Specialty Gardening: Favorite Plants in the Cottage Garden, 1 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
Suzy, I got P.'Natasha' from ForestFarm in spring '05, and it bloomed the first year. I think Bluestone sells their phlox as larger, 4"pots instead of the 3 packs.

Hey Jill! Bearded iris do like for their rhizomes to be exposed where the sun can shine on them. I like hardy geraniums meandering through the iris. I have lamium around some too, but it spreads really fast here and I have to keep ripping it away from the iris. I love Penstemon smallii too! They kept blooming for a really long time this year, and I found them to be a perfect cottage garden plant.