Long-lived perennials

Ruby--

My creeping jenny is also green--and I got some from you--and from Greenthumb.

G.

Happy, I have quite a lot of Agastache 'Golden Jubilee' in the garden. Their leaves are a lemmon green, looking like this http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=9171529.

I can dig up a few for the fall swap if you are interested.

"Sweet Kate' tradescantia glows in the spring with gold leaves. I love mine ..but don't have enough to share just yet (oink oink I am hogging it)

You all are amazingly generous. I didn't mean to be requesting donations! Just wanted suggestions. That being said.... the flesh is weak.

Donnerville -- Agastaches scare me -- I don't know if I can grown them.

What scares me is that the instructions always read something like: "The better the drainage the happier the plant." And I don't have great drainage.

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And Sally, I know I have some Sweet Kate -- it is being gobbled up by encroaching bamboo, so I'm so glad you mentioned it -- I had forgotten it is yellow -- I'll go see if I can rescue some.

I thought you did happy. It may not look its best at the moment but you know that's the midsummer lull.

If you want it I have Silver King Artemisia. It is pretty and tall but it really spreads fast. Might be a good thing or not. LOL

Holly -- I want it for the front, but I can't use anything that gallops there. I need the front to be very stable. And I don't have enough sun in the back for it. I love Silver King, and Silver Mound, and all those beautiful Artemesias. I wish I could use them!!! And thank you for offering.

I can bring a bunch of the gold creeping jenny, Happy, like that box of sweet woodruff you gave me for my island bed... I'll try to get some rooted into pots for you, too, so you can plant them out directly. It's growing all around the little area in front of my deck landing, and I think I accidentally spread it to the bed along the fence also...

OMG, you guys are way too enabling. But if it is growing where it shouldn't be any you have to pull it out anyway....

Can't remember if Sedum Sarmentosam (sp?) ws mentioned in this thread yet or not. I do know that it blooms in yellow during the summer months for a while and should spread like crazy. I also have loads of it when swap time comes around for anyone interested. It just started to rain, has been misty all morning, but this is a good soaking rain. I am so happy for anything green here. Lovely to see and hear.

Ruby

Thanks, Ruby. That yellow sedum is one I do already have! Of course someone else might want some ....

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Oh well, I have several small pots of it ready to go to anyone who would like to have some. That along with a whole side yard of potted plants that were done for selling at the Farmers Market this summer, which due to being busy putting on a new roof, hubby hasn't done many markets at all, leaving us with a load of plants to give away.

Till later......

Ruby

I'm so impressed John can put a roof on your house. At our house, we are really happy if we can get a picture hung!

Oh Gita, my Brazilian Plume Flower is beginning to bloom!! My SilverLight plug in crashed so I won't be able to deal with pictures until I straighten this out. Thanks sooo much for talking me into this flower.

I want to see pictures--of ALL the Brazilian Plumes progeny that are starting to bloom.....

Just want to! My babies!!! I love follow-ups.... PLEASSSSSE!!! G.

Ruby, thanks so much for mentioning Sedum sarmentosam! I have this in my backyard and had never identified it.

Gita, mine is just starting and will need to go into a larger pot today. I have it on my front porch with all my other shade and morning sun lovers.

Roses--

So pretty! Glad you all are getting to see it bloom. Pretty good--being that it is only
a one year old cutting...
I think your pot is fine. The B.P. does not grow bigger sideways--just up.
It will be Ok inside the house by a bright window. If next summer you want to pot it up--
go ahead.
Mine has been in this same 12" pot for several years.

What is the smaller plant in the same pot? There is a weed that looks just like that.

Gita

Gita and Roses, I hope you will post some of your Brazilian Plume and other pics over on our "Tropicals" thread (http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1267292/#new) I think I see one of my baby Frydeks!

Happy, Do you have any 'definites' on your list? Any others you are still considering?

I do, and I've bought a lot of plants - found some great sales. I've also been a propagating machine, and the beneficiary of many fine gifted plants. What I don't have is a list in one place - and I need to pull that together both so I can post it, and so I can figure out what to put where.... We are planning on a September planting....



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coleup--

Will do--BUT......
I have already pinched off my 1st bloom at the top. It was getting a bit raggedy.

There are at least 2-3 buds still forming. Will have to wait for those to open.

Besides--I have already posted all my B.P. flower pretties on that thread--just from years past....

Gita

The other plant is a weed, Gita. It WAS a weed, now it's gone.

Don't look that closely at my photos, anybody! You are sure to find weeds. But there are lots of pretty blooms out there, too! Hopefully we'll get a little break from the humidity so i can get some garden maintenance done, but meanwhile I'm just going to wander around and watch the birds & butterflies.

Happy, have I mentioned Yellow Oxeye to you? Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra, tall & tough, blooms early summer until frost. I think several of us have it now, because it's an easy winter sower, but you could also get an older clump or two from me, because I need to thin my "stand" of it (to make room for some other things!).

I need a list of what's "out there" in my pots, too... and an actual planting plan, maybe, although I have a general idea of where a lot of it will go.

Critter -- the Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra sounds great....

Jill, I got Yellow Oxeye seeds from you and wintersowed them. They germinated so easiliy, and they've already bloomed!

In fact, every single perennial that I wintersowed this year has bloomed the first year for me. Oh, except for the rose of sharon, and I don't expect that to flower for awhile.

I will try to save the seeds this year so I can share the wintersown seedlings at next year's spring swap!

