Re: shopping

Nice selections, Cathy.
re >most places carry the usual mix of spirea and non native viburnum.
That's why I like mailorder; you can get something different.  There are one
or two nurseries reasonably near me that I can check for interesting stuff,
but most places carry pretty standard stuff.  Playing it safe, I guess.
re the Itea you got - was it Henry's Garnet?  I love that one.  We carry
that in our MG nursery.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] shopping


> I made "the rounds" yesterday, mostly looking for native shrubs for the
> mixed shrub border I'm creating. Not much success - around here, most
> places carry the usual mix of spirea and non native viburnum. Couldn't
> even find a Hamamelis vernalis!
> Did pick up a Viburnum trilobum, 2 Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice', a
> Fothergilla  gardenii, an Itea virginica, and a Clethra alnifolia
> 'Hummingbird' (for another location).  Found a Baptisia sphaerocarpa
> 'Screaming Yellow', that I've wanted for awhile (occasionally our
> nurseries surprise me), and got some of those new "Kong" coleus to put
> in containers in the shade. Saw some other interesting perennials, but
> ran out of space in the car, so had to leave them for another time.
> Cathy
> On Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 05:16 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National
> Hearing Center wrote:
>
> > The weather seems to have broken [but, yes Bonnie, we will wait until
> > the
> > 10th to plant ;+)] so I shopped for annuals today for the Display
> > Gardens.
> > Rather than chew up all of my day off tomorrow, I made the biggest stop
> > today.  12 flats of Coleus, Sweet Alyssum, Begonia semp,  Bacopa
> > (Sutera),
> > Verbena, and Portulaca, as well as pots of  Persian Shield, Dracaena
> > spikes,
> > Parsley, Salvia, Purple Ftn Grass, and Sempervivum.  Tomorrow I'll try
> > a few
> > other places for what this place didn't have - Tidalwave Petunias,
> > Fiber
> > Optic Grass, Cleome, China Aster, Scaevola 'Zig Zag', Fuchsia
> > 'Firecracker',
> > Thunbergia, PM Millet.  Everything else I did by mailorder.
> > And boy, were they busy! Everyone had the same idea of getting a jump
> > start
> > on the weekend.  And geez, it was hot!  Clear skies and lots of sun.
> > This
> > see-saw weather is a pain.
> >
> > Kitty
> >
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