I know I should contact the LA but I'm just going to take this as a lesson learned and some money lost. I've learned who I can trust to send good seeds and who I can't. As for the plants, I'll see what the rest are like, I have a good feeling about them as the sellers have been in contact with me and have already given me dates as to when they will be shipping my plants and they are all in the timeframe I asked for. I know these plants will be OK once settled in, it was just disappointing to see what I got compared to what others have shown in their posts.
Thanks Mona, we are still getting freezing temps at night and the high for tomorrow is only supposed to be about 34 F. and calling for snow. From the Weather Network I can see it won't be any warmer at my friends place. In my garden the DL's are barely an inch or two high so far, even the evergreens haven't put on much new growth.
These are both recent intros otherwise I wouldn't have spent that much either. All the plants in my garden are older varieties and I really wanted some newer intros, I really like the photos of these two and knew I wouldn't be able to get them here.