarf
1 SnowSweet® Apple Semi-Dwarf
1 Cortland Apple Semi Dwarf
1 Bartlett Pear Dwarf
1 Moonglow Pear Dwarf
2 Chandler Blueberry
3 Killarney Red Raspberry

Fewer plants available on new introductions, so higher price. The ones I seem to want are 'bonus plants' so have to wait until the following yr.

Is the snowsweet the one we used to call 'snow apple'? Lovely if it is.

Does this look like it ?
http://www.starkbros.com/access?action=product&productID=12653&collection=0

you going to have a nice orchard celeste

Thanks Bill, we're working on it. I think this makes 11 or 12 apple tree's, 4 pears, 2 cherry's, 2 peach, and one plum. Need another one, had 2 but lost one.