Oh, yes. Our Mahoney's is having 50% off all perennials(which brings them down to what I think is reasonable.) Every time I drive by I seem to come home with a plant!
Evie Beevie, I envy your being near Rocky Dale. I live in Massachusetts, but when I visit my son (who works in Essex Jct) and daughter-in-law (goes to quilt shop there) I always come back with something(s) absolutely irresistible from Rocky Dale.
You're all right--HD doesn't water, and they throw the plants out when they could be salvaged by someone who would give them a good home. I would, really. Bummer!
Have they got you with any of the summer sales?
I'd love to have vines climbing over my evergreen shrubs, but never knew if the vigorous ones would be harmful in any way (like blocking sunlight).
So I too would love to see/read more about that!
I would not worry about blocking light, especially for group 3 clems, which get cut back each year. Certain evergreens, like arborvitae, just don't lend themselves to this because there is no easy way for the clem to cling as it grows upward.
On the QF, either is fine. Being a late bloomer, you're not going to get a clem that will have its major bloom at the same time. However, there are a few with long bloom times and others with a limited re-bloom that can pair nicely with the blooms. I have done it with other paniculatas, but not QF yet. Pairing with a nice blue or some purples results in a cool combo with the white to pink blooms of QF. Your tastes may vary.
I decided to play a little hookie from work and discovered a local nursery is having a buy 1 get 1 free on some of their perennials. I got some purple salvia which I'd want anyway, as well as some white blooming astilbe, which I would want anyway. w00t!
Now, if it only weren't so hot.
78 and dry is warmth. 90 (humid or not) is torture.
Christina - here is Venosa voilacea with red-twig dogwood. The photo was taken a bit too late. The white in the center of the clem is much more pronounced and the variegation in the dogwood was whiter. It looked great when they first came out.
Thanks Victor. Looks great to me! When I was trying to think of the more open shrubs I have, I totally forgot about red-twig dogwood. I have the same (or similar) variegated one as in your photo. Maybe I'll give it a try with the Marie Louise Jensen which is also a dark purple.
I have some other photos I will try to find. I've also used Itea, Physocarpus, Nandina, crape myrtle and Spirea thnbergii.
I agree re: 90, Victor! And I like that vine on the dogwood. I'll have to experiment more. When's another sale? :)
schickenlady - So what the hell are you doing in NH if you want 90 all the time??
GC has sales throughout the fall.
Christina - I also use clems to ramble along on the ground. In this photo, they are growing on top of my low juniper. Took years to get full like this. This is Ramona, a group 2.
Gorgeous!! (just don't like the "it took years" part ;o)
I have a huge white clem that I bought probably 10+ years ago when I knew next to nothing about gardening. I planted it by my mailbox and gave it a little 3 foot tall trellis. It never really did much until the last two years. This year it was stunning - dozens of huge white blooms. I was thinking I would move it this fall because it's not in a location where it can climb. But now having seen your picture above, I might just keep it where it is and let it just mingle horizontally with the pachysandra instead of trying to make it climb vertically...
Thanks. Here is the same from '06. I like that the anthers on the Ramona echoes the small J maple.
So I see some sedum and irises in there too. Do you just leave the clem foliage in place after it's done blooming and the other perennials grow up through it?
Yes. And I don't usually bother to prune the clems at all. Normally, you prune 2's back to the first set of new buds in the early spring.
You don't prune any of yours, or just your 2's?
I prune all of the 3's. I also treat 2's as 3's for the first few years to help them establish themselves better. Once established, I do the regular light pruning for 2's, when I remember. For this rambling one, I don't bother and it does just fine.
snowflake oak leaf hydrangea form rarefind
Very nice, looks nice and healthy. You put me to shame, not a weed in sight, all nicely mulched. Just perfect. What is the name of the evergreen that is cascading down in back of your new beauty?
good question - they have them all the time at HD - green and yellow/green - if i can find the name i'll let you know - thought the white blooms would look good with that as a back drop.
Isn't that a Blue Rug Juniper? Don't know it's Latin name....
Yes, looks like a Juniper horizontalis to me.
Oh, morrigan, I LIKE your hippie gnome very much!!!!!!!
OHHHH Dread
I am going to a nursery with DD#4.
Hope clems are on sale.
Christina - here's a pic from last week. It's Clem Jackmanii and one of my crapes.
Another great one! I don't think we have many crapes up here. Are they hardy in zone 5?
Thanks. Some are possibly root hardy.
i held off for almost three weeks without any purcchases - too many sale signs on my daily drive back and forth to work. here is the list from last week
- two kopper king hibiscus
- one moy grande hibiscus
- cimicifuga s brunette - snake root
- variegated sieboldi sedum
- two autumn fern
- heuchera ginger ale
- herchera mircale #1
- tree peony suffruncosa purple #2
then i stopped at another place last night - tags are on the plants so will go by memory
- dw satomi (not sure if the one i have is really satomi so i took no chance when i saw one available at 20% off, alhtough i noticed when i got home it did have one of the large red fruits on it like as the new one has)
- two low growing spring blooming sedum - one tri-colored (green,pink, white), the other is a red one
- three volcano phlox pink,purple, and candystripe.
- three primrose - all yellow
- three creeping phlox
now to plant the purchases from last night before my wife spots them.
Went to a local "farm" and all their 4" pots were $1. I filled my trunk!
have not been that lucky - 30% off last night for the perennials. all good quality from a good nursery.
No sales at my fav. nursery.
Debilu mentioned GroMore and I went there but things on sale were sparce.Bought 4 Chrysanthmums $18.00
OMG, I caved. Just some small perrennials, and one honking big HARRY LAUDER'S WALKING STICK! I have wanted one forever, and at 40% off, I couldn't resist. My DH thinks I should be buried underneath the darn tree :-))
morrigan - i will watch the news reports and rat out your hubby just in case. you will really like the hl walking stick. i have both the green and red variety and can't wait to make a crazy walking stick out of either of them.
4" plants for $1!!!! What did you get, Cat?
I have 3 HL.... started with a 12"..... then bought one that was only a stick mail order and is now 12".... and a 4' one from home depot when they were 40 percent off
I really like them... the tall one is to the right of this photo
I want so many shrubs and trees that I have seen on this forum,Victors collection is steller.
This development is 20 years old and there just isn't room.BOOOHOO }: {
they do grow pretty slow... might be able to do one in a container... but I am not sure
Thanks, wha, you might have to come and dig me out! lol....