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Goutweed


Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald and Gold'


Hollyhocks


Hosta

Creeping Charlie (I HATE this stuff, looks nice far away, but smells when you step on it or after a rain. It's going to get into my flower bed, so I'm trying to control it. I want to make a bed in the middle of the creeping charlie because I don't have any more space)

nice kenny. i love the plants you have that i can't grow...

Great pics.

Oh good God...Goutweed. Hope you know how invasive it is. If I would have planted it in a ditch or something it would of been great but I planted right into my flower beds

That being said...I do love your foilage plants. Creeping Charlie is pretty...I have it only growing in one spot in my yard.

I have lots of goutweed - my neighbour brings it over and I put it in for fill -it looks great!

Well, of course, I don't put it in near anything it might intrude upon.

The goutweed is my neighbour's in between our two houses there's a path about 6', then his patch of goutweed on one side, and my side garden on the other.

Do you want any creeping charlie? It's taking over literally half the yard...I'll be more than glad to dig you as much as you want and send you some...



You're right it looks great en mass, love the texture and colour combo.



Thanks Jiffy, what can't you grow? Do you want cuttings of anything?

that is so sweet kenny. i can't grow hostas, too hot and i don't have a shade garden, yet. and the others i haven't tried yet. i have a creeping charlie in the house in a hanging basket. i think part of it is going to go in the yard to see what happens to it.

i will be looking into the others, i like the way they look.

I had snow in the mountains at another house. I like it. I have a great place for it in my shade garden. Maybe we could trade for some this fall. I really can't take on any more projects right now. I'm still fighting the hill of dirt I bought. But I'm getting there one 5 gallon bucket at a time lol.

Sure Tammy, just shoot me a Pm or email later...I'm probably going to forget

I got lotsa' creeping charlie - ha ha!

Some of it looks good just 'creeping' over a rock or a curb and I don't have the heart to dig it out.

My father-in-law (long since passed on) used to keep a perfect lawn and perfect hedges on Niantic Avenue in Don Mills.

He used to rant about creeping charlie - just hated it!

He'd be horrified to know that I cultivated such things at goutweed - ha ha!

my gosh no. I have been pulling it up.

Good point Joclyn! The ground freezes here and its cold for a good 3-4 months, and it manages to get bigger and bader each season so imagine if theres no freezing to kill it to the ground...oh the atrocity! oh the horror! oh the weeding!

oh my inside the garage? wow. ok, note to self, do not plant outside. i'll just put the hanging basket out then.

of course, it cant be any worse than the briars. if i thought it would choke them out, i'd risk it, but NOTHING chokes out briars.

I hate that creeping charlie too. It's everywhere every spring no matter what I do. I spray it with roundup every year but it comes right back. It's horrible.

Hey Kenny
here is some hosta


and sedum



and more sedum

more below

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Continued from^ there

More hosta blooming



and my fav large foliage!

striped canna leaves




devils back bone

Oh, very nice.

This is a nice thread, Kenny.

Diane, I love the striped canna leaves.

The longer I garden, the more I appreciate and love the steady foliage plants. They certainly are the backbone of the garden, aren't they?

Here's some of mine.

Thanks Mel That canna is really spreading, it has gone under the fence into the neighbors yard
here are a few more foliage pictures,,

Dusty Miller


variegated pineapple sage

Love the foliage pictures....does anyone have a picture of what creeping charlie looks like.

Rosepetal, I'll see if I can get a closeup of some for you later

I posted some Cedar Hill foliage //www.agardenersforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showgallery&Number=215588#Post215588 .

Foliage and texture make the garden.

Thanks Kenny.....awwwwwwwwwwwww Bill yours are so beautiful already.

WOWWWWWWWWWWWW That is gorgeous!!!!!!!!

I love that one too.

Centaurea dealbata


Hens and Chicks


Rue


Passionflower


castor Bean

Cool pics, I love foliage....



Hydrangeas will be in full bloom soon, but I just really like the lush greenery even when there are no blooms.

My hostas will soon be opened enough for pics. About another week I'd say.

Loz, your pics always look so green....very nice.

Thanks Tam, my hostas are open but the slugs have been feasting on them. They are full of holes.

You should see my columbines...they are bare stocks. Ugliest thing I ever seen not a piece of foilage anywhere. The worms got it all.

Well we haven't updated this thread for a while, so I thought I would, with the bargains I got yesterday. One of the nice nurseries just over the border in NJ is having 50% off all their perennials right now. While they didn't have a great selection left by the time I got to it, they had these terrific LARGE pots of ajuga. I KNOW... I KNOW... it can be VERY invasive, and I have stayed away from it for years, but the colors were so pretty and I thought it would help cover up some bare spots on the oh-so-dry waterfall hill, and I also need to fill in some spots in my parents' rock garden.

So I bought 4 pots on sale for $7 each.


Here is a close-up of the wonderful colors!


I plan on breaking up each plant into several smaller pieces and spreading it around in those gardens. The odd thing is that they are spring bloomers, but they are coming into bloom now! The guy at the nursery said it's because they are first year plants and they can be of schedule?

And here is the coleus that the deer HAVEN'T gotten to yet.
They have eaten all my other pots down to the soil.

nice lynne. i like!