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Comments (3)It might be easier for you to open a free Photobucket.com account, upload to there . You won't have to deal with size restrictions. Copy and paste the HTML line beneath each photo you have uploaded from Photobucket, then paste here in the message part. ( not in a link)...See MoreHelp identifying this happy accident, re-post
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Comments (11)Trying to think of happy accidents, but about all I can come up with are the volunteer datura all over the place and the unexpected survival of a lot of tender salvia. Oh, wait, does this count? I love the tender coreopsis, the tall yellow ones with the red centers, so I don't pull the seedlings, no matter where they come up. Some appeared in the front of a long border, among the low-growing bell flowers. The happy accident was that they *totally* flopped, and seem to be about 6" tall in a drift about 8' long, although if they were staked they'd be about 4' tall, and completely out of place in the front of the bed. It was an accident, and it makes me very happy, so I guess that counts. Katy, will the Phormium survive winter outside? I've been really tempted by that one, too, especially since it gets tall - what a great architectural effect. If you were going to protect a plant like that, how would you do it? Would it be best in a large pot, or just in well-drained soil in a protected spot? Here is a link that might be useful: pink stripe phormium...See Morehappy accident plant combinations
Comments (9)Lovely garden, Woodyoak. I often find that nature and happenstance are better designers than I am, so I usually defer to them. An excavation project for our water line created refugees of some old fashioned daylilies and unearthed rocks, so I made a home for both in this little corner. The rocks became a rudimentary stone wall with the daylilies behind it. Then these wild milkweeds moved in and made a pretty combination, pleasing to pollinators. I bought this phlox some years ago and a single stem of bee balm of the same color stowed away in the same pot. The bee balm is mostly finished blooming in the foreground of the picture, but it now engulfs about half of this perennial bed, still accompanied by its traveling companion purple phlox which comes into bloom just as the bee balm goes out. Both have prospered and spread....See Morediggerdee zone 6 CT
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