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Re: Hello





To Sue in Milwaukee:

I live right on zone 5/6 in Kentucky.  I cannot get Calla lillies to
overwinter outside; it's too cold here.  Plant them out in the spring and
dig them up for the winter.

I grow a lot of things with my roses, and especially love lamb's ears and
calamintha as an edging.  I hope that you will put some of your bulbs in
with your roses, as I grow oriental and asiatic lillies with mine.  The
flower forms and fragrances compliment each other.  For more vertical
accents, I also like campanulas which supply a nice blue that looks good
with whatever roses you have.  For a skirt around the feet of my roses, I
find that the coreopsis verticulata or coreopsis rosea provides a rounder,
softer feel.  The soft yellow and pink lasts all season long for me.
Another favorite combination I found out by accident was the monarda 'Blue
Stocking', whose dark bluish-purple is absolutely smashing with my 'Blaze'
that climbs up a fence.

I am a novice, too, when compared to those on this list.   Even though we
are both classified as zone 5, I'm sure you don't have the awful humidity
and drought that I experience, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt.
You'll just have to experiment with what will work in your garden -- that's
how I found out about what will and won't work for me.
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