Thanks everybody, I usually don't have this kind of luck! This might be it for the whole summer,lol. I forgot to mention the shasta daisies and the forget me not I bought,too. Now I need to go buy some annuals for some of these projects,not today,though,too depressed. This forum cheers me up a lot.

I'm hoping to get there on the day of the MA swap. I've only been once, and have to agree with Mindy that the owner is really great. And, not only does he stock plants that are hard to find, interesting and varied, the plants are incredibly well cared for. You don't come home with something already thinking what you'd need to do to get it to look good - it's been done, and done right. I wish I lived closer.

That's GREAT news Andrew...you're talking to someone that HATES shipping with a passion. Don't get me wrong I've ordered many things and have had to pay shipping(many times that's the only way to get things you want) but I'm with you...if its doable w/out shipping that's just more $$ to spend on a few more plants,lol...You're very lucky to find this nursery. They could have just as easily tacked on an extra $10 or so just to cover their shipping charges.

Thank you for saving everything you could, and a big virtual thank you to the developer for being a just plain decent person. Try to put the word out about the trees as quickly as you can, maybe some of them can be saved too. Graywings took the words right out of my mouth. Sad but true. I've seen it happen too many times. Now I'll be honest, I live in a circa 1900 version of a "subdivision" - one of many neighborhoods of similar little houses built for the factory workers during the town's manufacturing heyday. But I live on the corner of [tree name] Street and there are about twenty surviving trees of that species on a street that's perhaps an eighth of a mile long, trees that were old when the houses were built; old photographs show the houses fitted in amongst the trees. We are blessed to have one of them on our tiny lot - we call it our Grandfather Tree and it is over four feet in diameter. An even larger one is on the unbuildable lot (ravine + wetlands + small river) that borders us on one side, and a fallen giant nearly six feet thick still serves the very daring as a bridge down into the ravine behind our house. THAT is truly [tree name] Street. When we moved into our house, it had been a rental for decades and the "landscaping" completely neglected. We had arborists out and after much discussion it was decided that almost nothing could be salvaged without a great deal of money and far more skill than either of us had - we had really hoped to save a few lilacs planted during WWII but even a lilac specialist we weaseled into looking at them said that it was a project he wouldn't particularly like to tackle and that we were better off starting over (which we are, slowly, but budgetarily landscaping has not been a terribly high priority). We put the word out and several trees and shrubs were taken off to new homes before the tree company started in on the general removal, and at our last house we Freecycled the huge rhododendrons I loathed - "you dig it up, it's yours!" (It took three men, a truck and a winch to get those monsters out.)