Hi,
This is my first time posting a pic.
This is a pic of Lady in Red Salvias, Black and Blue Salvias and Victoria Blue Salvia.
Marilyn
Last Years Pic of my Plants
This is some of my plants last year.
The tall pink plant is Agastache Tutti Fruttii.
Marilyn
Yellow plant is Praire Sun (with green eyes) "Black Eyed Susan". The red plant is Raspberry Delight Salvia. The pink is Agastache Tuttii Fruttii.
Marilyn
This message was edited Jun 19, 2006 12:42 PM
Here is ...
A "Black Eyed Susan" Indian Summer
Blue Hill Salvia
Tutti Frutti Agastache
Marilyn
Summer Sun Heliopsis and a Liatris
Some Black and Blue Salvias
Dill (for the Burtterflies)
Lantana
Orange Profusion Zinnias
Pinkish Agastaches (yet to be planted)
White Swan Echinacea
Magnus Echinacea
Lavender
Little Spires Perovskia
Tutti Frutti Agastache
Sunset Agastache
Here's a closeup of the Agastache Sunset and the Magnus Echinacea
Marilyn
Closeup of White Swan and Magnus Echinaceas, Tutti Frutti Agastache, Little Spires Perovskia,
Those are lovely plants...am sure you'll be seeing butterflies and hummies daily.
~ Cat
Closeup of Fragant White Echinacea, Summer Sun Helipsos, Bravado Echinacea, and Pink Cloud Gaura.
Marilyn
Hi Cat,
Thanks! I try every year to plant for the Butterflies and the Hummers. Hope I please them more and more each year!
Marilyn
Pinkish Tall Phlox
Marilyn
Yet to be planted......
Fanfare Gaillardia
Kim's Knee High Echinacea
Marilyn
This message was edited Jun 18, 2006 2:02 PM
Still another pic of these two............
Fanfare Gaillardia
Kim's Knee High Echinacea
Marilyn
This message was edited Jun 18, 2006 2:02 PM
Marilyn your flowers are just lovely. I can't imagin that you wouldn't be over run with butterflies and hummers. Wonderful photos....
Dee
Hi, marilynbeth--
Thanks for posting all the pics of your garden.
Have you had pretty good luck getting them to come back this year?
Most of my asclepias tuberosas disappeared. And I had to replace my rudbeckia hirta 'prairie sun' as well.
Hi Tabasco,
Yes, they all came back. I give my Asclepias Tuberosas and Rudbeckia Hirta 'Prairie Sun' a lean, very well drained soil with plenty of 'all-purpose' sand and no fertilizer. They also get pea gravel on top (no wood mulch).
In fact, that's what I do for my Lavenders, Agastaches, Penstemons, Gaura.
Hope that helps.
Aren't you a part of the Greater Cincinnait Daylily and Hosta Club?! I am (Marilyn Grua) and I thought you were. What's your name? I don't always go to the meetings, but I joined the Summer of 1999.
Marilyn
Now, what is the purpose of mulching with the little stones? Does it keep the soil warm?
I think my soil is a little too rich for the rudbeckia hirta and probably some of the others and then I put down wood bark mulch, too. The rudbeckia was sold to me as an 'annual' so I wasn't too disappointed it disappeared over the winter.
I have started several 'prairie suns' from seed this year (wintersown) and they are doing well enough.
Do you have some pics of this year's garden? Maybe next week I will have some bloom color to post. Right now a lot of green is all I have.
Not so many butterflies yet, only cabbage and a swallowtail or two. I put out a piece of watermelon to see what I could attract, but so far no interest in that, either.
I will miss the next Cincinnati Hemerocallis meeting. We will be out of town. Hope to make the show on July 1, though. Perhaps we will see you there?
Hi Tabasco,
The pea gravel is to keep the plant (esp. in winter) from getting too much water and/or to keep it drier. Some plants don't want to be 'waterlogged'. That's why they want a lean, very well drained soil with coarse sand added.
I try to get some current pics tomorrow.
I've only had Cabbage white's so far. I've had 3 Swallowtail Cats on the Fennel I planted for them.
Yes, that soil is too rich for your Rudbeckia. I'm sorry it didn't make it.
Marilyn
Hi Tabasco,
Until I get new pics this weekend of the most current look of my flowers, you can go to............
Gardening for Butterflies and Hummers:
This Year's Pics of Garden (Marilynbeth)
I have some posted there I took few weeks ago.
Marilyn