Help me out here. I need excuses

I should wait and see what daffs I need that my buddy chemocurl doesn't have to share with me.
I should wait until all the fall planted-spring blooming bulbs are on sale.
I should 'research' what I really, really want/need as opposed to just buying because it is on sale.

I don't have time to plant them now.
Keep repeating that!

I indulged, but I went for hardy bulbs, refused to look at dahlias. If I look at them I will want them!

I resisted.... (deep breath)... I made it through another B&B sale. It doesn't get any easier but each time I feel like I deserve a reward for holding tight.

Maybe I'll hit the garden center Thursday and reward myself! I figure I saved at least 20 bucks so.....

hmmmm.
I feel like I'm missing a point here. Maybe I have to take a second look at my reward system.

So graham, what kinds of hardy things did you get?? (At least let me live this out second hand).

Sue- I'm already planning ahead for fall!

There's always room for just a few more homeless plants! Just imagine them laying there on the store shelf homeless and unloved! (That help?)

Tender bulbs are way too much trouble.
I realized that years ago, when I was out there late one fall, in near freezing temps (or so it seemed), trying to wash the soil off HUGE clumps of numerous Cannas (hands freezing) that were part of my (then) collection. I then stored them, and by the next spring, was totally 'over' them...never wanting to have to do that again, and thinking they certainly were not the 'prettiest' things that had bloomed the previous season, and certainly were not good as 'cutting' flowers.

Now I only plant hardy things.... then there is no mad rush to rescue and dig tender things in the fall, leaving more time for fall clean-up which never seems to happen much.

And then there is the gratification one has of growing from seed...Morning Glories, POPPIES, numerous cosmos, sweet peas, numerous zinnias, with the latter three making great cut flowers.

Later (time permitting) I plan to post a Have to trade post, listing a couple of things handy for trading (at the moment) with some very specific bulb wants.

Sue...who also should be getting ready for the big ole swap meet June 7th. Whoo-Hoo!

Homeless & unloved bulbs, my heart is breaking :(
I rescued a few anyway:
yellow rain lilies
a bletilla-I got one in trade several years ago that has never bloomed, so why do I want to try another? Beats me :)
Eucomis, a red leafed one
Lilies Fata Morgana & Satin
Oxalis "Fanny"
Acanthus spinosa-not sure why I got that either. Got Acanthus mollis 4 years ago which has never bloomed either, maybe spinosa will do better
Ligularia przwalskii
Cimicifuga Burnette
Sedum chocolate-I got Black Jack a couple of years ago, not impressed with it. The foliage looks good, just isn't growing much at all.

Last spring I got a yellow baptisia in their sale, I was hoping for bloom & it looked like it might be big enough, but no. Next year for sure though! It is growing nicely. I've been pleased with Brent & Becky's plants & bulbs so far. Some of the lilies I bought last year didn't do well & aren't looking too well this spring, but the drought really was hard on them. This spring we've had so much rain, I noticed my Casa Blanca lilies are not looking good. I was so thrilled to get them last year, really disappointing.

poor little guys..... homeless and unloved..... maybe i need to take a second look! ha ha

Actually I was also tempted by some of the perennials.... the cimicifugia and acanthus caught my eye too (plus of course the red leaved pineapple lily!).... I'm going to be good. Must move into the new house before I buy too many plants....

Plus I have three or four 5 gallon buckets full of canna roots that are unplanted, plus a half dozen barely alive bannas and a couple elephant ears. I need to take care of that little issue first!

But it's nice to see that others were able to indulge. I'll be joining the frenzy this fall when I add daffs and lilies and tulips and tiny bulbs and hopefully many others!

Well Kato/Frank, You and a few others know I splurged a bit last week in a weak moment at the Iris Farm.
I also have a few trades to finish up, but right now, wild orchids, Var. petasites, wild petasites, and insideout flowers, and some fragrant violets are headed my way...all in exchange for a flat rate stuffed heavy box of some natives I had access to that were plentiful...like about 30-40 plants.

Whoo-hoo...I want some big leafed plants because I have been wanting for years now to try my hand at something similar to the link below....I've just been waiting on the big leaves...

Scroll on down then to see the walk after the stones had weathered and the plants filled in. How cool is that?

Sue...on break from planting and moving today

Here is a link that might be useful: Pathway of concrete leaves

Sue, that's really cool. I might copy and adapt for my own yard!

There is even a big ole weed with big leaves that I have left growing beside the drive...(well actually they all have been left, due to lack of time and energy) just anticipating the big leaves for my 'project'. I admire it almost daily on the walk down to the mailbox.

Every gardener needs at least one short concrete leaf path.

Sue

You did a great job Sue, you got me thinking now. I had been thinking about a leaf bird bath or something, never thought about a path. I don't have anything with big leaves, although my cup plant gets pretty big leaves. Maybe I should have planted a castor bean plant. Of course, I have some nice healthy pokeweed, wonder if the leaves are big enough...

You did a great job Sue,
Wait, wait a minute there girlie... I didn't do that myself...It was another member's post I linked to...lol

Copied from the text on down in the post...Colocasia, Solanum quitoense, Strelitzia, Morus alba, Paulownia, Catalpa, Fatsia japonica, Piper sanctum, Canna, Acanthus and Arum pictum, are what I remember off the top of my head. were some of the leaves used. I imagine rhubarb would be a good one too....and castor bean too.

Sue