New and Unread Tree-Mails
Views: 11228, Replies: 301 » Jump to the end |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)              SongofJoy Nov 29, 2011 3:50 PM CST |
If you already have a Perennial Garden, have one planned, or are just dreaming of one, tell us about it. Photos are good too.  I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: virginiarose Virginia Money talks but Chocolate Sings!           virginiarose Nov 29, 2011 5:42 PM CST |
Well my perennial garden got a little out of hand last summer, my big misteak was platning a tomato vine to run up the trellis. It did not go up it went out for eight feet and took over. I bought some coneflowers that didn't do too well, and my burgendy rudbeckia was brown.  I want to dig up the purple coneflower bush and the black eyed susan and have mostly coneflowers and rudbeckia and perhaps some Lorraine sunshine (false sunflowers) also I would like some different coreopsis as a low border plant across the front or maybe just go with some calendula's, I have seed for the kind that look like little tiny cactus dahlia. I have mostly butterfly bushes down the back fence and I would like to plant the large coneflowers between the butterfly bushes and maybe other plants that attract butterflies and birds.   Susan In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.....Margaret Atwood |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a)           kqcrna Nov 29, 2011 6:35 PM CST |
| Pretty! Karen |
Name: Joy Wooldridge Kalama, Wa. (Zone 8b) Sunset Zone 6, Heat zone 4,        Joy Nov 29, 2011 8:25 PM CST |
| Very pretty Susan. No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson |
Name: Lee Anne Stark Brockville, Ontario, Canada (Zone 5a) Perpetually happy!         threegardeners Nov 29, 2011 9:04 PM CST |
| very pretty!! |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Nov 30, 2011 3:52 AM CST |
It will be interesting to watch your Perennial Garden evolve and grow.  I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: virginiarose Virginia Money talks but Chocolate Sings! virginiarose Nov 30, 2011 5:27 AM CST |
Thanks everyone! It's certainly a work in progress, looking forward to spring.   Susan In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.....Margaret Atwood |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Nov 30, 2011 5:36 AM CST |
I love it that you are focusing on drought-tolerant plants and making your garden less thirsty.  I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: Joy Wooldridge Kalama, Wa. (Zone 8b) Sunset Zone 6, Heat zone 4, Joy Nov 30, 2011 5:24 PM CST |
I'll have to dig out my photos from previous years. My garden is a mix of plants in the ground and pots. At the beginning of the year we had our double wide moved out and a new home built. I had moved some plants so I wouldn't lose them, but they wiped out areas of my garden that I thought were out of the way.  I lost a lot of plants. But they did open up some new areas I didn't have before for planting at least. No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson |
Name: Joy Wooldridge Kalama, Wa. (Zone 8b) Sunset Zone 6, Heat zone 4, Joy Nov 30, 2011 6:03 PM CST |
      No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) kqcrna Nov 30, 2011 6:20 PM CST |
| Fun- designing and building new gardens to match a new house. Karen |
Name: Lee Anne Stark Brockville, Ontario, Canada (Zone 5a) Perpetually happy! threegardeners Nov 30, 2011 6:45 PM CST |
| beautiful! |
Name: virginiarose Virginia Money talks but Chocolate Sings! virginiarose Nov 30, 2011 8:56 PM CST |
| Very nice Joy! You have a lot going on there, love, I mean love the porch!   What are the purple flowers at the bottom right on the porch? Geranium ?  What are the pink flowers in the hanging basket on the top left, look like some kind of petunia. susan Susan In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.....Margaret Atwood |
Name: Joy Wooldridge Kalama, Wa. (Zone 8b) Sunset Zone 6, Heat zone 4, Joy Nov 30, 2011 9:25 PM CST |
| Thanks everyone. Susan, Yes, the purple one is a Geranium that's called Long Shot. The hanging basket is million bells. The porch and most of those garden areas are gone now. But I have a new patio and front porch area and lots of new garden areas to work with now. No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Dec 1, 2011 5:47 AM CST |
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...  This year...    And then on to some of the back...    I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: virginiarose Virginia Money talks but Chocolate Sings! virginiarose Dec 1, 2011 6:58 AM CST |
| Very nice songofjoy, you have done a lot of work to that property. What is the little tree in the back yard, reminds me of my baby cherry tree but the leaves are bigger. My house was the same way, lot of work. I like the rocks beside the driveway, what is the little shrub with the pink flowers, it is certainly a cheerful little bush! joy Thanks for the information about the geranium and million bells, got those on my wish list for spring. susan Susan In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.....Margaret Atwood |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Dec 1, 2011 9:16 AM CST |
| Thank you, Susan. That tree is an Eastern Redbud, variety is 'Forest Pansy'. Not sure which shrub you mean? I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: virginiarose Virginia Money talks but Chocolate Sings! virginiarose Dec 1, 2011 7:22 PM CST |
That's the right one, I figured it was some type of Redbud. My brother loves the Forest Pansy's, They grow wild in NC where he lives and he stops on the interstate and digs them up!  The shrub I was referring to is the one planted in the rocks. Beside car port on left side of driveway. susan Susan In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.....Margaret Atwood |
Name: Carole Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b) SongofJoy Dec 2, 2011 4:27 AM CST |
| Crepe myrtle. I garden for the pollinators. |
Name: virginiarose Virginia Money talks but Chocolate Sings! virginiarose Dec 2, 2011 6:04 AM CST |
| You are kidding me! It is so cute , do you remember what kind it is??I have a dwarf Crepe myrtle in my corner garden and all it does is grow sideways. Weird  susan Susan In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.....Margaret Atwood |
| « Garden.org Homepage « Back to the top « Forums List « Perennials forum |
[ Join now ]
