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| I need to add more perrenials this year to my wintersowing list and I am drawing a blank here,most of what I wintersowed last year was annuals with a few exceptions but definetly would like to add more perennials.even if they dont bloom the first year...need suggestions please |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 16:40
| May I toss in some suggestions that I am planning on wintersowing?? I absolutely adore drought tolerant, long bloomers. So these I mention I am growing with thinking they fall into that category. At least that is what I have read. A long bloom period to me is spring to fall. These also qualify for winter sowing also. Ratibida columnifera (Mexican hat) Not such long bloomers but some I am looking forward to that are still drought tolerant. Phlox Paniculata pink Here are some more that need moisture to survive. How I deal with that in my gardens is I plant them in partial shade. Morning sun afternoon shade. They still bloom and have the appropriate color. Only things I do not do this with are things that may suffer from powdery mildew, like phlox. Lathyrus latifolius (Perennial Sweet Pea) pink All perennials!!
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 17:35
| That Mimulus ringens (monkey flower) needs moisture my bad. Add Lupinus Perennis (Wild Lupine) to the list though. I am sure there are more that I overlooked but there is a few of them. |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 17:54
| These that I WS get top honors: Gaura lindheimerii/wandflower |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 18:51
That Iberis smells wonderful!! Mine is on its second year and I just didn't realize till here in the last month how wonderful it smelled. I am standing around it or I will walk by it and I catch this wonderful scent. Finally I figured out it was coming from this plant, I love this little plant. Saving seed from it though seems to be a little challenging.  Oh that gaura is another one I am going to grow and my gailardia is awesome in my garden. It blooms during drought and while I am letting it go to seed. |
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- Posted by tiffy_z5_6_can 5/6 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 19:43
| Some of my favourites... Echinacea - Don't expect to get the parent but do expect to get a good plant! Also, you might like to consider shrubs? A tree perhaps? I have 3 Weigelas (Middendorfiana) planted in the gardens courtesy of winter sowing, several Rose of Sharon on my parents property, two Azaleas, one Japanese Maple - so tiny I'm hoping it makes it through the winter - and several Katsura trees. Have fun whatever you decide!! Oh, and don't forget to sow Hardy Hibiscus... |
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- Posted by kimka z7 (jkkaplan@erols.com) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 8:37
| My favorite perennials to wintersow are: Foxgloves--all of them--the camelot series, candy mountain, grecian, etc., even if they are really biennials, they'll reseed so they look like perennials after the first couple of years. Jacob's ladder and my new favorite is Prairie Splendor coneflower, which germinated great and mostly did as advertised by blooming the first year from seed. |
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| You all are awesome,thankyou,thankyou,thankyou,you've given me some fantastic choices..Ive been googling like crazy,gonna be a busy winter again,yay... |
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| Countrycarolyn, I hate to say this, but I think your Iberis might be Sweet Alyssum, Lobularia maritima. Mine smells super awesome now, and is flowering more heavily now that it's gotten cooler. I could barely detect the scent in the summer, but now I stand several feet away and smell them. I'll have to grow more next year. Karen |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 15:43
| Karen - I did a double take at the iberis and thought it must be alyssum too but I didn't say anything because I'm definitely no expert! ;-p It just looks a WHOLE LOT like my alyssum. Tom - do you need perennial seeds to WS? I've been harvesting like a mad woman so I've got plenty to share. Let me know if you'd like a variety via SASBE. Eileen |
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| Seems that I'm always ws a new variety of these: Perennial salvias I wondered about iberis blooming at this time of the year as it is a spring bloomer here. Alyssum does look a bit like iberis and has a wonderful fragrance. |
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- Posted by austinnhanasmom 5 Broomfield, CO (My Page) on Fri, Oct 22, 10 at 17:52
| My favorite this year (new to me) - Lunaria - pink This was it's 2nd year and it finally bloomed! |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Fri, Oct 22, 10 at 18:31
| LOL, To Funny!! Seriously I was thinking you know, that could be assylum Carolyn. I was looking at some pictures of some seeds I had and one was a picture of assylum, I thought hmmm that kinda looks like that little plant out by my sidewalk, lol. I thought surely if it was someone would of said something where I posted that picture. LOL, to funny cause you guys did catch it. I tell ya see that is what happens when I direct sow things. Last year or the year before I knew I had dsed assylum and irebis. Well this came back and I had the purple bloom to die out after the first year. So I figured this was the irebis. I guess this goes to show you another good reason for container sowing, is so much better than dsing. LOL I needed that laugh after the day I had!! Oh my, LOL. |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 22, 10 at 19:00
| Sure hated to pour water on your happy photo but it's definitely alyssum. I'm more aware of it since growing it myself for the first time this year. I'm impressed with its staying power through the drought and still blooming as fresh as a nosegay the 3rd week of October. Who could ask for anything beyond that? I shot pictures of it in August when the drought had stretched into it's third month. Just amazing.
