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Feb 27, 2013 11:16 PM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
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Marilyn said:Just placed an order to High Country Gardens. I'm getting one of each.

Agastache 'Ava'
Agastache 'Blue Blazes'
Agastache cana
Agastache 'Desert Sunrise'®
Agastache 'Pstessene' Coronado Red
Agastache rupestris
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote Superior'
Liatris ligulistylus
Penstemon pseudospectabilis 'Coconino County'
Penstemon barb. 'Rubycunda'
Salvia 'Maraschino'
Silene regia 'Prairie Fire'



HCG emailed me last night to say that Hesperaloe parviflora 'Perpa' PPAF (Brakelights® Red Yucca) won't be available to ship to me this Spring because of plant problems, so I picked these plants (see below) to replace the $29.99 of Brakelights (gallon pot) price that I already had paid for.

I edited it out of the original post above, since I won't be getting it now.

Liatris ligulistylus (which would be 2 now, since I already have one in the order)
Penstemon mensarum (can't send)
Penstemon pseudospectabilis 'Coconino County' (which would be 2 now, since I already have one in the order)
Agastache cana (which would be 2 now, since I already have one in the order)

Strange that they still have Brakelights still available to click on for orders. Confused

Keep waiting til they offer Bridges Penstemon again.

Penstemon rostriflorus (Bridge penstemon)

http://www.highcountrygardens....

Bridge Penstemon (Penstemon rostriflorus)
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Feb 28, 2013 12:55 AM CST
Name: Arif Masud
Alpha Centauri (Zone 9a)
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Container Gardener Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Enjoys or suffers hot summers Multi-Region Gardener
You may enjoy this also along with bees and butterflies.
http://www.google.co.uk/search...
http://www.henriettesherbal.co...
http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant...
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Feb 28, 2013 1:04 AM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
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Thanks Arif! I tip my hat to you.

I have the regular Liatris ('Kobold') and am getting more of the Liatris ligulistylus.
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Feb 28, 2013 6:09 AM CST
Name: Arif Masud
Alpha Centauri (Zone 9a)
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Container Gardener Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Enjoys or suffers hot summers Multi-Region Gardener
Smiling I am also on the lookout for bird and the bees plants. This year there is a riot going on over the mustard flowers. The bees are so drunk with nectar that I can tickle their thorax/tummies and they pay no attention.
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Feb 28, 2013 10:18 AM CST
Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
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Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Salvias Garden Procrastinator Irises I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
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lolll, funny thing is I live on Blazing Star, which is another name for Liatris. I had massive bees all over my bluebeards last year to the point I actually took video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Feb 28, 2013 1:17 PM CST
Name: Arif Masud
Alpha Centauri (Zone 9a)
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Container Gardener Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Enjoys or suffers hot summers Multi-Region Gardener
Smiling Did you hear the constant hum? A kind of a happy contented drone in the back ground.
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Feb 28, 2013 10:45 PM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
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Arif, all I heard is the water! Rolling on the floor laughing Smiling

Toni, WOW! How many Bluebeard plants do you have? Love all the bees, the color and the sound of water!!! I tip my hat to you. Hurray! Thumbs up

Beautiful and wonderful! Smiling Thumbs up
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Feb 28, 2013 11:13 PM CST
Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Salvias Garden Procrastinator Irises I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
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Marilyn - At that time, I had about.. 15? Each one grew unproportionally huge. We're talking they were about 4' and about 5-6' around. They were ridiculous in size. I sold most of them because they were eating my pond area up (they got way too big). I have a few still, about 5-6 of them, plus they spread seedlings EVERYWHERE.
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Feb 28, 2013 11:41 PM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
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Hilarious! More nectar for the bees and butterflies! nodding Thumbs up

They must have loved coming to your yard!
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Mar 1, 2013 12:15 AM CST
Name: Arif Masud
Alpha Centauri (Zone 9a)
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Mar 8, 2013 11:34 AM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
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On March 7:

This is the first time I've ordered from Almost Eden.

Ordered Porterweeds (one of each). I used to get them from Bustani, but they haven't been doing mail order for a few years and Almost Eden was the only place I could find.

Dwarf Red Porterweed
Stachytarpheta sanguinea

Purple Porterweed
Stachytarpheta frantzii

Coral Porterweed
Stachytarpheta mutabilis
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Mar 8, 2013 11:38 AM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
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Today I preordered 2 of the Agastache 'Kudos Coral' at Sooner Plant Farm.

They are out of them, but they have 34 pots coming in soon.

http://www.soonerplantfarm.com...

They come in gallon pots. They look beautiful! Drooling Lovey dubby Thumbs up

I've ordered once before from Sooner Plant Farm (they're in OK) and was very happy. I got one Salvia plant at that time.
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Mar 11, 2013 4:28 AM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
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I'm still thinking about more plants.
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Mar 20, 2013 3:14 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
Echinacea Butterflies Tender Perennials Bee Lover Container Gardener Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Just placed a second order at High Country Gardens for this Spring.

Ordered
3 of Agastache aurantiaca (Orange Hummingbird Mint)
1 of Salvia 'Ultra Violet'

http://www.highcountrygardens....
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Mar 20, 2013 4:16 AM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
Echinacea Butterflies Tender Perennials Bee Lover Container Gardener Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Just placed an order at Select Seeds for 3 plants, one of each:

Agastache 'Apache Sunset'
Agastache 'Astello Indigo'
Agastache 'Summer Breeze'

To be shipped May 5, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013 10:36 AM CST
Name: Joseph
Delaware USA (Zone 7a)
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I bought a few from Flowers By The Sea in the fall 2012 and I am waiting to see survival rate before thinking of buying more. Having said that, I just bought 2 sages from Kermit and put a pre-order in for Amistad Salvia.
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Mar 22, 2013 9:04 PM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
Echinacea Butterflies Tender Perennials Bee Lover Container Gardener Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Gerris,

This is my third year of ordering from Kermit. Wished I'd known about his company sooner.

What Salvias did you get in Fall 2012? Are you keeping them in the garage til Spring?
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Mar 23, 2013 4:13 AM CST
Name: Joseph
Delaware USA (Zone 7a)
Adeniums Region: United States of America Plant and/or Seed Trader Salvias Region: Delaware Morning Glories
Container Gardener Composter Garden Photography Brugmansias Annuals Vermiculture
I recall planting four in big containers and they are on the deck, overwintering outdoors. I lack room to overwinter any more plants except my fat root Ipomoea species. What I remember I bought were hians, japonica, Salvia przewalskii var. mandarinorum, and Salvia 'Out of the Mist'. The Asian salvias survive in Delaware very well so I went in that direction.
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Mar 23, 2013 10:17 PM CST
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Name: Marilyn
Kentucky (Zone 6a)
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
Region: United States of America Rabbit Keeper Hummingbirder Salvias Charter ATP Member Birds
Echinacea Butterflies Tender Perennials Bee Lover Container Gardener Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Thumbs up
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Apr 2, 2013 8:45 AM CST
Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Salvias Garden Procrastinator Irises I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
Charter ATP Member Xeriscape Region: Colorado Roses Cat Lover The WITWIT Badge
BlueStone has Salvia Uliginosa on sale! Beautiful!

http://www.bluestoneperennials...
Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet...

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