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| If you're taking stock of your garden for the year, as I am, what perennial new to your garden in 2013 is your favorite? In my garden, hands down, the best is Caryopteris divaricata 'Snow Fairy' . Hate the frilly name but its variegated leaves make a wonderful bright foil for every color around them. My roses and blue sages have never looked so good. I bought this plant from Bluestone. |
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| strobilanthes wallichii/atropurpurea a birthday trip (22.10) to my local botanics and there they were, a fabulous late perennial, previously only known to me as a house plant (and not very nice one at that - Persian Shield, aka Strobilanthes dyeriana). Liberated a seedhead (although ordered more because I am so crazy for them). |
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| I tend not to develop favorites with first year plants; they are just not at their best yet and I am never sure if they will survive the winter. From plants I put in last summer (2012), I really like Helenium 'Mardi Gras' and Penstemon 'Sweet Joanne'. |
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| Sombrero and Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower. AWESOME plants. Dense structure, dense green, vigorous heavy flowering with intensely colored persistent flowers. In fact they still have flowers on them today. Arktrees |
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| Mysteryrose, I also planted 'Snow Fairy' this year and very much enjoyed it. Like Nhbabs, the jury will be out for me until I see how it does over the next couple of years, but thus far, it's a winner. I like how the flowers are quite different than other caryopteris. Also came upon Agastache 'Blue Boa' this year. The flowers were so huge and rich in color it almost looked like butterfly bush flowers. I'm hoping it really is a Z5 plant. |
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| I enjoyed Moonflower annual vine tremendously - believe it or not, have never grown it before, but definitely will be next year. I also picked up two dwarf Colorado blue spruce on super-duper clearance that I am thrilled with so far. Other than that, it's been a quiet year over here in terms of new plants. I did pick up a few other new-to-me plants, but as mentioned above - too early to make any sort of judgement. |
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- Posted by steelskies 5 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 3, 13 at 16:11
| I planted 4 o'clocks for the first time this summer. wow, didn't know they grew that big. Wonderful trait that they bloom late in the afternoon and into the evening. Some of the flowers almost had a irridescent look to them. beautiful! Also, FINALLY had some double poppies bloom. first time for that too. I LOVE them! |
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- Posted by aseedisapromise z4.5 SD (My Page) on Sun, Nov 3, 13 at 19:17
| I bought in spring 2012 a Caryopteris Little Miss Sunshine, and it did winter over just fine and really looked nice this year until Storm Atlas flattened it out. Very nice color for fall. It starts out very yellow in the spring, but gets a bit greener as the year wears on. The blue flowers are very nice. |
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- Posted by redwolfdoc 5b (My Page) on Mon, Nov 4, 13 at 14:53
| That Little Miss Sunshine is beautiful! May be the very thing to sit next to my Sand Cherry come next spring... :) |
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