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What's the prettiest thing in your garden right now?
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Posted by Dianne42 4bIa. (My Page) on Fri, Aug 6, 04 at 17:56
| Just curious what plants look the best in your garden right now. For me I would say the combination of the fountain grass(pink plumes coming on) with the beautiful blue of Verbena Bone. waving up above it. The butterflies love the Verbena the most. |
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RE: What's the prettiest thing in your garden right now?
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Right now the First Ladies marigolds are full of blooms, and the white impatiens border on the shade garden under the red bud tree is huge.
Ask me again next week -- my white butterfly ginger is getting ready to bloom for the first time.
I'll try to post a photo when it happens. |
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right now, today, my tropicana rose, purple butterfly bush,
bright red/pink hibiscus flower. mic |
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| Double blue Platycodon grandiflorus. Stan |
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| Ooooh, the purple coneflower (a personal favorite!), pink lilies, and the purple loosestrife. I have this combo blooming in three places in my yard and it looks great! I can't wait (well I can but...) for the aster's and goldenrod to take over in a few (hopefully) more weeks! My yard is a disaster from remodeling construction last year and we've spent this summer building block retaining walls. I have spent very little time grooming what flower beds I have left and they are looking pretty rough to say the least so every blossom I do get is a little touch of heaven through this construction nightmare. |
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In the mornings it is the Heavenly Blue morning glories.Today there is a beautiful daylily,French Silk.There is a knock your socks off shade bed with Firecracker Fuschia,Caladiums,
& coleus.I finally found a spot for
some New Guinea impatiens in this shade bed that gets a little morning sun.Iris |
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| Agatache Anise Hysop - It's 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide and the bees and butterflies are crazy about it. Also have purple coneflower and balloon flower that look very nice now. Cricket |
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| lilac and pink phlox, butterfly bush, geraniums and marigolds are full of blooms.. so much color right now. |
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| My grapes are really pretty right now. I know this sounds dumb but I've got them on an arbor and they are loaded with bunches of grapes hanging down and turning a dusty rose color. Underneath I've got dill in bloom so it's a bright chartreuse, Matrona Sedum ready to bloom with the stems about the same color as the grapes, a huge cloud of Cilantro in full bloom, hostas and yellow marigolds, and I think it's very pretty. Not very conventional, but pretty. Hey Maude - I have white butterfly ginger for the first time this year and received it from someone down south so can't ask them for any zone 4 advice. How do I go about growing that in Iowa? Mine's not very tall and nowhere near blooming yet. I potted it assuming I'd have to winter it indoors. ????? |
RE: What's the prettiest thing in your garden right now?
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My ginger has been potted for over a year. It's in a huge pot (16 - 18"" across, I'd guess) and the plant stands about 4 1/2 feet over the soil level. I kept it in the greenhouse during the winter, and even then its growth slowed way down. This fall I want to divide it so I can plant some in the ground next spring to see how large it will get.
My daughter in MS has one in the ground that just started blooming, so I guess this is the right time of year.
I promised photos, but I think it will be a couple of weeks before it's fully open - it's not a cool weather bloomer. |
RE: What's the prettiest thing in your garden right now?
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| The hybrid Legend rose finally snapped out of its early slump and has three huge gorgeous red roses atop it. Their red color glows from a distance. Also, in its third year, the white butterfly bush planted at the top of the vegetable garden is like a floral fountain,.. a blue swallowtail butterfly flew out of it today as I checked the blossoms. Also, the prettiest blooming container has an Intensia lilac rose special annual phlox that is a mound of fushia pink above two magenta colored purple wave petunias in a rusty, holey porcelain bucket I found at the dump. PS..Of the vegetables, the tomato plants and green (no, none of them are red yet) tomatoes are beautiful, healthy and lush and preparing, I hope, for a nice big crop of ripe tomatoes. |
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