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...Just Caint Wait!...

"Starters"

Bet you just cain't wait to turn over those beds and start a' diggin! Now's the time!To the left-a little bragging - our garden after we planted our herbs and wildflowers together.

(An image to the left shows a medium height variety of Sunflower. These have the actual scent used in Sunflowers perfume!Heavenly! Their lovely heads are about seven inches wide, including the petals, which are a deep rusty burgundy colour)

In the last couple of years my friend and I mated all kinds of floral aspirations. For instance , we both sowed Yarrow. I transplanted mine by root, and he sowed his.The result was that Yarrow bloomed profusely around the beginnings of a small fountain, and became not the occasional wildflower, but a statement of occasion. My friends wildflower seeds cost him eight dollars (Canadian)

( A somewhat ragged looking stone fountain is imaged ,named "Progress",surrounded by creamy, feathery Yarrow. NB March 2002: My friend still hasn'tadded the fountain pump , so it doesn't font, yet!)

Our Starter Garden of Wildflowers and Herbs

My Transplants

Yarrow

Tansy (white,yellow

and magenta)

Evening Primrose

King Evening Primrose

Motherwort

Sedum,Shocking Pink

Sedum:Stonecrop

May

Blazing Star (Liatris)

Foxglove

Lily of the Valley

Tickseed

Black-Eyed Susans

Veronica

His Wildflowers

Cornflowers (white,

royal blue,pink, magenta,

purple, pale blue)

Cosmos(white,pink, magenta)

Black-Eyed Susans

Texas Roadside Coneflower

Echinacea

Gypsophila

Toadflax,variegated

Potentilla

Yarrow,white

Viola

Red Sunflowers

Additions

Pansies

Giant PurpleViolets

White Violets

Prairie Lilies

Petunias (of course)

Russian Sage

Eunonymous bushes

Painted Daisy

Purple Aster

Hostas(variegated and giant Plantain Lily)

Wild Purple bearded Iris

Mauve Bearded WIld Iris

Variegated mauve Iris

Siberian Iris

White Iris

Giant Yellow Iris

Midget magenta Iris

Sunflowers

Rose

Cherry Pie (Agea)

The Moral of the Story: Lovers who garden together tend to stay together longer- probably

to see the tulips they planted together last Fall

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