What's on your wish list for next spring?

If you could get all the plant goodies you would like for next season, what is on your wish list? I am looking to get more echinacea (already ordered three), lavender,at least one hardy hibiscus (definitely Victor's fault), a yellow achillea (any suggestions), a new short daisy 'Banana Cream', sib. iris, helenium 'Mardi Gras', geum 'Totally Tangerine', white catmint, and some low growing sedum and violas. Most will go in the bed extension I am planning for nest spring and squeezed in here and there. Not even decided on what shrubs I could manage and have a long list already. And the cold and snow just begun really. How much will actually get here this spring we will see. Space, time and $$$ will all play a factor of course in what makes the cut, but not as much as all those pretty pics and enabling done on this forum. Lots of fun ahead I think. How about you?

I am wishing all the plants I bought last year ,come up this year.

Wont be doing much spring planting in 2010 since I bought up all the Fall specials. I just couldn't resist bushes & plants at those ridiculous prices! I've never seen the prices so low for fall specials. I suspect usually those perfectly good plants would have been thrown away in previous years but this year they kept them on sale and tried to sell as many as possible into Fall, I suspect the struggling economy had a lot to do with it.
Got 1 varigated dogwood
1 snowball virbirunium,
3 porcupine grasses,
1 burning bush,
3 smoke bushes,
4 golden barberries,
1 virginia sweetspire,
1 varigated hydrangea,
1 nandina fireworks,
3 decorative cabbages,
5 woody asters,
1 oakleaf hydrangea
- and 60 specialty bulbs from Becky's, Planted them all up before Nov. and everything is dormant now. In early spring I'll be extending my drip system to cover all the new arrivals, that will definitely be my #1 priority as they'll be needing water to acclimate and get deeper roots though I already have a head start on the root system.
DW & I will pot up a mess of annuals & plant a few dahlias as always. I've got 3 english roses ordered for spring from D. Austin, but nothing else.

- I bought everything already and saved a lot of money! Yipeee!! (lol)

Nice list.
I will look for OT and Asiatic lilies to go in with new DL'garden and have a wishlist with Bluestone.
Astilbe dwarfGraffland
Sedum OGON
Geum Totally Tangerine.
I have been ordering seeds of:
Cosmos
Larkspur
Zinnia
Tomato

I am wishing my dog will stay out of my new garden. lol
A new shed.

Wow - nice list, WC.

Will be looking to add some dwarf conifers and maybe a few replacement JM's. Big project is deciding what to replace my dead large JM out front with.

Same problem Victor. Let me know what you come up with. My lawn guy was getting too close with the weed whacker and it was gone before I could save it. needless to say he is no longer my lawn man:-)

This year I mainly want to switch from ornamental gourds to squash in the same bed. Few more varieties of hardy Hibiscus, and perennials like rudbeckia and I want to naturalize crocuses in my lawn. I am always rubbernecking in the spring when I see them come up in other peoples lawns.

As many of the new beardless iris intros as I can afford.

Some new lilies.

flowerjen, Throw some mothballs around the garden and your dog will stay out.
I want more daylilies and two more hostas and that is all. BEV

What if you like moths?!

Knowing my dog, he'll eat them.


Got this recipe in an e-mail from dg'r drapelady down in LA, will try it this year
Into an old milk jug add:

2 cups water
3/4 Tbsp ground cayenne pepper
1/3 Shake a bottle of hot tabasco sauce and pour in 1/3
1 Tbsp Caster Oil
Squirt of liquid dishwashing detergent (Dawn or any other)
Shake everything well

Pour on plants or the ground where bulbs are planted. It doesn't harm plants or environment. You can mix bottles ahead of time and store as long as you wish.

You'll have to reapply after every rain.

Figures

I use Cayenne when I plant bulbs.
I buy the big containers at box store.

'Bloomerang' is supposed to be a more reliable reblooming lilac. Also small. Might have to try that.

My wish list is limited to Hydrangeas. I have about 30 cultivars I'm interested in. I have to whittle it down to 6 or so.

One more item and my LAST attempt, a magnolia.

I'm looking at crape myrtle Tonto, hydrangea Rio, viburnum Molly Schroder, hosta Eskimo Pie, echie Green Envy, & lots of short geraniums like Cherry Orkney, & heucheras like Miracle to edge my new garden. Hope the spuria iris make it through this winter---if they do, I'll order more.

I was eyeing that Green Envy too Robin. Hardy geraniums?

Robin, I have Rio and viburnum Molly Schroeder. I love them both. Molly looks a little better in some shade. I have viburnums Molly Schroeder and Mary Milton. The girls. I just loved the names. Probably named after some old cranky ladies.

Eng. rose Wife of Bath. We had it for yrs, then lost it.

Mostly annual seeds

Burning Bush - a hot red one.

I want so many things, and my yard is such a big open space, that I get overwhelmed trying to make decisions as to what to put where. I really need a bunch more trees and big shrubs along the back for privacy....I have some white pines and maples there now. I want viburnum, lilacs, witch hazel, colorado spruce & other evergreens, anything big with different flowering times and fall color. I want some callicarpa too.

I love callicarpa and hope when these 20 year old diseased vibernums finally kick the bucket,I will replace with Callies

Nice annuals ge. What is that one second from the left and then blown up under it?

Cosmos Seashells mix
Cosmos DarkRed

Thanks. Have to add that to my list. Its gawjuss.You have good taste!

They look best with the coleus cutting I have going and with the Lilies I planted in Sept

What is the nasturtium, Jo?

If you want lilacs, Lynnie, I highly recommend Syringa Plus. http://www.syringaplus.com/

The owner, Roger Coggeshall was a head gardener at The Arnold Arboretum, and really knows his lilacs.

what a great link pollyk! thanks! I already saw 10 I want lol I'm in MA, too.

I hope the titles show.
Darn thumnails
Here the list clockwise from left
Moonlight
TipTop Apricot(blooms on top of leaves)
TipTop Mahogony
Princess fo india
Only the tiptop are top bloomers.

I can certainly see those with coleus. Narcissus on the bottom?

Do you mean Nastuerteums?

The blue and red and the brown and green???

These are all Nastuerteums

You're welcome Lynnie. I'd love to go visit them. Patti (bbrookrd) was considering it, I don't know if she did.

Thanks again GE.

no problem jadajoy

I was also considering Mary Milton, Polly----good to know you are liking them!

I have either Mary or Molly - can't remember which one.