Re: [gardeners] Re: Favorite perennials

Janni (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:46:05 -0500 

My favorite perennials are Mother Nature's flowers! We have so many 
beautiful wildflowers that grow on our propery that when Ed weedeats, he 
makes sure that anything he thinks is going to flower, he saves. He is 
usually right. Yellow, white daisies. Purple, yellow cone flowers. Many 
other wild ones I forget the names of tonight. I have a picture of the 
daisies that grew this year around the well house but I don't have anywhere 
to put it on the web right now. When I get my latest rolls developed, I 
have pictures of all the cone flowers that took their place. I love nature!!!

Janni

At 06:20 AM 7/16/01 -0500, you wrote:

> >    > Wow, that's a tall order! Two of my favorite perrenial combinations
> >    >include ivy geraniums or other pelargoniums and impatiens. The colors
> >    > are usually very complementary and easily cared for.
> >
> >  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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