That's interesting info, Diann. Do you know where the new owners are from? Did they add varieties not common in the US? I assumed they were Swedish, German or something from that area of Europe from what little I heard of their accents. And several of the plants they donated for the APS raffle the year I attended were daffodils rather than peonies.
Lily, yes, I'm over 500 now. Not sure of the exact number yet and I know I lost a few last spring as well. I'll get all of this year's additions on my spreadsheet when the weather turns bad and I don't want to go outside! Then the following spring I'll have to mark the ones I lost, sad...
Frank, you got some really nice ones. I thought all of the roots Bannister's sent looked really good, I wasn't expecting them to be in such good shape since I knew they'd been digging for around a month before mine were mailed, know I got several varieties that had been out of the ground for a while. Funny, even the smallest were about the same size as most of the sellers send, they only looked dinky compared to the huge roots of most of the varieties from Bannister's. I hope you put Trix to work in the garden to earn continued premium cuts!
So they're already predicting a really wet, long winter for us here in CO with expected late spring snows again. So glad I decided to do my "weather abatement" plan! The only garden order I'm still waiting for is for a bunch of peony rings, hopefully that will be in by next week, I have everything else ready to go.
