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Continuation of what is prettiest in your garden
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Posted by Dianne42 4bIa. (My Page) on Tue, Aug 17, 04 at 18:12
| Few weeks have gone by and now I would say the Joe Pye Weed is the prettiest thing in my garden. If you don't have this plant and have the room, this plant is great. It's very showy, bugs don't bother it, I usually don't have to tie it up, and the butterflies love it. |
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| Tithonia, Mexican sunflower, for butterflies, except there are no butterflies yet. Maybe too soon to expect them. |
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white phlox
red hibiscus
impatients
sweet peas
I guess I have too many favorites to name just one |
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Dianne, what kind of Joe Pye do you have? I've been trying to get the chocolate one going for about 3 years now and it comes up so late in the spring I nearly lose it each year, and only gets about a foot tall and doesn't multiply for me. I just dug out a couple stalks of plain old Joe Pye Weed in someone else's garden that was about 5 feet tall and planted it here, but I really had wanted the one with purplish stems. I sure wish I knew the trick to get it going! A d v i c e N E E D E D p l e a s e ! I can't believe I can't grow something that has WEED in its name!!
As for what's pretty in my yard, I got some carnation plants from one of the Menonite greenhouses over in the Riceville area and I don't know if they are perennial or not but they're just loaded with red and white carnations. Good thing they're short, too, or I'd have cut them all and brought them in and then I wouldn't have anything too great in my garden right now. The phlox got clobbered by the rain the other day. |
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Our prettiest spot right now is the 'scrap' garden - the one next to the garage that gets mostly good intentions and all the leftovers.
One dark red mum is blooming next to a pair of white geraniums, backed up by a stand of golden wizard coleus. Volunteer larkspur - that deep blue - just one or two plants - sprinkled among the others. The backdrop is a hedge of lilacs. |
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| My phlox 'David' and an unknown purple phlox are stunning right now. I do have Joe Pye 'Gateway' and it is looking great right now. Its in its 2nd year and is about 4' tall. I bought it for its height. Iowagal, I haven't had real great luck with the chocolate either. Last year I planted 3 and only 1 came back. Its not doing too bad this year. 2'tall. I did buy 3 more from Bluestone and the are doing ok. We will see if they make the winter. |
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| I have the Eupatorium(Joe Pye)purpureum and also the chocolate. The chocolate doesn't get very tall(3 ft.) and the white flowers are very late and not very showy.Also like Michelle said it comes up very late in the spring so you might be digging it out by mistake. I saw a white Joe Pye(tall) in a nursery and didn't get it. Does anyone have that variety? And if you do how do you like it? |
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| My new flower bed is the prettiest thing in my yard right now, it's full of blooming cleome, glads, yarrow, balsam, plume cockscomb, and a 7' tall gorgeous pink hollyhock, where that came from is anyones guess but it's huge and the blossoms are 4" across. Great flower year for me and continues to bloom. |
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| Right now the prettiest thing in my garden is my brugmansia !!! Man o man is it gorgeous and the smell is just heavenly !!! |
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