Other predominant flowers in your garden besides roses?
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Do You Grow Roses Exclusively - Or Other Flowers Too?
Comments (25)I can't imagine roses only as being a garden. I grow mostly old roses and Austins and am trying for a natural effect that will blend into the surrounding hills. I'm all for easy-care plants and not too many, but something that will give color, line and a contrast to the billowy forms of the roses. I have day lilies, irises, sea lavender, several varieties of penstemons, pelargoniums, Mexican evening primroses, Jerusalem sage, lavender, rosemary, butterfly bushes, marjoram (which the bees go crazy over) and some sages. I've kept the color palette to white, pink, lavender pink, lavender and purple with the odd yellow for contrast. I have photographs on a recent thread on the Antique Forum and the Antique Gallery titled something like Roses in the Fog which will give you a good idea of what kind of rose garden I have. Ingrid...See MoreYou love roses...and what other flowers?
Comments (51)DH says I'm a collector. In the next breath he says I'm a tryer. The latter is probably closer to the truth because I am always trying the next perennial. Going through the mail order catalogues is like "oh, I want to try that and that and that" on every page. I try a lot of annuals too for color and for the pots. In the favorites categories (the things which I keep and add more of) hydrangeas lilies of any kind daylilies salvias of any kind coneflowers and their relatives lavendar - not the easiest thing to grow in the south hibiscus mallows iris Garden phlox used to be on this list, but they've simply turned black and died since I moved to NC - maybe there is a NC only variety or something. Companion plants for the roses are primarily lilies and Walker's Low, but there are also coneflowers, guaras, veronicas and salvias. I'll plant anything that attracts butterflies and hummers, so there is a big chunk of the garden plantings that are not so much about garden design as about feeding the little beauties. There are the bushes I've planted as habitat and food for the birds - my current enthusiasm is winterberries. Have you ever seen "hearts a burstin'" when it sets seed? I have a big shade garden too: heuchera, hostas, hydrangeas, solomon's seal, various ground covers, tiarellas....the whole shade thing. If it says it will do well in the shade I try one. ceterum - there are lilacs that are said to do well in the south in the US, perhaps they would do well for you. The one I planted is Miss Kim, she was sooo beautiful this spring. harryshoe - that looks like a black and blue salvia, but I've always been told they are only hardy to zone 7b or so. Truly incredible picture with the hummingbird. I grow the salvias as much for the hummers as for myself and I am absolutely in love with the black blue salvias. I'm trying to get one of the so-called hardy fuscias to live long enough to be put in the ground - they delight in dying in the pot to taunt me....See More2022-2023 TROPICAL FLOWERS IN MY ROSE GARDEN
Comments (131)March 7, 2023, I repotted 2 Brugmansias yesterday, after growing all winter inside home, into 12” pots still growing in bay window. They have been turned toward sun to straighten out leaves. Pots & Brugs are actually twice as big as photos Jan. 27 above. (They will be moved to bigger pots when it’s warm for outside.) Fruit Salad Brugmansia Angel Sweet Summer Brugmansia March 7, 2023: 3 PASSIFLORAS in bay window of home all doing well, filling out more leaves, BIG inside pots. Possum Purple Passiflora , in second season now, grows the best-it has the most hardy big glossy leaves-overgrowing it’s pot/obelisk & I just don’t want to cut it back-so beautiful & green-little gangly, Lol! ! May Pop, in 3rd season now, sprouted 5 new shoots & has many new long stems filling out obelisk, again. Victoria, in second season now, is nice & green, very full in obelisk! Daily watering makes them all most happy inside/outside! MORE TROPICALS: I’ll add a new African Violet, Orchid, Mandevilla and begonias as warmer weather comes. Anyone adding tropicals to their rose gardens this spring? Love to see photos?...See Morepotentillas anyone? Or other long-blooming flowers for dry gardens.
Comments (22)Ha, oenothera sinuata (I think, wavy leaved beeblossom) is on order for autumn planting because yes, all the gaura and oenothera seem to do very well indeed. I would also be mortified if you permanently decamped to Facebook Jay...so don't. What has been the tenor of the past few seasons has been a fabulous spring and early summer...because tulips absolutely adore the sunny sandy soil I have...a sort of mini Iran or Tashkent. I grow dozens of species tulips and have been collecting more cos they are easy from seed. It was a stellar year for anemone coronaria, early primulas and early flowering hardy annuals.It seems that anything with a huge taproot like winecups, baptisia, platycodons, some of the umbels) (but by no means all) do very well indeed whereas all those lush prairie type plants are utterly hopeless - I have neither depth nor richness.I am going to have a good look at summer bulbs such as habranthus, rhodohypoxis, triltieas, galtonia and homeria. Silver leaved or tormentose plants are also really good...as I have been struggling with keeping the colours going into July/August September (thank you, salvias).. Also, bindweed has exploded exponentially and is disastrous in perennial gardens so I am girding myself for a whole day of 'sock of death' to start the killing. I have it in mind to turn the whole site into a dry garden...which does mean losing out on the many annuals I grow...and holding my nerve for another coupla years until plants are established but honestly, we are moving into an El Nino phase so hoping for mild winters and getting hardy cactus going. It is not going to get any wetter in East Anglia, that's for sure. Lots and lots of gravel and pea shingle I was going to take pics but truly, the allotment is a mess as I am trying to consolidate the many, often ridiculously experimental beds and losing the weed battle. It looks NOTHING like the gardens we see on here - no mulch, no visible soil and, because I am hopeless about staking, lots of collapsed plants growing sideways. I love viper's bugloss (or viper's bloodlust as my offspring call them) - along with evening primrose, they are naturalised in my area, growing all along the highways. And yes, echinops - I grew this years ago but it got so huge, I chopped it down (mind, I had it in a bed with onopordum, eryngium pandanifolium, giant fennel and berkheya...a prickly seething chaos). If I can find a shorter, more mannerly variety, I really don't mind doing that silvery thistle thing again, with eryngiums and verbascums. Again, I thank you all so much... I get sidetracked and go off into imaginary fantasies of bad collecting such as the recent, largely failed Chile obsession...one of so very many attempts to grow far too many (often inappropriate) plants. Apols for long rambling but I had a brainstorm re.geums. I can and do grow pulsatilla...which do that lovely seedhead thing not terribl;y unlike geum triflorum. There are usually alternates we can pick from, with a little contemplation....See Morecincy_city_garden
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