Comments on: Legacy Gardens https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/ Historical Romance Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Chris D https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/#comment-181 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:11:42 +0000 http://www.reginajennings.com/?p=1307#comment-181 Even something as simple as some sun loving annual flowers may do the trick in terms of shading the roots of the Clematis.

]]> By: Deborah Raney https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/#comment-180 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:59:56 +0000 http://www.reginajennings.com/?p=1307#comment-180 We have a few plants that were given to us by friends and family, but the big thing in our yard that reminds us of loved ones is all the native Kansas limestone that borders our flower beds and fills the rock gardens. My dad and my husband hauled the rock from my hubby’s grandparents’ pastures in the Smoky Hills near Ellsworth, KS and they are a permanent fixture in our Kansas prairie garden now.

Thanks for the clematis advice, too! We just planted our first one yesterday and we “accidentally” got it right: head in the sun/feet in the shade so hope it flourishes!

]]> By: Regina Jennings https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/#comment-179 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:23:27 +0000 http://www.reginajennings.com/?p=1307#comment-179 Sharon – You crack me up! “Something dead.” I’m sorry about your moss roses. 🙂

Chris – Thanks for the tip. That sunny/shady combo might be hard to find, but I’ll start looking. And I wish we had bunnies. All we get are skunks and possums.

]]> By: sharon Srock https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/#comment-178 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:20:34 +0000 http://www.reginajennings.com/?p=1307#comment-178 I’ll answer your last question first. What plant reminds others of me. Anything dead. I don’t have a green thumb, mine is black. If I touch it, it dies, end of story. I’m not even allowed to water my husband’s ivy.

My grandmother on the other hand…her front yard always over flowed with color. My favorites were alway the little moss roses. She alwaays claimed that you couldn’t kill them.

I used to have some…

]]> By: Jenna K. https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/#comment-177 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:04:30 +0000 http://www.reginajennings.com/?p=1307#comment-177 Flowers are just lovely! 🙂

]]> By: Chris D https://reginajennings.com/heritage-flowers/#comment-176 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:27:44 +0000 http://www.reginajennings.com/?p=1307#comment-176 I’ve heard that the key to Clematis success is that they like to be in full sun but like their “feet” (roots) shaded. I think there may be something to this because mine never did that well until I happened to plant a shrub nearby the Cleamtis that hangs over the lowest portion of the plant. Seems like that was all the shade it needed and its done very well since then. Sometimes I feel like giving up on my garden… especially when the rabbits and squirrels take out my Lilies that I adore. Why can’t they munch on the black eyed susans?!

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