Pacific Northwest Gardening: PLEASE! WE NEED YOUR INPUT FOR ROUNDUP PLANNING!!! HELP!!!, 1 by susybell

susybell wrote:
Wow, it's cool that you've decided that this would be something fun to do. :) :)

When I first suggested this, my reasons for limiting the choices were to level the playing field, keep the costs down so that it would be easy for everyone to participate, and to make it more about creativity of the gardener.

Another reason is that if common plants are used they would be likely to be able to be found from Eugene to Bellingham to Kalispell.

Plus, it's not that hard to put a fantastic container together if the sky's the limit, you've got tons of plants that are cooler than everyone else's and you've got easy access to really great nurseries, but what can you that's original and interesting with the old familiar stuff?

I think, though, that it would be hard to do this if there was an assigned theme AND a limited plant list. I'm wondering if there should be some non-blooming choices too, though. And maybe change one of them to asters or mums because it is so late in the summer?

Here's a suggestion-you don't have to use all 10 plants, just only those, plus, in addition to the restricted list, there's "gardener's choice" for ONE plant in the container-but that you still have to use some of the plants on the list?

I think it could be a lot of fun just to see what folks came up with without a theme.

This message was edited May 10, 2009 11:27 PM