Hallson Gardens

Does anyone else have problems with their rose of sharon seeding all over the place????? If so, do you have a good way to control it? I have 2 bushes and the area around them is fairly heavily mulched and I STILL get reseeding. It is an every day job to keep them pulled Help!

Are you going to eliminate the wiegela or the silver maple??? I think I am going to have blloms on my wiegela for the first time this year!

When my pulmonaria starts to look ratty, I cut it back almost to the ground and get a fresh set of leaves. This is only my second year for brunnera- I may try the same thing if it starts to look bad also. Happy gardening! Susan

I was wondering the same thing, Jane! I have a redbud that is only 3 years old and all of it's little leaves are all crunchy from the freeze earlier this week. Guess we'll just have to put on our patience hats!

I would say that you and the missus are out of control!!!!!!

The two plants I put in last year are back and look good! They are slightly bigger than last year. So far, so good

Those are gorgeous! I have always been facinated with orchids.... You obviously don't have cats!

Chris- For information on perennials, I use a book called "Botanica The Illustrated A-Z of Over 10,000 Garden Plants". It rarely lets me down when I look something up. It has the genus Osteospermum but not the cultivar Lavendar Mist. It does state that the plant is indigenous to So. Africa and gives...

HI! My name is Susan and I live in Iowa City (hence the name ICGardner). I have one daughter who is 16 and a sophmore in HS. We also have 3 cats, including a 9 week old kitten that my DD brought home last week! I've been an RN for almost 25 years and currrently work in a large teaching hospital. I'v...

Dee- I also use tomato cages. I cut the bottom ring off with wire cutters so they are wider. I too live in the Midwest and I think this works really well. Lots cheaper than some of the hoops sold specifically for peonies!

Chris- I just put in several of these plants this summer. They were beautiful up until the first frost. If no one else has an answer to your question, I can let you know when mine come back next spring! Susan

Semperhans- Beautiful!!! Thanks for all the great ideas! I am a newbie at this and am always looking for new ways to plant semps as I have just fallen in love with them!

I typed my list out in the same format as everyone else- anyone know why it printed out on the forum as thought I just typed a name, comma, type another name, etc?????????

From my Iowa garden: Abby Abiqua Trumpet Allen P. McConnell Alligator Shoes Aphrodite Baby Bunting Blue Angel Cody Crown Jewel Dee's Golden Jewel Elegans Fair Maiden Fire and Ice Frosted Jade Ground Sulphur Guacamole Heart Broken Kifukurin Ko Mame Lakeside Kaleidoscope Lakeside Neat Petite Lakeside ...