Specialty Gardening: Fall flower fillers?, 1 by wonderearth

wonderearth wrote:


sempervirens - I love the little purple flowers that look life they've got eyes. Is that the tourina? I grow my tobacco with totally out of control nasturtiums and ferns too. so the space thing, well, you should see how crowded mine are- it's silly. What exactly happened when you tried to grow it? Maybe you should try again. Mine didn't really start to go untill the weather warmed quite a bit and they probably really need shade in your neck of the woods. I lived in nyc for a year and boy was it hot. Would you be willing to look on the ground underneath your nasturtiums for seeds. I really wouldn't need more that 5 seeds. I don't care if there not true or a surprise. they are really big just almost 1/3 of an inch and look like little brains, kind of, they usually get all over the place in my garden.( enough anatomic descriptions today) I could send you an sasbe and well if it's not to much trouble?

wrightie- your pink nasturtiums are so sweet I should try dwarf in my garden. the regular ones get so big they shade out everything else and have to keep pulling them out all year just let some of them flower. They are thouroghly naturalized and would be hard to change varieties though.

But back to fall color- begonias are still going full force and do well tucked in between all the rest of everything so that there vividblooms just kind of peak through. Also painted tongue i just planted and is adding vivid color. when do you get a first frost?

here's a picture of the crowd - love it. there are begonias and daisies under the nicotiana that swamping everything, just can bear to cut it back yet.