Betty, I would not order it from Amazon, you will pay way too much in shipping to get it. If you go to the Home Depot website and pick a store near you, you can order the Milorganite and have it delivered to the store. If you order $45.00 you get free shipping. I'm not sure if it has to be the same product or if you could order other stuff to equal the $45. You can also do the same for the Lowes near you, order it for pick up at store. They say free shipping for store pickup with no minimum order.

Our home depot and lowe's carries it. So does ace.But its hard for me to get the pine mulch they use in florida
you would think they all carry the same thing.

Michele - I do like that cross ---This will be one of my crosses this season---

BRIDEY GREESON X Seedling LP -9089



Here is a look at the hybridizing area. We should be getting some rain this weekend, temps will go from the mid 80's to the low 60s, and the northern garden may get 12-20 inches of snow.



Display area is starting to show color with the companion plants blooming

Beautiful Lyle!!! Are both of your plants the seedling mentioned?? I love the first one but the second is awesome. Of course, since coming here, I expect this kind of beauty from you and the rest. I'm never disappointed

Oh yes, I forgot. I got one of your seedlings from Michelle. I had commented last fall on how much I liked it and she told me she'd send me one. And true to her word, she did. It's Exotic Treasure x Blue Lake.

I just went to your site and saw that you introduced it!!!! Yeah! Is the one we have a true division or a sibbling?? I would love to know if you can remember. I'd be sure to label it correctly.

I just love your plants!! You are very gifted in picking out your seedlings. I sure hope one day I can be like you. I doubt it, since I can't throw away a plant. It's just tooooo painful!

I sure do enjoy you photos. Please continue! Mona

So happy to see you showing photos of your garden areas, Lyle.
Absolutely love looking at them. They take my breath away.

I so envy all your tropical plants. A landscaper's dream.

The purple seedling, LP-9089, I've seen before, but love it still. It is at
the top of my list for favorite, and you do many wonderful purples.

Lyle, your seedlings are very pretty and your yard as usual is lovely.

Lyle, everything is looking so good. I love all the Petunias, one of my fav flowers.

Lookin' good Lyle.

Wow, talk about presentation! Your display area is absolutely beautiful!

Lyle, your foliage looks wonderful! So nice and green and lush!

It really does look like an oasis in the desert.

Thanks Mona! The seedling is on the right and is a cross of MARDI GRAS BALL X BLUE LAKE. The seedling you have from Michele is a sibling to my intro SUPERSTITON SPRINGS which has fantastic branching and bud count you may get some nice seedlings from it with the right cross.
The only advice I can give on picking crosses is to go back a couple generations if you can and see where certain traits came from...
Thanks Shirlee! The garden will be ready for my spring garden tour this year I will invite friends and have a bbq along with daylily talk, and new friends. Last season my garden was added with the club garden tour and I meet some very nice people this year I will have the tour on my own and extend the time spent in the garden at the request of some of the visitors from last year I will provide each guest with a gift plant and share what I know about growing daylilies in and arid climate, this usually takes more than 1 hour that is the time the club allows each garden in their tour and I find folks have questions about hybridizing and growing so I have extended my garden time and will host on my own this season..
The seedling LP-9089 I hope to register this coming fall.
Michele - The petunias have almost become weeds this season, most of the ones in the beds have self-sown from last season and I am getting some different looking petunias than I started with.......maybe I will start hybridizing petunias.....

Thanks Betty - The display area now has jasmine, freesia, and citrus blooming so the smell in the garden is awesome.. The garden will be cleaned and ready to show by mid-April..

Thanks Kim!

Thanks Juli - I can only remember covering frost sensitive plants once this winter and the temp never got below 32 so that has helped to keep the plants looking good.

Thanks Steph - The desert can be kind with lots of sunshine, but is not the best place to grow plants that require lots of water

Ill have to get together with you Lyle and talk dates about the spring tour this year. It was super fun last year. Anyhow the day my dad mentioned as may or may not being the day this May I know I am on shift. So hopefully its the day after the one he thought Lol.

Jake - I have my first open garden set for May 27th, I hope this works for you.

Citrus blossoms always welcome in spring for their sweet smell...The tree is a Ruby Red great fruit..


Another favorite spring bloom is Jasmine


Freesia

Oh my goodness, the fragrance must be amazing.

mistyfog said:Oh my goodness, the fragrance must be amazing.

Awesome!!! I can remember the fragrance of Jamine. I wish I could smell all the plants you have. It must be great. Blessings, Mona

Blooming today! This is a daylily that will be used this spring ..not a good photo but most early blooms don't show as well as maybe later blooms, or rebloom..

NINA VERHAERT

I had a nice chat the other day with Leslie some of you from DG may remember her as LaLambchop, she has told me she will soon be selling seeds I was excited since I have seen her list of parents. Leslie is still pursuing doubles, polys, she will now be working with patterned and dips and from her other programs I would say she should have great success.

Wishing Leslie all the best!

This is one of Leslie’s seedlings that was in bloom the other day, I will be getting a piece of this one, and it is out of SPACECOAST BEHAVRAL PATTERN.