Now most folks think that I’m THE gardener over here on Second Ave., but what they don’t know is I don’t hardly do anything in the garden if I don’t pass it by Linda first. You see Linda “sees” stuff I never see, she has a better eye than I have (and prettier eyes too…:-)) I’ve said all this before in some little story or other but it won’t hurt to say it again here. If it wasn’t for my Linda, they’d be NO garden. Not a coneflower or a rose or 3 families of Blue birds living, feeding, bathing and flying around here all the time, not a hummingbird, NADA fellow gardeners…..When I first started this garden it was MY GARDEN and I don’t mean that selfishly. I wanted to make all the decisions, do all the planting, weeding, deadheading, shopping and buying, even pulling up dead plants, EVERYTHING, cause it was going to be MY present for Linda and my mom…..But as time went on I saw that Linda had lots of good ideas and even if I didn’t see everything like she did, boy she was great to bounce ideas off of and I learned so much and our garden is so more than it would be without her input and hard work…..You see I wanted a garden, a beautiful garden that was all my own doing from start to finish, but I wanted it for my wife and my mother like I said. But it would never had been as nice a garden by far without Linda’s help and advice at just about every turn of a spade or a digging fork……So with that being said and Linda for sure going to read this I’ll just say adieu fellow gardeners and it looks like I might get a pass the next time I track in dirt all over Linda’s clean floors after she reads this little story all about HER……:-)
Paul From Alabama
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- The only other thing I got to say about this plant is, get one…….:-)
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- You can deadhead day old blooms in the evening and the plant looks nice and clean for the new blooms the following day.
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- Blooms only last one day but boy for that one day they’re a joy to look at. Bees love them.
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- Only problem with this kind of Hibiscus is Sawflies if you get them. If you do you got to get’em before they eat the leaves slap up.
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- Linda’s lovely hand showing you the size of this Hibiscus, it’s a big’un.
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- Nice big blooms that reblooms as you deadhead during the growing season
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- ‘Indian Summer’ Rudbeckia hirta Biennial
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- Looking south. Moon Flower growing up black metal seat arbor against the wall.
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- Shasta Daisy ‘Becky’ The best Shasta daisy I’ve grown myself. Strong stems and prolific bloomer, you deadhead it, it blooms some more.
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- View toward Northeast corner. Echinacea, ‘Coronation Gold’ Yarrow, Shasta Daisies ‘Becky’ and Rudbeckia ‘Herbstonne’ in the corner.
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- Middle Border
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- I love this combination, yellow Yarrow, purple Veronica, and yellow rudbeckia with ‘Morning Light” miscanthus in the black pot with Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ in background
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- Crocosmia ‘George Davidson’ Nice foliage even when it’s not blooming
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- Leucanthemum superbum ‘Becky’ (Shasta Daisy) with Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ in the background
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- Nothing like Echinacea purpurea, the species and Shasta daisies ‘Becky’ blooming together
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- Cleome “Sparkling White’
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- Yellow, Purple and Yellow – Yarrow ‘Coronation Gold’, Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’ and Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Early Bird’
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- My wife’s lovely hand with a lovely ‘Sombreuil’ rose in it. This rose is lovely, smells great and has thorns that will take the flesh off your hands, arms or anything that comes into contact with them.. I love this rose and wouldn’t be without it but it’s got some kind of thorns on it.
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- This is one of the best plants I ever grew, bar none. It has no down side whatsoever, drought tolerant, no need to fertilize, foliage stays beautiful from spring till first hard frost, light blue spring flowers (like now) and by May it’ll be 3 times that size and just gorgeous without flowers.
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- Arbor in front yard with 2 ‘Sombreuil’s on each side of the arbor, first year.
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- (Foam Flower) Tiarella cordifolia in bloom. Astilbes
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- Virburnum dentatum ‘Joey’, ‘John Clayton’ Honeysuckle, Verbena ‘Homestead Purple’ and ‘David’s Lavender’ Phlox paniculata
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- I used to make fun of my mother and my sister when they went shopping for clothes, well I worse than either of them put together when I go shopping at a plant nursery……:-)
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- I love this plant, it died on me though, it probably got mad at me cause I forgot it’s name but if I ever see it again I’ll buy it.
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- Verbena, Salvia, Capsicum annuum ‘Black Pearl’ Ornamental Pepper.
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- Amsonia hubrictii (Blue Star) Light blue spring flowers turn to thread leaf foliage that looks nice and feels wonderful till first hard frost.
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- Bluebird box, been used every year but one for six years.
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- Lonicera sempervirens ‘John Clayton’ (Honeysuckle), Verbena ‘Homestead Purple” and Phlox paniculata ‘David’s Lavender’
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- Mexican pottery not as well fired as our other pots but hasn’t frozen and cracked yet.
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- ‘May Night’ Salvia, ‘Coronation Gold’ Yarrow about to bloom.
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- ‘Sombreuil’ rose on arbor, ‘Honeycomb’ butterfly bush in back left brown pot, other pots have Phlox paniculata ‘Dr. Givhan’
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- ‘Sombreuil’ rose growing on black metal trellis, training it eventually around the window above it.
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- Middle Border Probably Early April.
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- Stachys byzantina ‘Helen von Stein’ (Lambs ears, Echinacea ‘Sundown’, Salvia ‘Black & Blue’ and ‘Honeycomb’ butterfly bush in large brown pot.
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- ‘Wine & Roses’ Weigela, Shasta daisy ‘Becky’, Echinacea purpurea and ‘Morning LIght’ miscanthus in the black pot.
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- Echinacea purpurea, ‘Coronation Gold’ yarrow, ‘Wine & Roses’ Weigela & ‘Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick’ on left corner.
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- ‘Lamarque’ Noisette rose on the back wooden fence. A vigorous climber.
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- Back porch and our ‘White Garden’ All white flowers on the plants around the porch. Phlox Paniculata ‘David’, Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’, Shasta daisy ‘Becky’, ‘Sombreuil’ climbing rose. Sun Patiens and Lilium ‘Casa Blanca’
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- Blooms are 2 1/2 to 3 inches wide and are semi-double. Canes can be 6′ to 15′ long . It’s a vigorous grower once settled in.
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- Your best and most prolific blooms will be in spring and then the fall but I have new blooms all season long but just one or two here and there between spring and fall.
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- The canes are chocolate brown and new canes can be a copper like purple.
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- The blooms don’t fade that much and when the weather is “cooler” the blooms are a darker pink.
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- ‘Zepherine Drouhin’ has pink flowers and dark green foliage.
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- ‘Zephrine Drouhin’ Thornless, fragrant, pliable canes and a repeat bloomer when it gets settled in.
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- Umbrella trellis with ‘Sombreuil’ along the wooden back fence.
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- Amsonia hubrictii ‘Blue Star” on the left with light blue flowers as you come in on the left.
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- ‘Sombreuil’ n Arbor, ‘Lamarque’ along the fence.
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- Entry Way, Welcome to Paul & Linda’s Garden
Becky Shasta Daisies! Back on my list. Thanks for the reminder, Paul.
As my little sister would say, Becky’s are the bomb……:-)
Your garden is so lovely!
hoov, thanks glad you enjoyed the photos of the garden and I hope you’ll visit again.
awww, that is so sweet!! You and Linda are so lucky. glad you’re sharing and giving her the credit she deserves too!
She deserves the credit and it is nicer sharing than going it alone, it just took me awhile to come to that conclusion. I think when Linda told me if I didn’t let her pinch some coleus back she was going to pinch my head off, well that kinda prodded me into it……;-)