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[HoneysuckleHills]

PitterPatterPalace - please keep us informed as to how you are feeling and especially if there is something we can do for you!
Meanwhile, know that I think of you everyday.
What an exciting time!
All the best!

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

Need some suggestions please.
I want to order some bulbs and maybe some other plants for my newly redone front yard.
Do any of you have favorite websites or mail order nurseries to suggest?
I've always just bought from local nurseries but sometimes they are a bit limited.
Thanks, in advance, to my fellow gardeners!

 

[RonB]

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I think its TOO LATE to teach these girls to lay in the nest box

The best thing you could do would to be box them up and mail (UPS) them over to me

what breed did you say they are???

 

[VelvettFog]

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I think its TOO LATE to teach these girls to lay in the nest box

The best thing you could do would to be box them up and mail (UPS) them over to me

what breed did you say they are???

One's an EE and the other is an Ameracauna (I think). They both lay a blue egg.

I've tried the fake eggs. I have one bird in each coop who lays in the wrong spot. I can try a few things to make the place they are currently laying less 'private' so maybe they'd want to find a different place to lay.

 

[Illia]

Never too late. I have a very valuable Araucana hen who's always laid in the weirdest places, (and hates being with the flock; she prefers running around the front yard) she's almost 2 yrs old now, and I just got her to officially start laying in the boxes as of two days ago.

I got my girl to do it by forcing her to stay where the boxes are when she REALLY needed to lay. It worked for me.

 

[hallerlake]

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Colorblends when buying LOTS of bulbs at wholesale prices. http://www.colorblends.com/
Old House Garden for rare, heritage bulbs. http://www.oldhousegardens.com/

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

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Colorblends when buying LOTS of bulbs at wholesale prices. http://www.colorblends.com/
Old House Garden for rare, heritage bulbs. http://www.oldhousegardens.com/

Thank you, Hallerlake!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Last weekend I took the family tent camping.

Is it Emily????????
So adorable!!!!!!!

Thanks

First name Emma
middle name Lee

I can't believe I didn't want a girl, I wanted another boy. Now I am glad she is a girl.

 

[justbugged]

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Look forward to seeing ya again ! I am pretty sure my booth will be in the Exhibit Hall. That is where the munchies and coffee are and the other vendors, raffle, auction birds yada yada yada. Most important it is (probably) where Iron Imagery will be.

I try to stick around, but I have warn you about the ADD. It can be bad some days.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Van Engelen and their retail arm John Scheepers are my current favorites on price and selection- Van Engelen has a $50 minimum, but that's not a lot to spend if you are relandscaping a whole yard and in addition can buy several hundred bulbs! Scheepers has the same varieties but no price minimum and smaller numbers. They have herbaceous peonies in addition to every bulb you could think of.

If you're buying landcape-size plants rather than propagating ones, you're almost always better off buying from the best retail nursery you can find and spending money on healthy growth rather than shipping. On the other hand, checking out Burnt Ridge at the Oly Farmer's Market (disclaimer: owner is a friend, and I was a vendor at OFM back in the olden days) and making a point of getting to the Donated Plants area at the Washington Park Arboretum (open rarely and worst of all during the day during the week) is always a good idea. ALSO: if you know what you want and can have the holes dug ready for the plants, the Lawyer Nursery (near Lacey) clearance sale in May is a great place to get big, healthy, professional landscape grade plants for cheap.

I've said a lot about Raintree and would recommend their plants and service without reservation.

The plant sale area at Rhododendron Species Foundation often has shade plants which are hard to find elsewhere.

Also, Forest Farm has something that looks like every plant in the world, and ships big plants in big pots for not-the-worst-shipping-charge; it helps to have a good plant encyclopedia by your side to supplement the catalogue, though.

Joy Creek Nursery is the place I buy clematis, campanulas, and other perennials; they sell a wide selection of shade plants and some speciality shrubs and small trees which are not easy to find otherwise.

I have Opinions about all rose nurseries, but the most important of them is that you're always better off buying in person. Recommendations upon request.