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Waterloo summer

comments (2) January 25th, 2009 in gallery

hostanut hostanut, member
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As the saying goes - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I live to garden, here in Ontario zone 5.

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hostanut writes: Thanks for visiting my garden - its a thrill to get first comments back.

The pink flowers are Japanese anenome, also called wind flowers. They are spectacular in bloom and are tiered like a wedding cake, so are a great architectural feature in the garden. A word of warning though - they need space as they do travel via their roots. I dig up the excess and give them away in the spring. Wind flowers come in pink or white, for some reason I have never had luck with the white ones. I started out ten years ago with two 3" pots which cost me $1.49 each. From my annual spring plant give-away I now see them all over the neighbourhood! Once mature, plants can reach 5 feet and will need strong staking. Blooms from August to frost. With the petals faded and gone, they still look beautiful.

My petunia was a potted plant from the local St. Jacobs Market - too cold here for them to survive beyond first frost.



Posted: 11:21 am on February 1st
sllplgitw writes: I love the pink flowers. Could you please identify it for me? Is it a cosmos or coreopsis of some type? Looks like it would be a good candidate for a cottage garden. The adirondack chairs are fabulous. I have that same Ruella. I think that is what I am seeing. A wild petunia. It is native here in North Georgia, zone 7B, and I have gathered it for my gardens. It self seeds wonderfully and is so tolerant of the drought we have been having for the last several years. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Posted: 3:57 pm on January 25th
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