This bed is a few steps up the driveway and was all new last year (except for the Japanese Maples, of course). The catmit looked great all spring, I saw my first daylily bloom today. Okay...I see a few weeds and some bare spots that could use an annual or two but I am pretty happy.
- Brent
...and then a shot of the bed in front of my house. One of these days I plan to redo my front walk and this bed, but in the meantime the flowers are nice to come home to.
- Brent
Brent- looking good. I'm about to see a bloom on a whit Scabiosa I strongarmed outta ya at hart's. It suffered in the drought but made it and looks much better. Like wise a liatris. I have felt bad because all your swap offerings were so nicely potted and labeled... I don't remember what I gave in return.
Brent, Lovely gardens, and so tidy too. I love the look.
Glad you have your address painted on the curb. if DH (volunteer Fireman and Ambulance) saw the clematis covering up the address he'd have a hissy fit. Sorry, had to make a public service statement.
Getting back to your mailbox garden it is much more interesting then your neighbor's.
Brent, Your photos are inspiring! They make me want a mailbox garden. I keep in mind the 5' of snow I usually have to dig it out of after I finish removing all the snow the plows have put in front of my driveway. Do you get much salt damage?
I wonder if the Postman is a gardener, or is he terrified when the bees climb your Lamb's Ears blooms!!! LOL!!
Hiya, Brent! Where have you been hiding?
I'm gonna whine to you......I got 2 lovely, perennial Salvias from you at hart's. They grew beautifully tall and blooming all Summer. I had not expected it to grow almost 3' tall, so I made a note to move it more to the back of the bed early this Spring--and I did. I dug them up--way before there was any growth showing--And moved them tot he back of the bed in 2 different places. Their root systems were large and everything seemed OK.
Now--here's the "whine" part.......They never re-grew!!!!! Nothing! Nada! What gives???
Can you reassure me that they WERE a perennial? If they were--WHY would they not have come up? I only moved them--like--2 feet away from where they were....
Anyway......I collected seeds from the bloom stalks and sowed them this Spring. It took a while--but most of them came up---then some petered out, but I had about 6 that did OK. I just planted them in a bed where I am trying to establish nothing but perennials.
I call this Maple Tree root-invaded, corner bed my "YUK" bed. They are still small--but i am hoping they will pick up now that they are in a bed--and not a cell-pack.
This picture is from last Summer. Look good--don't they?
Gita
Thanks for the compliments. Salt damage? Not sure...I had a hard time keeping some plants alive near the road at my previous home but I think the slow melting snow keeping the ground too wet was more of a problem than salt. I cut that clematis way back a month ago and I was worried I would loose all the blooms...I guess that was not a problem.
Those Salvias are right on the edge of being perennials for our area. I have had about 80% success rate. They grow pretty fast and flower the first year.
- Brent
Those look like the Salvia farinaceas that I have. They don't tranplant well, even tho you nay have big honkin roots when you move them, they don't like it. I still get volunteers that will live for a coouple of years. If you're more brave than me, you can pinch them early for boushier growth, but too late now. Mine usually get powdery mildew after this first round of bloom and lose all the lower leaves. Then I leave the seed heads cuz goldfinches love them. Then they can resprout some and bloom again. All this is to say I cope with them but not always carefree. or pretty all summer.
Dianthus Brilliant - But not as brilliant as last week!
Threadleaf coreopsis.
All the photos look fantastic!
Brent -- So glad to hear from you. Your new gardens look wonderful!
Petunia Avalanche Cherry, grew this from seed, well worth the effort. I have 2 hanging baskets full and one in each of 3 porch boxes.
Canterbury Bells, started from seed last year, grew in pots over last summer and placed in garden early fall.
ladygardener--
I LOVE Canteburry Bells! Is Baltimore too far South to grow them?
You should have seen the ones in Alaska!!!!!!
Gita, my book listed Canterbury bells zone 5 to 8, you should be safe. They will probably bloom a bit earlier for you then mine .
Alaska ! what zone is that?
Well--My sister lives in Homer, where it is pretty temperate. I have been there 3 times to visit, and they have Summer just like the rest of us. Shorts and bare feet weather!
Homer is right on the tip of the Kenai Peninsula. Right on the water.....Their winters are much more severe and longer than ours, but Summers are very pleasant. Great little Town!
Google it!
Gita, The longer winters is a turn off for me, I would have to live under one of those lights that replaces sunlight.
I don't think a short growing season would effect the Canterbury bells, they don't do much growing the first year.
I have Cantebury Bells. Started with 1 plant 3 or 4 years ago and now have many more. They are blooming right now. They do die back in the heat of summer.
I had some time to look over some of the threads I missed while I was traveling and this one was so very nice. I just loved all the pictures. Beck beautiful pictures, Chantell your shots are so nice and I really loved the Water Lily shot, Brent nice to see some of your garden and Claypa I loved seeing yours. Just don't have time to comment on every ones pictures but I sure enjoyed each and every one. I was going to add a few shots and then thought it might be time for a new thread. Hope no one minds. Here is the link http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/865068/
Basic Daylily, too pretty to be called a Ditch Lily
