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Dec 2, 2011 6:19 AM CST
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Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
It's 'Pink Velour'. This one isn't a dwarf.
I garden for the pollinators.
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Dec 2, 2011 6:30 AM CST
Name: Carolyn Madden
Pennsylvania
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Such beautiful gardens. I love looking others' gardens - I always come away with some new ideas.

I have found my perennial garden to be a constant work in progress. I put a lot of things in late last summer because my inlaws are moving, so my MIL gave me a lot. I also had quite a few daylily trades last year, so I am anxious to see what the garden brings next year.

I'll have to dig out some photos as well.

Keep the pictures coming - I love them! Green Grin!
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Dec 2, 2011 6:42 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Sounds good, Carolyn. We'd love to see them. Thumbs up
I garden for the pollinators.
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Dec 2, 2011 7:04 AM CST
Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers
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Region: Indiana Garden Art Plant and/or Seed Trader Hummingbirder Birds Echinacea
Yes cant wait to see what spring brings for you. I really need to work on a complete list of what I have growing. For Years I never kept any tags ,untill I found DG,OH what Ive learned.. Hurray! I have taught my 7 year old grandson Leo,all about perennial flowers,he always asks does that come back every year.He is going to grow beautiful flowers forever. Me too I hope..Nothing better than all the perennials I have growing.ive got some new things Im excited to see what they do this coming spring. Persian Daisy,Perenial Lobelia.See i need to look those up in my messy basket full of seeds and tags and empty seed packets.

Seas of purple Creeping Phlox,that does well here,i have it under the 20ft row of peonies along the driveway too.
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Dec 2, 2011 7:24 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
The purple creeping phlox is nice. The frogs are obviously lovin' it. Hilarious!
I garden for the pollinators.
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Dec 2, 2011 7:26 AM CST
Name: Janice
Cape Cod, MA, USA (Zone 7a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cottage Gardener Garden Ideas: Master Level Sempervivums Tip Photographer
Daylilies Roses Orchids Miniature Gardening Lilies Irises
How cute is that? Love the Muscari behind...
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle
- Albert Einstein.
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Dec 2, 2011 8:22 AM CST
Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Level 1 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Hibiscus Dragonflies Daylilies
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Love that purple Creeping Phlox Drooling

susan
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29
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Dec 3, 2011 5:27 AM CST
Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers
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Region: Indiana Garden Art Plant and/or Seed Trader Hummingbirder Birds Echinacea
The 2 plants I have a lot of everywhere...muscari,once you plant them they never go away...Thats why I love them,i go on round ups in the spring ..Round up a bucket full of strays and plant them or give them away. Lovey dubby
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Dec 3, 2011 5:41 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Ah, Spring, I remember it well. I had Muscari out in CA and it does tend to hang around and get around. Green Grin!
I garden for the pollinators.
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Dec 3, 2011 7:37 AM CST
Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers
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Region: Indiana Garden Art Plant and/or Seed Trader Hummingbirder Birds Echinacea
Want some Lovey dubby im surprized I didnt send you any,I usually pop a few in Confused
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Dec 4, 2011 6:45 AM CST
Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Lilies Bulbs Clematis Vegetable Grower
Region: Indiana Garden Art Plant and/or Seed Trader Hummingbirder Birds Echinacea
Umm I dont know?? Blinking tree mail me Hilarious!
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Dec 10, 2011 6:51 PM CST
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Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)
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Tooo many questions!
SongofJoy said:Wow, pretty, Joy. I know how you feel with the starting over. I moved here just two years ago and there was nothing but Bermuda grass, weeds, big old trees with big old roots and a few overgrown shrubs and vines. There were some languishing azaleas across the front of the house and two glossy Abelias. I got those under control and they have done well.

