Last weekend I was in Pasadena, California for the Garden Writers Association’s symposium, and the weekend before was Girls’ Weekend. I took pictures and tried to get something posted here during the few days I had between events, but it didn’t work out. So here’s the pictures I took on September 16th.
Don’t you love that pot? My daughter, Leandra, made it, and it’s probably going to be in Alabama Gardener magazine next year, along with instructions on how you can make something similar. I bought some of those plants when I was in California this spring, and some were free plants from Costa Farms. They sent me a big box with fifteen.
I LOVE free plants!!!
I’ve got two favorites: Variegated baby jade (Portulacaria afra ‘Variegata’) in the lower right because it’s my only “spiller” in the container I showed you, and Campfire jade (Crassula capitella ‘Campfire’) in the upper left because it gets these red tones when the temperatures cool. Here’s a link to a page on the Costa Farms’ website with more info on these plants.
While I’m talking about my favorite kind of plants, – And by that I don’t mean succulents, I mean FREE. – I want to show you my favorite of the trial plants that Terra Nova sent me this year. It’s Agastache ‘Violet Vision’. Usually, my tiny trial plants take a year or so to establish, but ‘Violet Vision’ started blooming soon after I planted it in April, and it hasn’t stopped. Mine’s pretty, but I wish it looked as good as the images on Terra Nova’s website. Here’s a link if you want to see them. Next year I’ll give it some organic fertilizer and see what happens.
These next two are also 2015 plant ho plants, also known as free plants. On the left is Easy Wave® Pink Passion, and on the right is Lobeliea ‘Grape Knee Hi’. Grape Knee Hi should be much taller, maybe next year when it’s more established.
And one last plant ho picture, this Show Off® Sugar Baby forsythia from Proven Winners is either confused about the season, or it re-blooms, or I have it mislabeled.
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The following are pictures of miscellaneous things that caught my eye.
Two great native plants for fall: American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) and Fireworks goldenrod (Solidago rugosa).
Mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium) is a great native shrub for dry shade. The white spring flowers are followed by these berries.
Big Bang™ Mercury Rising tickseed (Coreopsis x ‘Mercury Rising’) and Loropetalum ‘Purple Pixie’
Pretty, but I’m a bit worried about that tree with the slanted trunk.
Last spring, I bought boxes of Caladium bulbs at Sam’s Club. I got 40 bulbs for about $14. This is Caladium ‘Florida Cardinal’.
Another Sam’s Club purchase, three boxes of Caladium ‘White Queen’.
Gomphrena ‘Pink Zazzle’
As I said in the beginning, all of these images were taken just after Girls’ Weekend. Since this is mainly a gardening blog, I won’t tell you stories about our silly shenanigans, but we posted another YouTube video. If you’re interested, here’s a link to the PhanC Sisters Sing-Along.