Beginner Gardening: DJ"S SHARING GARDEN DESIGNS "WHAT TO GROW WHERE ???, 3 by warriorswisdomkathy

warriorswisdomkathy wrote:
WOW....those red tulips are just gorgeous!!! And love all those Pansies tooooo!!!! Yes the first is beautiful but hard to figure out what's there...lol.

Pam...the Veronica is not on the market, nor the seed anymore. I got the seed about 10-15 years ago from England. It is Veronica spicata "Sight Seeing", it was a mix of blue, white and pink.... Thought I had lost the pink but saw one in the garden last summer. Will be collecting seed and dividing on more this season. My daughter has my only white one, so I need to divide it and get seed also... But I will be dividing my blue come spring... It's 28" tall and gets to be almost 30" wide... They need dividing. The tallest V. spicata on the market is only 18", that's why I love mine sooooo. It's tall enough to make a statement!, and be seen from a distance. Another great thing is they are big enough (wide) to have soooo many stems in bloom that I can cut for the vase instead of just deadheading..... I must have almost a dozen or so plants out there that need dividing. Just looked back in my records to 2009 when I started these. It looks like it took just about a month under lights to have them sprout....so don't give up hope!!!! Yup, that makes those plants in the garden 4 years old, going into their 5th season, so definately time for dividing them.

Pix are all the veronicas...
Note pix 2, it shows that I deadheaded at the top of the stem, hench they put on 3 or 4 blossoms and shoter, normally I cut the stem back to a few inches above the ground, making stems longer and multiples...