Specialty Gardening: White Flower Garden/ Anyone Have One? Or suggestions?, 2 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Evelyn,

I have grown Anemone x Hybrida \'Honorine Jobert\' on both the south and west sides of properties. This picture shows it on the west side of the house, where I originally put in four. The heat there exceeded 90 degrees, and there was absolutely no shade. They thrived, as you can see. And note the date, late October!

The second photo is from the south side of my new house in absolutely no shade.

I have grown it on the west, east and south sides of my two houses, on former farmland, with up to 100 degree heat. I have never grown them in shade.

As for viburnums, have a look at Gary Ladman\'s \'Classic Viburnums\' site.

http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/5988/

I have two compact carlesis that I purchased from him two years ago. He has a lot of compact viburnums for much less than they charge in garden centers. I just wrote and submitted an article on compact carlesis to Dave\'s Garden. They should be publishing it soon, but there are actually viburnums that max out at 2 feet.

Platycodons that I have grown from seed have bloom in the fall if started in January. The perlemutter and alba in the third picture were all grown from seed from JL Hudson.

In the fourth picture are my blue platycodon seedlings in October of 2012. And in picture 5 they are hanging out a couple of years later with digitalis mertonenesis - also grown from seed. They do take two years to bloom, but they are so deeply taprooted they are with you forever.

I find that there are plants that I really want that are just too expensive. I was seeing digitalis mertonensis for $15 each. And maybe they make it and maybe they don\'t. And maybe I want a lot of them. That\'s where seeding came in.