Tell us about your Perennial Gardens, part 2 in the Perennials forum

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ge1836

Apr 21, 2012 6:33 AM CST

Name: Jo Ann Gentle
Pittsford NY (Zone 6a)

I think the issue of GG that came has some nice deck redo's There are also container arrangements in the regular mag.

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huggergirl

Apr 21, 2012 6:50 AM CST

Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers

Thanks Polly, I will have more photos as they bloom...I have a great crop of them this year...

Creeping Phlox living up to its name,creeping thyme,blue fescue,mums....bowling balls....I love the Black and teal one ,its OLDDD rubber,now that it has lost its polished finish,it smells really bad when it gets wet...

I love this Climatis color ?? Need to ID it

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ge1836

Apr 21, 2012 6:52 AM CST

Name: Jo Ann Gentle
Pittsford NY (Zone 6a)

I have to admit to a personal bias against Creeping Phlox.It remindes me of the cemetary.Just me go figure.
BUT those are just beautiful. Tamera.

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crittergarden

Apr 21, 2012 6:56 AM CST

Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)

Phlox can be invasive. But I like it in my front yard, which is the ~8 feet between the sidewalk and the house, so I think I can contain it!

SHOW ME YOUR CRITTERS! I have a critter page over at Cubits. http://cubits.org/crittergarde...

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ge1836

Apr 21, 2012 7:02 AM CST

Name: Jo Ann Gentle
Pittsford NY (Zone 6a)

I have a late dwarf Astilbe that needs containment that way.

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huggergirl

Apr 21, 2012 7:10 AM CST

Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers

I will give it a Big Hair cut,after it blooms ....I have LOTS of it...

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SongofJoy

Apr 21, 2012 7:19 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)

I garden for the pollinators.

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tarev

Apr 21, 2012 11:32 AM CST

Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
Give PEACE a chance!

My astilbe is missing in action so far this year

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eclayne

Apr 21, 2012 3:57 PM CST

Plants Admin Emeritus

Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)

huggergirl said:
I love this Climatis color ?? Need to ID it

Looks a lot like Asao I just received from a mamajack co-op.
http://www.perennialresource.c...

Evan

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SongofJoy

Apr 21, 2012 4:17 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)

Looks like a match to me.

I garden for the pollinators.

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springcolor

Apr 21, 2012 5:03 PM CST

Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)

Love the clem!
A few blooms from today

Perennials coming on but no color yet.

A small growing clem. and astilbe. not a great shot i guess

Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla grandis subsp. grandis)
Uploaded by springcolor

Nice out today

Sempervivum for Sale

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virginiarose

Apr 21, 2012 6:02 PM CST

Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.

springcolor said:Love the clem!

Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla grandis subsp. grandis)
Uploaded by springcolor

springcolor, what is this? Its beautiful

, the others too!

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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springcolor

Apr 21, 2012 6:13 PM CST

Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)

I'm having brain file crash! Someone posted a red one some were. Maybe it was the cottage forum. I'm thinking.
http://www.finegardening.com/p...
This is it.

Sempervivum for Sale

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huggergirl

Apr 22, 2012 6:36 AM CST

Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers

thanks Evan,Im really goingto work on making lables for all my plants and a master list...Sometime...

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eclayne

Apr 22, 2012 2:29 PM CST

Plants Admin Emeritus

Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)

Really pretty Tamara. How old is yours? This is my first time w/clems.

Evan

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Carolyn22

Apr 22, 2012 6:51 PM CST

Name: Carolyn Madden
Pennsylvania

Spring -

Looks like a Pulsatila to me.... I love pulsatila, dont' you?

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springcolor

Apr 22, 2012 9:38 PM CST

Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)

Carolyn,
Yes it is, just couldn't remember at the time.

I hate to label, always think I can remember but I can't.

Sempervivum for Sale

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ge1836

Apr 23, 2012 2:35 AM CST

Name: Jo Ann Gentle
Pittsford NY (Zone 6a)

LOL I dont count on my memory for anything.When I started the gardens here I used white plastic spoons to mark where I had planted things.
DD gave me the wierd eye and I know the rest of the kids thought I was nuts. Sitting on the deck looking at a graveyard of plastic spoons until the plants matured and covered them.That was 5 years ago.
Last fall I gave DD some allium bulbs plus other stuff.She has her gardening style and I have mine so she gets to plant in her gatdens.
I was taking her to the airport Friday,she said "Ohhhh gee I think I planted the alliums on top of the lilies"
I told her I knew everyone thought I was nuts to mark the gardens with spoons but there was a method to my madness.

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virginiarose

Apr 23, 2012 5:19 AM CST

Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.

That is so funny,

I thought mine looked weird with the white sticks sticking up everywhere. At one point all I could see was white sticks this pass winter, then I decided I needed something besides sticks. Here come the evergreens! I planted a Arborvitae and Nandina Firepower and Domestica. I miss my blue-rug juniper, but I had to dig it up to make room for the Hosta, Then I dug up the azaleas because they were not getting enough sun. I planted some evergreens behind the hosta's and I was in such a rush to get those Hosta planted I forgot to tag them. That was the end of November when I planted them, then around the first of February I transplanted these shrubs from other parts of the yard. A lot of the Hosta are coming up now but I did damage one because I forgot to tag it and did not know it was there.

I will take more pics today since it stopped raining. Before I do that I gotta reformat my sd card because it is full of pictures. Can't believe I took 400 pictures, hummm.

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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huggergirl

Apr 23, 2012 5:21 AM CST

Name: Huggergirl AKA Tamar
N.E Indiana (Zone 5a)
I Love Flowers

ahh,you speak from experiance....

As we all do...I soo need to mark a few newbies...

Evan,that climatis is 3 ,I moved it last year,and it loves where its at,it has grown more last year than ever...It gets more water now,obviously it needed it...

It has more blooms today...its soo pretty..I love Climatis,I have a Giant Jackmani or 2...and 1 other,moved them 2 years ago they are really happy too.Ill post photos when they bloom..

holy Moly snowing in New York this morning...I knew something like this would happen,all the great winter weather we all had ...Someone was going to get snowed on this spring...