Re: [gardeners] Re: Favorite perennials and milkshakes
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:06:41 -0600
Matt!!! Haven't seen your name on a post in a donkey's age. What are you
up to these days? Margaret L
> Hmmm, sounds wonderful! Bet you're in zone 10! :-)
>
> One of my Favorites is dark green perennial blue vinca and creeping
> phlox (usually pink works best) and midseason yellow daffodills and marsh
> marigold. Pretty boring after spring, but a knockout for about a month.
>
> Another is multigreen foliage in different leaf shapes. Var. wiegilia
> kept small, golden sage, some multigreen hostas in different leaf size,
> and the multigreen lantana w/ yellow blooms. All grown in High semishade
> to keep the green levels similar.
>
> Blue and blazing white variegation is another personal favorite, mixed
> in with plenty of dark green 'foils' and lots of burgundy foliage.
>
> Try var. hydrangia, blue lyme grass and "hot tuna"(kept in a barrier)
> together in full sun.
>
> I love some of the different dwarf sedums in the same pots (but loath
> 'Autumn Joy')
>
> "Why yes, my yard can have a tendancy to look like a martian landscape.
> Or at least other-worldly."
>
> "Flowers need deadheading, foliage rules!" :-)
>
>
> >In Boston milkshakes don't contain ice cream.
>
> ?!?! Try a Fribble at Friendlies or an Awful Awful at Newport Creamery.
> (and the pickallily!!! at Newport Creamery!) :-)
>
>Matt born and raised in Mass. and Rhode Island.
>good gardening
>
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