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I just picked up two LARGE clumps of yellow daylilies (Possibly Stella Dora) AND two large clumps of Hosta, They had been dug from around the sign at the VFD. The men on the dept. outnumber the women and dug them all up and put them to the curb for the trash! I beat the truck and now will have many new plants when I split these up and replant them. :) Happy-happy. :weee
 
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Stuff is usually gone quick here. I got lucky yesterday with the new pillows and teal shelf. They were just putting it out. We have a local online site also where good free things are gone within 15 minutes. I missed a beautiful wrought iron antique rocking share that was free! Today I saw a nice free sofa. Tomorrow I'm picking up a free microwave from someone who is moving. You can literally furnish an entire apartment with the free stuff I see. People here are big into keeping things out of the landfill. This morning a woman picked up a queen size bed skirt that I had washed and posted. Put it out on the porch and she texted me her thanks.

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Daylily clump one
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Daylily clump 2
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Hosta (Divided this into 3 med clumps
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Pretty Hosta coloration
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I hope they perk up! Watered them in but could use some rain,
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Close up of lily bloom
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Dang, I buy them and struggle keeping them and you have them free....... Jealous
 
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seedcorn said:
Dang, I buy them and struggle keeping them and you have them free....... Jealous
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Seed, I hope you don't mean you struggle with keeping daylilies alive... your garden badge is in serious jeopardy of being suspended. Haha.

Says me who just came home to find that tough little mini rose that I had intended to plant in the garden forgotten and crispy on the windowsill. :(
Here, take my badge...
 
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I signed up for Freecycle.org for my county, but there's never anything on there other than ads from people begging for free stuff, all claiming to have fallen on hard times. No one ever lists anything...well, rarely. Or free pamphlet on surviving the end of the world, how to make 6 figure income doing nothing, etc. :smack
 
Gardening with Rabbits

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I think they would go pretty fast here, but this year I have noticed less gardens going in. One house on a corner had a big garden last year. First time I had seen a garden there and I kept passing the house all spring waiting to see what they would plant, but all they have is a bunch of old plants in the yard and a mess and no tilling. I don't know if something happened to the person or what. The stores have less plants it seems to me and they are not watering them. I got a big tomato plant in a big pot for $2 something, a Sweet 100 cherry tomato at a store today. Things are priced too high.
 
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@Gardening with Rabbits I noticed less plants at stored, too. The grocery store has nothing but hanging plants, the hardware store only as few basic garden plants (tomato, pepper, cabbage) and hanging baskets. Farm and Fleet did not even put up a garden center like they usually have. The selection at HyVee seemed sparser and picked over when I stopped. So that leaves the big garden centers and nurseries and big bucks. :( No wonder I was thrilled to pick up hosta and daylilies on the curb. :)
 
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