Visit to Pfg's garden Robindog's garden in CT

same here meredith

I can definitely help you try again! Seeds? Seedlings? Divisions? All of the above? What's your preference?

Also, we're in the city during the week. How far away are you?

Pam

Thanks! I think I'm pretty far away. I've driven to the Hartford CT area and it's a 3 hour drive.. I wouldn't mind trying some seeds. I could send you a SASE.

Bill must be the soil around here! Only thing I can think of is it's too acidic.. That nursery in Hollis seems to have good luck with them. They have huge patches. That's where I got one plant from. It took a couple years to die but it never got bigger than it was when I planted it. About 18" tall x 6" wide.. and it never bloomed for me. I always see pictures of big patches of it and hear it's easy.

same here a couple of years and gone

Thanks for the compliments on my pics, everyone. Would love to visit Pam's place again in the fall, but probably won't be doing that this year. But who knows? I could change my mind.

Karen

Meredith, I'll send you seeds when they're ready.

Anyone is welcome to visit when we're here...

It's very much a work in progress. In 2009 I didn't take any pictures at all because so much was brown and ugly, or overgrown and ugly, or not yet grown in and ugly. This year I've taken thousands already. I've tried so many plants that are new to me. I'm very often surprised when they do their thing. A white coreopsis, Star Cluster, bloomed pale yellow. Even new purchases of old friends sometimes come out different from what I expect. For instance, Potentilla Miss Wilmott wais a bright fuschia/magenta in Southampton, but the new ones are deep burgundy. Beautiful, but they're moving. Knautia Mars Midget bloomed tall and white, not compact, not burgundy. Some I've already moved more than once, and there's a long list of the ones that are moving in the fall. And then there are the ones that are still keeping me waiting...

Pam

Many times I'll get a plant that is not what I ordered, especially DLs....also I have some phlox that are wild colors.....

Thanks! Oooh a white Knautia!? That sounds pretty! Do you have a picture?

I love knautia and would love to see pics of your white one.

Karen

I'll get one today and post it later. It's pretty cool-- but what a surprise!

Pam

Here it is, the white Knautia. The idea was that the low mound and the deep purply maroon flowers would work well with the Heuchera Dale's Strain and the honeysuckle, which usually has a few blooms during the summer. There are also a couple of daylilies, Kwanso and a noid lighter orange, and a variegated Weigela above and behind. Hah! It's new this spring so blossomed late, just this week.

Next month it's moving...

Pam

That is so cool! I didn't even know they came in white! My Knautia are the regular color ones (reddish maroon) I could definitely send you some seeds when they are ready. They were easy to grow from seed.
Maybe you could send me some seeds from yours so I could try to get some white ones going here. :)

Nice, Pam! I only have the maroon ones here, too. I would love to have the white. I do love knautia. I, too, didn't know they came in white.

Karen

I'd be glad to send you seeds along with the globe thistle. I actually have a regular knautia somewhere else that I'll divide and move where the white are. So silly...years ago I had the dwarf, so when I bought the first one, I didn't expect it to get so tall. Then I saw these and thought they'd be like the one I used to have. I didn't know there was a white one either. Now I don't care any more about the height, it's actually cool coming up through the honeysuckle, but I want the darker color there.

Pam

Karen, I'll send you seeds too?..

Sure, I'd love some seeds. Thanks! I love the tall ones.

Karen

Thanks! :) I've been collecting seeds so I could send you something if you like any. I will put a list together.