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Wed, Aug 25, 04 at 13:44
| Folks, what are your suggestions for some flowers to add interest to a moon garden? I have already planted some white/pale roses (Cecile Brunner, Gruss an Aachen, the Fairy, and Heritage) and I have seeds of nicotiana and moonflower waiting for next season. I've also planted some stuff with white/silver splotched foliage, including some stachys, lamium, and polemonium. Are there others you'd recommend? I'm especially interested in fragrant flowers, and at least some flowers that can do double duty by looking nice during the day. Thanks! |
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- Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on Thu, Aug 26, 04 at 15:06
| culvers root (veronicastrum virginicum) foam flower (tiarella cordifolia) |
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- Posted by freezemind z6MI (My Page) on Wed, Sep 1, 04 at 0:35
| I really like old fashioned 4 o'clocks. They open in the evening and stay open through the night. They attract hummingbird moths which are a cool sight to behold. Four o'clocks come in a varity of colors.The link below shows a picture of some. Four o'clocks are a great background plant, they grow to look like a medium sized bush full of lovely flowers. http://www.humeseeds.com/fouro.htm |
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- Posted by NonaCook 8bFL (nonacook@aol.com) on Wed, Sep 1, 04 at 17:55
| Datura smell wonderful at night and in the early morning. Also butterfly ginger is white and smells good! |
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| Silvery (fragrant) lavender and artemesia will give you more silver foliage. 'Pinks' (Dianthus) smell like clove and come in colors ranging from white to pink to reds and some varieties have blueish-grey foliage. I've grown fringed white ones from seed. There are varieties of thymes with silver or golden foliage too. Consider other fragrant shrubs like mock orange (some varieties like 'Innocence' has variegated foliage for interest when not in bloom), and Korean spice viburnum carlesii. For fall interest I grow white wood asters and white japanese anemones, though these aren't fragrant, and white phlox carolina blooms summer through early fall. |
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| Don't forget white sage, by moonlight they would look silvery. It's how I got my daughter's middle name Silversage. |
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- Posted by decolady01 z7 AL/TN (My Page) on Fri, Dec 31, 04 at 16:44
| These are some of the other plants I have in my moon garden: August Beauty gardenia - tree form |
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