RE: Mogul
- To: "'hosta-open@mallorn.com'" <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: Mogul
- From: L* T* <H*@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 19:32:44 -0400
John, I also put in a black and white garden a few years ago. It was an interesting challenge. I did it because I was trying to get my daughter who is into black & white into gardening. It didn't work, but the garden was allot of fun creating. Here are some of the plants I used: I got a daylily Joan Senior which is almost white White Iris Black bearded Irises Black Mondo Grass White Astilbe White Gumpo azalea white gardenia I have 3 Hostas (Black Hills, Black Beauty (for the names) and Metallica because it's so dark) white daisies white pincushion flower Japanese painted fern quite a few heucheras a very dark rose (Taboo) white butterfly bush white wood aster penstomen (Huskers Red) has nice dark leaves Jack in the pulpit (Arisaema) great near black scapes white clematis (Henryi & Duchess of Edinburgh) Daphne Odora white daffodils white & dark purple hellebores and then I use annuals Torenia (dark almost black purple), white verbena, in spring & summer black & white pansies, white mums, in fall & winter I think that's it, in this garden. As you can see it's mostly white, but with a few good dark plants in for accents. Also, I designed the garden to give me year round blooms, with Daphne's & Hellebores starting in January, and December blooms on pansies, with everything else in between. Of course I'm in the South and can stretch my season to twelve months, most years. The garden sits around a pond, that until last year only had black and white fish. Now it has water & plants, raccoons ate about 40 fish! Anyway, hope this helps. Probably more than you wanted to know, but hey... If you need botanical names, I can look them up, some I know, some I don't. And hope you don't grade for spelling... Lu (Atlanta, GA Zone 7b)
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