LOL, I know what you mean, Jeanne -- kind of hard to dig through the snow and frost some years!
Last summer I ordered some hazelnut bushes from the Arbor Day Foundation -- then I received a notice that they would be sending them in November. What?? I live in the Michigan Upper Peninsula, fools! I sent them an email and they eventually sent the plants in October, which, it turned out, was fine, because we had a very extended autumn; at the moment they are over-wintering in my hoop house. It would have been a lot different story the previous 2 years. I really expected that they would be shipping the plants the following spring...
