What are Your Favorite Flowers to Plant?

[decemberlov]

Yesterday was a gorgeous day here in NJ and we put in a new landscape bed that I'm absolutely loving!! I'm thinking of lining it with tulips all around the perimeter and maybe filling it in with Red Salvia, which I absolutely love! What are your favorite flowers to plant?

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/decemberlov/landscape_beds_zps6cac8b29.jpg (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/decemberlov/media/landscape_beds_zps6cac8b29.jpg.html)

[KayLR]

Check with you extension office to find out what natives would be good for your landscape. I love the salvia "Hot Lips" and lavender. I also like to plant penstemon because both bees and hummingbirds like them. I tend to go with perennials.

[Gardenarian]

Nasturtiums go crazy in my garden. I love them - they are edible, bloom almost year round, self-seed, attract beneficial insects, and also attract aphids, keeping them off the roses. And, they're beautiful and easy to grow from seed. They do surpisingly well with little water (if they are in mostly shade.)
I just planted a white variety "Milkmaid" and am anxiously awaiting the blooms!

I also love roses, of course.

[decemberlov]

Check with you extension office to find out what natives would be good for your landscape. I love the salvia "Hot Lips" and lavender. I also like to plant penstemon because both bees and hummingbirds like them. I tend to go with perennials.

the penstemon very much remind me of fox glove! Lavender would be nice too!


Nasturtiums go crazy in my garden. I love them - they are edible, bloom almost year round, self-seed, attract beneficial insects, and also attract aphids, keeping them off the roses. And, they're beautiful and easy to grow from seed. They do surpisingly well with little water (if they are in mostly shade.)
I just planted a white variety "Milkmaid" and am anxiously awaiting the blooms!

I also love roses, of course.

The Nasturtiums are lovely!! They look like they might be great for the trellis I want to put up next to the door!

[awakenedsoul]

Right now I've got geraniums, poppies, lavender, and begonias in bloom. The citrus flowers give off a nice scent, too. Soon I will have hollyhocks and roses adding some color. The irises just finished, They are so pretty! I may buy some dahlias at Costco and put them in a large group in my cottage garden. The lilies are almost ready to open. I usually put in lots of zinnias, too. They do well in the heat, and are so colorful. I love old fashioned flowers. I've got some larkspur seeds that I should spread, too.

[Float On]

What a cute house! Love the stone work and the slope.

I'm currently obsessed with coneflowers. There are so many colors and styles.

[Azure]

I am going to go crazy planting zinnias this year.

[Wildflower]

Mine is a cottage style garden with a mix of everything - roses, russian sage, salvias, different kinds of coneflowers, clematis climbing a trellis, hostas, ferns, daisies, zinnias, different types of sedums, butterfly bushes, lavendar, rhododendrens, hydrangeas, etc. The list goes on and on...

I love your house! Have fun filling the flower beds. :)

[iris lily]

124612451241 1240

iris. lilies.

[Tussiemussies]

I love zinnias and so do the butterflies. Also love large, small snapdragons with asylum in front of them which smells so good. My favorite perrinials is peony. If you plant perinniels the only last a short time. Annuals last the season but do not grow back every year like perrinials do.

Love the new shape of your garden bed! The curves add a lot too your landscape! Have fun! :)

[catherine]

I love perennials and for annuals I love pansies and zinnias and marigolds.

Here are my spring perennials up: tulips and little purple things I don't know the name of, and my hydrangea is coming up and my peony (we call it a pee-on-me because my former male dog used to target that plant every time we took him out.) Also you see the catmint which is nice.

Waiting for the summer perennials to pop up--we have daisies and some other flowers my son got me from Rutgers Gardens, but I don't know what they're called

1244


PS: Iris lily: Beautiful garden! I want to plant irises in my back yard where I have kind of a fairly wet depression--do you think that would work?

[Gardenarian]

Catherine - that is a beautiful border!

[Tussiemussies]

That is pretty Catherine...

[Blackdog Lin]

What an adorable house! And your new beds will complement so well.

My favorite perennials: daylilies. My favorite annuals: purslane.

[Wildflower]

Yes, daylilies! I forgot to list those. I have several different varieties, and they are bright beautiful colors, very easy care. You can also divide them and have tons more easily each season if you want. :)

[Florence]

I am planting lots of milkweed, salvia, Mexican heather, and Portulaca. All stuff the bees and butterflies like.