Larry's Garden Pages
Elephant ear (Colocasia esculenta). This is our largest specimen, the leaves are over 3 feet long. Every year you get more and more babies from the mother bulb. Has to be lifted and stored in our cold hardiness zone (6B).
Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium). Not really a grass, it's related to iris. Flowers open in the daytime and close at night.
On the left is one of the many types of coreopsis in the yard. All are sun lovers with long flowering periods. The plant on the right is a spring flowering sedum.
Unfortunately this huge azalea isn't ours, it belongs to the next door neighbor.
Dianthus (garden pinks). This is the perennial, not the annual.
St. John's Wort (Hypericum). This is a very versatile plant that grows in sun or part shade. Bright yellow flowers during summer and fall. We have two types, the "bush" type and the creeping groundcover type that spreads via underground rhizomes. In the foreground are some Big Daddy hosta.
Clematis Jackmanii. One of the more popular types; easy to grow. Needs to be cut back hard in the spring.
Common spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis). This is a foolproof perennial that flowers spring to fall. Comes in a variety of colors, we have purple, blue, lavender, and white.
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