Flowers in your gardens

[JenD]

Kya...I am in zone 6. I have a flowering almond also, forgot about that one and alot of others to! Forsythia, speedwell, lambs ears, foxglove, ajuga and more! I see you have snow on the mountian, I tried that once and it practically took over! We sure do have alot of the same plants! Must be that thing with great minds thinking alike!

 

[sassmuffin]

Kya, do you have a picture of the flowering almond?

 

[Jade]

Many of you have seen photos of my gardens in Ontario...well, we have a new house, so last year was my first year of developing the landscape. We have hostas, stella d'oro daylilies, plumbago, knockout roses, a standard fragrant viburnum, a tree peony, hakone grass (3 varieties, it is my favorite), lilac "Beauty of Moscow", some other things that are still sleeping. Hubby tried to put me on a budget but it didn't work. Some addictions aren't controllable. We started our spring shopping at Lowes on Saturday, they had just gotten their bare-root bagged plants in. I got 3 new peonies, 3 dahlia tubers and 2 orchids. Pretty expensive valentines day for my honey, but he loved getting his hands dirty too when we were potting the stuff up.

 

[Annette99]

What will bloom on my property this spring

We're in the dead of the winter here so nothing is blooming now, but I made a list of what is in the ground and will be coming up. The annuals listed are ones that readily self sow each year.I seed start the biennials so they are planted each year to come up the next year. I'm sure I am misssing some. This took a long while to think about making this list, and I'm glad I did. Had never made a list before of what is in my gardens.

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   aralia, asclepias, aubrieta, ajuga, allium, aruncus, achillea-cerise queen the pearl and filipendolina, angelica, per. alyssum, annual alyssum, azalea, stokes astor, astilbe, agastache, bleeding hearts, bergenia, balsam, baptisia, bugloss, butterfly bushes, balloonflowers, borage, columbine, commassia, crocus, campanula rotundifolia, clematis, cleome, cheeses, chrysanthemums,camomile st Johns, campion rose, centaurea montana and macrocephala, coneflowers white purple and prarie, castor beans, coreopsis several varieties, catanache, centranthus, dianthus, daffodils, depford pinks, delphiniums, datura, eupatorium, echinops, edilweiss, foxglove, forsythia, four o'clocks, ferns, feverfew virgo, gaura, gypsophila, grecian windflowers, several types per. geraniums, gaillardia, grasses ornamental, golden seal, galium, lotsa hostas, per. heliotrope, hibiscus, hesperis, hyacinths, helianthus, iris siberian japanese and a few bearded, kiss me over the garden gate, knautia, liatris, lobelia shphlitica and cardinalis, ladys mantle, Lilys tiger day asiatic and of the valley, lilac, lupine lavenders, limonium, muskmallows zebrina and alba, monarda, magnolia, nigella, nicotiana,primroses, peonys, penstemon, polemomium, phlox, perilla, poppys, physostegia, phuopsis stylosa, quince, rose campion, rudbeckias, rhemannia, ragged robin, rhododendron, roses, rose of sharon, rumex, sages and salvias, snapdragons, silene, sweet annie, trailing soapwort, stachys, scilla, solomons seal, tulips, turtlehead, tradescantia, viburnum, veronicas, verbascum, verbena bonariensis, wormwoods, and weigelia.weeping cherrys, quanza cherrys.

 

[Rose White]

2 very different gardens

My summer woodland garden has about 50 hostas lining the long driveway and honeysuckle is finally growing near my cabin. The rhodedendrons are growing beautifully but strangely enough the one blooms only every other year! I put in all the evergreen bushes I can find on sale and every year try new shade-loving plants. Of course my windowboxes, daylilies and sweet hostas are my favorites.

In the winter I stay next to the Mediterranean Sea and have lemons still hanging on the tree, a palm tree which grows about a foot every year and a red bougainvillea which is stretching to reach my 3rd floor balcony. Since I am not here during the hot summers I am limited on what I grow as they need to take care of themselves mostly. My neighbor keeps my African violets during the summer and I keep them during the winter so it makes a nice trade.

Rose White, author of
"Easy Gardens A to Z"