zone 4-5 where are you?

Have been searching this website for days, and not finding anyone living in zone 4/5. Follow the rocky mountain forum but I find people responding from much higher zones......very frustrated.......anyone have a suggestion?


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Lets all go to Cool Climate Gardening "Lets warm up this forum" by chocolate moose

This message was edited Feb 9, 2009 8:20 AM

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The Upper Midwest Forum has zone 4/5 people in it.

thankyou.....will have a look!!!

found them....thank you thankyou.. Have you started any seeds yet? Do you have a greenhouse?

This message was edited Jan 23, 2009 10:18 AM

Hi Wendy,

No, I don't start seeds anymore. I have mostly perennials and the few annuals I use I just purchase.

And unfortunately no greenhouse either. Would love one but no room. You have one?

setting up a 6x10 temporary GH to start my vegetable garden seeds....do you have a vegetable garden?

Not any more. Just a bunch of flower gardens. My gardens were on our city garden walk last year. That was quite an honor!

What is your favourite flower? mine is "sedum" cloud walker.....
I live on 5 acres and only have I flower bed so far......do you have pictures of your flower beds you could post...would love to see them.

I am zone 5 in Indiana and don't seem to really fit in anywhere either...

Boy, I don't know if I could pick a favorite flower or not. I really like lilies, clematis and peonies. Guess those are my 3 favs. I'll post a couple of pictures and if you want to see more let me know.....I don't want to bore anybody.

Nanny, you're surely welcome in the Upper Midwest Gardening forum too!

Front corner of our house.

Heuchera garden.

One side of garage.

along back fence

Clematis - Blue Light on the right and Daniel Deronda on the left

Your gardens look so organized goldfinch! And no weeds, no fair :)

So...I'd be a zone 5er

Welcome to the frozen tundra ;)

Hi 2 nanny and magnolialover... Do you flower/vegetable garden? Do you have a greenhouse?
goldfinch....I'm very envious of your flower gardens, just what I'm hoping to do at our place...how do you care for your clematis, are they in full sun?

Goldfinch, your gardens are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing them with us.

I live right in the middle of the USA. We are definately the frozen tundra right now. This is always about the time of the year I want to move south.

Wendyloo66, nice to meet you! I am sure you will have a great time on DG. If you want to you can add your hardiness zone under preferences.

Goldfinch, beautiful!! I could use your help at mt my house...LOL

I flower garden...I have a serious daylily addiction...I hang out on the Daylily Forum. DO stop by there.Lots of very nice people!

I am going to plant my veggie garden this spring! I am so excited even tho it will be small to begin with.

No greenhouse here but boy I would sure love one!!!

I know that there a lots of folks here from Indiana but I have know idea where they are. LOL

try cold climate gardening forum.

Hi nanny...can you post pictures?

Howdy neighbor

Let's see...this is a from the side few of my front bed...oh aside from a small dalily addiction...I also really like Liliums(Lilies) amd Echinaceas. Tho I lost a few of my echinaceas this past summer.

hmmm....I don't take big wide shots of things it seems! I have only lived here 2 years this month and everything here I planted. There was nothing when we moved here.

Part of the side bed.


This message was edited Jan 24, 2009 9:57 PM

Nanny, your gardens are very pretty. I like daylilies too but don't have as many as some other perennials. I will check out the daylily forum. Just promise you won't add that as another plant addiction for me! There were no gardens here either when we moved in, but we've been here close to 20 years now.

Magnolialover, my gardens are never weed free. I just try to pull them before they get as big as my plants :).....although sometimes it seems like a loosing battle! As far as being organized I look at other people's beautiful gardens and think mine looks like a circus. I'm great at buying plants I like and then having to find a place to put them. Unfortunately I'm running out of room and not sure I want to add any more gardens at this point.

Wendy, nearly all of my clematis are in full sun. They are one of those plants that some people are afraid to grow because they think they're tricky. I was one of those people too LOL. But they really aren't any more difficult than anything else if you take extra care when you first plant them. My neighbor gave me one quite a few years ago and when I saw how easy they were I got all carried away with them. There is a great Clematis forum on DG too.

Welcome mainicoon....tell us about your gardens....snowed here last night, about an inch...

