Diana,

I got mine last week. Don't you just love to see those packages arrive. It is just like Christmas to me.

I got three Ice Plants, three Walker's Low nepeta and two siberian iris.

faye

I LOVE Bluestone! Love love love them!! The plants are small the first year, but man do they take off! The May Night Salvia I got during last year's sale are HUGE this year. I cannot wait to see what the clems do next year.

Enjoy your new babies!

Hi Faye,

Yes, it was fun to get the package. I don't usually order by mail because it's so easy to find the plants I like in So.Cal. but I couldn't resist that sale. lol! Plus I kept hearing so much about Bluestone and how great their plants are. I think I may be hooked.

Btw, I found a baggy with 5 fertilizer tablets inside, too. I didn't notice them at first - too busy unwrapping the plants. I am going to read all their instructions and make sure I get these babies off to a good start. : )

I hope your "babies" do well for you! Walker's Low is very easy to grow. I have quite a few in my beds and about a dozen in propagation mode. I plan on giving most of those to my neighbor since she fell in love with it in my beds.

Diana

Thanks, mehearty! We were cross posting. That's good to know the salvia took off for you.

The plants are small but I was expecting that from all I had read. Actually, some of the clematis are bigger than some I've bought in a gallon container on sale.

Time to go pot up these babies! : )

Diana

Mine came today too - scabiosa "pink mist" and lavender "jean Davis". Earlier in the year, I ordered dianthus "arctic fire" - those are already blooming, which was a complete and welcome surprise.

I'm leaving my new babies out in a shady spot for a couple of days, but for now I'm off to dig out their new homes.

I ordered quite a bit actually - ACHILLEA ptarmica Angels,
ACHILLEA Coronation Gold, ARABIS alpina Red Sensation, DELOSPERMA nubigenum, ECHINACEA Purpurea, ECHINACEA White Swan, LOBELIA cardinalis Ruby, NEPETA Walker's Low, PENSTEMON heterophyllus ELECTRIC BLUE, SALVIA nemorosa Plumosa, STOKESIA laevis Mary Gregory, STACHYS Hummelo, and VERBENA Apple Blossom. I planted them as soon as I received them. We haven't had any rain since and it's in the 90s. I'm worried I've already lost the penstemon (but they were tiny). Everything else seems to be doing just fine. In fact, the ECHINACEA, ACHILLEA, and STOKESIA are already showing new growth. Bluestone plants can't be beat for value.

Mary

Rats! I forgot about the sale and now it's over. It's not the first time procrastination has shown itself to be part of my character, though last year I was on the ball enough to order a few nice things. The nepeta and salvia I got are looking big and healthy this year, although the delphiniums somehow totally disappeared during the winter.

I totally agree with you all about the quality of plants - they're great.

ThinMan

My order arrived over the weekend while I was gone. My son who knows nothing about plants didn't even open the box so they sat there 2 days before I got to them. They were a little dry but no worse for the wear. A good drink and they are fine. Now if it only could stop raining so I can plant them.

Karyn

I received mine a week or so ago, and they were all well packed and in great condition. This is really a nice turnaround for them. The first time I ordered four years ago, the plants were small, wilted, and dry to the bone. This year everything has been wonderful!

Tracy

I was good and didn't order anything on sale.

When I do order,I usually plant them up in larger pots and grow them on before potting them out. That way I can keep a closer eye on them and water and feed them when necessary. The clematis I usually keep a year in a gallon sized pot before planting.

I have lost lots of plants forgetting where they were.....

my order came yesterday - I ordered-----

adenophora - amethyst - ladybells
Anapalis - yedoensis - pearly everlasting
coreopsis - moonbean
Delosperma - yellow iceplant
heuchera - chatterbox
heuchera - june bride
iberis - autumn beauty
sepervivum - twilight blue - hens and chicks
geranium - rozanne

everything was very healthy - this was my second order from them and I was pleased again - everything is getting potted up because we have 90+ days and no rain for the next forseeable future and I want to keep them in the shadehouse where I can watch them.....

Lynne

Everything that I ordered from Bluestone last year is doing great.

Diana -- Keep me posted on how you like the Prairie Sun rudbeckia. It think it is so pretty, but haven't tried it (of course, I'm out of space).

