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Feb 27, 2012 4:33 PM 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
Platycodon grandiflorus


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I garden for the pollinators.
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Feb 28, 2012 12:13 PM CST
Name: Cinda
Indiana Zone 5b
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If you grow this in your garden ,it is best to mark it because it is very late to emerge and you do not want to plant on top of it. Smiling
It comes in three colors that I know of , single and double blooms, short 6'' to tall 30+''
If you don't have one you should Smiling
..a balanced life is worth pursuit.
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Feb 28, 2012 12:25 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
Thanks for that excellent input, Cinda. Thumbs up
I garden for the pollinators.
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Feb 28, 2012 1:15 PM CST
Name: Cinda
Indiana Zone 5b
Dances with Dirt
Beekeeper Bee Lover Overwinters Tender Plants Indoors Cottage Gardener Herbs Wild Plant Hunter
Hummingbirder Butterflies Birds Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Organic Gardener Vegetable Grower
I tip my hat to you.
I like having a plant of the week maybe we will discover something new for our gardens.
..a balanced life is worth pursuit.
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Feb 28, 2012 1:59 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
We might have to make that more than one plant of the week. I love discovering new things. Thumbs up
I garden for the pollinators.
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Feb 28, 2012 2:53 PM CST
Name: Cinda
Indiana Zone 5b
Dances with Dirt
Beekeeper Bee Lover Overwinters Tender Plants Indoors Cottage Gardener Herbs Wild Plant Hunter
Hummingbirder Butterflies Birds Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Organic Gardener Vegetable Grower
Maybe call it perennial feature then have each plant have its own thread with a bit of info and questions could be answered? But of course it couldn't be a sticky?
Just thinking out loud Whistling
..a balanced life is worth pursuit.
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Feb 28, 2012 3:15 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
That's a thought.
I garden for the pollinators.
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Mar 14, 2012 5:03 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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SongofJoy said:Platycodon grandiflorus


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(photo from the ATP database courtesy of jmorth)


JM always has such beautiful flowers, I am soooooo jealous. He takes some good pictures too, great photographer.

What is the Perennial plant for this week? Thumbs up
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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Mar 14, 2012 5:46 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
it's the ever-popular late-blooming Toobusyalis. (I just made that up) Green Grin! I have been so busy I haven't gotten around to it. But I will.
I garden for the pollinators.
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Mar 14, 2012 6:24 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
Bee Lover Dahlias Butterflies Hostas Birds Lilies
Thank you Tee. Green Grin!
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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Mar 14, 2012 6:26 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
Green Grin!
I garden for the pollinators.
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