Northeast Gardening: End of season report card, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Smashing successes: coleus, dahlias, JI's, Jolly Bee geranium, mixed "splashed" Asiatic lilies from Dutch Gardens, lobelia, all container plantings, tarragon gone insane and tithonia, which reached 6' before I had to cut it back so we could get into the vegetable garden. Mixing broccoli (from seed) in with the dahlias was much fun and so productive!

So-so: tomatoes, peppers, cukes - mainly because of cool nights or deer.

Flops and "why did I ever buy them": three tree roses that all require an ever present gardener with food in one hand and a hose in the other, a monarda I loved but only realized this past week is an annual, all three sweet potato vines that went too crazy overwhelming other plants, ajuga that also went wild and took a full 8 hour day to remove from the now pleasantly bare of ajuga rose garden, which is bare of roses due to the deer (again).