Comments on: My Garden Plants

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:21:29 +0000

Heather, I’m looking forward to springtime and new blooms too. I especially enjoy those first little bulbs that flower just as the snow is melting, when you’re most appreciative of the bright petals after the monotony of winter.

It’s very satisfying to watch the perennials grow from year to year, and see how everything fills in. As the first perennial shoots start rising, it’s great fun to check them every day, and see what made it through the winter. Then checking how everything looks together, and planning what you’re going to move. or add. Your comment has me anticipating the new gardening season.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:15:59 +0000

It is only Jan. here but I am already looking forward to spring (in Minnesota). Thanks for the site! I enjoy all gardens and love to get ideas for adding to my own. We have been in our home now only a short time, and every spring my plants get bigger and better. Good luck and happy gardening.

Heather

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:56:31 +0000

Tom, thanks for the info for the possible ID on the yellow and purple iris. Now that our first frosts have hit, I’m going to be cutting back the foliage on the iris this week. I have 9 to 12 m (30 to 40 ft) of iris around my deck, as well as a few other groupings.

By: Tom Davies

Tom Davies — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:31:47 +0000

Hi, if the base of the foliage on that yellow purple/blue unnamed iris is purple. It may be Loreley. Google and see.
Regards Tom

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:20:55 +0000

Thanks, #153. I’ve moved and divided my blue Campanula carpatica around so many times now, that they got mixed together. The same thing happened to my white C. carpatica now. I appreciate the long flowering time on these bellflowers, and how adaptable they are to different conditions and light levels.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:53:15 +0000

Hello

I think the name of the unknown Campanula carpatica is « Royal Wave ».

Bye!

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:40:50 +0000

Ferrol, I like mockorange for the shade, also. One that I grow, ‘Blizzard’, is a more compact version, and does exceptionally well in the shade and in a cold climate. ‘Blizzard’ has been very reliable at consistent flowering, too.

By: Ferrol

Ferrol — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:59:00 +0000

Hi there! During a search for shade plants I came across your website! The “mockoranges” are essentially a full sun perennial shrub. They grow about ten feet tall and six to seven feet wide. They have beautiful white flowers which are guaranteed abundance when grown in full shade! We had a wet summer that required that the plant be fed very little! In other words, it can be used in a low watering xeriscape garden! The flowers are fragrant but not overbearing!

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:35:17 +0000

Eden, were you looking to sow annuals or perennials? I haven’t seeded many annuals in the fall, but I have in the past successfully directly sown bachelor buttons, cosmos, larkspur and sweet pea. These have self-seeded for me, coming up the next year, so they should be fine to be sown in the fall, although many gardeners give them a head start by sowing inside in the spring.

I haven’t sown any perennials in the fall, but there are probably some that would work well. One new type of hardy perennial Dianthus that I grew this year is Dianthus ‘Sweetness’, which blooms the first year from seed, and comes in some very pretty pink colour combinations. It might work for you. Poppies would lend themselves to sowing, too.

I’ve grown delphiniums in my last garden, and they are very hardy. Those tall spires of blooms are gorgeous, especially in all of the blue shades..

By: Eden

Eden — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:50:46 +0000

I’ve grown perennial gailardia and geum chiloense in August, now they are 4″. If they come back to life next year, I’ll inform you. Thanks again.