I tackled the areas by the driveway next.
Early last Spring...
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This year...
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Is that a Stachys in the 1st pic? If so which variety?
What's the blue grass like plant in the 2nd pic?
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Dec 11, 2011 1:55 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Hi Evan --
Yes, that's Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet'. Great plant here ... doesn't flower and become invasive like other Stachys ... very tidy habit. It doesn't mind heavy soil and seems unfazed by dry, hot conditions. I'm really taken with it.

The blue grassy plant is Leymus arenarius 'Blue Dune' ... Blue Lyme Grass. Now that one will spread like most grasses but not terribly difficult to pull the shallow runners and does well planted in a container in the ground to help inhibit its spread. It gets a nice wheat-like inflorescence about 30" tall.
I garden for the pollinators.
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Dec 11, 2011 9:23 AM CST
Plants Admin Emeritus
Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)
Charter ATP Member Aroids Irises I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Tropicals Vermiculture
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Thanks Tee. Silver Carpet has a much nicer habit my Stachys. I particularly like the larger, more upright leaf. Blue Dune is such an intense blue. I don't recall seeing anything like it before. I have blue fescue and Schizachrium scoparium ‘The Blues’. Both are a duller blue. I like the stiffness of the blades in your photo too.

Tamara, how do you maintain your phlox to get such an amazing flower display?
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Dec 12, 2011 7:44 AM CST
Name: Sheryl
Hot, hot, hot, Feenix, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Southwest Gardening Charter ATP Member Keeps Horses Dog Lover Cat Lover Permaculture
Butterflies Birds Cottage Gardener Herbs I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises
Tee, where did you get that grass? I've not seen it before. It doesn't seed?
In the end, only kindness matters.

Science is not the answer, it is the question.


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Dec 12, 2011 8:15 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Sheryl, it puts up inflorescenses that are around 30" tall. They look like wheat and are easy to cut off. I've had no problems with reseeding. I cut them to use inside in arrangements and so forth. Otherwise, it spreads by shallow underground runners that I have found fairly easy to pull if I do it in a timely manner. But it will definitely spread by those unless you pull it or otherwise contain it in the ground. Mine isn't contained and so far I haven't had a lot of problems with it although sometimes it does pop up in an unexpected place in that bed.

I am thinking I got it at Lowe's, but it has been two years so I'm not absolutely sure.
I garden for the pollinators.
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Dec 12, 2011 2:43 PM CST
Name: Sheryl
Hot, hot, hot, Feenix, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Southwest Gardening Charter ATP Member Keeps Horses Dog Lover Cat Lover Permaculture
Butterflies Birds Cottage Gardener Herbs I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises
I shopped around this morning and found it. But the area that I wanted to put it is next to my pastures, so I don't dare. I just don't have many contained areas, unfortunately.
In the end, only kindness matters.

Science is not the answer, it is the question.


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Dec 12, 2011 2:59 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages Plant Identifier I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar Garden Ideas: Master Level Cat Lover Birds Region: Tennessee Echinacea
Crying
I garden for the pollinators.
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Jan 22, 2012 3:17 PM CST
Name: Jo Ann Gentle
Pittsford NY (Zone 6a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cat Lover Heucheras Hellebores Container Gardener
Birds Region: New York Avid Green Pages Reviewer Irises Garden Ideas: Master Level Lilies
This is my favorite photos from the garden
this year.Its long and sorry about the dups.
http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4...
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Jan 22, 2012 3:39 PM CST
Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Level 1 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Hibiscus Dragonflies Daylilies
Bee Lover Dahlias Butterflies Hostas Birds Lilies
Jo Ann, these are beautiful, I love your yard and I remember viewing one of your projects because I remembered the fountain. Love all your plants. I just downloaded the Smileboxinstaller.exe hopefully I can get enuff pictures together. Do you get to pick the music? What was the light greens with the Pink, Hot Pink flowers on top?? Absolutely a stunner!! Drooling Drooling
susan
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I took a picture of my monitor so I could show you what I was talking about!! Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29

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