I walked to school everyday. We had no phone or TV till I was 8, the only electronic thing we had was a sewing machine!!
I am so spoiled, I have everything BUT a sewing machine, too busy buying and planting daylilies! I love the LA, but I need to stay off there. LOL.

Cat said:Michelle, thanks for the info. I wish lived where I could come help you. I could bring my (will be 2 in July) Grand Daughter. Wouldn't that be fun! I watch her every day while her mother (my daughter) works. They also live with me so I can kind of relate on that hand. As far as the shipping, I know I am not the only customer (that was why I said I didn't want to be pestering anyone). I just didn't understand why they ask you to provide a shipping date and then they don't ship on that date. I included that info with the short letter I sent with the money order payment. This is the same seller that has never marked paid for the purchase either. I did have to send 2 emails to find out if the payment was received. Should I be worried?

Well I'm not sure about that seller, but I do ask for a ship date if they know (most bought these back in Sept and Oct) to help me have an idea of when I can start shipping to that area. If I have a lot of people wanting the same ship date it makes it hard to get them out at that time. I do try and email those that have given me one if I can't get them shipped due to it storms for two days in a row and then drops into the 30s. I'm still waiting for more cold because I remember May 4th last year we had low 40 temp and the wind chill dropped it down to mid 30s.

Anyway, there was a buyer (leaving response on an email forum) that wanted to know where her orders were because she requested 2 dates (April 1 and 15) and had not gotten the orders yet. Well, one order is from me and I went and checked and I did not have a date written down for her. I did go back through my emails and she did request around April 15 shipping but I don't think she stuck a reminder in with the payment so I must have forgotten to check the email for a date and write it down. If she would have emailed shortly after the requested ship date I could have sent it already but I didn't realize it was an issue until I read it elsewhere. So PLEASE don't think you will bother the seller to ask about it. Even if you are bothering the seller don't worry about it because it is your right to know when they will ship since you have paid for the order and they asked you for a ship date.

this is a general comment to those who may not know.....PLEASE BE AWARE that sometime emails end up in the spam folder depending one if something in the email ( a simple word) triggers whatever protection the servers or your computer have. I have had several end up there and I just don't check my spam folder regularly. I have even had emails end up there that the person was replying to my initial email. So sometimes (although probably rarely) this may be the case.

beckygardener said:Michele - And those fans you are getting ready to ship in that photo look great! I hope this year is just as successful as last year's sales (despite the cold winter)!

Well, not all of my plants look this good. I actually lost about 70% of my stock and am having to give lots of refunds. One reason is that I got a lot of the daylilies divided a lot later than normal; it was November when I divided most of them and I usually get them done in September. I waited until November because I was trying to wait the heat out. Sometimes with out heat dividing in September puts heat stress on the new divisions and sometimes rot sets in so I wanted to wait for it to cool off. Well little did I know that 1 1/2 weeks to 2 weeks later we would start getting the freezing weather and constant cold. Some of you in the more colder states will understand this......the plants did not have time to re-establish themselves before all of the bad weather so I lost a lot from that. The rest I am losing because of another factor that I am not 100% sure of but have been told by an expert that it is highly likely.

I may not be selling next year because I am going to have to sell all of my personal plants (which is what I divide and sell each year) and my newly acquired plants to cover all of the refunds.

I should have taken a picture of the inside of my box from Michele but didn't think about it at the time. I've never seen daylilies (or any other plants) packed so beautifully. There (was or were?) more than a dozen daylilies, and they were all standing up and packed totally neatly in newspaper, and all I had to do was pull up on each one and out they came -- in perfect condition! And the newspaper around each one was packed and folded so neatly that I almost felt like I was looking at "hospital corners." I couldn't get over that -- packing perfection!

A beautiful job, Michele, and it means even more to me knowing that you stayed up practically all night doing that for me -- and, of course, others.

Edit: I just read your last message, Michele, and I feel very bad that everything has piled on you like this. And I wish there was some way I could help. I've been oohing and aahing over so many of your seedling pictures and am wondering how those fared during this terrible winter. Do you have multiples of any of those and, if so, could you maybe register some and sell the divisions at introduction prices? I would certainly be interested in purchasing a few from you at some point.

Anyway, something to think about...

Betja said:I should have taken a picture of the inside of my box from Michele but didn't think about it at the time. I've never seen daylilies (or any other plants) packed so beautifully. There (was or were?) more than a dozen daylilies, and they were all standing up and packed totally neatly in newspaper, and all I had to do was pull up on each one and out they came -- in perfect condition! And the newspaper around each one was packed and folded so neatly that I almost felt like I was looking at "hospital corners." I couldn't get over that -- packing perfection!

A beautiful job, Michele, and it means even more to me knowing that you stayed up practically all night doing that for me -- and, of course, others.

Edit: I just read your last message, Michele, and I feel very bad that everything has piled on you like this. And I wish there was some way I could help. I've been oohing and aahing over so many of your seedling pictures and am wondering how those fared during this terrible winter. Do you have multiples of any of those and, if so, could you maybe register some and sell the divisions at introduction prices? I would certainly be interested in purchasing a few from you at some point.

Anyway, something to think about...

Thanks Betty......no they have not increased enough to sell. The ones you are talking about were less than a year old at the time of photos and with the winter they have not increased much plus I have no idea of the stats to register them anyway. I appreciate your offer though and I will make it through this but it just may be a few years before I will be able to start selling again.....no biggie

Michelle - Oh how horrible! I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your daylily stock.

