It was sorta fizzled out after about a month, but it will bloom sporadically all summer, with a greater flush in Fall, if kept watered.
Stepables....what do you think
Took a picture of my dwarf mondo grass yesterday
And does anyone know what this is?
Looks like creeping veronica georgia blue, or at least one of the varieties of veronica
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/76872/
My 'Georgia Blue' has longer serrated leaves, but there is a whole lot of varieties of them.
This one was a pleasant surprise. I thought I planted 'georgia blue' seeds, but it's not!
It's some sort of veronica. I falling in love with it. It has tiny little bloom spikes, like an upright veronica crossed with a creeper!
That picture isn't opening very big, so can't see it, but I'll bet it is pretty. I like them all.
Good point about the leaves. My 'waterperry blue' has those rounded leaeves:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/65182/
and 'new century':
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/117322/
hmm...
There are so many...most of the ones with spikes, have smaller flowers, and the leaves aren't serrated...
This looks like it is the closest match I could come up with:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/173395/
it has the larger flowers and serrated leaves. It doesn't look exactly like yours, but then these pictures are of a much more mature plant, I think
Irwell, do you think your photo might be creeping jenny? That's what it looks like to me. Mine is not yellow like the pictures unless it gets quite a bit of sun. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/58136/
Looks like my creeping charlie
lrwells50 , love your border.
That is a very pretty little plant you grew from seed, Lynea. I never knew there were so many veronicas for this area.
If it gets yellow in the sun that's not it, because this gets about 12 hours of sun a day. It may be a veronica, but I don't remember planting it.
Thanks Seed! That prompted me to do a little more investigating. I'm thinking it might be prostrate veronica
.Anna, have you tried the creeping charlie that Pattie is talking about? It would be a really cool stepable too. At least I hope it is. lol
I put in the ground last year after keeping it in an old cracked birdbath. I copied the idea from LouC. It spilled and draped over the sides, sooo pretty.
I didn't take any photos of the birdbath. I had an old concrete sprinkler of Alice's Mad Hatter. His head fell off and I didn't want to throw him away. I put his head in the birdbath with the creeping charlie. I was so proud of it, I thought it looked neat. My kids said it looked absolutely creepy!lol
The creeping jenny that I have (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/677/ ) is very step-able. I walk on mine all the time. I also pull it up by the handfuls--LOL. It's pretty but it is a groundcover, and it spreads pretty fast.
I haven't seen anything get choked by it yet, but I've had to uncover a few things. My dad wanted some of it, so he has a bed of it too. He waters more than I do, and has a heavy hand with the Miracle Gro. So, at his house it is very dense. It grows right over whatever is around it. At my house it's treated a little more austerely, and isn't much of a problem.
cocoa_lulu, I am sure your kids really thought that head was especially weird when you told them the creeping plant name.
Good info.Thanks. Plantfiles has lots of negatives for creeping jenny but it sounds like conditions play a part. How long have you had it ,pbtxlady ?
Planted it here in 2005, and 2007 at my dad's house. And yes, I do think conditions play a big part. His has to be trimmed and thinned all the time. I just started thinning mine out last year.
Thanks,I would be planting in shade/partshade. I am not needing anymore yellow although I do love the yellow flowers I have, so hopefully it wouldn't bloom or spread out of control....The bed stays dry.
Anna, there's a kind that doesn't get yellow--think it's the plain old moneywort, and the ones that turn yellow are golden moneywort.
The clover with the pretty little yellow flowers makes a GREAT steppable in my yard! LOL LOL LOL
Oh yes..that is hearty! Not on your tradelist??????????At Calloways there was a miniature oxalis :purple and green as a stepable. That looked similar to one I seen growing wild
That is funny about the clovers...I had some pop up in between somepavers, and left them beacause I thought they looked cute. Some are green and some have the bronze foliage.
Anna~I could bring you some!! LOL Just say the word and I'll dig some up for you. :)
If I take it then you need to have some nandinas!
I already have those, too. :( We whacked them back 2 years ago and they've stayed relatively small. I'm actually thinking of leaving them where they are and using them as the backdrop for a bed.
I planted them many years ago and loved them. Then found out they are invasive to wild areas so I took them out. Still get a million seedlings.This conversation can be move to the invasive plants thread.
LOL LOL LOL
My nandinas planted about 8 years ago are around 4' high. If I chop them down to 2', what will happen?
They will look like bare sticks in the ground for a couple of months and then eventually fill in with leaves. I'm assuming you want them to be shorter. It's better to cut down only the tallest ones and wait til they put on new leaves.
There is one in particular that is interfering with a light on the patio that's on a motion detector. I know I can prune just the top, but would like to take the whole thing down some. I've got a big pot in front of it currently, so it won't matter if it's unsightly for a while.
We cut all of ours down a few years ago and now they're about 2' tall. They're coming back!