Larry's Garden Pages
Night blooming cereus. Desert plant whose flowers only stay open for one night. The flowers on our plant are about 5 inches across, and VERY fragrant.
Camelia, spring flowering. This one needs burlap wrapping during the winter or else the buds get windburned. There are some new varieties that are cold hardy this far north.
Gladiolas. I leave these in the ground in winter, but we are probably near the northern range for where you can do this. After 3 or 4 years they need to be dug up and replanted.
Red clematis, spring flowering. This one needs to be cut back hard every spring.
Flowering Kwanzan cherry trees. Not the tidal basin tree (Yoshino cherry). Kwanzans flower a bit later and are pink.
Mr. Lincoln hybrid tea rose.
Balloon flower. The flowers start out as hollow balls and then open. They aren't as large as the picture makes them look, they're only about 2 inches across.
Prickly pear cactus is winer hardy almost anywhere in the U.S. In winter the pads shrivel up but will expand again when it gets warm. This plant has bright yellow flowers in early summer.
I built this oval shade garden in late winter 2003 and then planted it out in the spring. It's edged with 1200 pounds of granite cobblestone blocks, all brought home from the quarry in my car over a span of about a week. Then topped off with a thin layer of newspaper (to smother the existing grass) and 800 pounds of pine bark mini-nugget mulch. The plants are dry shade toloerant and include hellebores, hosta, epimedium, Christmas fern, rhodea, euphorbia, lamium, creeping St. John's Wort, and a dwarf nandina.
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