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Marciam
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| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 12:30 pm EST : |   
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what would you take with you or plant again? My DH casually started talking about building a new house on our property. Right now, it is just talk, but it started me thinking--what would I take with me or make sure that I planted again? I know I would have a smaller garden (mine has 'escaped' my ability to care for it as well as I'd like to. Whose fault is that, you might ask!).
I would take some of my variegated hostas, a few roses (Pat Austin and Cardinal de Richelieu as well a rose from my grandmother's garden), tall sedums (not that short, #!@&! one that is creeping over everything!), geraniums, some iris and daylilies, a lilac, peonies.... You can see I have a lot of favorites and soon my new garden would be huge again!
So, what would you definitely grow again?
Marcia, Pennsylvania Zone 5 |
~spring~j~
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| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 05:15 pm EST : |
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I would without a doubt, some how take my wisteria and the arbor it's on  It was a wedding gift from my husband.  So of course it holds sentimental value!
~spring~j~
- West Virginia,
Zone "6"
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Gardenbug
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 05:26 pm EST : |
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It all would depend where I moved to. If we moved to Botswana, I'd take nothing, be incredibly lonesome for my former garden, then move on with all new plantings.
If I stayed in North America, I would definitely have less than my present garden holds. I think that my years gardening here would be good preparation for scaling down because I know more about trees, shrubs, clematis, roses...and zones and all that implies.
I would concentrate on favourites, but grow them in quantity. Those would be hellebores, cyclamen, ornamental grasses, clematis of all kinds, erythronium, dodecatheon, anemones, fritllarias, camassia, martagon lilies, ferns, etc etc etc... I think I would move to a few zones warmer, just to be able to grow a Cercis Forest Pansy without fear of killing it.
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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Plantynut
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| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 06:51 pm EST : |
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Things that smell wonderful, flower long and resist disease.
Arlene Zone 7 Long Island, NY |
Cinta
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| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 12:48 am EST : |
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Good subject. I am considering moving within the next two years and I have been thinking what I would take. I will take...
All my fragrant Hostas
I brought a mixed LA Oriental several yrs ago and would not be able to replace
I will take pieces of all my Daylilies I only have about 25.
Cinta
- Pennsylvania,
Zone "Zone 6"
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Zephirine
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 05:44 am EST : |
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Well..I'm no good at your game, Marcia, I'm afraid : I DID move three months ago..and took ALL my plants with me...about 700 containers...lol...
If I had had to choose...Oh dear...
Sorry, I'm no help at all...I just can't...I'd have too many nightmares!!!
So many of my plants are so strongly linked with my family, or my friends, or a holiday....I NEED them....
I can leave my furniture, my clothes...but not my plants !
Zephirine, developing her new roots for good, hopefully !
Zephirine France zone 8 |
Marciam
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| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 09:58 am EST : |
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Dear 'buddies--I can understand! How to choose. I'm sure we'd have less of a problem saying what we wouldn't plant again or miss!
I'd love to be able to garden in a warmer zone. Gardenias, camellias, leaving dahlias in the ground year-round (does it work that way with dahlias?) Roses that don't go to sleep over winter and lose most of their canes!
And I forgot clematis, mums, honeysuckle, spring bulbs........
Marcia, Pennsylvania Zone 5 |
Monique
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| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 10:20 am EST : |
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I would always have Hydrangeas.PeeGees,Annabelles,Kyushus..
Peonies..and Roses.Clematis .Irises and Lilies.
And a real pond.
Monique Quebec Zone 5 |
Bluesibe
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 10:50 am EST : |
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Well I think about this often. I am constantly weeding out poor performers and have a friend who loves free plant material.
I can visualize new beds. But, I could not move my garden without help, so if there were help, most of my plants would be moved or cuttings.
I live in a warm zone, a transplanted Eastern, and I never look back. I do force dormancy on my roses by stripping leaves when I prune. I don't grow dahlias, because I just don't want to be bothered with digging up the bulbs every year. But I do have flowers most of the year. But the tradeoff is a small urban yard as opposed to a lush spread.
Carol
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Goswimmin
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| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 09:38 pm EST : |
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ast year my husband and I decided that we would move and before we even found a house I started a list of what I would take. The list was enormous! I started digging out my favorites and potting them up. I have hundreds of hellebores that I was hoping to take along as well as I sell them out of my garden.
As it turned out we change our minds about moving and decided to stay, thank goodness. I left all the plants in pots that were already moved out and this spring they all found new homes in a new bed that I put in.
What I had dug up already were my solid white hellebores and my variegated pink hellebores. The hostas were Paul's Glory, Frances Williams, and Sunpower. The ferns were Maidenhair and Cinnamon ferns.
All of the above were the basis for a very nice bed that I made up on my driveway.
mary
Goswimmin
- Georgia,
Zone "7b"
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Susanq
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| | Posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 01:31 pm EST : |
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That would be a tough decision, Marcia! I can't even imagine all the work it would involve. If I had plenty of room in the new place, I would take all of my roses and clematis, peonies, all the hardy geraniums, Japanese painted ferns and some of the hostas. I would miss all the tulips and daffodils that I've planted over the years but I think that would be too difficult a job to find them under ground!
SusanQ - Zone 4b-5b Wisconsin |
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