Deryll, you really are so nice! Seriously! I'll send you a tree mail later. If I even think about new daylilies this year though, I'll be in big trouble with myself! I'm working on drip lines at the moment, and moving half of my plants so that I can more easily see rattlesnakes where I'm stepping.
I've made one trade this year, and that is it! I had to take the year off from hoarding, oops, I mean collecting, to get things safer for me. Next year is a different story!
I'm quite a bit further north than you are, but I'm in a warmer zone, which usually doesn't make a lot of sense. We live in a river canyon on the South facing side, and it's in a banana belt, plus we're only at 1,750 feet in elevation. I was in zone 5 at 4,500 feet in Utah before moving here, but I grew evergreens without any problems. We had a ton of snow there every winter, so it kept them insulated to some extent. They looked horrible in the Spring, but they pulled out of it okay. I don't have nearly as much snow here, but the evergreens don't seem to mind much. I don't grow many of them, but so far I haven't lost one.
Have you thought about just buying pollen? That seems like it would be way cheaper, and you wouldn't have to keep composting all of your plants.
Edited for my poor wordage!
