my funny looking garden from last year

by pinkpansy on December 12, 2006 10:50 AM

I think I need some help with my flower garden in the front of my house. It is small. This is a picture of it.
http://www.geocities.com/blackmon44/oldgarden.html
I can't think of all the flower I planted.
But next year I want it to look pretty.
So if anyone has a garden around this size please post it here so I can get an idea of how to do my garden next year.

by weezie13 on December 12, 2006 10:12 PM

Here's a little picture of mine
from the year before last..
*haven't put the new one's in yet..
that's a winter project.*

Each year I've changed it and only have annuals in it..

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Weezie

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done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by loz on December 13, 2006 06:12 AM

What kind of sunlight does that area get pinkpansy? [wavey]

by pinkpansy on December 13, 2006 08:48 AM

I like your garden it is pretty. Lez I am glad you ask me that. I get a lot of sun light at 12:00 or 1:00 in the summer. I don't really get a lot of flowers until midsummer. Some of those flowers you see in my picture where given to me, so I don't know their names.

by weezie13 on December 13, 2006 10:58 PM

Pinkpansy,
Can you take some more pictures of the plants/flowers when they come up in the spring..
and post them, INDIVIDUALLY, in the MYSTERY SECTION.. and we will be more than happy *cause we love a good mystery here* to help you identify and take care of your plants...

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by loz on December 14, 2006 06:17 AM

Are you looking for annuals or perennials?

If it's very sunny you can't go wrong with Zinnia's or Cosmos.....they're both annuals...and both can get quite tall depending on the type of each.

by penny in ontario on December 15, 2006 02:33 AM

Weezie....that garden of your's is beautiful!!!!!

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by weezie13 on December 15, 2006 10:12 PM

And it changes every year...
I just put annuals into it.
*Well, I have one rose in it but that's it*
It's so much fun just putting in annuals..
I don't have any area like it here...

I wish I had more area just like it to do...
There's so many that I'd love to grow...
but can't because of limited space.

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by penny in ontario on December 15, 2006 10:37 PM

Can you tell me some of what is in that picture please [Big Grin]

...its beautiful!!!!

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by weezie13 on December 15, 2006 10:48 PM

Cosmos, Sunflowers, Amaranth *Love Lies Bleeding*, Geraniums, assorted Begonia's and Coleous's...

Here's another one, when it first grew.....

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by penny in ontario on December 15, 2006 10:54 PM

Its beautiful.....just wrote down those names too [Big Grin]

One plant i would love to try next summer is a Bird of Paradise plant, but i have heard that if you start them from seed, it takes 2 years for them to flower. Have you tried that one before???

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by weezie13 on December 15, 2006 11:05 PM

No, I haven't tried a BoP....

That would be an annual for you...
*or you'd have to bring that inside..*
and I think they can get BIG, find a Californian,
they have those in the really warmer areas outside...
The flower is a neat flower I think...

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by penny in ontario on December 15, 2006 11:07 PM

I agree...i love the looks of it too

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by penny in ontario on December 15, 2006 11:34 PM

I never did get around to trying Love Lies Bleeding this past summer...have some seeds to start but i dont know if they are red or the green ones?
Do you have the green ones too?

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by weezie13 on December 16, 2006 12:28 AM

No, I wasn't too partial to the green..
Onllllllyyyyyyyyy because I have the "cousin" plant, that's a weeeeeeeeeeed here in my soil
and it reminds me too much of it...

Although, I did see some pictures of one,
and it's not bad.. just that I have a ba~zillion
plants, and even have a hard time squeezing in the one's that I do really like.. so I can't see growing one I'm not allllll that partial too...

I suppose by it's self it would be a nice plant..
like in a pot/container...

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by penny in ontario on December 16, 2006 02:10 AM

Oh yeah....i remember you telling me a few months back about those ones.....do you recall what the weed is called???

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by weezie13 on December 16, 2006 02:24 AM

Pigweed

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by penny in ontario on December 16, 2006 02:26 AM

Thats it....thank you.

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by Deborah L. on December 16, 2006 12:33 PM

My front yard has two big Bird of Paradise plants.
They get to about 5 feet around and about 4 feet tall.
You have to prune them to keep them from spreading so wide that you can't control their size.
Lemme tell ya, they get humungous.

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by penny in ontario on December 18, 2006 10:10 PM

Thanks for the tip.....one question....did you grow yours from seed???

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by Deborah L. on December 22, 2006 11:02 AM

No, from small plants from the local nursery.
Right now the plants are in full bloom and have about 6 "birds" per plant.

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