Beautiful garden nanny!! very envious...

I would like advice for the north side of my house. It has no street appeal, will try 2 post a picture. I have 1 flower garden so far......we are on 5 acres....need to start landscaping. Have planted about 40 trees but they are small.....

thanx golfinch, I will move my clematis to the back deck for more sun....

Wendy, another small addiction I have is hostas...I don't have any pics of them. They are a must have and there is such a variety of tyrpes, shapes and colors!

Goldfinch4, your lilies are so full and gorgeous! That whole bed is one of my favorite combos! Love the front corner of your house too! What did you use for containers? The heucheras are beautiful too. I love the ''short'' plant selection. The garage bed is so full and full of color too! The back fence is gorgeous! Love the clematis. I see you like blue flowers too. No wonder you were on city gardenwalk!

Wendyloo66, 5 acres! What I would do with that much room!

Magnolialover, Tetleytuna, frozen tundra here too. 12* and it was snowing all morning. Hey, the sun just came out!!

Nanny56, daylilies are my weakness with phlox, lilies, iris and all blue flowers. I love your beds too! What is the tall white and pink lily?

Goldfinch, you are singing my song :o) I decided not to buy much of anything this year and work on moving and dividing what I have. My beds need a serious work over. Your beds are perfect for color and form!

Wendyloo, at least 1 Bleeding heart, dicentra spectibles will make the north wall spectacular in the spring. Varigated hostas look good and will bloom too. Solomans Seal gets tall and curves over smaller plants. The bumble bees really like mine.

North Peony Bed, with phlox, daylilies, liatris and oriental lilies to name a few. This was taken the day after straight line winds.

This message was edited Jan 25, 2009 10:46 AM

Billy that lily is Triumphator...a real beauty!

The South Peony Bed from the back, while the iris were blooming. I divided and replanted all the iris last fall.

Nanny, it's a keeper! I'll remember that name!

Bleeding Hearts and a few weeds :o)

And Solomans Seal. Now I have to go start dinner.

Ooooo, such pretty iris!! I have yet to get any except for for cute little mini purple ones I have...and they have not bloomed yet.....

Hi Billy,

Your gardens are beautiful too! Love the iris. I've had just horrible problems with iris borers the last 5 years or so - I've lost lots of mine. Your bleeding hearts look perfect. You've got lots of nice color.

The containers in the front corner are hypertufa planters. To the left side in that same picture I have a sempervivum bed. I make the planters and put semps in them. Here's a few close ups.

Red ones

Heres part of the semp garden

We got the same snow but 2 inches here and some high winds in my area, pretty cold out, and last week people were out riding there motorcycles.

I still trying to get my garden going after moving 1,200 different irises up from Sheridan , Wyoming, have to plow up more land and add raise beds.

The rose bushes that were here died out, so will remove and replant. Hoping my hens/chicks will make it thought winter.

The computer kept booting me off yesterday. I finally gave up and quit trying to get on.

Nanny, thanks! A neighbor gave me a some of her 12'' tall iris and now I want more of them too! I also have a red-purple and a deep blue- purple 4'' border iris. I love all of them!

Goldfinch4, I've never tried to make planters. I don't use them around here, prefering to plant in the ground. Your's turned out very nice and look good in your photos. It's neat to have a cheap way to make similar looking pots. I get the iris borers too. I sprinkled all of them with Bayer's borer control, with the ingredient imicloprid, after I dug and divided. I will sprinkle it early this spring too since they hatch in March. It's systemic and I think it really helps. Your semps are beautiful! They really like where they are! My SIL gave me a few green ones, but there are more colors than I knew about.

Mainecoon, I bow down to you. I only have about 44 iris. I'll bet it's a rainbow when they all bloom!! How wonderful to start a new bed for all of them. That's too bad about the roses. Is it colder in Montana than Wyoming?

I need to make a list of the flowers I need to move this year. I have iris, daylilies and balloon flowers in the garden. They don't take up much room now, but I need all the garden space for garden.


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This message was edited Jan 27, 2009 1:46 PM

Wow, I can't imagine trying to move 1,200 iris - what a project!

I'll have to look for the Bayer's borer control. Thanks for the tip.