I'll do a variation on listing everything and list what I like and what I
don't like.
What I like in my garden:
peonies
lilac
clematis
hostas
burning bush
smoke bush
holly
heucerahs
bell flower/campanula (a very tall variety)
monk's hoods
Hick's yews
Japanese yew
Hawthorne tree
day lilies
dwarf mugo pine
dwarf Alberta Spruce
blue spruce (not the gigantic one I hope)
shrub roses
creeping tyme
hens and chicks
autumn glory
mountain ash (dogberry)
euonymus
weigela (takes up a lot of room but stands up to all conditions)
willow (the many stem variety) (good for a screen and for wet spots and
can
be pruned at will)
astilbe (good for wet spot)
black eyed Susan (good for late summer/fall color)
chives
What I don't like in my garden (my garden is small and hilly):
evergreen candytuft (too spreading)
wormwood (too floppy and too spreading)
flowering crab (taking way too long to fill out, chewed out by the middle
of
July, looks really good for one week only)
hops (ugly, nasty to touch)
black cedar (died)
honeysuckle (died)
cotoneaster (too spreading)
pee gee hydrangea (died)
maple (? Norway) (too big, no winter interest, prone to Elm Spam worm)
rhododendron (too finicky, doesn't hold up under the snow load)
an unknown variety of Explorer rose, pale pink flowers (too much trouble
for
the results I get)
purple leaf sandcherry (too slow growing, chewed out)
wave petunias (devoured by slugs)
"Charles" <charles1998@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Too big a job to list all the plants in mine. I really should be
weeding.
> ;)
> I do concentrate sometimes on collecting different varieties of my
> favourite plants. I have about 30 or more different varieties of dahlias
> and about 50 different Asiatic and Oriental lily varieties.
> "KR" <kay_rh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Just for fun, and as an amateur gardener, I thought we could list out
>> the annuals, perennials and trees/shrubs in our gardens!
>>
>> Annuals:
>> Livingstone Daisies
>> Pansies
>> Sunflowers
>> Daisy type flower that reseeds itself annually
>> Some unidentified species
>>
>> Perennials:
>> Hostas
>> Dianthus (barbatus & pinks)
>> Stocks
>> Lamb's ears
>> Bleeding hearts (low growing & shrub variety)
>> Geraniums (Scented leaf)
>> Heliopsis helianthoides
>> Endless summer hydrangea
>> Purple coneflower
>> Creeping phlox (2 varieties)
>> Rosemary
>> Thyme (Creeping & Wooly)
>> Marjoram
>> Saxifraga arendsii
>> Daisies (standard & shasta)
>> Iris (2 varieties)
>> Day lilies
>> Chives (2 varieties)
>> Sweet woodruff
>> Columbine
>> Forget me nots
>> White anemone
>> Coleopsis
>> Bachelor's buttons
>> Perennial pansy
>> Jacob's Ladder
>> Sedum (Autumn joy)
>> Tulips
>> Daffodils
>> Hyacinths
>> Crocus
>> Muscari
>> Lupins
>> Foxglove
>> Dahlias
>>
>> Trees & Shrubs
>> Birch, alders, fir & juniper
>> Dogberry
>> Elderberry
>> Roses
>> Potentilla
>> Unknown evergreen shrub with purple flowers in fall - winter
>>
>> Wish List:
>> Goats Beard, Peonies, Rhododendron, Campanula (blue bells), Astilbe,
>> Strawberry plants, Bee balm and Clematis
>>
>> Does anybody have a great website for identifying unknown plants that
>> grow in Newfoundland? Any other great Newfoundland gardening links?
>>
>> TIA,
>> KR
>>
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