So what are you growing new in 2008?

Thanks grampapa, I was very lucky. I'm pushing my luck by having ordered another one yesterday. Hopefully it's an example of the rule and not the exception!
It gets 2-3 ft high and the spacing is 6'. The one I saw (which led me to my quest), was full size 3 x 6' there were 2 of them. It was on what I thought was on the front lawn of a nursery on the North Shore. I made a U-turn after passing it by in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic on a small road. When I went in to inquire about it they told me it belonged to the private property next door and couldn't tell me anything about it, (that was 2 yrs ago). Last year I vainly searched the nurseries (without the name of the plant), to no avail, then found it last fall in one of the catalogs I received. ☺

Was able to plant 3 roses that came 2 weeks ago from JP this afternoon. Aromatherapy, Vouluptous & Beloved ( YuckY names... they must be running out of ideas... ), along with the scotch broom. All in Full sunny spots as they are supposed to be. Just finished before the rain started. ☺

Are they teas, WC?

Yes, I like the traditional teas as opposed to the Floribundas and they are not climbers either, ( I have two of those and they can be a headache at times, especially when they approach 15ft ! ). ☺

I prefer Floribundas over teas. Less work, more disease-resistant and I like the mass of blooms.

Different strokes for different folks. I haven't had too much trouble with disease on my roses but you have to consider my soil is significantly different from yours Victor. It retains much less water and chances are it inhibits the growth of organisms found in normal soil and promotes those found in sandy soil, nature is typically opportunistic☺

I'm right in the middle and have Floribundas, Teas and Grandifloras, one Rugosa, with a few shrub roses and some David Austins. I'm not even good with roses so I often wonder why I grow them but I do love the scent of the rose garden in the morning.

I have a few shrubs, two New Dawns and have some of the new Oso Easy ground cover ones on order. My best (though it's only a single bloom in late May / early june) is an unidentified native rambler.

I like that Oso easy... very pretty

Here's my favorite.

how surreal.... beautiful Victor

Victor, that should be framed. It's gorgeous. Pink is my favorite, whichever one it is. I'll be interested to see how the Oso Easy's do for you.

WC, those look like good plants.

I hope so grampapa... I'll find out soon enough! (crossing my fingers).☺

Thanks ladies.

Victor doesn't like a teas - too much work. He prefers the pretty, oso easy ones...
Right..?

Now that's funny!

Hee hee - very good - and true. Ones with nice hips appeal as well.

...and long legs?

Of course! Easy on the thorns, though.

Har, har, nice hips! Too funny. Hey, speaking of roses, what is the preferred support for climbing roses? I want to put some against a 6' vinyl fence, but I really don't want to use the fence as the support, and I'm not thrilled with leaning an arbor against the fence for support either. Does anyone have a free-standing method that works for them?

Thanks, Victor--will try both sources--keep us posted on the oso easy--hardy to what zone? The rose pic was lovely--my New Dawn has come through the winter unscathed--it is sort of puny, but better than last year--& what I THINK is 4th of July looks very good--wish I would remember to keep the plant tags intact!

The plant tags just might be the hardest part of gardening, RobinDog.

Arrgh!
There was someone on Plant Trading with Miscanthus Gigantus tubers for trade - and i totally missed it. grrrr.

Tubers?

i think that's what he said?
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/826924/

Think they grow from rhizomes, not tubers.

Well, i still missed it. sigh.

Home Depot got the best of me today, along with avant gardens 4 Heucheras YTD total ~ 425.

plants or dollars?

Dollars Amy, and I'm very happy to say that by the looks of it, I'm on the conservative side! ☺

yikes.

that geranium is one of my favorites

Have fun planting, WC!

DG gardeners - I am in awe of the extent your "plant budgets " reach.
Gives me permission to go ahead and spend more.
We aren't into the annual season yet Mid May at the earliest. That's when I loose it.
Jo Ann

Me, too, Jo Ann.

My orders from Willow Creek and Deer Resistant Plants are due to ship this week, cant wait to seeum. Then three years until they spread out and mature, Getting a Poppi collection "root cuttings" so that will be next season to see bloom. This new garden stuff is really testing my patience.

it really does test patience.... cuttings and seeds push mine to the limit

OMG I am forcing Cannas and Caladiums and it's been ten days and nothing to show yet.
Several of the big tubs of early tulips ahve failed to do anything ,maybe where they weerer placed. Same bulbs in the ground are now blooming. Dug up one bulb in one of the tubs and it had no root development to speak of and only a small shoot. Guess this should be an experiment for the first season in the new house.

just checked the bulbs in pots at the deck(back of the house shade longer than south side in front)
There are shoots two inches below surface. Daughter says the sun doesn't gat to those pots under eaves of the house. These are early tulips but my guess is they will still be blooming when I want to plant annuals above them.
It's all a crapshoot isn't it?
Jo Ann

"NOTE TO SELF"
You DG'ers got me all caught up in plant buying, looking at your lists of iris alone I am jealous.
I caught myself just intime before I hit 300.
And had to use a post - it.