Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods Chat- Winter Solstice 2012, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
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Just FYI--HD has loads of seeds by different companies.
Seems all packets of Burpee seeds are ONLY $1. Nice selection too.

I can suggest several "fill-ins" that are the biennial sort of an annual. Self seed like crazy.
I have seeds for all these.

-Forget-Me-Nots--I could bring you a W-Box full of starter plants--dug them up last fall. Ready to bloom in the spring.
-Dwarf (16" or so) Red Coreopsis
-Tall Blue Ageratum--taller than the small clumping annuals sold in market packs.
--Cleomies--you will have piles of these every year. --Same goes for Rose Campion--it will be all over. So pretty!
--Candytuft--nice, spreading perennial.

Have you thought of the perennial Euphorbia? The one with those neat little blooms?
It multiplies from underground root runners. It is evergreen, drought tolerant, and disease free.
I think it is this one. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/100918/
I have it growing around a decaying stump. I have dug up some of the new plantlets.
So pretty in the summer with those pale green "blooms" at the ends of long spikes.

That's all I can think of right now. Gita
1--Forget-me-Nots
2--Cleome (Spider Flower)
3--Dwarf red Coreopsis
4--Rose campion
5--Candy Tuft