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Comments (25)How about Chelone 'Hot Lips' ? It provides a nice shot of hot pink color in the 2-3 ft range, full sun, in FALL ! Looks very nice paired with the Aconitum (monkshood) mentioned above, as both are fall bloomers. I will also strongly recommend lilies. I have just added about 20 lilies of different types to my pastel beds this year, so i am eagerly awaiting that show for the first time ! Plus, you don't have to dig and lift each year, they are quite hardy and will multiply, and the forms, scents, colors and variety of heights means there is one or more that can fill any "holes" you have in the June/July garden....See MoreYour favorite 'common' plant that you use everywhere?
Comments (57)This year my fav is a very lush border of self seeded white forget-me-nots next to the patio. There are a few blue ones in various places also but many more white. They are very pretty and I really should deliberately seed them like that if they don't come back. However, I think some of my usual common filler plants are the same as my tame badly behaved ones - lamb's ears, shastas, feverfew, Jacob's Ladder come immediately to mind. In fact I have Jacob's ladder coming up in the center of a big clump of shastas. Beats a dandelion doing the same. I like my heliopsis as they are good in the back of a border, take up a lot of space, flower well (altho yellow!), and multiply slowly even in a cold climate. Started with one free plant about 10 years ago and now have many in various beds. We also transplant annual sunflowers to any spare space when the birds sow them in the wrong places. Found one growing in the compost this am and moved it to the back of a bed. I'm now moving bits of bugleweed around as it's a nice ground cover filler for the front of beds. I'm planning to use blue flax more as the border DH planted last year is now blooming and looking great. It will make a very good filler in many places as previously mentioned....See MoreCommon Flower Garden Perennials for Winter Sowing, zones included
Comments (0)Here's a list of common garden perennials, I've listed the plants by common names with their zone ranges included. The zone ranges are "suggested", many of these plants will be hardier beyond the zone listing. As always, you can do a bit of research on the seeds you want to try germinating with Winter Sowing to learn more about the plant and see if it will be happy in your own garden. If you're unsure as to any seed's ability to germinate via Winter Sowing where you are then do hold some seeds back to sow indoors, later on in the season compare the differences between your Winter Sown plants and indoor-started plants. Learn from your experiences and use your knowledge to grow a better and better garden each year. Aster 4-9 Artemesia 3-8 Astilbe 4-8 Baby's Breath 4-9 Balloon Flower 4-9 Bee Balm 4-9 Bellflower 3-8 Blanket Flower 3-10 Blue-Eyed Grass 5-8 Blue Fescue 4-9 Blackberry Lily 5-9 Blazing Star 4-9 Blue Beard 7-10 Butterfly Weed 3-9 Broom 6-9 Cactus (varies by species, zones 3-10 included) Canterbury Bells (b) 3-8 Carnation 4-8 Catmint 5-9 Candytuft 3-8 Cinquefoil 5-8 Chinese Lanterns 5-8 Chrysanthemum 5-10 Clematis 5-9 Coral Bells 3-9 Coreopsis 4-10 Coneflower 3-8 Cranesbill 5-8 Creeping Thyme 4-9 Cupid's Dart 5-10 Daylily 4-10 Delphinium 3-7 English Daisy 4-8 Evening Primrose 5-8 Everlasting Sweet Pea 5-9 False Indigo 3-9 Flax 5-9 Foxglove (b 4-8) (p 3-8) Fleabane 6-9 Fountain Grass 6-9 Gaura 5-8 German Statice 3-9 Geum 5-7 Globe Thistle 3-8 Goat's Beard 3-7 Heather 5-8 Helenium 4-8 Iceplant 6-10 Hardy Hibiscus 5-10 Helleborus 3-8 Hollyhock 3-9 Hosta 3-9 Iris 4-9 Jack-in-the-Pulpit 5-9 Jupiter's Beard 5-8 Joe-Pye Weed 5-8 Lamb's Ears 4-8 Leadwort 7-10 Lily-of-the-Nile 6-10 Lily-of-the-Valley 3-8 Lily (Oriental varieties) 4-8 Lupine 4-8 Malva 4-8 Meadowsweet 3-8 Money Plant (b) 5-9 Mountain Bluet 3-8 Obediant Plant 4-8 Ox-Eye Daisy 3-8 Pampas Grass 7-10 Pasque Flower 5-7 Penstemon 3-8 Persian Buttercup 7-10 Peruvian Lily 7-10 Phlox 4-8 Pigsqueak 3-8 Pincushion Flower 3-8 Pinks 3-9 Plumbago 5-9 Poppy 4-9 Prairie Coneflower 3-10 Prairie Sunflower 4-10 Primrose 5-8 Pyrethrum 3-7 Red Hot Poker 6-10 Rudbeckia 3-9 Rose Campion 4-8 Russian Sage 3-9 Salvia (varies by species 4-9) Sea Holly 5-9 Sedum (varies by species 3-9) Shasta Daisy 5-9 Sea Pink 6-8 Snow-in-the-Summer 3-7 Spurge 4-9 Sundrops 4-8 Toad Lily 4-9 Verbena 6-10 Veronica 3-10 Viola 4-7 Yarrow 3-10...See Morelooking to exchange for hostas near middleboro massachusetts
Comments (0)Hi, Looking for a variety of hostas. I have plants to exchange like painted fern, raspberry lungwort, lady's mantle, hanoke grass, black eyed susan, Shasta daisies, astilbe, switch grass, sedge ice dance grass, Russian sage, Siberian iris, Hameln dwarf fountain grass, hyssop golden jubilee, lambs ear, aurinia saxatilis basket of gold, nepeta blue wonder, Sum and substance hosta, large green variegated hosta, large dark green hosta, krossa regale hosta, stella doro lilly, lacecap hydrangea, and Jupiter's beard....See MoreAlyssa Schear
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