Lynne -- this 100+ degree weather is really, really bad, isn't it? Geez! It's not officially summer yet.

Cameron

How good was this sale? Is it a once-a-year thing?

Looks like a great site!

anele - it was a 50% off sale and yes it is a once a year sale - usually the end of May/beginning of June - not sure of the exact dates. I ordered last year for the first time because of glowing reports from this forum and was NOT disappointed - I was ready this year - unfortunately our weather is preventing me from planting them in the ground just yet but they are safe and sound and as cool as I can make them in my shadehouse.....

Lynne

Lynne-- 50% off? Wow! I wish I'd checked this forum just a few weeks earlier for the heads up!

Next year, next year!

Bulletin - Bulletin - Bulletin

I was wrong. The sale isn't over and there are still a lot of things left. I just ordered some. Thanks to Idabean for her message!

Sorry I gave you all bad information.

ThinMan

I got my plants yesterday---Delphinium Cherry Blossom and Magic Sky Blue; and Myosotis Copindi and Palustris Semper-florens (forget-me-nots). About half of them had root rot, or at least the leaves had turned black and slimy. I don't know how many of them are salvageable.

I wonder if it was because they put the Myosotis Palustris Semper-florens (it likes its feet wet) in with the other plants.

I was very disappointed at first, because I have had good experiences with Bluestone in the past.

Anyway, I called Bluestone this morning, and they're going to replace the whole order!

Do you think I should tell them to keep the one forget-me-not separate from the other plants?

Mary

We don't have a Bluestone up here, Whhineeeeee or a Annie's Whhineeeeee. But on the other hand knowing me maybe that's a good thing?
Annette

I jumped on the bandwagon and placed an order, too. I'll be trying those Red Rocks penstemons you suggested, Diana. I ordered a few plants, which are new to me and supposed to do well in sandy soil.

I am pleased with the new shape and size of my produce garden. I've got half of the low block wall up. I'm still working on chicken wire, and soil amendment for the new part. I'll be putting in a row of flowering plants for the fun of it.

I'm about to get started on Annette's Lemon Mousse recipe. I'm sure I'll love it!

Lorna

Hi! Back from a little vacation and my babies are doing fine. I potted them up and put them in a plastic tote with some water. They did great. Now I need to decide where to put them permanently.

Glad so many of you are happy with your orders, too. TM, I'm happy you could still order. I'm not looking at the site again, though. lol! I have an order ready for High Country Gardens and I have an already overflowing pot ghetto plus seedlings in the potager. Yikes, I just may have too many plants! lol!

Lorna, I hope the Red Rocks do well for you. I have sandy soil, too, and penstemon do very well here, hybrid and native. I do give the hybrids some organic mix of soil and more water since they behave more like regular garden plants.

Lemon Mousse - yum! Guess I'll just have to settle for Chocolate/Raspberry Yoplait. : )

Diana

I sent Bluestone an email this morning asking if I had done something to my soil to make my nepeta subsessillis to bloom pink/white instead of deep blue. I got these in April of 2007. Well, I just got an email from them saying that they are shipping me free replacements! WOW!

Cameron

Can you find a special home for that unexpected pink/white bloomer, Cameron? I have ordered a giant blue Nepeta from HCG. I've been taking cuttings from my established Walker's Low.

I received my Bluestone order the other day. The plants were somewhat crushed because the box was overly stuffed with styrofoam pellets. The Red Rocks Penstemon don't look like they will survive, but I think everything else will be fine. I'm about to send off an Email. Glad to know they stand by their products! I like it that many of their plants are sold in three packs.

Lorna

My Bluestone replacement order arrived--it came in two days!

And it turned out that most of the plants from the first shipment are salvageable, in spite of the root-rot.

They really stand by their products! : D

Mary

I got the Angel's Breath Yarrow, Rozanne Geranium, and some Heliopsis Lorraine Sunshine.

I divided the yarrows and turned 3 plants into 12! I divided the Heliopsis Lorraine Sunshine and got 6 extra plants. I also took 4 cuttings and they all rooted. I was able to trade them for other plants I wanted.

Isn't propagation amazing!