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Nyboy, I am sooo excited! Remember when you sent me the Rose of Sharon starts 4 years ago? I thought none of them had made it. I looked and looked the spring after planting them in the fall and nothing was to be seen of them. Yesterday, I was weeding, and I came across something that looked...

My Blue Pinks you gave me are back, Smart Red! They have spread a little bit. Still a small clump, but I'm so happy they are surviving!

I transplanted 2 small clumps of lavender about 5 weeks ago, watering them in well, in hopes they'd settle in. I thought they looked good, but checking them out from a different angle yesterday, I noticed that one side of each plant showed dried up leaves, wilting, shriveling looking. I was...

I transplanted about 10 clumps of different kinds of columbines from the front garden of the church to my home garden a month ago. At first a couple of the clumps looked wilted and languishing, but the all survived and sent up new growth and are looking great. Most had been weedwhacked...

Where can you buy wild roses, Nyboy? I have no access to them? I haven't seen them in the nurseries here? I do love them and would love to grow them. They are so fragrant and pretty.

Thanks for the info.

An e-mail will never replace a paper thank you note. Tacky people send tacky thank yous via e-mail. The tackiest people send no thank yous at all. They never get another present from me... Ungrateful people are common. Grateful people are rare jewels.

Wonderful, Smart Red! Did you plant them in the spring, summer, or fall?

While digging up potted lilies to plant in the ground, I came across several single lily scales, pieces off lily bulbs that can grow new lilies. Is it possible to just plant them in the ground and have lilies grow from them over time (in two years or so), or do they have to be placed in sealed...

Oh, I'm so glad you have another bunch of them. They are so lovely, Smart Red!

It is to be warm here, in the upper 70s for at least a week.

I did not get my irises divided and replanted. Is it too late?

I did not get my forget-me-nots planted. Is it too late? I read that they can be planted through September, and we are only a little over 1 week into October?

I will be happy to send you some, Smart Red, but I need to wait a bit, because the clump is still teeny-tiny. I am in hopes we'll have a mild winter and it will take off and spread like mad. If I sent you some now, I fear they would die out. I'll keep you posted. I had one flower on the...

Carol Dee, sorry about your bad luck with roses. I lost a Lavender Simplicity the Thanksgiving it dipped down to 0 degrees F here, before the roses had gone dormant (3 more nearly died but recovered, on their own roots), and my Golden Hops vine is trying to suffocate a New Dawn and a Ballerina...

Thanks, so lucky, for all the great info. I will water it. I'm careful with water, because it was in a location that got too much-- and I think that's wh the leaves turned white/pale yellow. I bought a $30.00 can of Iron and put around it, and it greened up Root compaction/over watering were...

Smart Red, thanks for your research. This Rose came from Jackson Perkins which is now Wayside Gardens. It is about 10 years old. What sort of mulch would you recommend I put on it for the winter, and when?

Yes, Journey11, they have done very well in pots. I would say they did better in pots last year than this year (bloomed lower on the vine) and that the ones nearby growing in the ground did better than the ones in pots, but the ones in pots have pleased me. LOTS of Heavenly Blue blooms on...

I'm pleased to report we are having an extra-long summer. Temps still near 80 here, and a new shoot has started growing out of the one cane. So there is hope... The leafcutter bees have loved chewing on this rose two years in a row, as well as another one. What sort of rose fertilizer would...

It has been a disappointing year. My tulips acted like the gladiolas-- promising sprouts but almost no flowers-- buds withered. Had a few daffodils. The honeysuckle didn't bloom. Only one bunch of irises had blooms. The dahlias are looking good, all of a sudden, though. Lilies developed...