Thank you all! Still very busy and hot here. Soon the outside will be looking good and finished. I lucked out and got a Contorted Filbert on sale, no way is my ex going to send me any of my babies the way he is screwing me over. I think it will got front and center and I will search for some equally bizarre shrubs to flank it. Maybe I will find a black ninebark to go with the black hollyhock, iris and tulips I am putting out front. The hollyhocks are started (seed) but a pain to work around when working on the porch, the trim is done, just gutter to be careful with now. But I want those black hollyhocks next year! I think I will put white lattice in front of the porch, I have to do that soon or wait until the hollyhocks go dormant.

In your zone I can send perennials in September and they will winter over. Want me to send them then, or do you have too much to do at that time?

There is a dwarf black ninebark pretty new on the market called Little Devil. It was bred by a friend of mine. Parentage is P. op. Diablo and P. op. 'Nanus'.

Really pretty. I see Baileys intro'd it. Neat.

I have quite a few of the physocarpus in my yard. I love the huge ones that hang down. They haven't seemed to be bothered by the drought at all this year.

(Feel free to correct me, Rick, with the plural of physocarpus.)

Your black front yard is going to look so cool, Lisa. I think if I was 40 something years younger I'd be goth. I went Stevie Nicks instead.

not to change the subject but I loved Steve Nicks and Grace Slick.Did not like Debbi Boone she is what we call a " one trick pony"

Lisa your plans sound great.

I had Stevie Nicks hair, long and curly, and dressed in a lot of black long flowing things.

Don't want to get off track here, so in case you missed it, Lisa, can I send you some perennials this fall, or do you want me to wait until spring?

That ponderosa style porch is awefully inviting for doing plant work on inclemant days--I know I have one.

The ninebark is lovely! Stevie Nicks is my idol. Very fond of Grace too. But I always have been attracted to the dark side!
Spring may be best, I have alot of work to get done this fall and I just fired my divorce lawyer, it seems he was more interested in helping my NOT EX YET screw me than helping me, or maybe the 2 lawyers were in collusion to get the most blood, sweat and money out of me.....

Oh and the front is all done, but my ugly car is parked in front so I will get a photo later, lots of activity around here these days and parking is at a premium. I have several bulbs to depot and plant this fall too, and some already waiting (black tulips)and the heat has been awful, my Voo Doo lilies (Sauromatum) are not happy and they were a full sun plant where I was, those won't be hardy here so have to stay inside naked for the winter.

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR SENDING LILIES!
My father is not well and I am still very busy trying to get the house ready for the horrible winter here, to think winter used to be my favorite season, well at least I may get some rest!

Thanks for the seeds, youve sold me in the past.Everything is growing like crazy,.,It would be brilliant to enter an Awesome x, or Lavender Frost ,in Januarys lily show.,.

Lisa, when you have time, perhaps you could post a wish list of lilies that you haven't gotten yet?

Nice to see you again Lisa.

Hope to have a box in the mail to you this week!

Yes one of these nasty winter days i may have time, I am pet sitting nights now so I have limited time for internet.
I want to thank you Susan, tried to email but it bounced back, I do have some baby momentous bulbs I can send as a thank-you to anyone who wants some, they should go dormant soon.

Can you tell us what is the name of the photo you posted on Oct 21 - above?.

The photo is Momentous, an asiatic (probably 4n) seedling of mine and I have some small bulbs, not quite dormant yet, to trade or send as thank-you gifts. It is all I had of mine because I sent it to someone up here and got bulbils last year. Maybe they will be dormant soon, it has been cold but not that cold yet.
I do not have a list of what I have yet, but I have NO orientals and NO trumpets and NO OT's except Satisfaction and King Kong.I don't need any until spring since I do not trust the weather here so am only planting the Asiatics this fall. they say it will be mild. Last winter they said it would be hard, it was mild (for here). So i expect the opposite of what they say. Plus I got some shrubs and trees planted and am mulching them and hoping for the best. I had just about nothing. I do have a Deutzia and mulberry shrub (just got ID'd at the nursery) Do not know which species of Mulberry, it was hacked to the ground and is not even growing strait. I never had either one before.

I have something similar to momentous here..'Fiesta-Davidii' hybrids ..is the bloom small.,.,as I still have 2 packs of seed I havnt sold yet !-Anthony

Sorry I am so late replying, Momentous is not really small, it just looks smaller with the tightly re curved blooms, and it was quite tall, 4 feet.
I have had an overwhelmingly busy fall, and my father is not doing well and may not have much longer to live (91). But the weather went to hell so I am stuck inside and trying to catch up on emails etc. before I start working on the inside projects that need done before I can really get moved in and settled.

I am still looking for trumpets, esp. my Awesome and Lavender Frost babies.
any of my Orientals, esp. any of the early blooming ones I bred from Rosario, and if anyone has Rosario I would be grateful, baby bulbs are fine, I can store them for spring (probably safer to do that here for the first year) And the older OT's like Black beauty, Beauty rose, etc, I do have King Kong but no Godzilla to keep him company. Also any species lilies would be great, I have some species seeds in the freezer but the last couple of springs here have been unusually cold and wet so that just shortens an already short season.
I have for asiatics: (not including some new varieties) Stunning, Firestar, Tiger babies, Pendant peach, PYC, Plum Peach, Blood Tiger, Lemon Sauce and possible a Champagne, still would love Champagne, Zeus, Venture, Vulcan and any others, esp older or my varieties. there are so many I cannot begin to say who I miss the most.
I can pay postage and trade some Momentous for anything sent and spring is fine to send, it is a nasty, bleak rotten cold climate here.

I also have Amorphophallus konjac also known as Amorphophallus rivieri small bulbs to trade, they are container plants and produce lots of babies and I have to store all of these for the winter.