I got my first order of the season, from Simonton Bridge.


Here are J.T. Davis, Ernest, and bonus plant Ribbonette.

I ordered Ribbonette from them too! Well, technically, you didn't order it…

Well, I asked for it. She offered it as a bonus, and I was glad to accept.

I just picked up my order from Nonni's Daylily Garden. It was waaay out in the country, about a 30-minute drive for me. I had a wonderful talk with Karen Cotton, who runs the garden with her husband (and whom I met briefly, too). Such warm, nice people! Karen told me all about the Ogeechee Daylily Club and was very encouraging about my joining. It's a small club with about 30 members on the books though they don't all attend regularly. She invited me to the meetings but said the next couple would be really busy because they are getting ready for a show. It sounds fun, though. She said most members don't hybridize (she does not, either, though their place is a display garden) but are just enthusiasts and growers like me. They do have some well-known members.

I did not look around the property much since nothing much is blooming yet. I saw enough to tell that it will be gorgeous within the next month or so. She said May-June is the height of bloom season. They have a clump sale in the spring; I may go to that although I already got the ones I really wanted.

My order was all ready for me to pick up. The plants looked so fresh and healthy; she had dug them that morning. She was very generous--everything was at least a triple fan, and Cast a Spell was nine fans! I am happy. They do ship orders, if anyone is wondering.

I have a picture of the order but am having a little trouble uploading for some reason. Will try again later. Then I will plant my new babies!

I got All About Eve, Dorothy and Toto, Cast a Spell, and You Angel You.

Sounds fun, Nan! Make sure you get to a meeting, I think you'll really enjoy them.

Just received my order from In the Neighborhood Daylilies.

Tuscawilla Snowdrift, Mark's Bouquet, Pinwheel Princess, and bonus plant Purple Pinwheel.

Just noticed this morning that Mark's Bouquet already had a scape. That is the first time I've received a plant with a scape. I planted it yesterday without even noticing the scape, but today I saw it.

I see it in the photo, a lot of the plants we picked up from Kathy's Thursday had scapes on them. Later in the season when shipping when the scapes are more developed I think the seller often cuts them off to make them fit in the shipping boxes. The advantage of getting them early is they have not grown too tall, and by picking them up and not having them shipped, the scapes are left on.

That makes sense.

I see it in the photo now, too. I wonder if that is why she put a yellow tag on that one.

I have received plants with scapes later in the season, but the scapes don't seem to survive

I guess those would be rebloom scapes that had not yet gotten too tall to fit in the box.

Very tall scapes from a grower on LA in a very large box

I rec'd an email saying my order from The Lily Farm is shipping today

Love Mark. I've been to their farm many times. It's a great place!

SunriseSide said: I rec'd an email saying my order from The Lily Farm is shipping today

Great way to spend a day

Schreiner's beat everyone else with the first Spring order. Four plants I'd ordered plus a bonus, all nice large plants. Given that it is going to be in the low 30s for the next few nights, I've put the plants in a bucket of water which I will bring into the basement at night until I can plant them.

Yay, Donna! Nice-looking order. I am sure the plants will be OK in water for a little while.

Received my order from The Lily Farm today in great shape. It's raining and 50F so they get to spend the night in the tub The bed is ready, the weather is NOT cooperating. One has a scape...probably will die off.

It might not, I've had incoming scapes bloom more often than not.

My second order delivered yesterday was from Longfield Gardens, two Iris Ensata (Cheesecake and Blueberry Pie), two Iris Siberica (Summer Revels and Purplelicious), a Trillium, a bag of enormous Liatris corms and a bag of very nice Acidanthera bulbs (also called Abyssinian gladiolus or Peacock orchids). The plants are, as you can see, already growing in their bags so I'll need to get them in the ground as soon as the weather permits.