Pretty choices! Have you ordered all of these, or are these the combos you be creating with your new orders..added to your existing plants?

@Gardenho: Thanks! I’ve ordered about 20 perennials, to be added with existing plants (I already have a good deal of what’s pictured)

From these pictures, these are the ones I ordered:

Allium Millenium

Echinacea Rainbow Marcella

all irises

orange lily

clematis Princess Kate

So in my garden, this year will be mostly about adding color through perennials, as I’ve mostly planted trees and shrubs in the past 5 years. I’m SO excited about coming Spring!! :)

Please, oh please -- what is the name and source of that gorgeous iris in collage#2 -- the pale pink one with the blue beards?? I want! I must have!! =)

@roxana: it’s « Don’t Stop Believing »

I ordered it from Trail’s End Iris, I don’t know where you’re located, but they only ship in Canada.

Thanks, mazerolm, for the name of that gorgeous iris. I'll have to search for someone here in the states for it (I'm in Massachusetts, and not zone 7 as indicated in my name, lol). Off for the hunt!

Pretty choices!

What is the plant just above the Blue Spruce in collage #2? It's tempting...

@roxanna: good luck, let us know if you find it! :)

@mxk3: it’s a Princess Kate clematis, supposed to have a long blooming period! I’m planning to use one of the shrubs pictured as support.

Thanks! I should check it out.

mazerolm -- I have found 'Don't Stop Believing' here in the US!! Mid-America Garden, LLC in Salem OR. (doing a happy dance here)

Frankly, your photo of it is much prettier than theirs. And I can only hope it will do well for me, as many-a-time things do not. Must be due to the gardener, lol.

And, naturally, I am spending time (and probably money, eventually) browsing all their iris -- a dangerous occupation, to be sure. So far, I have four items in my cart. Oh, dear... So difficult to resist. And that's just looking at the tall bearded ones. Haven't begun to look at the other types, heaven help me.

@roxanna: so glad you found it!! I only have 2 bearded irises in my garden and wanted to add more this year. I ordered from 2 vendors, and when trying to make a decision on which ones to choose, I would google and look at pictures from other sellers, and I noticed that pictures could be very different from one seller to another. I don‘t know whether that’s because there is variation within a cultivar or the difference is only in the pictures, but it feels like rolling the dice for many of them. I can’t wait to get them though, regardless of their actual colour! :)