RE: Romantic garden
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Romantic garden
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:22:16 -0700
Hmmm. How about "Love in a Mist," (nigella) or "Love Lies Bleeding"
(amaranthus??) or "Love in a Puff" (don't know the name, sorry) or Exotic
Love (mina lobata), a vine.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is 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
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myrna Miller [m*@nemontel.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 3:41 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Romantic garden
>
>
> Hi..
>
> Someone posted a question to this list about wedding flowers,
> and it got me
> thinking about what flowers we consider to be romantic. What would you
> plant in a romantic garden in your very own yard; a place for
> you and your
> SO to get together for a cup of wine and etc?
>
> Mine would have white Oriental lilies (for fragrance),
> nicotiana alata (for
> fragrance after dark!), lots of peonies (for both fragrance
> and general
> blowsy sensuality), antique roses like "Maiden's Blush" (perfect name,
> lovely color and fragrance), and (out-of-season)
> forget-me-nots ( for the
> color and the name). A screen of tall blue delphiniums would
> be perfect,
> along with some meandering clematis 'Nelly Moser'. No bed of
> roses, but how
> about a bed of fragrant sweet woodruff? Shall we mix in some alpine
> strawberries for a tiny snack as we dally?
>
> Well, I think I'll go plant some nicotiana now, rather than
> take a cold
> shower, but you get the idea. What would you plant?
>
> Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
>
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