Oldbies - Part 1

How very sweet of you, Louise. The collage is beautiful! Thank you so much!

Pirls compost plants (golden creeping Jenny and the sedum (Is that Purple Emperor?) look better than my garden plants by far...:)
Stormyla......If the plants have any cluster of green leaves at the base, you might have a start for continued bloom..otherwise would go with the "let them seed out" with all the plants and start anew..would do that for at least some anyway as seeds have gotten so much costlier than when I started gardening.
I don't think you can root cuttings from it, (not positive..but pretty certain).

pirls gardens are great

Yes, Marcia, you guessed all the plants correctly.

Thanks, Jo Ann. I try my best.

Thanks, Ge & Marcia.

Read a great quote this morning -

QUOTE FOR THE DAY:

"Are you a happy person until something makes you unhappy? Or are you an unhappy person until something make you happy?"

I'm a happy person first.

Me, too. I'm always amused by the little things that elate my spirits - like finding two coupons for $25.00 each during the last week for places where I ordered plants. You'd think from my reaction that I won the lottery.

At the rate I lost plants last season 25.dollars is a plant fro free.

Precisely! I was weak and ordered a yellow peony (I don't even love peonies!) but the coupon more than covered the cost. Guess I ordered at the right time since now they're sold out but I already received my order and have the peony:

http://www.dutchgardens.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-DutchGardens-Site/default/Link-CategoryProduct?cgid=peoniesf&pid=30246S

Its just beautiful.
Looks somewhat like a Anemone

The photo made the sale as it almost always does for me.

I'm a very happy person and find many reasons to laugh at myself daily. The simplest little things can make me smile. Whenever I find myself getting crabby, I look for some children to play with. It's darn near impossible not to be amused and have your spirits lifted just being around little ones. Makes a nice break for their parents too.

I am happy firs. I only find myself unhappy if I am over tired or have not eaten. Then myself and everyone around me is unhappy. My DH comes running with something to eat.

LOL A wise man!

I'm a happy first person. It's interesting that as I've aged the things that make me unhappy have changed since I was a young pup.

The yellow peony is intriguing. I think I would like a yellow tree peony.

Our neighbor bought her tree peonies at the Philadelphia Flower Show a few years ago.

Now a take out meatball hero, enjoyed at home, is a thrill for me after a long day of working in the garage. Years ago it probably would have been far less exciting or thrilling.

Anything that I don't have too cook after a long day of working in the mist and mud thrills me, especially when topped off with some Hot Chocolate!

I'm with you on the meatball sub, Pirl. Cheese, onions and peppers here, please, and a nice frosty beer. The end to a great day of gardening.

I'm not big on meatball subs, a Phillie cheesesteak is my guilty pleasure. And when the weather gets cold a hot chocolate in the evening is heavenly.

I have a Farfugium that's been making me smile all month. It's trying it's darndest to bloom. The bud looks like it's not going to open, but I've been greatly inspired by it's struggle to burst forth!

It's hard to tell here, but can you see that stalk rising out of the one on the left? This photo was taken on 10-17. The petals are now fully visable, but the bud isn't completely open. The valiant effort of this young plant has thrilled me!

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Cool! I can see the stem. I've never seen the bloom on those, but I love the spotted leaves. Has it overwintered for you yet? I do know some are hardy here, I don't know which ones, though.

No, Polly, I just planted them this summer. They are a newer variety supposed to be hardy in zone 6. I couldn't find the variety name quickly. I'll look up the name.

I do know that the slugs love them!!!

If you do find the name, please post it. I'd like to try them. It looks like they have yellow flowers. I planted some mukdenia this spring, and that's looking very nice. Nice fall colors on it. The farfugium might look nice next to it.

Polly, I got it from BigDipper Farms. Farfugium Tussilaginea Aureomaculatum. Hardy to zone 5.

I have some Mukdenia on order for the spring. I hope they do well. Here's an interesting one that I put in this summer.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/82177/

It has the neatest velvety leaves. It's still looking very good today. No die back so far.

I've had no luck with mukdenia. It comes up every spring but peters out in the heat of summer. How do you grow yours Polly?

I planted mine just this spring Louise. It's in quite a bit of shade, well watered. I did put some composted cow manure in the planting hole, but we're mostly sandy loam. Essentially the way I grow heucheras. It is a slow grower, for sure.

Thanks Mary, I'll get that one then. It's funny, I just made a trade with someone for spring for saxifraga. I don't know if they will do well here or not, but the lady showed a picture on the sedum forum, and I love the flowers.

From pictures the mukdenia has pretty flowers too.

STOP now I want some.

Some what, Jo Ann? Or all of the above? I'm pretty sure I saw some farfugium at Wayside a couple of years ago. I never did get there this year.

I have such limited shade, darn it.

it will be on my list.I'll check at Gro-More this spring.
The woman in charge of perennials is willing to look into special requests so I ordered 2 Astilbe OstrichPlume type peach color (german name,I cant remember)
Maybe she would consider Mukdenias

Where is Gro More? How wonderful to have a place to buy from that will try to accomodate!

Gro-More is on East Henrietta Road behind the Dome.
If you come from the xpress way aoff Jefferson Road and head south you must cross over Calkins Road.Gro-More is on the right, You can see the Dome Arena behind it.

Not too far north of the thruway then. That's the way I normally come to get to the Henrietta area. I can't believe I've never been there, then. I'll have to check it out next year. And hopefully we can meet up next year, Jo Ann.

I was really dissapointed we couldnt get together this year.I would love to have you see my gardens and I live about 15 mins from there.
The farthest Thruway exit would bring you very close to Gro-More.

Here's another neat shade plant that I got this summer. It's called
Sorbaria sorbifolia. It can get up to 5' tall. It has wonderful mutiple colored foliage.

That is handsome

Thanks, Ge. Still trying to bring some color to the back of this very shady bed. So far, after the Aruncus and Trollius are done blooming, it's a mass of green back there. I did move a white Camellia back there this summer, but that one will bloom next month.

stormy,
I have got ask. You said you have a Camellia and it is out side? If so what kind is it and is it hardy?

flowerfantasy, There are now quite a few cold hardy Camellias. The ones that I've had success with are the Ackerman Hybrids. They are rated to zone 6, but I've seen people post photos of them in Minnesota. I have 6 of them, all thriving and blooming well. The darker the shade, the better. Greer Gardens always has a number of them.

Here's one putting out it's buds for next spring. This photo was taken last week. I love how darkly green they stay all winter. These look better in the winter than the Rhodos and the EV Azaleas. They are also less finicky for me than those two.