shopping & Artemesia 'Oriental Limelight'

One the past discussion of 'Oriental Limelight' folks,  it is not safe here 
to put outdoors anything that has been indoors so I kept my plant indoors.

It grew and grew and grew. So, I cut off all the new tips and rooted them.  
They rooted faster than coleus so beware.  This is a plant that really likes 
to grow and does not need much assistance.  I have a small flat of it now.  
If I can obtain a second set of rooted cuttings from the first and I think I 
can, this plant must be put into poor soil and kept on the dry side.  If you 
are nice to it, you may be sorry.

Another shopping item and question.  Do all of us get these Canadian 
perennnials in one quart pots that come into New York?

There are various locations in my area where they are 2.25 per plant and on 
sale five or more for ten dollars.  They are small plants (which is what I 
would always select) either seed started, some by cutttings, a diverse 
assortment.

Yesterday, nearly freezing in the snowy rain, I picked up a whole bunch 
including a perennial Coreopsis 'Limerock Ruby', Salvia 'Purple Knockout', 
perennial Lychnis flos-jovis nana 'Peggy'. These are plants which would need 
to be ordered from a catalog.

There are many others including hard to grow saxifrages, named hardy 
succulents, a very eclectic mix.  There were eleven kinds of dianthus.  About 
the succulents, both sedums and semps, there were kinds I have not seen 
outside specialist catalogs.

Since we are making all these rules about plants crossing borders, I can 
attest to the fact that there a about a million of them around our area 
(maybe several millions) and they are very well grown plants at very small 
prices.  How can they do this?  I guess I am not complaining as being able to 
have these plants early enough to establish a good perennial and cheap enough 
to buy all you want is OK. They are grown in the Province of Ontario.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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