Carolyn, thank you soooo much for alerting me about the plant sale. DH and I decided to make the trip and we begged my brother and his wife to join us. They did. We had no idea what to expect, but when we got close and saw that we had to part 1/2 a mile away because of all the cars at the sale, I was amazed! I had no idea that many people would turn out. I got some great deals. Indian summer rudbeckia (which I love), White Swan coneflower, Double Decker coneflower, black hollyhock, and a few more perennials I can't recall right now. I loved how it was organized. I loved the great selection. I loved the friendly spirit of the shoppers and volunteers. I will definitely make the trip next year. And my brother and his wife said the same. Thanks again for telling me about the sale. --Sharon

Wow Fairysoapgirl for that price who cares who the hybridizer is? Ya'll just make me drool everytime you post your pictures. Pink is my very favorite color but with these daylilies a favorite is very hard to choose. I have finally been adopted and someone is going to share some of their lovely babies with me.Yipppppeeeeee! Maybe next year someone will be drooling over the daylilies I have and then I can adopt a couple of people too. That's what I love about irises and daylilies. If you like them you go way overboard in getting everyone of them you can put your hands on. A local chapter of the American Iris Society is having a Iris and Daylily sale the first week in October. Can anyone tell me what the usual prices are at these things? What would you normally expect to have to pay for a daylily at one of these sales? Someone told me before that sometimes these sales are crazy and if you don't get there early everything will be GONE. This will be my very first sale to attend. Do I need to take a baseball bat with me for protection? Fairysoapgirl will you email me and tell me more about your label maker the size, tape it takes and the cost? Shoot, you can just post it here if you want to. As soon as I get the daylilies in the mail from the person who adopted me I'll start making a wish list. Then I'll see what I can find at the sale. Shoot I may take my laptop with me so I can search and see what they look like before I purchase any. I finally decided to give up on posting the pictures of the two daylilies I had. I thought about the blonde joke about them making corrections on the screen with whiteout. I was seriously thinking about clipping some pictures out and sticking them to my monitor. Then asking you what you thought about my pictures of daylilies I posted. Then I realized no one would think that was funny but me. (grin) Happy Gardening, Marian

Hi Tammy, I went to the Mango Mania in Cape Coral(near Pine Island, FL) same weekend as the one Lisa went to in Miami. Like she said the weather was just unbearable, it was so hot and humid and we were there at 10 am! Only stayed for an hour or so, couldn't take the extreme heat/humidity!! The small section of mango tasting was very disappointing, only had a very few to taste, as some mangoes were already done ripening, I didn't even taste any, it was all pureed,looked awful,lol... This one sounds like a lot smaller scale than Fairchild's, only had a couple of vendors that sold Mangoes, and one wanted $2 each! It was a little expensive to say the least. Although I went on Sunday(last day), so I'm not sure if they had more vendors on Saturday? Only bought a few, the varieties that were available were mostly Carrie, Kent and Keitt! They had a lot of vendors selling other products and a few trees were being sold. I didn't buy any more trees, as I already have too many to protect from the freeze,lol... Here's some Pics...from the Mango Mania

I felt like I just visited the Twilight Zone after reading (and viewing) your post! Very well done!! I guess I have not been to any fairs like that recently. The last one would have been the Texas state fair, and I haven't been to that since I was 16. The last festival that I went to was the Tofu Festival in Little Tokyo a couple of years ago - or maybe the African festival or Thai festival in Thai Town. I do enjoy street fairs here, however, but they do not qualify as festivals. I think the Tofu festival was the most similar to your strawberry festival, and I can understand why it was discontinued. There is only so much tofu you can eat in one afternoon. It would have been interesting to see some pictures of other attendees of the strawberry festival. For some reason, I am reminded of the Pogo episode in which Pogo goes incognito and says to Albert, "Hi! I is Strawberry Shortcut, the Baton Bombshell. Why don't you give up cigars?" Pogo was wearing a mop and a bucket on his head (as a wig and a hat), but Albert was still able to recognize him as Larceny Lil, wanted in 53 states for various crimes against nature. Have you been to Okefenokee? Lars