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I was thrilled when I found this garden center many years ago and try to visit as often as I can. It really is like no other. I looked at the real estate listing and there is a lovely looking home that goes with the business. Fingers crossed it sells to someone interested in maintaining things as they are. Otherwise, I've already warned my husband about all the plants I'm going to have to buy there before it closes.

I have been to LHorizons 3 times thus far this season. I had noticed in mid February that the owner (Larry) had posted a cryptic message asking if anyone would be interested in owning a unique nursery.

For a couple of years I have tried to convince my partner to sell and move to a larger property so I could garden till my heart's content. But to honest I would have such a difficult time even recreating the gardens I have now as so many of the plants are unique; obtained only or much easily from the now defunct "Garden Import" and LH.

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Forgot to mention that several were planted in the clay area that I used to call the Bermuda Triangle. They, and the Rudbeckia thrived there. The rest were in rocky, very lean soil, and they did the same. Full sun and they seem to be willing to grow anywhere. I'm also impressed with Solar Flare, and Hot Papaya. Both purchased at the same time and did just as well. Can you tell I love red? Here's the picture of a bloom just starting to change color.

And a few more. I love this Echinacea.

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Euonymous alata 'compactus - amazing autumn colour and a sturdy small bush which sits well in a minuscule garden/

Sango Kaku Coral Bark acer - simply lovely, even in a huge pot.

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I sometimes think of what I'd do if I had the small property that comes with most newer houses these days. What I've learned making this garden would lead me to pay a lot of attention to 'negative space' and I could easily see using clipped trees in a space like that. Will your tree be in the front or back?

Here is the Scotch Pine standard as of today about 6 weeks after planting. (See it in the middle of the first picture?)

And now more to the left in the shot below:

You and your husband have done an awesome job! My next door neighbours moved away and the new people aren't gardeners...they let it become a weed patch. I felt so bad because there were some really nice plants in that garden (and my neighbour had asked me if I wanted any of them). If I had known the plants were going to die a miserable death, I would have taken them all.

It's great when hard work pays off, and now you're rewarded with a garden full of mature plants. The daylilies are really showing off. I'm sure a lot of us think about what will happen to our gardens and hope that anyone who gets them would take care of them and appreciate them.

Possibly some of the odd placement of plants in too much shade happened because years ago when they planted those things there wasn't as much shade before the trees and shrubs grew so big.

I ran across this website today looking for Low-Gro Sumac. They carry starter sized shrubs for a reasonable price. For example, how about Nanny Berry? Suckering shrub, winter food for birds & nesting, likes wet. Or Cranberry Viburnum? I haven't read through all of them.

What is the pink flowering plant in the top photo? It sort of looks like penstemon.

http://www.whiteoaknursery.biz/seedling_06.shtml

It's that new hybrid sage (of which I don't recall the name just now) greggii x something else. Suppossed to be hardy...but it's a will see. Seems very floriferious.

Or did you mean the callirhoe bushii ?

Perin I am in Ontario too.. what town are you in?

I am approx. 40 miles SW of Ottawa. And you?

You should not need to remove any roots/stems of the plant, let it reach it's full potential . Is your 7 hrs. of sun from dawn onward?

Marie I like the scent but appreciate everyone having a different nose for scents.

I would look around to see if you can find Annabelle locally, and if you can, think about canceling the order. I found Annabelle here, and I am quite rural. Also, IME if you are willing to wait a year or two once you have one plant, Annabelle will create suckers and you can have as many as you want. I give away hunks since it's so prolific.

Hopefully we are all talking about the same nursery? I ordered from the Scappoose Joy Creek a few years ago. I was thrilled with the quality of their plants. Wonderfully packaged and bigger than expected.

I agree with GG about them probably holding off on sending because of the heat. One of our wholesale plant reps from that general area of OR said it was almost as painfully hot there as it was here (Spokane, got well over 100 degrees last week!).

CMK

what they said... my way ...

you plant plants in soil.. mother earth ...

mulch does not become soil... once you spread it on top of soil ...

pull back mulch.. plant in soil .... leave a small circle of bare earth around the plant.. to insure water soaks into the soil ...

ken

The purpose of mulch is really to kill small plants that can't reach above the mulch. If you are planting a small plant, you really have to scrape the mulch away from the spot you plant it.

Yes I definitely meant pull it out. You may need a shovel or trowel to help you follow the roots since they may be entangled with the Coreopsis.

Urushiol is the oil within the PI that you need to break down. Washing twice works for me but follow NHBabs advice if you are concerned. ( I don't think it is overkill ) Years ago I had it so badly that I had to have a Cortizone? treatment taking 9 pills the first day then 8 the next day then 7....

peren, I also had to go the cortizone treatment route years ago. I was pulling weeds out from my azaleas and didn't see the PI. You could actually see my yanking pattern - my left led was covered, only the front of my right leg, my hand and arms and my neck - ugh.

Currently that is not an option, so I have to extra careful. I'm already on cortizone for a chronic condition and it's taken me over two years to get down to a very low dose. Bumping up to a mega dose, even for a day, would wreck havoc with my body.

diggerdee, sorry you have that much to deal with. Not fun at all.

NHBabs, oh dear!There is a cat that belongs to someone in my area that likes to roam at night. She like to visit me to get petted and also get stoned on my catmint. Maybe I should stop petting her just in case.

I planted 2 of these last summer on a chainlink fence. They remained about 2 feet tall the entire summer but had berries in the Fall. I was disappointed by the lack of growth but this year.... wow! They went from a 2x1 little things to each covering a 7x4 area in 6 to 8 weeks since spring started. Very happy with these (variegated variety) They did have a little die back from the worst winter in 30 years, but came back beautifully.

It is astonishingly difficult to get this plant in England - I really don't know why since we have various parthenocissus vines everywhere...but nonetheless, I tracked down a plain green one to cover the outside of my horsebox (camouflage). I planted it a couple of years ago but this season has been it's first growing season, and so far, it has been slow. However, as we are all veterans in the ivy wars, this has not troubled me one whit - in fact, I was quite happy for it to loll about for a year or 2 before reaching skywards - not least as I am still slightly nervous about this complete unknown (for me) climber. Given the blackberry patch which we call the garden is so rampantly out of control, what is one more thuggish plant except a counterweight to the other thugs in what will no doubt be an all out aggression-fest? True, I did get a bit bent out of shape the first year in the wood but have completely altered my perspective on weeds, invaders, nuisance plants and, of course, a whole range of fauna which lives off the proceeds. As long as I can cut holes for windows and doors, I don't mind living underneath a cascading liana...and as we have nothing remotely like those astonishing berries, I look forward to finding out a whole lot more about ampelopsis...and failing that, I could, at a pinch, rain liquid death around it - much as I have been dealing with ivy and nettle.

Thanks. But I think you are being too kind.

The remaining "Rio" is so healthy and I really like the white flowers on the darker red stems but these days there are so many of these "Coral Bells" that look very similar...similar to "Rio". So to be honest it is the broken symmetry that too much bugs me. And this is also true for the missing BB. It is crazy that I keep going back again and again to these buddleia. They are so "foo foo" as Ken might say, in our zone. But having one survive gives me (false?) hope.

Hee. I completely understand. I have spent lots of money because I wanted a particular cultivar and those in my local nurseries were not the exact variety I wanted. A lot of times for me it's a color thing.