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minnesota_girl
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Your number one favorite plant
What is your must have plant?
I can't pick just one so I'll pick one in a catagory
Annual Flowers- Its a close call between cosmos, marigolds and zinna's but cosmos if I had to pick
Perrenials- Asain Lillies
Flowering shurbs- Roses
Flowering trees- Dogwood
Fruit tree- nectarine
Shade trees- really any maple but especially red and sugar maples.
evergreen- longleaf pine
veggie garden plant- watermelon
Annual Flowers- Its a close call between cosmos, marigolds and zinna's but cosmos if I had to pick
Perrenials- Asain Lillies
Flowering shurbs- Roses
Flowering trees- Dogwood
Fruit tree- nectarine
Shade trees- really any maple but especially red and sugar maples.
evergreen- longleaf pine
veggie garden plant- watermelon
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minnesota_girl
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I love daylilies. All daylilies are welcome to my garden but I really like to find new and different varieties. I also love asiatic lilies, one of my favorites is lilium asiaticum 'cappuchino'. I always need lilies in my garden.
I have never ordered from here but I find some of these daylilies at local nurseries.
https://www.dutchbulbs.com/store/daylilies
I have so many other favorite, I don't think I could ever choose one.
I have never ordered from here but I find some of these daylilies at local nurseries.
https://www.dutchbulbs.com/store/daylilies
I have so many other favorite, I don't think I could ever choose one.
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hendi_alex
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Simply not possible to answer that question. Just like when I bring the latest batch of blooming orchids in the house and call my wife over. She says [Oh, that is may favorite.] And then when she looks at the next, [That is my favorite.] It turns out most everyone of the 200-300 different orchids happens to be her favorite when it is in bloom. Same for this question, can't even begin to limit to a favorite, not even in varous categories. How is it possible to like a tomato better than a cucumber better than arugula? Each is a totally different, non comparable unique experience. How can I love a day lily more than a true lily, more than an iris?
What are the attributes that draw me to a selection? Now that makes a question that can at least be partially answered. At the practical level, the plant needs to be adaptable enough to grow in my challenging environment. If the first experimental plant does not live and thrive, a second will not likely get purchased. I tend to be drawn toward plants that have vivid color and long bloom period. So reds, blues, bright yellows, deep purples tend to most cach my eye. The unusual color is also an attention grabber. For the shade, contrasts and textures are more important. But really I don't have a set of criteria for selection. Such decisions are usually made by this gardener at the emotional level. The visual stimulus of the plant strikes a chord, and I react by placing the plant in the cart. Simple as that, not one favorite or one group of favorties, but dozens of favorites with the possibility of many dozens more favorites as experience provides that opportunity.
What are the attributes that draw me to a selection? Now that makes a question that can at least be partially answered. At the practical level, the plant needs to be adaptable enough to grow in my challenging environment. If the first experimental plant does not live and thrive, a second will not likely get purchased. I tend to be drawn toward plants that have vivid color and long bloom period. So reds, blues, bright yellows, deep purples tend to most cach my eye. The unusual color is also an attention grabber. For the shade, contrasts and textures are more important. But really I don't have a set of criteria for selection. Such decisions are usually made by this gardener at the emotional level. The visual stimulus of the plant strikes a chord, and I react by placing the plant in the cart. Simple as that, not one favorite or one group of favorties, but dozens of favorites with the possibility of many dozens more favorites as experience provides that opportunity.
Field peas (southernpeas). Protein and vitamins, plus they dry right on the vine for preservation if you let 'em (catch them before the pods split, or you'll be growing more). So easy to grow I've described it elsewhere on the forums as "stick them in the ground and stand back so they don't hit you in the face." Fairly drought tolerant, and, as a bonus, they fix nitrogen in the soil!
Oh, and they're yummy.
Ask me again tommorrow, get a different answer...
Oh, and they're yummy.
Ask me again tommorrow, get a different answer...
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minnesota_girl
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I know it's hard to ask for a single favorite. I don't even have a favorite color among the common red, blue, green, purple, etc. Even in the super market, I have a hard time choosing one thing over another. When it comes to plants I like a little [a lot according to my family and friends] of everything but I could tell you a few of my favorites like my previous post or the ones I don't like... WEEDS.
Favourite. If I can only take one plant from my garden and I have to choose one or nothing...... -
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right now, I don't know if I could choose. I have a favorite house plant that is an aloe, but I think it is my favorite for sentimental reasons. It was an off shoot from a friends, and it was also the first plant I was successful at getting to grow inside. Other than that, I got several that I love, and am currently adding to my collection.
Tey sounds like you love the tropical type plants...me too. I have bananas growing and had cannas in a pot but they died as I forgot to move the pot nearer the house for the winter and they rotted in our winter wet. 
Have you tried Hedychiums? https://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2005/09/hedychium_coccineum_tara.php
I have those growing this year. Hope they make it through the winter.
TheLorax why the Pediomelum esculentum (Prairie Turnip)?
What makes them so special for you?
Have you tried Hedychiums? https://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2005/09/hedychium_coccineum_tara.php
I have those growing this year. Hope they make it through the winter.
TheLorax why the Pediomelum esculentum (Prairie Turnip)?
What makes them so special for you?
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Green Mantis
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Tetrapanax papyrifer Rex:
and I always plant loads of Hakonechloa Macra Aureola in every garden that I landscape:
it was the perennial plant of the year in 2009:
https://www.sugarcreekgardens.com/Grasse ... Hakone.pdf
and I always plant loads of Hakonechloa Macra Aureola in every garden that I landscape:
it was the perennial plant of the year in 2009:
https://www.sugarcreekgardens.com/Grasse ... Hakone.pdf
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WildcatNurseryman
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Three way tie between Lion's Head Japanese Maple, Umbrella Pine and Aurea Chamaecyparis for trees.
Oh, and any Larch.... Five way tie- Acrocona Spruce too...Weeping Alaskan Cedar ain't too shabby either. Weeping White Spruce, oh yea, and all Beech Trees. I guess this is harder than I thought. Serviceberry sure do bring in the Cedar Waxwings...
Oh, and any Larch.... Five way tie- Acrocona Spruce too...Weeping Alaskan Cedar ain't too shabby either. Weeping White Spruce, oh yea, and all Beech Trees. I guess this is harder than I thought. Serviceberry sure do bring in the Cedar Waxwings...
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