Wish list for the coming year :)

I'm sure I am not the only person in here who is looking eagerly through catalogs and web sites accumulating a list of things I would like to try this year. I'll share my wish list, you share yours. Maybe in the sharing we can also find some new ideas/new varieties for our gardens. :)

For the general landscaping:

gardenia, Kleim's hardy
winter jasmine
ensete glaucum, snow banana
musa cheesmani, Cheesman's cold hardy banana
poncirus trifoliata, hardy Japanese orange
roses, Mr. Lincoln and Zepherine Drouhin
clematis paniculata, sweet autumn clematis
rhapidophylum hystrix, needle palm
yucca rostratum, beaked yucca
reseda odorata, mignonette
a curcuma or a hedychium (to be dug in the fall)
a gloriosa lily (ditto)

For a hummingbird garden:

salvia elegans, pineapple sage
ipomoea quamoclit, cypress vine
lobelia cardinalis, cardinal flower
lonicera x brownii, honeysuckle var. Dropmore Scarlet
monarda didyma, beebalm var. Cambridge Scarlet

There are others. There's an Everglades tomato vine that suposedly reseeds itself up here in the north, that I would love to try, and if I find a trachycarpus takil I might have to stick one of those in the ground somewhere.

Ya know, I may have to come back and edit this some more. :)

-Joe

oh i know what i want.... a small tow behind back hoe my lot below the centapede is ,well, it could pass for the surface of the red planet, i have to trench
or make raised beds to keep everything from drowning here in georgia during the winter rains.ive even considered making one from a kit.

daylilies,hosta,iris,lilies,roses,coralbells,toadlily,foam flowers! oh and more daylilies!

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anything besides Sand! It's litterally 10 feet deep! Right now we're fairly frozen in, but come this spring, I am going to start on the glorious adventure of covering several acres in anything BUT sand! Had some winter rye going, but it's pretty much stopped growing for the moment. Hope it will start up again when we start warming and hold some of those sand bits from blowing around! I'm soooooo excited - first time in years that I will have a real garden! ...I know it's really too early to have started them, but I have tomatoe plants sprouting in peat pellets right now. do you think I'm a little anxious for spring! my seed order is already received and spread across the kitchen table!
daylillies and trees to ship near the end of april... 100s of morning glory and moon flower seeds just waiting for me to plunk them in the ground...

Only one thing on my wish list, some agapanthus (lily-of-the-Nile). Last year I tried to put way too much into my flower beds so I'm determined to mend my ways this year. I'm going to rearrange some things and propagate some things to add here and there, I don't NEED anything. So I guess on the top of my wish list is willpower!

Sorry, I have no will power myself, so I have none to share!

Kmom - If you have any shade, try a few lilies. They really like well-drained environments. I'm sort of picturing a desert environment, but if you can grow daylilies, you should be able to grow lilies as well, if they can get some afternoon shade.

My wish list is for a new wheelbarrow, three or four truckloads of mulch and compost, a greenhouse, flagstone pavers, lots of stone to build retaining walls, a new lawnmower, a Compost Tumbler....
I think I could go on forever. Looks like I need to win the lottery to pay for my addiction!LOL

Ah, Beaker_ch... I think you've just given me an excuse to invade my DH's space! He has a nice fence row by his metal building that put shade out about 1 pm during the summer... he currently has some old Dodge trucks and other assorted Dodges out there -- but I'm thinking it would look much nicer with Lilies :-)

kmom, try rosemary! It LOVES sand... makes a wonderful shrub in good sand and warm sunny summers. In Zone 6b you might have to bring it inside for winter? Not sure.

My wish list:
Sm garden (1000 sf):
carrots (scarlet nantes, danvers long and purple and white varieties I can't remember the names of)
turnip greens
beet greens
yellow crookneck squash
patti pan squash
black beauty zucchini
at least 2 varieties of determinate tomatoes (looking for determinate beefsteaks. Any rec's?)
celery
swiss chard
anaheim peppers
cayenne peppers
sweet bell mix
fairy tale eggplant (soooo yummy!)
kohlrabi
snow peas
spinach
mild mesclun mix
chives
garlic chives
Landscape/ornamentals:
broom corn color mix (so pretty, and my parrots and 'Toos will love the seeds)
artichokes (just for the purple thistles...it's to hot here to grow them to eat)
lavender
creeping rosemary
gladioulus (cold tolerant, so I don't have to dig them up this fall)
mints
love-in-a-mist
Datura
Nicotiana
Desert Primrose
yucca hesperiea
Desert Bird of Paradise
Oh...the list goes on and on....we'll have to see what actually gets done, but you *did* say WISH!!!!