Not long to wait now!!

Not long until we can give those hugs in person.

Kevin, those daffodils are lovely! And Chris - Gold Nugget is a stunner! So looking forward to seeing everyone at the clinic

Patty love your cute avatar!

adorable.

It sure is. I keep going back and looking at it. How happy the two of you look.

Playing in the dirt at an early age primed me for gardening

Is your brother a gardener also?

Okay, we are getting closer to Clinic time. Would everyone check this post and make sure I have everything correct, everyone signed up for the activities they want to participate in? http://garden.org/thread/view_...
Also, don't forget your advance orders to:
Purchase in advance and have your order delivered to the Plant Sale saving postage.
Perennial Obsessions http://perennialobsessions.com...
Wild Ginger Farm http://wildgingerfarm.com/
Dancing Oaks Nursery http://www.dancingoaks.com/
Mountain Crest Gardens http://mountaincrestgardens.co...
Young's Garden Center http://www.youngs-garden.com/
They will deliver your plants to the Clinic, saving you postage.
Also, don't forget that Tony (Young's Garden Center) may have more of the newest Vaughn semps available by then. You can contact him to see what will be available.
Also, don't forget your reservations to the Red Lion Inn, Kevin got a very good price for all attending the clinic.

Lynn - I'm the tall one in the pic, the short one in a dress is my sister

No wonder we get along so well. I'll have to see if I can find a similar photo of me about that age.

Just a quick notice for all of you doing pre-orders from the nurseries listed in the first post of this thread:
Perennial Obsessions will only have sedum and misc. succulents available for purchase right now. The semps should be available again in the fall.

Thanks Lynn

OK I've gotten the menu finalized. Hope you are all ready for a fun banquet! Even got that special tripe plate that Lynn requested.... OK that's a JOKE! I'm sure Robert's would be appalled by serving tripe!

Garden Time TV will be filming my yard on Monday to talk about the semps. It should be on the show the following weekend. That will give you a heads up as to what will be seen at the clinic.

Kevin

Awesome! I just added "Garden Time" to my TIVO season pass list. If you miss it you can watch it later on their web site: http://www.gardentime.tv/video...
Maybe a good opportunity to plug your new book.

gg5 said:In case people aren't on FB Chris Hansen has said he's returning this year to our semp clinic, and here is a picture of his newest Chick Charms 'Gold Nugget' Really amazing! These will be available in September on his Greatgardens.com website


Clinic is getting closer and I'm getting more and more happy!!

Oh how I wish I lived closer!!! This newbie could learn soooooo much!!! Greg should be sending you mail tomorrow or Friday at the latest. I'm so excited to start this next adventure!!! Any literature you could pick up at this clinic that may be helpful to me would be appreciated also, if that's not to much trouble. Thanks so much!!!

Wish you could come Suga. It is an amazing group of plant lovers.

You all can watch Garden Time on Youtube.com. We actually watch it on our TV through Youtube. We don't have regular TV any more.
For those of you that have not watched the videos made by Toby Landers during the very first clinic. Here are links to the four part video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe we should all watch them again, so we can brush up before this next clinic?

I don't know if Toby is going to tape this clinic or not. I'll be using an advanced copy of the hybridizing chapter from my book as most of the class this year but it will not be available because of the copyright conditions with my publisher. We will be using the evaluation methods on several new semps that are quite sensational. In the seedling beds, we'll be going over how I chose the parents in my crosses and why the results as they are. Those parts won't be copyrighted. The evaluation techniques are really there to make you aware of all of the attributes of a plant.

There are so many exciting colors in the seedlings this year. Lynn saw them before they had developed most of their color. Now they are almost SCREAMING. Don't you wish that some of the old timers could come back to see these new ones? It would blow their minds!

So looking forward to your visit!

Kevin

It just gets better and better every year!

I agree Patty. And the excitement is mounting each day as we get closer to April 23rd.