Bill is the greatest !

Hazelcrestmikeb said:Natalie, that was funny!!
Susan, I checked out your Santa Rosa link and ordered some inexpensive plants that I wanted to add to the garden including some Musa Basjoo banana. I will keep these indoors till next spring. They will stay outside in the pot until the cool weather arrives. I overwintered the banana out side one year. It got very big but, succumbed to excessive moisture the following year. Lesson learned. I will keep some indoors just in case. This pic is from 2010 I believe.

Those are beautiful Mike! I got Musa Basjoo banana last year and it croaked during a frost. I already gave up on that idea because I have to use that area for a pollinator of mine which gets bigger than I knew. I was happy to find the Stokes Aster, which I hear is a blooming machine!
Yes, tell us what the flowers are!

profesora said:Bill is the greatest !

Congratulations Gerry!! Looks like Christmas came early for you and that's a good thing.

Natalie, You did good girl! I got a call from Bill and evidently I was not in the last dig because his wife found that I still had a balance. Oh well, at least this will give me more time to regroup, plus now I can stop looking under the bushes to see if there is a box there. LOL.

Bill's last shipment will be Monday, September 23.

Susan, I ordered: 2Musa
: 2 Echinacea Milkshake
: 1 Stokesia Colorwheel
: 1+1 Gaillardia Mesa Yellow and Burgundy
: 1 +1 Phlox Laura and B Eyes
: 1 Echinacea Solar Flare
I was going to get the Hot Papaya, but, I am going to save the seeds from the one that I planted in the spring and plant next year.
Stokesia



Hot Papaya....this one had to be caged because the rabbits kept eating it down to the ground.

I received my orders from Michele and James Hall today -- wonderful plants (Michele's had many extra fans!) and good bonus plants. I am totally thrilled!

Had to run to the city this afternoon, so the plants are still soaking until tomorrow morining. I dug 4 large holes this morning, and mixed in some compost. Now I need 3 more holes! I can't believe the number of gift plants that I got. I never expected that ever! I thought maybe it would be 1 older one, but these are from this century, unlike most of my dadylilies!

I will, without a doubt, be ordering from Maryott's again! But next year. I swear I'm not ordering any more this year!

In the past when I ordered around fifteen daylilies from Bill Maryott, he would send about a dozen gift plants -- including new introductions! He is definitely the "King of Gift Plants"!

WOW Betty! That is AMAZING!!! Now I'm an even bigger fan of his! The fans were all huge, too, and so healthy!

I can tell you Mike's pink and white flowers are. They are Cleomes or another name for them is spider plant.

Another common name for Cleome is "Cat's Whiskers." They reseed like wild. You'll have 100s of them if that's what you want. I used to take flowers to my job several times per year. A lady took home some immature cleome and her husband, a sheriff's deputy, asked how well she knew me, because the plants looked like marijuana. I should be paroled soon if I don't mess up.

While I'm here, I am so envious of Fred's seedlings. They look great right now, and will be super blooms next spring, like always! I have just planted all of the diploid seeds that I am going to plant (miniatures, small, Spider/UFs, patterned, doubles- do we need some foucs?), all of my tet toothy crosses, but still have way too many other tets to get in the ground. My goal when I get home today is to relocate some "keeper" seedlings to create room for my "better" tet crosses. I promise that NEXT YEAR I will be more disciplined in making crosses because it's that same thing every year- way too many seeds to plant in the space reserved for seedlings. A couple of people in our local club said they'd take some seeds, but I'll have 100s that I don't have room to plant. Now, if anyone on this forum wanted some seeds for the price of postage... please send Doris a Tree mail. I can usually give away seedlings, but have never tried to give away seeds. I won't put them on the LA.

David (AKA "Bud N. Branch," Doris is "Lili Blume")

Hemlady and BnB you are both right on the Cleome. I too have a overwhelming lot of seeds.

My last two large-ish orders showed up today. My soaking tub looks like this:



Oh yeah and I have to find room for these...

James!! You've made a nice haul this year!!!

Natalie said: James!! You've made a nice haul this year!!!

I think I was making up for last year. Aaaand may have gone a smidge overboard.

Oh well, you deserve it!!! You've worked hard this year, and I'm glad that you decided to give yourself a treat! I can't wait to see the pictures!

Everything that's here is now potted or planted! Whew. Now I have to write more of my dissertation. Ugh. 83 pages down...I'd guess about 100-150 to go.

Thank you for the info on the Cleomes. ~And for the warning about showing the seeds to the police. ;)

JWWC ~ You've got some beautiful plants! And I hope you have good luck with your dissertation.

A long awaited visitor from out of town arrived today. Hemerocallis Scandinavia. Whooo Hoooo!!!