SSG, do you still need to replace your chocolate chip Ajuga? I lost the one you shared with me over the winter but brought a handful of starts back from NC (snitched from a big pot I bought my MIL)... I'll put your name on a little pot.

Bringing up Ajuga because I'm trying to get several varieties going, splitting & potting them up for a while until I get enough for a little "patch" somewhere. There are some neat cultivars, 'Chocolate Chip', several purple leafed ones, and some variegated with white &/or pink, too. I don't know if the ones I've had for years in the side bed are "long lived" or if it's the colony that keeps surviving rather than the individual plants, LOL. I haven't had the "new" variegated cultivars long enough to know about their long-term garden worthiness.

Hm... I just lost a posting... I hope I'm not repeating myself.

Jill, the "dead" patch of Chocolate Chip started showing some signs of life very late in the spring! Now I have a patch that's about a square foot wide.

Chocolate Chip doesn't seem to spread as rapidly as the regular variety, and I'm not sure what killed it this winter. Since the one I shared with you also died, I'm wondering if it's finicky about winter care? But we had such a mild winter...

I'm going to try to find Burgundy Glow. I saw it between stepping stones in a garden and it was gorgeous! This is the garden that I visited:
http://blog.behnkes.com/color-and-seating-in-the-garden.html

The garden is even prettier in person and just full of birds. It was March or April and the light purple Burgundy Glow ajuga was so pretty. She said she started with a small plant years ago and kept dividing, so I'm going to assume it's long-lived!

I don't know... I had yours potted into a larger pot and kept it with a bunch of other potted perennials, and it was the only casualty. I expected to see signs of life eventually also, but mine didn't sprout up. You're right about it growing more slowly, maybe just because it's a miniature variety.

'Burgundy Glow' is pretty! I think I already have it here & there, but I picked up 3 little pots at DPF the other day because they were 99cents... put them into a dollar store "window box," and hopefully they'll spread.

THanks for that link! eye candy...

I love the photos in that link!

HM, I'll let you (and the MAG group) know when she has another plant sale. Her place is definitely worth a visit. She also has cute garden decorations for sale. I bought a beautiful brass elephant for just a couple of bucks.

Thanks ssg; I'd love to go. BTW, I still have lots of ajuga for you if you want it....

Yes to the extra ajuga! :) Thank you! I'm just waiting for it to cool down a bit. I'm such a tasty mosquito bait that I can't really do much outside in the summer time.

Speaking of long lived perennials, the variegated vinca major I got from Jill is doing well. Only 2 clumps have survived, but this is the longest that anything has lived in this corner. It has full shade, strange soil, and possibly voles and/or other critters that dig up the roots. Thanks, Jill!

Ok, the ajuga is multiplying like mad with excitement.

Well, I've been trying to confine the vinca to the foundation edges, but it didn't take long to grow a thick 20 foot row of it from one or two little pieces left after I used the bed for propagation one fall/winter. Hopefully yours will prosper and solve that corner for you!

Variegated vinca major solved my "maple roots , too much shade" corner. Can be messy as it reaches out eventually

Need to go and do some research on some of the plants I am reading about this morning. Will return with some requests possibly....on the correct thread of course.

Happy, I know that a while back when you first started this thread, I was thinking of loads of yellowish colored plants we had to offer you. I even had a list started especially to offer you and guess what? I have lost the list. I will second the request that coleup made and ask if there are any plants in particular that you are looking for in case I have some things to get to you at some point. Will you be able to attend Sally's swap?

I find that when the other gardeners on here find out that any of us have a special project going on, that every one wants to help and donate if they can. What a fun group and what a wonderful thing that every one is so excited about garden planning and wants to jump in and help. Of course if your hill gets planted this fall, we will be anxiously awaiting pictures next spring. Yahooo!!!!!!! y'all!!!!

I will do a quick search and see if I can locate the yellow plant list I made, if not I will go back through this thread and try to find what I was thinking of offering you some time ago. In the mean time.....happy planning.

Ruby

Medlarman........I had a heck of a time identifying it too. A couple of years ago it took the brains of several Dave's Gardeners to finally come up with the correct identification for it, but if I recall correctly, it was sallyg who finally put the correct name on it. It is a neat plant but will take over if a person is not too careful. Again, I have loads of it to share should anyone like to have any.

Ruby

I've just read through here for the first time, and I notice there's one plant not mentioned that I think might work well for you, Happy, on that slope. Verbena Canadensis "Homestead Purple". I've got a HUGE spread of this verbena at the front of one of my beds where I wasn't so stringent in amending the soil, and it's flourishing like mad wild fire. From what I read, deer do not like it, and it's been blooming for me this year so far since early(ish) Spring; last year it kept on blooming until about mid-December... then again, we had a particularly mild winter. The soil it's growing in is mildly amended with compost, but for the most part it's rocky clay/sand. If you're going to be at Sally's Plant Swap next month, I'll be glad to bring you some! =)

I've attached a pic, this is what it was looking like in the middle of March. It's MUCH fuller now, and still covered in blooms. I just gave it a haircut a couple hours ago, but that's only because it over-hangs that little fence out into the lawn.. for an area like you'd want it, it wouldn't need pruning, and I rarely water it, I just let God do the watering for me. ;)

Oh, I should edit to note that the Verbena is the spreading purple stuff in the background, behind the patch of Petunias. It's a low-growing spreader, only about 8-10 inches tall.

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