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Fri, Oct 22, 10 at 22:49
| Hey that is ok with me seriously, I got a kick out of it. I guess my irebis never survived, oh well. Funny thing is that I had a purple bloom come up and I still never have figured out what that was. It was cute but it didn't last. I just assumed that little plant was irebis cause it was white and it came back the next year. LOL, so much for assuming. That is what I get for not looking it up and just tossing seeds in that bed. LOL, one year no lie I had like a ton of seed I had no idea how I was going to grow them. So I just started throwing it in this one bed, I was like if it comes up it comes up if it doesn't oh well. I got some amazing flowers out of that and then I got some stuff I wished I never did that with, ugg. One thing I got from that was a beautiful red poppy. I have no idea what kind, I just know it was beautiful. I didn't save the seeds so I have been searching for those seeds. Well I finally found one wildflower pack that looks to have that poppy. I can't wait to grow that pack. To sum it up I am pretty sure that may be where that assylum came from. LOL It gets bigger each year!! |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7 nw TN (My Page) on Fri, Oct 22, 10 at 23:11
| Gardenweed, I just looked up the botanical that karen gave me for that sweet assylum, and you know it makes sense now. I mentioned I had purple flowers. Well I faintly remember the first year I grew this it looked more like yours looks. The flowers were more of a purple color then they would go white. If I am not mistaken they did that this year also in early spring, but they stopped with the purple when it warmed up. The first year mine did not bloom long at all. It bloomed earlier in the season but once it got hot it pretty much just looked like crap. This year total different story. It started blooming in the spring I am not sure on which month, but it is still blooming. The picture that I took was from that day. Thank You, Karen!!! Awesome!! |
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| Alyssum self sows for me. I also take the dried stems with seeds and drag them along areas where I want alyssum the next year. I love the fragrance. I think the white is more vigorous as also had some purple & white variety. I see a few purple blooms but most of the ones that self sowed are white. The original plants were ws three springs ago. The extra rainfall we had this year and cooler temps allowed my alyssum to keep blooming nicely all summer/fall. I didn't even have to cut it back. Iberis is one of those plants that doesn't grow well for me. I know I ws some two springs ago and it bloomed again this spring but I haven't seen it recently. Maybe since it is out of bloom I just haven't noticed it. Will have to search for it tomorrow. Over the years I have killed many iberis plants. |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 23, 10 at 7:12
| I WS iberis/candytuft from a commercial seed pack this year and got quite a few plants that I stuck in an oval bed on the boundary. It gets partly to mostly sun and the iberis seedlings did okay until the drought lengthened into two, then three months. I think it kind of went into a semi-dormant/rest period and then once we got a few drops of rain, it put on a little growth. I'm hoping they're tough enough to come through the winter. I have a two- or three- year old plant that I stuck in a broken ceramic pot that was my mother's favorite so even though it was broken, I just couldn't toss it. I turned it so the broken part was underneath, then stuck some soil + the iberis in it. Darn thing rooted through the broken part and blooms every spring. |
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| Butterfly weed (A. tuberosa) Snapdragons (usually last several years for me) Coneflowers (echinaceas) Rudbeckia hirtas (usually last about 2 years) Lobelia cardinalis Verbascum I hope they all make it through this drought. My Mom has been sick for a few weeks so I have been with her, not here to water much. My garden looks awful, not sure how much is from drought but trying to hope much is just normal dormancy. I'm losing hope with each added day of drought. Karen |
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- Posted by lynnencfan 7b/8aNC (My Page) on Sun, Oct 24, 10 at 11:31
| agastache - cause they made it through our wicked summer this year and the hummingbirds just love them salvias run a very close second ...... Lynne |
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