Re: Plant lust Now:longest blooming perrenial? -Reply

Longest blooming for me was probably centranthus
rubra.  Common and spready, I know, but so pretty. 
I would also agree that corydalis lutea is long
blooming -- it never quits even in the winter hardly. 
Also pretty spready.

Connie wrote:

Susan,your observations struck a cord with me and
actually made me laugh
as I recognized my own 'evolution'..
Early on I felt that any choices I made were neigh
on to a commitment of
marriage,a life long
(which ever ones(life) ceased first)bond of duty, to
test the limits of
ones disappointment no matter how critical the
mismatch.....Oh, brother
so serious..

Funny, isn't it, how much gardening has taught us? 
I know I've never learned more in my life about
delayed gratification, planning ahead (or that no
matter how well you plan, things don't work
perfectly) and PATIENCE than through gardening. 
Of course, perhaps you only gain an interest in
gardening when you're ready to learn these
lessons.  Perhaps that's why so many people take
them up in their 40's, etc.

you can always find 'em a new home if your
conscience bothers you)...So many plants,so little
time.

So true, and one of my favorite conscience salves. 
I can't hardly put anything alive in the compost pile,
unless I hate it and its pernicious, and in that case,
I'm *afraid* to put it in the compost pile!  There's
almost always someone willing to take garden
castoffs!

Susan Saxton

For mine is just a little old-fashioned garden where
the flowers come together to praise the Lord and
teach all who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter
1835-1894


SUSAN SAXTON wrote:

> It is amazing, isn't it, how plants that we "simply
> have to have" don't cause the batting of an eye to
a
> fellow plant lover?  Beauty is in the eye of the
> beholder, as well as lust, I guess.
>
> The good news is, there are always plants who
> perform poorly (at least in "our" yard) or don't live
> up to your expectations, or *grow* beyond your
> expectations...
>
> As a new gardener I approached each bed as
live
> and die choices of what I'd have to live with
forever
> -- HA -- how naive I was!  Now, unless the cost is
> exorbitant, I approach it as, "give it a try" or "see
> how this works."
>
>
> ---

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