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You can look here and see if you can get an ID. I purchased one last year I think it is the same at my local nursery and it says.âÂÂMrs J. BradshawâÂÂ

Here is a link that might be useful: Geum

Mrs J Bradshaw is a chiloense and is red - very red. Little orange flowers says G.coccineum - so either Borisii or something like Eos or Cooky

Looks like viburnum Onondaga

Thank you all! I agree with the viburnum Onondaga comments. Thanks!

Looks like sedum kamtschaticum it behaves For me in bone dry soil. Given any moister look out I've had it root just throwing it on top of the ground. Still have it in a place or two. I don't let it flower any more and keep it trim. My vote is more weed than plant.

Have a similar one on a rock wall in my garden also. Spreads like wildfire. I think it's beautiful so I wrestle it back but let it stay. It just about strangled a peony bush this spring until I pulled it back.
I vote for let it stay!

You are right 'funn' i.e. this will be the first summer of these two being in full sun.

(The picture below shows 2 SE alternating with 3 Campanula "Freya" (along the front very sunny edge))

This post was edited by rouge21 on Tue, May 28, 13 at 18:01

Thanks 'Patty'. The original picture I think you are referring to is part of a very small quite narrow garden plot. I think it is maybe 18" wide by about 12 feet. And yet I really love this area of our property. It really is possible to make an appealing selection and grouping of plants in a surprisingly small area.

Rainwashed green out there this morning. I love this time of year - everything just sparkles!

(Mind you, the tree peonies were just starting to open yesterday in the front garden.... always a recipe for rain to come and trash the flowers!)

Gorgeous. I prefer foliage over flowers any day.

That is really eye catching! One of my favorite color combinations.

I have that combo but Marie Britt gets huge. I planted it on a hillside. The area does not look like it is that large.

It is 4' x 4'

How about some pictures? My favorites I got in trades, so only know the name of one. I have a lovely rich pink blooming right now. Never floppy. I've had it for maybe 3 years and it is almost 2 feet wide! One with a really unique flower form is Lily Lowell. The rationale of the cranebill name is obvious on that even while the flower is just starting.

Used to have Brookside in back of a semi circle of coreopteris the dark purple blue blooms of brookside would fall into the silvery foliage of the coreopteris. Geez that was gorgeous. The geranium made it appear as thou the bush bloomed all season. There were also three tall slender Indian Sioux grass behind. After about three years the coreopteris couldn't take the moisture any more. Now I do as another poster and plant the sprawlers with rose bushes. A plus during JB season when the geranium is blooming in the rose bush.

I love D. spectabilis 'Alba' growing in my full shade bed but right from the start planned on it going dormant early in the season. It's just too absolutely gorgeous not to plant. I surrounded it with other shade-loving perennials, including Carex 'Ice Dance' & Hosta 'Krossa Regal' so there are things that conceal the dying foliage once it goes dormant. It's planted on the north side of my house and is right out there to anyone driving or walking past on the road.

It's been my experience that the thread-leaf (D. eximia) bleeding heart varieties persist & continue to bloom right into the autumn garden (altho they're noticeably smaller than D. spectabilis) whereas the species can grow quite large--my DIL has a pink one that grows to about 3' x 3' every year.

D. spectabilis is also tough as nails--I had some construction done where one was literally growing out of a concrete stairway in full sun for years and, lo & behold, discovered it growing & blooming fully 15 ft away at the top of the stairway this spring.

'Gold Heart' and 'Valentine' are superior to all others in my opinion.

This guy is pretty old - I don't know the variety - and it only looks like this for about four days, but oh my, what a glorious four days! It usually produces 80 - 100 blooms.
Jan

By coincidence I snapped this pic just yesterday. I am sad to say it isn't mine but even so I still can admire as it is directly across the street from me.

This post was edited by rouge21 on Wed, May 29, 13 at 20:50

I agree with karin. Please let us know the variety. I love the size of the plant and the color too.

Linda

Alas, Penstemon fans... I have searched thru my seed stash and cannot find even an empty pkt of penstemon seed, so I don't know what I planted.
I tried a search using Google images and closest I can come is Penstemon barbatus Pina Colada Deep Rose.
The description seems to match what I have. One site I visited indicated it may be propagated from non-blooming stems using rooting hormone & moist sand. I'll be trying that!
http://www.hardyplants.com/seeds/P2VD-A8.html

Here is a link that might be useful: Possibly my Penstemon

Mine has been so well behaved. Today, I only moved penstemon and veronica.

Thanks!

Even though this is considered a common plant, I still adore it. I have them everywhere.

I've tried both fall and spring dividing with these and believe the spring divisions do better for me. They just seem to recover quicker.

Kevin