Well, I guess they've got some smart salesmen!!!!!

Lol, well they're persistent...and continuing clearance discounts finally eroded my will.

Nice haul!

just becasue you buy it.. doesnt mean its planting time ...

some suggest that what turns your thumbs green .. is having a hundred or so pots to plant.. in fall .. and/or .. next spring ...

by the time you factor in a week of hardening off to local ambient weather .. to reduce shipping stresses... the weather will only be worse for planting them straight into the garden ... depending on location ...

ken

Yeah, I may plant some (we'll see), but good chances of pot farm expanding.

Oh, I'm right there with you! My plant will power is weak. I added a few things in my bucket. Plus, they gave me an extra $5 off! They knew I couldn't resist! LOL.

Good luck with your new plants. My problem, when I do that, is finding places for everything.

^^^That is always a problem...but last winter's abrupt freeze gave me some openings (some that I didn't really want too).

And the good thing is.... they are so small, you can always find room for them!! :0)

Oh, yikes. Mother Nature is trying to kill us all.

What, sale!? Ok, so after i order all these warm season grasses, I pot them up to 1gal, and then how long do i keep them in pots before I can plant them in the ground?

I usually put them in ground at first available opportunity (ie when rains begin again...or ground cools, whichever happens first).

I don't necessarily pot them up to 1 gal either...depends on the size and the rootboundness when I get them.

With the hot weather, garden centre sales are beginning here. Chance to try claims (e.g. below) for Salvia 'Caramia' compared to Salvia 'Caradonna'. The latter is a real perennial survivor here.

Not finding the heat an obstacle to planting as long as watering requirements are monitored.

https://www.greenhousecanada.com/marketplace/new-varieties/saliva-x-hybrida-caramia-31546

Yes, that's true here too SB, but I try to minimize watering...I prefer to let my things (where possible) deal with what Nature throws at them.

Obviously some things need water...but...as I said, I try to avoid watering. I prefer to water the pot jungle till I can put them in the earth and have it rain on them.

Dbarron, by cool off/rain, do you mean in the fall?

Well being as I live in the South, yeah...fall or winter even :)

I just purchased from Santa Rosa , first time. I got the plants yesterday, all 24 of them. They were small but looked like they will all survive. I find Bluestones to be larger but even at Bluestones 1/2 off sale , Santa Rosa had better prices. I have also been checking Lowes clearance and was mad today when someone grabbed a gorgeous red coneflower before me lol. It probably won’t come back next year, I told myself to feel better. I have no resistance to flowers buy tons of annuals and perennials both , fond of proven winners plants . I grew Supertunia Bubblegum last year and it was amazing , 4 feet in length . I have probably 40 of their Petunias this year.

@sunnyboarders - what the....! I finally go through the drama of figuring out my new salvia, only for there to be a "more compact" and "3 times the flower power" variety on the market?? Head is reeling.....:-)

Know what you mean, LaLennoxa. But I'll believe the performance when I see it.

Still I've really had positive experience with several perennial Salvia, starting with the 'Ostfriesland' (East Friesland) which has been going for ten years.

I do find the colours of our spicate veronicas more subtle, but the salvias have been a better buy in terms of longevity.

Well my order placed Saturday is expected to ship out today or tomorrow. And...we may get rain Wed or Thursday, but probably the package won't be here to plant before the rain (sigh). Oh well, we need the rain. I hadn't watered with hose in front yard for 2 yrs, but moved a hose around front yesterday to water :(

Just ordered 11 grasses I didnt really need for a design I was on the fence about. The prices were too good

Thanks for the tip about Santa Rosa. I signed up for their newsletter and notice of special promotions. I need stuff that will grow in hot and dry. OK is going to be a desert someday if this continues!

What part of Oklahoma? I moved from Foyil (NE corner) about 7 years ago. I had a property that had abundant sub-surface moisture for Oct-Jun, but then dryness Jul-Sept. It was a challenge, because things had to tolerate standing in water and then severe dryness (strangely a lot of natives can do that).

Sorry, I didn't see this till now. Bartlesville. This area has previously been nicknamed "Green Country" for promotional purposes. But that hasn't been the case for at least the last ten years.

I'm kind of annoyed with Santa Rosa. I signed up, have as yet to receive any such thing as a "newsletter", but I'm getting promotional emails from them every day, sometimes more than one a day. It's too much. Now I can't seem to find a way to unsubscribe. There's no unsubscribe link in their emails, can't find one on their website, I emailed back to unsubscribe me, that didn't work and usually doesn't, anyway, and then I found their "contact us" email address and emailed again, asking to subscribe. No reply, still getting too many emails from them. Guess I'll be more careful from now on where I subscribe. Have never had this happen before, to subscribe and not have a way to unsubscribe. Bummer.

There's an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every one of their promotional emails.

I was about to reply, saying, "Nope, not there..." and then I saw three little small-print words: "Show Trimmed Content". There's my Unsubscribe link! Thanks for making me go back and look more closely.

Err, the recent rains and cooler weather (yeah that's it!) caused me to buy more stuff. This time I hit WellSpring Gardens for very small edibles. I added a fig, okinawa spinach (which I'll overwinter indoors), georgia savory basil (clinopodium), and a bright edge yucca.

My rationalization is that both the spinach and the fig can be used culinarily. The clinopodium is a fragrant late bloomer (barely hardy here...lost mine to last winters ups and downs to 1F). Yucca, well, I had that one once...it's got great color and a neat habit.

They used to ship a free plant (that you selected). I didn't see that ability this time, so I'm hopeful for a surprise (but probably cost cutting has eliminated the surprise plant).

These are all going to be potted plants for a year likely, they're usually far too small to put into the ground. They're usually vigorous. I have crinums blooming in the garden that were about the size of ten day old corn seedlings when they came. Also a clumping bamboo, fargesia rufa, that's now about 4 foot high and across that came as a small 8 inch high clump.

I might go ahead and plant the grass this weekend, or today possibly. We're getting a little rain and I got some drip line to keep it watered through the rest of the summer.

I planted mine last week, we've had almost daily rains since. So, I chose well. I'll have to continue to water it for the season, but they will probably settle in well.

I came home with three flats of 99 cent clearance perennials from a local hardware store last week and planted most of them right before a rainstorm, in 94 degree heat. They are upright and happy and came through it all just fine. Can't pass up such a good deal just because it's a little hot out, right??

Wildhaven, you and I definitely think alike....

I think it's a smart decision...what did you get ?

I have been pleased with my Santa Rosa purchases. Just got an email for half off fall orders FYI :P So can order but have them arrive in time for fall planting.

The huecheras have been great. Also they have a 90 day guarantee so if something arrives in bad shape you can get a refund.

With a week of rain in the forecast, I finally planted those 11 grasses from the SRG sale. Timing isnt perfect as far as growth cycle, but the thought of trying to overwinter all of them (and more) in pots was getting less and less appealing.