Jill, I think I'm going to go ahead and order from the ATP group buy. With shipping/handling, it comes to around 1.50 per bulbs, which is a bit more than ADR but much cheaper than B&D.
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Sounds good! I'll have to go over there myself and see what they're doing.
I'd like to try B&D sometime, just because everybody who has ordered from them seems to rave about them. And they have some really wonderful looking lilies!
I received BD lilies this fall and they were easily two to three times the size of the Van Engelen ones. They appeared to be of very high quality.
The VE ones seemed small to me compared to what I remembered getting from ADR before... I'm guessing the B&D lilies would surpass the ADR ones in size & quality, but I think ADR would make up the difference in quantity.
For free shipping, Chris would like our ADR spring order in at the end of the first week in January, so it's time to take a look at that...
I started a new thread in the Group Buy Forum: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1382782/
The ADR spring group buy (see link above) is starting to pick up speed... hardy geraniums, Japanese Irises, OT ("orienpet") hybrid lilies, and astilbes, plus purple asparagus for the veggie garden.
Lee Valley is having another FREE SHIPPING offer on orders over $40, now until Jan. 5.
Plant addict version of counting sheep:
Try to go through the alphabet naming plants you grow (have in the yard) or have grown. Your choice of genus, common name.
I think I got genus all except for u,w, x, y
I read once that counting sheep actually 'works' because you have to visualize (creative) and do something orderly(analytical?) or something like that.
uva ursi, weigela, xanthosoma, yucca
I thought for sure you had a weigela? seems some kind of strawberry starts with a 'w' waldstinia? Is 'yew' a genus?
My version of that is trying to count the number of shrubs in my yard by visualizing them. I have never been able to do it, so it's a good repetitive exercise.
I think counting sheep works because, like focusing on your breathing, it makes you focus on something rhythmic rather than on things that are keeping you awake.
No bearberries here, but yes weigela!!!! Xanthosoma, well, I was trying not to give my self any benefits of my doubts as to exactly which elephant ears I've had. And yucca, absolutely yes.
Is zinnia genus Zinnia? yes, I checked. That reminds me to plan for the Zinnias that Seq liked so well.
I think I'm still searching for U and X genus plant in my yard..
Hey Muddy, its kind of like taking a tour of the planting, in your mind, eh?
I've found a genus U that I have had as a seedling from a bird, and a genus X that is a native, but something I've never heard of
HaHa Sally, don't want you to lose sleep over this, but you had one of my xanthasomas in your yard waiting for a swap!
Doesn't uvalaria seem like a plant Greenthumb may have passed round?
Do tell what you have found for x and u. Isn't there an orchid 'x' something?
Thanks for the Xanthosoma!
I found Uvalaria grandiflora from a nursery in MN but it is for zones 3-4
http://www.outbacknursery.com/index.htm
My U genus is a tree, this species I am thinking of is invasive in North America...American species was a popular street tree...
The native X is Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Yellowroot
http://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Xanthorhiza%20simplicissima
Sorry, thought I'd posted previously... 2 days left on the latest FREE SHIPPING offer from Lee Valley: http://www.leevalley.com/US/home/Announcement.aspx
Edited to say I figured out your "U" tree, Sally - Ulmus! - thanks to Greenthumb's Solidago ulmifolia.
Yes, I take a mental tour of my garden. The problem is that I inevitably remember that I forgot something before I finish, then I lose count and give up.
Now I'm going to try to put together an A to Z list of plants I have...I might get close with scientific names.
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we have a winner- Ulmus, mine being pumila, the Siberian elm (probably)
Seems like synoptic gardens needs to be part of your vocabulary...
never heard of that before
http://www.josephcooper.net/maps/Planting%20Fields%20-%20Gardens.pdf
Hey, they skipped U
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Seems like they missed the latest issue of G-Q too.
Indictment of today's school system...
I don't know Y some letters were not represented.
I'm sure the site is full of Oaks (Quercus sp.), Elms (Ulmus sp.), Ginkgo (Ginkgo sp.), and Yucca (Yucca sp.).
I suppose it would have been relatively rare to have some genera starting with letters in the alphabet used today that were not letters in Latin...
So: Vlmvs sp., Jvcca sp., et cetera...
OK - I see that Y is represented by Yucca on one of the lists. They just must have failed the field spelling sobriety test by listing it after W, but before X.
I also realized that I have a synoptic collection of personal plant photo folders...
Well, that's true about the Latin letters.
Maybe that is why I'm loaded with C genera here. cercis, cornus, calycanthus, clerodendron, that European wood poppy...
and surely they have room for hardy Geranium, if they don't have a Ginkgo.
Juniperus! - I keep forgetting some of the list and having to work to remember.
I don't doubt that!
I think they were going for a synoptic list/collection of all woody plants.
Got to get me some of that Heavenly Bam...
Heavenly Bam- Emeril's favorite plant
Who is Emeril?
OMG (Oh My laGasse)...
http://www.foodnetwork.com/chefs/emeril-lagasse.html
My secrets are out: I don't like to cook or eat and I don't watch much t.v.!
Hey Jeff!!!
NEW YEAR---how about a NEW POST?
Heaven forbid--we are over 200!!!! AAGGHH....
Gita
Holy Hanna!!! Who's Emeril???
Moving to:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1383933/