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Garden Gate:  Favorite heirloom flowers?  |
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CherryPie
True Blue Farmgirl
935 Posts
Kimberly Ann
Puyallup
WA
USA
935 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 06 2009 : 08:35:42 AM
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What are some of your favorites? I have some seeds coming for next year, including Grandpa Ott's morning glories (never grown them before) and Love Lies Bleeding (not sure where I'm going to put a plant with big weepy red tassles but I had to give it a try).
What's in your heirloom garden?
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
Crochet Geek, Newbie Fiddler, Would-be Farmer, Backyard Chicken Rancher |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Oct 06 2009 : 08:56:16 AM
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Sweet peas, morning glory, violas, hollyhocks.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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countrymum
True Blue Farmgirl
97 Posts
Lorie
PA
USA
97 Posts |
Posted - Oct 08 2009 : 6:13:57 PM
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heavenly blue morning glories, delphiniums, bleeding hearts,black-eyed susans, poppies, lilacs and my grandmother's clematis that I inherited.
"Life is brief & very fragile. Do that which makes you happy."- Flavia |
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Mary Ann Newcomer
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Mary Ann
Boise
ID
USA
44 Posts |
Posted - Oct 18 2009 : 8:49:38 PM
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Originally posted by CherryPie
What are some of your favorites? I have some seeds coming for next year, including Grandpa Ott's morning glories (never grown them before) and Love Lies Bleeding (not sure where I'm going to put a plant with big weepy red tassles but I had to give it a try).
What's in your heirloom garden?
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
Crochet Geek, Newbie Fiddler, Would-be Farmer, Backyard Chicken Rancher
I grew the Love Lies Bleeding in a big pot this year. It was wonderful draping over the sides.
Farmgirl w/a city garden, Dirt Diva on the radio. Sister chick #246
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 7:27:16 PM
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I don't have a favorite flower, only because I don't remember the names of the ones I like. But, I love to have flowers growing when I can.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2009 : 08:53:37 AM
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Hollyhocks, Cosmos (until they start to fade and get all ugly!), Old heriloom Poppies, and Roses ROSES ROSES!!!! I have a passion for roses! OLD roses-- Bourbons, Moss, antique French etc... Not such a big fan of the more modern varieties, though I DO like David Austin English roses, but they are a cross with old antique roses and modern high-breds. They have the beuty (and usually the fragrance) of the old roses, but the hardiness and disease resistance of the modern roses. Really though, I love all flowers in general.... but they MUST have a smell!! (a NICE one! LOL!!)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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CherryPie
True Blue Farmgirl
935 Posts
Kimberly Ann
Puyallup
WA
USA
935 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2009 : 09:09:13 AM
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I won't be doing nasturtiums again next year, I think. They took over the garden space they were in and attracted tons of little aphid type insects. Unfortunately, I have about four packages of seeds I picked up, so I'll have to find a new home for those.
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
Crochet Geek, Newbie Fiddler, Would-be Farmer, Backyard Chicken Rancher |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2009 : 09:21:39 AM
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oh my heavens! what DONT I love???? I want to plant everything...wallflower, honesty, tiger lillies, old roses of all sorts, pansies, violets, honeysuckles hollyhocks and foxglove.. I love them all!!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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Sarahpauline
True Blue Farmgirl
672 Posts
sarah
Ringgold
GA
USA
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts |
Posted - Nov 04 2009 : 8:46:50 PM
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| hey kimberley we use nasturtiums as a trap crop for those insects. we plant them off to the side of the veggie garden and the bugs prefer them to the veggies.it is part of our companion planting program here. we put things that help each other together in the garden beds. it helps a lot. we have my fathers rose it is a peace rose. we have had it for 36 years now. very special to me. we also went to the farms being tore down here for urban growth and gathered all the plants and trees we could. the construction co. let us harvest for free. lots of old plants and trees.the spring helebores are favorites to me. first to bloom after the dark days of freeze and snow.sherrye happy days |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 03:47:54 AM
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My newest favorite is moonflower.
The night time moths LOVE it!
It's neat to stand there and watch the blooms move as they get ready to open
ALso like 4'0 clocks. They smell really sweet and attract the same moths.
And safflower. They are super hardy and sprout very quickly from seed.
And I like how they look really different from all the other flowers |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4863 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4863 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 07:32:31 AM
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I'm missing flowers already and it is only November! I love hollyhocks, delphiniums, irises, daylilies, and I guess every other flower in there is! I guess I'll have to look at the pictures I took this summer of various gardens, including my own.
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