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[ Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Going Bananas') | Posted on March 10, 2013 ]

Blooms all summer long and the leaves are evergreen/semi-evergreen.

Nice pale yellow color. Doesn't seem bothered by heat, humidity or drought.

[ Sedum (Petrosedum rupestre subsp. rupestre 'Angelina') | Posted on March 10, 2013 ]

Beautiful orange color in winter, bright yellow in summer, very pretty yellow flowers in spring, but the flower stalks need to be cut down or they look unsightly after they turn brown. Does great in hot sun as well as part shade. Roots very easily.

[ Meyer Lemon (Citrus x limon 'Improved Meyer') | Posted on March 10, 2013 ]

My Meyer is kept in a container and spends winter indoors by a sunny sliding glass door. But it doesn't like sudden changes in light, so it spends 2 weeks in part shade and 2 weeks in full shade before being brought indoors. This process is reversed in the spring.

Like other citrus flowers, the scent is just lovely and fills the entire house.

[ Hosta 'Guacamole' | Posted on December 6, 2011 ]

These were my very first hostas and I'm hooked! My guacamole is more lime green than what's shown in these pictures. The flowers are very pale lavender and have a wonderful fragrance. It's December now, and the leaves are still green!

I did have a problem with snails right after planting these. Coffee grounds didn't do much, so I used a combination of coffee grounds and Sluggo. There was only minor leaf damage.

They were bought on sale at a big box store for about 4 dollars per plant. After planting them in September, they grew about twice their original size! I can't wait to see how big they'll get next year.

[ Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata Limelight™) | Posted on December 6, 2011 ]

I wish I had room for 5 more of these hydrangeas.

The flowers start a beautiful lime green color and turn bright white. They're supposed to turn pink before turning brown, but mine just turned brown. I think I may have not watered it enough at the time it was supposed to turn pink. I hope they turn pink next fall.

The brown flower heads provide great winter interest. Mine's in the northwest corner of my house and gets full sun from about 1 pm to sunset, and it's done beautifully! No sign of sun or heat damage at all. My neighbor has a different cultivar of paniculata and the blooms flop all the way to the ground. But the Limelight blooms stay upright on strong stems.

I can't recommend this plant enough!

[ Russian Sage (Salvia 'Little Spire') | Posted on December 6, 2011 ]

I got the Little Spire cultivar, because I'd read somewhere that they're more upright and not likely to flop. Well, 2 out of my 3 Little Spires flopped for me! But I don't care because they're so beautiful in the late summer/autumn garden, covered in little blue flowers. They're bee magnets! The big, gentle bees that don't bother people. They're supposed to attract butterflies, too, but only the bees were interested in my garden. And it smells great, similar to culinary sage.

I think they'd do better (that is, not flop) in a *very* well draining sandy soil. I have clay that I amend with compost/leaf mold. I can't amend with sand, because it turns to concrete. Next time, I'm going to try amending with some perlite, and see if that leads to less flopping.

[ Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia 'Arapaho') | Posted on December 6, 2011 ]

This crape myrtle has bright red flowers that last for months! It did great its first year in a hot, sunny, dry location with twice weekly watering during the hottest months. It's a National Arboretum cultivar that's supposed to be disease resistant. It did get a little bit of powdery mildew in the summer, but a little neem oil cleared it up. It's still a young tree, so I'm not sure how showy the bark will get. The soil is hard, rocky, compacted clay, but heavily amended with leaf mold and mulched heavily with pine bark.

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