What are you most looking forward to for Thanksgiving Dinner?
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What plants are you looking forward to the most?
Comments (11)Delphinium exaltatum - Never sprouted last year - were sown in paper tubes... Never using tubes again! Pink figleaf hollyhock - Was obsessed with finding seed for this.. Tried and failed to trade for it.. Finally found someone who had some for sale, and she sent me some as a gift because I alerted her to a malfunctioning page on her website. Penstemon grandiflorus 'Esprit' - Saw some gorgeous penstemon on a trip to Vancouver a couple years ago, hope this turns out like the type I saw. various primulas - Some bloom very early, and I am looking forward to having more flowers in early spring. I am also fascinated with the candlabra types. Cherokee purple tomatoes and other heirloom tomatoes - I don't even like tomatoes unless they are cooked in a sauce, but DH loves tomatoes and I am looking forward to seeing what he thinks of some of the more unusual heirlooms. Garlic - Love garlic, and hope it really does repel bugs from the roses. Lois in PA...See MoreWhat one seed/plant are you looking forward to most?
Comments (32)I have avoided this post because this is SO HARD to answer. I feel like if I mention one, the others seeds will say, "Well, fine! We won't germinate for you!" So my lips are sealed. Truly, it's after they really grown in the yard (and second or third year on perennials) that I get an idea of whether i truly look forward to them or not. I've noticed that when I rely and wait eagerly on one plant, it always seems to be another plant that I sorely underrated that performs (and dresses up the garden) beyond my wildest dreams (and beyond the one I was waiting so eagerly for). Linda...See Morewhat plant are you most looking forward to
Comments (18)Brad - I hijacked all my daughter's columbine stems/seedpods back in May because she cut them off and was going to (gasp!) throw them out. Makes me wonder if we're related by blood! I brought them all home but have no idea what they look like because she has so many different ones--tall ones mostly, some double, blue definitely. If you're willing to be surprised, I've got like a bajillion seeds to send you. My rose campion foliage is still absolutely gorgeous, silver and velvety even after the terrible storm damage. I may check out 'Alba' next year. Is 'Bloody Mary' a red variety? That would be a stunning comination--silver stems/foliage with tomato red flowers. Wow. In between other chores I played with seeds today. Those dry enough to be brought indoors are now stored in plastic salad dressing cups with lids. The number of paper bowls with seeds in them on shelves inside the garage is dwindling. If I don't manage it before then, I'll haul a bale of growers mix inside the house Thanksgiving week. My 'Leap of Faith' seeds this year are going to be Lobelia cardinalis 'Fan Scarlet.' Jury is still out on whether or not it's fully hardy in my zone....See MoreWhich Hybridizer's Intros Do You Look Forward to Most?
Comments (19)Pat and Grace Stamile sold Floyd Cove and moved to CA but both are still hybridizing. However, part of their agreement in the sale was that they couldn't introduce anything for a period of years. They ARE finding it a challenge to hybridize on the Pac. coast - blooms don't open as well, etc. But I look for them to have some introductions over the next couple of years. What they are doing now is on a much more limited basis than the big operation they once ran, however. I too LOVE almost anything from Judy Davisson, Curt Hanson and Jamie Gossard, I also grow a lot of plants from Reg. 3 hybridizers because they were hybridized locally and do well here : Margo Reed, Jim Murphy, Pat Cochenour, Don Herr, all have great plants that perform like troopers in my garden and I never hesitate to add their plants. I do grow quite a few plants from Reg.2 hybridizers in recent years - have enjoyed some from Bret Clement,Sandy Holmes, Gerald Bushong and others. Lots of great hybridizers out there! I will say (and it has taken years of growing daylilies to learn this) that in recent years I have shied away from some of the Southern grown plants in favor of those which are grown in similar climates. Some of those beauties with the big edges for example, never look like that here, and I'm tired of the frustration of trying to grow a Southern belle that will never be happy here.Some Southern plants that generally do well here on the edge of zones 6/7 are the Ellers plants and Nan Wilkerson's....See Morediggerdee zone 6 CT
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