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| My Garden Spot |
| Minature Roses are my favorites, and also very hardy! |
| When summer is just around the corner - I can not wait! About Jan 1st, seed cataloges start coming and I am ready to plan the newest additions to my plantings, wanting to get out there and work the soil! I will look for that "just right" plant about anywhere, local or mail order, just so I get what I want! I have neighbors, friends and perfect strangers stopping by, telling me that the yard looks GREAT. Because I would rather tend my beds then mow grass, I just keep adding more to the mix. While enjoying wonderful comments, this is for me first. My main interests are roses, columbine and the butterfly garden, with some vegetables, herbs & other unusual plants tucked in here are there. This year I have some gourds left from fall decorations, so the seed will be planted on the fence in the back yard. |
| Other planting in my beds include many types of iris, hardy mums, decortive leafy bushes, hosta, sedum, canna's, tuberous begonia's, a mound of red crown veatch, plus many types of annuals - what ever catches the eye come planting time. In the last few years impatients and petunia's of all colors have been used profusely, with a few coleous and salvia. Some have come back from volunteer seedings!!! (see Secerts in The Garden) |
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| Hardy mums are planted on the north side of the house as well as around the stop sign in front. Some new ones are added each year. If the viola and dianthis need some refreshing, then a few more of these will be added here and there. Sedum, herbs, mint and hens and chicks come back each year. Last but not least, are the annuals. Each year we have had impatients, petunia's and snap dragons. I plant the triangle where the street intersects the streets each year with petunia's. Last year I also made a bed across the street at an abandoned house. Neighbors asked if we had purchased the house, but I told them I was just putting some silk around the sows ear!! UPDATE: August 2001 - Well, I am happy...despite the fact all most all the cosmos came up orange, all the petunia's are shade of purple, African daisy's are only yellow or peach (no white or cream)..Gebera Daisy's were cheap, so I have several... Celosia came up volunteer so thick I have weeded it out and still have tons! |
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