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Kathy's Larkspur I visited Kathy/plantmaven last week and posted the photos on Cottage Gardens. The birdbath photo is one everyone liked so I wanted to share it here. I've linked the rest of the post below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Link to Cottage Garden post
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| Just lovely. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to have to plant some larkspur! |
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| Oh Gorgeous! Thaks Kathy & Rock_oak_deer. |
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| I did the slideshow and I must say those are lovely pictures of a most lovely garden! Compliments to you both because Kathy doesn't get around to posting enough pictures of her beautiful plants and yard to suit me ... :-) |
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- Posted by rock_oak_deer 8a TX (My Page) on Thu, Apr 28, 11 at 22:08
| Roselee - Exactly my goal! I really wanted to see her garden plus I knew it would be physically easier for me to take those type pictures. Thanks for picking up on that. |
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| Thanks again Shirley! Melvalena, Larkspur is one of my very favorite plants. Anyone who is the least bit interested in a cottage type garden should have it. Once it's planted it comes back reliably every year. Sometimes it comes up in odd places like under this bench, but it looked so neat there that I didn't let Bob cut it when he mowed the grass.
Larkspur is the only reliable reseeding annual that I grow, but I just planted a row of bronze colored Cosmos (from ARE) along the drive way to go behind the Blue Plumbago and between three bright yellow Thyralis bushes, and Patty tells me it reseeds very nicely, so I'm excited about that. The butterflies are already all over it. Kathy, am I missing any other good reseeding annuals? Also some of the Larkspurs last until about mid-July and then they are pulled up (which is very easy to do), the seeds shaken around, and the stalks put on the compost pile. What a great plant! |
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- Posted by rock_oak_deer 8a TX (My Page) on Fri, Apr 29, 11 at 15:51
| That's a very pretty setting with the bench and the blue accents around. I plan to plant more Larkspur next year. Kathy's Nigella looked great so that might be another one. The poppies at ARE are a real show stopper and they reseed pretty freely I'm told so that's going on my list. |
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- Posted by plantmaven 8b/9a TX (My Page) on Sat, Apr 30, 11 at 18:01
| Yes, the nigella reeds wonderfully. Look what opened today!
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| Amazing look at all that beautiful color :). |
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