What are those gorgeous acid green leaves
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» Sonni - This list is superb! Thanks Barbara.... any suggestions for wher
This list is superb! Thanks Barbara.... any suggestions for where to purchase the Euphorbia?Oddly enough, while looking for this plant online, I came across this web site which lists Beds and Borders. This is one place mentioned by the Battery Park people as a source for their plants. However, it is a wholesale nursery.
I'm sure this site has been posted at some point. The article I was reading regarded containers.
(a past obsession, as Marge may remember!)
http://www.hortmag.com/cgi-
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» Marge_Talt - Sonni, I can send you a <i>Euphorbia myrsinites</i> - no prob
Sonni,I can send you a Euphorbia myrsinites - no problem. Email me your snail mail address if you want one (don't post it) - just reimburse postage. It would do quite well in a container for you on the sunnier part of your balcony.
E. griffithii 'Fireglow' would, I think, get too large to be happy in a container unless it was a super huge one. When I grew it, it got close to three feet (1m) tall, with a tendency to flop a bit. Lovely coloring, however.
Marge
Gardening in
Shade
-- posted by Marge_Talt
» Sonni - It looks like one thing leads to another. The site I've listed b
It looks like one thing leads to another. The site I've listed brings us back to the Ipoemia batatas.... and what is substituted. Looks like you can order from this site also.A complete circle. Again, the site address is:
http://www.hortmag.com/cgi-
and the article is under "containers"
Regards, Sonni
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» LadyB - Sonni, I have them coming out of my ears also! (the Euphorbias)
Sonni, I have them coming out of my ears also! (the Euphorbias) And if you feel like hopping a train up from the city to Cold Spring, you could take one home with you.....E-mail me!Lady B, Weeds and Wild Things Cold Spring, New York
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» CarolWallace - Are you referring to the helichrysum, Sonni? I'm using a couple
Are you referring to the helichrysum, Sonni? I'm using a couple versions of that in my garden, too, and I love it. I have 'Limelight' adding a bit of zing to a grouping of blue fescues and dusty colored sedum, and the plain silvery version is doing a fabulous job of weaving together several other silver plants, Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie' and pale pink geraniums. Neither have burnt even though they are in full sun. <img src="http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/rhubarb.gif" alt="rheum" align=left>
Carol
virtually gardening
-- posted by CarolWallace
» Cottage_Garden - Sorry to jump in so late, but I have to say I personally don't l
Sorry to jump in so late, but I have to say I personally don't like the spikey unclipped rosemaries in the containers. They are not substantial enough to balance the weight of the stairs -- let alone the swirling masses of lush vinery in the same containers. Perhaps if they had been trimmed into tight ball shaped topiaries as a contrasting form but... Just my opinion.Barbara Martin
The Cottage Garden Editor
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» LadyB - I'm trying to think if I've ever done helichrysum in the shade.
I'm trying to think if I've ever done helichrysum in the shade. I can't believe the 'limelight' wouldn't burn in full sun, though...interesting.I have a rather flat-growing but VERY silver Helichrysum 'Moe's Gold' making a ground cover in the Moon Garden and the more common grey Helichrysum just CARRYING the show in huge pots on the back patio of the main house. They seem to get a little leaf-miner-y late in the summer, but other than that behave VERY well.
Lady B, Weeds and Wild Things Cold Spring, New York
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» Cottage_Garden - Lady B -- how hot does it get where your containers are? Helich
Lady B -- how hot does it get where your containers are? Helichrysum always scorches at my house (hot south slope full sun crummy dirt and lousy care) but I do see it around town on eastern exposures with TLC. Meaning water and fertilizer ( probably MiracleGro) on a regular like clockwork basis -- not what they get at my house! ;)Barbara Martin
The Cottage Garden Editor
-- posted by Cottage_Garden
» CarolWallace - Mine are in the ground in full sun in an area that I probably wa
Mine are in the ground in full sun in an area that I probably watered about three times all summer - and they look glorious! These are the plain silver ones. The 'Limelight" is also in full sun, but in clay soil that got watered a bit more often. No sunburn, but not nearly as much growth.<img src="http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/rhubarb.gif" alt="rheum" align=left>
Carol
virtually gardening
-- posted by CarolWallace
» Cottage_Garden - There is no comparison between in the ground and in containers!~
There is no comparison between in the ground and in containers!~ LOL! Barbara MartinThe Cottage Garden Editor
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