Hi Rita,
My orders, too, have started to arrive.
I received four plants from Klehm's Songsparrow last week.
Orders from Nicole Harry and Mark (Abundantdaylilies) arrived the week before.
Nicole was so generous. I only ordered one plant and she gifted me a bonus of 'Hurricane Swirls'.
Of course, Mark has sent me a couple of clumps for double fan auction wins, among others.
And the planting has begun...

I love the anticipation. Then of course later in the year the blooms :-))

Heck, got another e-mail of a daylily order shipped today. Guess they are going to be coming in fast from now on. They couldn't ship one of the ones I ordered (Lily Auction wins) so are giving me a refund check for more than I paid and a double bonus.

Three boxes of daylilies showed up today in the mail. My order froim Phil Korth and my order from Karol Emmerich. I only ordered one from Karol, MOUNT ARARAT but she graciously gave me another of her 2010 intros, STAR OF THE NORTH as a bonus. She really nailed it on that bonus too as it was one I was thinking I should have ordered.

Then I got a batch from a Lily Auction seller and they are just lovely little clumps.

I put them all to soak as my order of Echinaceas from McGlauflin's Perennials also arrived and I am going to have to plant them first. Plus I have all these flates of Violas and Marigolds to plant that I bought at the nursery yesterday.

Going to be busy for the next few days.

Here is a link that might be useful: McGlauflin's Perennials

My first order arrived today too : -) I'd asked most to hold off until next week or the week after as I still have over 20 orders to ship out of here, and there won't be room to plant the new until the old ones leave. Most will be have to be potted up for at least a couple of weeks anyway, as the bulk of orders aren't going out until 1-2 week of May. I'm still not buying any annuals, as our frost date is May 10. We had frost Monday, so it is way too early for annuals here. ( although most neighbors already have them out. )

Frost is not going to bother the violas.

Two more BIG boxes of daylilies showed up today. Yikes. I was not expecting these until next week. Oh well, just going to keep me busy.

Received from 3 LA sellers today. Contents from two boxes are really nice-sized plants. The 3rd box has small almost pencil sized fans, but will probably survive because it is Spring planting.
These plants are taking over the space I am reserving for the seedlings...whatever happened to self-control?
And of course, Mark is having a huge 6-page auction listing...

Self control? What is self control? I certainly don't have any of that.

My daylies from Paul Owen arrived today. I only bought two, Feeling Frisky and Friends with Benefits. He graciously gave me two more of the 2010 intros, Shutterbug and Threshold of a Dream as bonus plants. All of them are great looking nice fat thick fans in mini clumps.

I already have Feeling Frisky and Friends with Benefits planted. Have to think on which spots for the other two.

My Agastache (Hummingbird Mint) from High Country Gardens was just delivered by the UPS guy so I have to go now to unpack them.

Well, I got two small orders in. One from Mike Derrow who graciosly gave me four fans on his 2010 intro LUNAR EMPIRE a fabulous yellow. And a bonus plant to boot! Then I got one of Mick Morry's intros, LE HAMEL from Karen Newman, who handles Mory intros in the states. Got extra fans as bonus, which is what I asked for.

My Westbourne daylilies also came today. I had forgotten how many I even ordered so it was great to check the box and see whats there. Bonus plants included as usual :-))

I was thinking my order from Melanie Mason should come the end of this week but I was mixed up. It is the end of next week that its coming. I wish I could get all these daylily orders already and get them planted.

Meanwhile my biggest order of Siberian Iris should be here today or tomorrow so it's not like I don't have anything to do.

Rita: you are working yourself to death.BUT, I can't hardly wait to see pictures of all your work,and the new plants, blooming.I know its going to be just gorgeous, again.I watered stuff today, and put some fertilizer on a few before I gave out

Jean

Jean, I am really not working that hard. Remember I am used to working in my garden when the weather is nice. Today it was just plan cold. I looked and the temp said 56 but I felt like I was freezing all day. First I want outside to work wearing my normal garden jacket but was too cold. Put on a thicker sweatshirt underneath but that still didn't do it. Finially went and put on the winter coat I wear for gardening when its very early spring or late fall and COLD. There was a brisk wind blowing all day, probably made it feel much worse.

I put out some poppy seeds and measured two more rows of were daylilies would go in the upstairs garden and then I came back inside for the day. Just too cold for me today.

Tomorrow I will have to take care of those Siberian Iris. They are soaking for tonight.

Right now I only have four daylilies left to plant. All others planted. That is until another order arrives.