Have any of you checked out the new Landscape.com that Dave's putting up? It's really shaping up nicely and I love seeing the plants in situation rather than the close up of individual blooms that's more common on Plantfiles.I love the way you can search by "Butterfly Garden", "Cottage Garden", "Xeriscape", "Fragrant", etc. This is gonna' be wonderful.
I'm getting lots of new ideas. Oh Goody! More trips to the nursery. I may have to take out the lawn entirely!
Landscape Fourm
Crowlli, where is that forum? I looked and couldn't find it.
Josephine,
It's an actual separate website frostweed. http://www.landscape.com I had heard a reference to it on another thread, but did not figure it out until reading crowellli's post here.Very cool. I can't wait until more stuff is added so I can get lots of ideas.
My new perennial cottage garden is newly planted and not quite finished, but it will be neat to add before and after pics in the future.
Thank you Stacey, i'll check it out.
Well, I checked it out and I think it is great, thank you very much.
Once you get to the home page on the site, hit the "database of landscapes" link towards the bottom of the page.
I can't see any pictures. Any idea what's wrong??
Stephanie, If you click on the link provided sweezel, than scroll down to the next to last line, and click on database of landscapes, it will take you to another page with writting on the top portion, scroll down and you will see the pictures.
Josephine.
Cocoa, I also love the look of a cottage garden. I've added some "Cottage Garden" pics to the new landscape website showing some of my beds. We've only been in our home for a little over three years. The first 2 were spent redoing the inside and the past year we've been working on the garden. Take a look at what I've posted and if you see anything you like or have questions on, let me know.
Thanks for the help, but I still can't see the pics. I emailed them and asked for their help.
Stephanie
It's a definitely Texas cottage garden, some people might not even call it a cottage garden. :) There are about 25 different daylilies, at least that many flowering perennials, 7 roses and two trees - a crepe myrtle and a roseasharon. It's corner bed about 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep with a wavy edge and a path going through the center of it to a garden bench. I plan on adding a bird bath when I find the perfect one. Good cottage-y perennials in there are two kinds of garden phlox, 7+ varieties of salvia, pincushion flower, 2 kinds of coreopsis, veronica, old fashioned petunias, ruellia, 4 kinds of penstemon, coneflower, black-eyed susans, and some hollyhocks. I do have a few tropical plants in there though, including two cannas, a calla, 3 amaryllis, and a few sedums.
I love the landscape forum! I think I pass by many a great plant in the garden centers because I don't know what they look like full grown.
Crowelli, Your home looks fantastic, and the garden is so lush! I love the painted brick on your home. Our house is orange brick (my least favorite color). We have been remodeling for six years, and painting the outside is probably last on our list but hopefully it will get done in my lifetime, Lol. What are the dense pink and white flowers that look like a blooming hedge (third photo)?
Sweezel, That certainly sounds cottage to me! It sounds like we planted a lot of the same things. What kind of coreopsis did you plant? I've just recently started to add sedums to the garden. I never thought of them as "cottage" but a lot of them have such a great cabbage shape and are fitting in just perfectly!
I have 'nana'/mouse ear coreopsis in two places along the front edge and 'Sunray' further back next to my path. The mouse ear has been in continuous bloom for about two months and the 'Sunray' started blooming at the beginning of the month. I bought the 'Sunray' in a 4 inch pot last October and it has quadrupled in size! It keeps sending up more and more blooms.
It's all so new so it's so fun to go out everyday and see what has started blooming. My first daylily bloom was last Wednesday (Jolly Red Giant) and 6 other daylilies have buds. And my first Disco Belle Hibiscus bloom opened yesterday. :)
The Sedums I have are S. Spectible 'Brilliant' (like Autumn Joy but a lighter pink), 'Golden Carpet' (which I got at the fall swap from our very own Sheila), and 'Purple Emperor'. Plus a ground cover one that I got this spring, but don't remember the name of.
Cocoa, the pink and white plants you're talking about are pentas. I always have a lot of these because they're such easy plants. No problems with pests or disease and they come it other colors too. There is a purple one that stays shorter than these and also another large one thats dark rose, almost red. I just love 'em and have had them for years. I did loose some to the long freeze this past year, but that's a first. They usually come back from the roots.
Great thread!! I love it ----good pictures good ideas
Oh no, sry, I totally drop the ball on this thread. I blame Sweezel, I went to look up 'Purple Emperor' and remember spending the five hours looking at photos of Sedums and Sempervivums,lol. I can't wait to see photos of your new bed in all it's full grown glory.
I also found out those beautiful Pentas are not hardy for my zone, but nature has a way of proving us wrong, so I may give them a try. Yours look lovely en mass, Crow.
cocoa, try the pentas. They are fairly cheap and you could be surprised at how well they do.
Ann
Cocoa, I can't tell you the number of times I have done just the thing with a large variety of plants. LOL I can be a little obsessive and one page just leads to another.