Beginner Gardening: It's December - let's celebrate our gardens , 1 by willowwind

willowwind wrote:
ge and Stormy, I believe that larkspur was just from a generic mixed larkspur packet I had scattered in one of the wilder corners. I really liked the blue so saved the seed specifically from those and rescattered around the lilies. Usually you still come up with a variety of colors, I guess due to cross pollination, but these seemed to come up pretty true. I have some pink larkspur that have also stayed truer to parent, but I know that doesn't always work. If you want perennial though, I believe there are some of the delphinium that grow more like an annual larkspur in form...maybe Blue Mirror or Blue Butterfly...but will come back like a perennial, and of course have that incredible blue.

Wow Stormy! you've done an awfully lot of bulb planting. Where do you get your bulbs in such quantities? How do you deal with dying foliage when your other plants are coming up? I have so much to learn!

Carolyn, I love your Elodie lily. I've seen it in catalogs and it looks like it really is a pretty one. I think the larkspur would be gorgeous with it.

Does anyone know what this iris might be? I received it from a friend who couldn't remember the name and it's multiplied really well, but I don't know how to address it, other than "Sweetie", when I'm in the garden.

Willow