Take care Karen using ice may help if you have swelling and bruising.

Bluestone Perennials has 50% off right now and they have a good selection. I just got a few shrubs that I have been really wanting. I also got a Pica Bella for 4.47.

I love Pica Bella. Mine is blooming now.

Karen,
How is the hand today?
Sounds like the plants revert to less desirable forms. I dont't like floppy!

I don't like nothing floppy either!

My mom has only Arizona Sun and they come true for her from seeds. I think it depends on if you have several different kinds.

thanks, e eryone. more painful today. going to a hand specialist soon. just hoping for no fracture. have been doing ice/elevation since i fell.

ok, back to regular programing.

karen

Get well soon!

Let us know what he says about your hand. Not the best time to have a sore hand. Never a good time but this is planting time.
I bought some Gaillardia when I was in Pullam, WSU visiting my son( mom's weekend). They are Bicolor, Arizona Apricot and, Mesa Yellow. I bought a flat of perennials for 10.50.
My son graduated this spring so will not get to go next year. The university is 6 hours from my house, a bit far to go to a plant sale.

Wow spring! A whole flat for ten dollars, your garden will be beautiful with all those flowers!

That is a teriffic buy! You could always take a mini vacation and go to the plant sale.

I saw the hand surgeon today. it's mostly soft tissue damage- tendons and ligaments. there's one hairline fracture in one hand bone, but wrist bones are OK.

I'm in a plaster splint for a while. i see the doc again june 4. but I can't do anything with my left hand.

thanks all for your concern.

karen

happy to hear no surgery needed and the hand should mend relatively easily.

Karen take it easy and take care, if you can get someone to pitch in and give you some help. Let us know how you are doing.

Sounds painful! Hope u feel better soon!

Glad to here you are mending.
As for a mini vacation Pullman is not really a hot spot, just miles and miles of wheat fields and a giant university. It's five miles or so from the idaho state line and Idaho state university.
Anyone over winter Lemons and oranges?

Overwintered one year for me. too bad, because i like them

Here's another reason I like these. Even the seed heads look attractive. After the petals drop, this Yellow Gaillardia looks like some sort of yellow Allium.

Very nice, do they ever re-seed.