Yes, Betty, that's so true. Me too. I started with iris and I still love iris the best. But, I'm addicted to daylilies. It's kinda a love hate relationship. I love the plants but hate that it takes so darn long and so much hard work to get a new one to intro that they must cost $100 and up++++. The truth is, I'm considering how I can come up with enough to buy a few newbies this year. I'll get there and just to think this(much less actually spend over $100 for one plant) is enough to cause me to lose sleep. Add to this, the price of everything I need to grow a good plant has gone up maybe 4 times as much as it was just 4 years ago, is unbelievable. The rise in soil and fertilizer prices is so bad. So, with all of this, the price of new intro's are still the same as they were even 4 to 6 years ago. Some folks have some even cheaper than they were when the world was rolling on an easy slope. I know that we are all in this for nothing other than LOVE of a beautiful plant and the thrill of waiting for that seedling to bloom, finally, and pray that it doesn't hail on the scapes before I can see that bloom. Much less all the torandoes that everyone had last year!!! Ain't it so much fun!!!!! I truly love it and I'm sure we all do.
Michele, you sure have done a bunch of work. I would like to see your smile when spring comes with the first bloom in the place that you put it. When the first seedling blooms, you'll be all giggles and all the sore bones will just disappear. I want to see many pictures and I'd love to visit but it won't be this next year. Maybe by the next I will be able to come done that way. I'd love to visit all the southern Ms gardens and then over into souther Ala and Fla. That would be sooooo much fun!!!!!
Stay warm. We finally lit the heater in the den tonight. We'd had the one on by the kids rooms for about 3 weeks. I guess 23 degrees was more than we could stand. Atleast I'm not setting here wrapped up with my hoddie up around my chin and under 2 layers of quilts. I am WARM and blessed inside and outside. Mona
