First of all, congratulations on your upcoming wedding! What better place to get married than in your very own garden : )

You know I love yellow, and Golden Marguerite is one that I don't have. How tall is it? From the photos, I'm guessing 18" - 24", is that about right? Also, is it more of a butter/lemon yellow, rather than a golden yellow like Coreopsis 'Sunburst'? It's hard to tell exact colors sometimes from a photo.

Thanks for sharing!

Bonnie

Thanks Bonnie :)

The Golden Marguerite in my garden are anywhere between 3 to 3.5' and they are a bright cheery yellow as seen in the pictures :)

Best wishes Vera!

The garden looks amazing. What's the secret to growing Monarda as healthy as yours? I got a Jacob Kline and it looks absolutely pathetic now that the heat is hitting hard.

A wedding in the garden you planted yourself - so special. Tell the lucky other half to look around - THIS is how steadfast and commited a person you are! May your love be long blooming and easy to tend !!!

I am so going to look for Golden Margarite seeds, looks like a great addition for my beds. Thanks.

Nancy

Oh, my! Golden Marguerite .... and Knautia! Two more for my must-have list.

Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials - may your love grow as strong and beautiful as your gardens!

(Will we get to see pics of the wedding?)

PV

I hate you. ;)

But I love your gardens. I wish I could grow yarrow at all. And my Golden Margerite has already succumbed to the humidity and heat. It was doing great for the longest time. Then one day, pfhhpf. It turned to mush and the pill bugs finished it off. Maybe next year. At least I have my coreopsis "Full Moon". It's just starting in my yard this year.

Thank you!!

You bet PV...pictures will be posted :)

Normally the garden should be looking as good in August as it does now...so keeping fingers crossed! I got a lot of deadheading to do in order to keep it looking fresh :)

shemeows,

They just started blooming a few days ago and I don't water anymore than the rest of the garden. Leaves can and do get leaf scorch from the bottom up if I don't tend to it's high water needs ...and I don't much. I mulch really well with straw and dry grass clippings to keep in moisture and cool the root zone area and that usually helps. The bed gets shade (starting from about 3pm) from the hottest part of the day which here is between 4-6pm.
I also grow M. fistulosa in my prairie bed (moved from a west facing bed to east 2 yrs. ago) where it appreciates the shade from 2:30 on and average moisture. In the old location it would get really bad leaf scorch regardless of good moisture. After realizing where it grew back home (Nebraska/North Dakota); usually in the dappled light of trees I moved it. Speaking of this one, I just found the plant re-growing in that old west location; apparently I didn't get to all the roots :) One thing I can say for sure is that M. fistulosa does not spread near as vigorously as the M. didyma (shown above)...matter of fact I've never witnessed my other ones spreading at all.

Vera

Token,

We must have been posting at the same time :)

Why can't you grow Yarrow? That may or may not be a blessing to you, I don't know, but mine has to have runners chopped back each spring because it will run away from you before you know it! To boot, I also managed to let it go to seed (I was madly in new love at the time and suddenly the garden didn't matter too much LOL!) and have spent a good many hour this year pulling out babies from here to eternity!!
One thing we lack here is humidity, my Habanero peppers hate it and must be grown where they receive dappled light to full shade from at least 2-3pm on or the heat and dry air cause the leaves to scorch badly :O

Vera, it just sits there and turns brown. From seed, purchased plants, whatever. The roots rot. I can leave it in the pot, I can put it in fast draining soil. I can ignore it, baby it, pamper it, do nothing, and it still rots. It's just not meant to be for me.

hip hip hooray...love the Golden Marguerite!
I have yarrow. It does get big for me real quick. I squished it beside some catmint and they are squishing each other and fighting it out, it works well.

I love the Golden Marguerite! I may have to do a search for seeds. that would look great in one spot I have.

Karen

Token,
There you go! We have something in common. :O) I suck at Yarrow too. Crossing my fingers though since I just planted out some seedlings from winter sowing. Some is growing nicely in a good clump, but the birds planted that one. Nice pastel pink/old rose color.

A wedding!! Oooh I love those! So happy for you. And in the garden - WOW! All the best and yes, do not forget the photos.

Ah, Vera is getting married. That is so good! I'm excited, can you tell?

A wedding? How cool! Congratulations, Vera. We definitely need wedding pictures.

Karen

3' - 3 1/2' you say? Well, I guess I'm not too good a judge of height, LOL. The Golden Marguerite looks really good with the Feverfew. Hmmm ... I can see I need to get a list going on things to buy for the upcoming wintersowing season. Is your Feverfew well behaved? It seems like I read that it can be quite a spreader.

Bonnie

Congratulations! What a gorgeous garden you have, a perfect wedding backdrop! Are you still thinking about moving to Nebraska?

I have Anthemis Sancti-Johannes blooming this year, it's a golden orange but otherwise just like your G.M., which I think is Anthemis kelwayii. It's been blooming for about a month, and the flowers really show, even though they're not huge. I love it.

Vera,
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding.

I love everything you have planted. So envy your
Monarda. Mine are teeny tiny still.

Must share wedding photos!

Mary

Thank you all :))

Stage_rat, mine is just common Anthemis tinctoria. The Anthemis tictoria 'Kelwayi' only grows to 18-20" and has 2" flowers. Mine is WAY taller at about 3' to 3.5' and flowers are only about 1" across...about the size of a quarter :)

Bonnie, I do like it with the Feverfew 'Flore Pleno' which grows to a height of about 3' tall by 3' wide when mature (like a big round globe)and helps support the taller Golden Marguerite or other tall ones that can flop out. The Feverfew in this pic is a re-seeder and not at it's full height yet. Where I need it to grow shorter I just prune it back once really good before flowering. This particular one is a hybrid that isn't supposed to produce very many viable seeds (one reason why the blooms last FOREVER), but it does give me a few new plants every season that are always true to the parent every single time. It is nowhere as aggressive as the common species where every seed is viable.... which is the one with daisy-like flowers! I love being able to go out and grab some leaves for a headache, ect... Some people(such as myself) do not get mouth blisters from chewing them whereas some people can. I can harvest a bunch of the dried flowers if you are interested in trying to start some....you are bound to get a few at least. Send me an email sometime this fall at la_raspberry@yahoo.com
My gardenweb email is not a working addy, but every time I've tried to update it has always reverted back to the old one. You got a few things I'd love to trade you for LOL!...especially that Penstemon you have with the needle like foliage I believe?....it was evergreen? Whatever it I love it!!

oh my Vera what a beautiful backdrop for your wedding. I had mine in my backyard 4 years ago today - I did alot of containers of coleus and caladiums so I could guarantee color. Yours will be gorgeous - congratulations and yes we MUST see pictures :) ......

Lynne

May you have a happy marriage, good luck to you and the future Mr Vera ;-)

The picts are great--I've got some GM in the front border, it gets blasted in full sun all day and the yellow daisies don't fade, they don't wilt, and the flowers last for a few weeks. I like it also because you can deadhead them and have reliable rebloom.

Trudi

Vera, Is there someplace we can see more pictures of the yard NOW. It will look different at the time of the wedding. LOL It looks so pretty, I would like to see the rest of it. Please.

Oh, I'm glad Trudi posted, I was about to ask about deadheading. I just took off some of my older St. John's blooms today, but I would want as many seeds as possible if deadheading didn't make a difference.

Kelwayii has blooms that are 2" across??? I have to get it! Mine are 1" and I still like them a lot.

Your gardens are beautiful, a perfect spot for your wedding.
Congratulations.