Mail-order plants from Far Reaches Farm, in November!

On November 11th I watched an NHS presentation by Kelly Dodson & Sue Milliken of Far Reaches Farm on a collecting trip they did to Argentina last spring. One week later, on November 18th I was the proud owner of a couple of the plants they talked about that night ...ain't life grand in this internet age?

I ordered three plants, look at them all cozied up in the box.
The first one I pulled out is this treasure...Alstroemeria isabellana.
Readers with amazing memoires might be saying, but don't you already have that plant? Yes, I did. I scored it from these same folks when they came down to give a talk at Joy Creek Nursery back in, oh, 2012 it looks like.
I loved that plant for years, but it eventually disappeared. Too much shade and competition from other plants, I suspect. And it's not just one you can dig up and move, it kinda moves around on it's own. I was never sure where it would come up each year, and if a stem would just be foliage, or if it would be a floral producer (they're on separate stems). I'll be thinking long and hard about where to plant this one out in the spring, and of course dreaming of seeing these flowers again...
I got two Bomarea cf. edulis, from seed Kelly and Sue collected on the trip the presentation I watched was based on. 
These are quite healthy looking plants, especially considering my one bomarea here in the garden has already died down for the year.
Mail-ordering plants is something I rarely do, thanks to the wealth of local nurseries here in the Portland area. However, the prospect of scoring a couple more bomarea vines—ones with blooms like these—had me rushing to my computer to place that order.

Photo above and below credited to James Steakley via wikimedia.
Weather Diary, Nov 29: Hi 52, Low 37/ Precip 0