Unfortunately, many growers have had years like that, so it happens when you are in the plant business. Food crops are the same way. You just never know what will happen with the weather (as well as other curve balls from Mother Nature) from year to year. This past Winter was really cold for most everyone except those of us in the deep south. Northern Florida got hit quite hard this Winter, but you would never know it in central Florida as our Winter was very mild. On the other hand, this could be the year for the deep south to get hit by a hurricane again. THAT is always in the back of my mind. 2004 Hurricane Season about did me in with the damage to my home, yard, and community/county. Personally, I'd rather recover from a bad Winter than a bad Hurricane season. But both can be costly and challenging!

Michele - I hope you are able to recover from the loss faster than you are anticipating. I can't even imagine!

Michelle,

It would be so much easier for you if you signed up at USPS.com and just printed out your postage. You just tape it to the boxes and turn in a package request pickup the day before. You have to turn in your package pickup the day before or no later than 2:00am of the day to pick them up. The mailman comes and picks up your packages for you. Of course if you live in an apartment this wouldn't work. If I did not have this feature I would think twice about selling stuff because the traffic to my post office is bad.

Dot

Ladylovingdove said:Michelle,

It would be so much easier for you if you signed up at USPS.com and just printed out your postage. You just tape it to the boxes and turn in a package request pickup the day before. You have to turn in your package pickup the day before or no later than 2:00am of the day to pick them up. The mailman comes and picks up your packages for you. Of course if you live in an apartment this wouldn't work. If I did not have this feature I would think twice about selling stuff because the traffic to my post office is bad.

Dot

I do print my postage online and stick it on the box, so much better than standing in line at the post office. I just put them in a cart at the back door, ring the buzzer, and go. I would have the carrier pick up the boxes but I am not at home during the day for the carrier to get them.

Yes, Michele I just sent a simple "I just wanted to touch base and double check my ship date with you" email. Thought that was probably the best way to handle it. Refresh their memory if that was the case.

tink3472 said:
I'm still waiting for more cold because I remember May 4th last year we had low 40 temp and the wind chill dropped it down to mid 30s.

@tink3472
If you can't ship the week of May 5 for me (Scout) because of bad and/or cold weather, then it's ok to ship the following week. I should have mention that in my email to you.

Marilyn

Marilyn said:

@tink3472
If you can't ship the week of May 5 for me (Scout) because of bad and/or cold weather, then it's ok to ship the following week. I should have mention that in my email to you.

Marilyn

It should be fine to ship that week, I have washed and gotten plants ready in 35° temps as long as it's not windy or raining. I'm not really expecting any cold but the way this winter/spring has been you never know

Michele I got my small order from Mljomo yesterday minus Red Bull that rotted. I won one fan of Tusk and got six, won one fan of Breakfast With Santa and got two. Also got Buddy's Jane as a gift plant. I saw your three pictures of BJ. It's a nice big yellow flower.
Without a doubt, not everybody is going to be happy with everything. The best thing to do is communicate with the seller. I had one that took almost two weeks to respond to my email about my shipment last season. We truly don't know the circumstances behind some of the delay. While we know that there is always going to be a bad apple out there, just treat it as a bump in the road. The growing and selling process is no easy task.

tink3472 said:

It should be fine to ship that week, I have washed and gotten plants ready in 35° temps as long as it's not windy or raining. I'm not really expecting any cold but the way this winter/spring has been you never know

Ok, I'll be watching for it next week. Thanks!

You can ship mine at your convenience, and thank you for all you do! I am sorry for your losses and I wish you a happy year...

Hazelcrestmikeb said:Michele I got my small order from Mljomo yesterday minus Red Bull that rotted. I won one fan of Tusk and got six, won one fan of Breakfast With Santa and got two. Also got Buddy's Jane as a gift plant. I saw your three pictures of BJ. It's a nice big yellow flower.
Without a doubt, not everybody is going to be happy with everything. The best thing to do is communicate with the seller. I had one that took almost two weeks to respond to my email about my shipment last season. We truly don't know the circumstances behind some of the delay. While we know that there is always going to be a bad apple out there, just treat it as a bump in the road. The growing and selling process is no easy task.

Sorry to hear about Red Bull, .. I know you were looking forward to it. I already have Breakfast With Santa it is such a beautiful daylily. ''Buddy's Jane'' is a great bonus plant, I got a yellow bonus also and I am very happy with it... 'Buddy's Kirsten'.

virginiarose said:

I got a yellow bonus also and I am very happy with it... 'Buddy's Kirsten'.

• Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Buddy's Kirsten')
• Uploaded by tink3472

That photo does it no justice. It is so much prettier than the photo I took.

ooooooooooooooh good to hear!!!!!

Great to hear -- I have it too now!

I forgot to mention that Tusk and Breakfast with Santa both have one scape. I found my first garden scape yesterday on Endless Heart, popularly known as Earlybird Cardinal.. Let's see if it survives the 46°f high temp for tomorrow. I have learned not to get my hopes up on these EE scapes.

I got a nice order today from Sonjamae. I won one ( KALAHARI JEWEL) and lost three so I went to their website and ordered a few more for combined shipping, I did not want to pay 10.00 shipping for one daylily. LOL. So I was able to purchase a couple that I had lost on like MEMPHIS and VIOLET BECOMES YOU then I later added CAMEROON NIGHT & LUCKY KISS. They gave me bonus plants also, one I already have is PINEAPPLE MOON and another one is 'Robert W. Grenkowitz' Holy Cow, I have never seen such a big ruffle and sonjamae must know what I like, Big and gaudily!

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