Trying any new perennials this year?
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Trying any new annuals this year?
Comments (15)Monarda Bergamo. Love the color and different bloom pattern. They've got they're first set of true leaves and hoping they survive to adulthood...LOL. I've also got seed for Cyress Vine and Scarlet Runner Bean for Hummingbirds. It's going to be a mega challenge to keep the deer and groundhogs from eating them. Trying colored Sweet Alyssum in the pink-purple ranges. Also trying white varieties other than Carpet of Snow... Avalanche, Snow Crystals and one other I can't remember. Critters ate all the Cosmos last year so I'm trying the Versailles behind Limelight Four O'Clocks (new to me and supposedly poisonous) in containers on porch steps. Trying the dwarf version in containers with other Butterfly/Hummingbird nectar plants I can somewhat protect from critters. Datura m. Belle Blance strictly because it's supposedly poisonous and hope critters will leave it alone. I know just about everyone but me has had them before but I direct seeded poppies in various places. I just want to see those swaying, delicate blooms once. If they get icky from the first rain it could be the first and last time I plant them...LOL. Sowed California Mission Bells, Shirley Singles & Doubles and Lauren's Grape. Here is a link that might be useful: Monarda Bergamo...See MoreAre you starting any perennials from seed this year?
Comments (23)I am winter sowing a lot more than planned: Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepsis) Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) Purple Love Grass (Egrostis spectabilis - not yet - will sow it next month) Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) Native White Baptisia (Baptisia leucantha) Helenium - a few red ones Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) VA Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) - hope this one grows. I really want a whole lot more. Hmm- what else? Can't remember. :-)...See MoreWhat new plant or garden feature are you trying this year?
Comments (52)Meghan From my experience it's a toss up. I've had more bad luck with them than good. I do have a couple of bushes that I bought years ago that are still flourishing. For the most part I have given up on grafted roses because for me they grow beautifuly for 3 or 4 years and then they just go down hill after that and start throwing up Doctor Huey sprouts. I have some beautiful Dr Huey specimens that I gave up on trying to dig out and decided to go with the flow with it. Trained properly they are quite beautiful!! LOL!! There are only so many Dr Huey that a person can live with. I now only buy own root roses. Maybe it's just me!! LOL!!...See Morewhat new to you mail order companies did you try this year?
Comments (6)This isn't new either, but last year I ordered allium bulbs from Bluestone Perennials. I was so impressed with the flowers this year that I put in a second order with them just a month ago for more alliums (purple sensation) and bright pink aster plants. Bluestone was sold out of the vivid purple asters I also wanted so I bought those from Burpees. Years ago Burpees was the best place to buy vegetable seeds and their flowers were also high quality, but their reputation is not what it once was, so we shall see how their live plants fare. I was fortunate that a steady rain fell for several days immediately after I planted these acquisitions, followed by sunny days and rainy days off and on since. I also had to transplant some daylilies given to me by a friend, along with a lilac that was unhappy with the poorly drained soil where it was living and a flowering crabapple that would surely have stretched its roots into the waterline newly installed when we drilled our well. So these transplants have also benefitted from the precipitation situation and spared me hauling water to them. If anyone knows of an online place that sells Hot Summer Echinacea and/or Cherry Cheeks Daylilies, I'd be most grateful to hear. I've been drooling over both since people have posted photos of them in this forum, and I have a perfect place for a couple plants of both species....See Morecoolplantsguy
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