Specialty Gardening: cottage garden or too haphazard?, 1 by grannieannie2

grannieannie2 wrote:
I have been enjoying this thread that goes back a few years! And the wonderful pictures which inspire me with my cottage garden in Newark, Delaware where I'd like to grow hollyhocks but the Japanese Beetles devour them and the humidity gets the delphinium. But I keep trying. This year I grew Katie's Candles which is a pink verbascum from Swallowtail Seeds Co. that looked good in the spring. It died when I let it get overgrown, otherwise it is said to repeat bloom.