Comments on: annual keepers: things i’ll re-order next year

By: Susan Stone

Susan Stone — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:17:54 +0000

Salvia Black and Blue has kept the hummingbirds busy since late summer and always needs a place in my garden close to my back door. It looked great with Euphorbia Diamond Frost. I am also a big fan of Pennisetum Fireworks, and Jewels of Opar Limon for its beautiful lime green foliage and cute little seed balls. Favorite annual vine is Snail Vine although it didn’t bloom until late August this year.

By: Anne Hill

Anne Hill — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:12:48 +0000

Allysum ‘snow princess’ was a stand out in my garden this year. I am not usually a fan of expensive hybrids which seem artificial, but snow princess developed into huge mounds and continued blooming without needing to be dead-headed.
I had an area under my lamp post with a white fringe tree, a gaura, white cosmos and silver fog euphorbia. It was a cloud of white in the evening.

By: jeanette sclar, mistress of longears

jeanette sclar, mistress of longears — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:11:20 +0000

I can vouch for Fusion ‘peach frost’ – it performed through torrential rain, extreme heat and humidity and sulked much less than many of its cousins.