slo's Monday poll - planting flowers

[slo]

Do you plant flowers?
If so, what kind?
(multiple choice)



*I plant Vincas, Begonias, Impatients and other misc type of flowers

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I am a horticulturist and work in a garden nursery. I plant containers for customers. So I plant succulents, tropicals, annuals, perennnials, shrubs, and so on in containers.

At home, currently revamping some landscaping so will be planting shrubs, annuals, and perennials.

 

[piglet too]

I vary what I plant from year to year with the exception of my barrel of moss rose/portulaca.

 

[Wendy31]

We plant flowers every spring!

I like perennials, but, every year, there are usually 2-3 different annuals we plant as well.

We always have petunias on our back deck. (Petunias remind me of my grandmother.) In the front, we plant 5 plumbago plants. In areas just south of us, plumbago is an perennial, but, here, depending on how cold the winter is, it's normally an annual. We also planted some mandvilla in 2 pots on our front porch.

Oh, & do vegetables count? We purchased 2 potted tomato plants.

This spring, we did a little revamping of our front landscaping & planted more than usual. I decided we needed more height variations, so we added some succulents, cone flower plants, & some kind of blue flowering ground cover. I also replaced 2 Tea Rose bushes w/ Knockout Rose bushes & 2 lilac bushes w/ 2 Japanese Holly shrubs. (We transplanted the tea roses & the lilac to the back yard.) Oh, &, every year, we have to replace a couple of firewitch.

Oh, & we planted 5 blueberry bushes!

 

[kimblebee]

Around here, the rule is don't plant until after the May long weekend. Good advice since we woke up to snow this morning

 

[elgerber]

Kinda other...my husband plants them, I really don't care LOL. But he likes to have them. He does impatiens in the bed, and the deck box. And we have a half barrel planter, that gets purple petunias, because those are the only flowers I love

 

[leebee]

BULBS!! I don't know if they count, but they turn into flowers!

 

[slo]

BULBS!! I don't know if they count, but they turn into flowers!

There's no right or wrong - it's just a silly little nonsense poll to help brighten someone's day

I need to plant some bulbs, but I'm hesitant, because the last time I did, I used this tool used to plant bulbs and I got the WORST blisters on the palms of my hands. I've never done it again.
I need to suck it up and just do it

 

[tnkr_bell]

I plant perennials....I only want to do it once.

 

[NewRVLady]

I have Impatients , petunias and these spikey furry things- see pic
I do not like how geraniums and marigold smell

 

[Kitty 34]

I usually just plant a lot of colorful impatiens. I just bought some flats today but with a frost possible Wed am I'm going to wait to put them in.

 

[Neesy228]

I'm currently having my front yard dug up and a raised bed installed...largely because I have 12 years of misc. things planted in there and i wanted a fresh start! I have hostas, which although they're easy to grow and perennial, they're a pain to divide. I also have daylilies (which I love), salvia, allium and a variety of bulbs that I put in in the autumn and bloom for spring...And every year I try to plant some annuals - usually vincas and impatiens...or whatever is pretty at the time.

 

[cabanafrau]

At our house I only put annuals out front because I have the back and side yards filled with perennials. For year 3 now I did begonias because we have very large mature trees out front that keep a lot of flowers from growing. An impatien fungus swept through the area several years back, I switched to begonias and ironically I'm so happy with the change.

 

[Diznygrl]

I have pots of geraniums, dahlias, a snapdragon, and a few other little pots of things I can't remember the name of. Usually I like to plant some new flowers every year but I didn't plant anything this year because of the drought. Right now I think I'll just focus on keeping alive the few perennials I already have.

 

[NewRVLady]

I'm currently having my front yard dug up and a raised bed installed...largely because I have 12 years of misc. things planted in there and i wanted a fresh start! I have hostas, which although they're easy to grow and perennial, they're a pain to divide. I also have daylilies (which I love), salvia, allium and a variety of bulbs that I put in in the autumn and bloom for spring...And every year I try to plant some annuals - usually vincas and impatiens...or whatever is pretty at the time.

I JUST planted my first Hostas! 2 varieties-I always liked them-in a raised bed by my deck

 

[LBIJim]

I have Impatients , petunias and these spikey furry things- see pic
I do not like how geraniums and marigold smell

Those spikey furry things are called celosia.

At our house I only put annuals out front because I have the back and side yards filled with perennials. For year 3 now I did begonias because we have very large mature trees out front that keep a lot of flowers from growing. An impatien fungus swept through the area several years back, I switched to begonias and ironically I'm so happy with the change.

Yeah, same here with the impatiens fungus.

I have mostly perennials, but I fill the spaces in between with begonias, vinca, zinnias, etc. I like gerbera daisys and geraniums in pots.

 

[karensi]

I live in an apartment. I have a balcony so I buy flowers, already potted, and have them on the balcony in the summer. So I really don't "plant" anything. I checked off "other."

 

[The Mystery Machine]

At our house I only put annuals out front because I have the back and side yards filled with perennials. For year 3 now I did begonias because we have very large mature trees out front that keep a lot of flowers from growing. An impatien fungus swept through the area several years back, I switched to begonias and ironically I'm so happy with the change.

OH good. It is very hard at the nursery to get people to make the switch.

The disease is called downy mildew.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

This year we are working with perennials & bushes only. Feasta daises, daylilies, liatris, azalea, butterfly bushes, lilac, blueberry bushes, hosta, stuff that I can't remember, plus from other years we have phlox, leopards bane, hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, tiger lilies, mums, etc.

 

[NewRVLady]

I live in an apartment. I have a balcony so I buy flowers, already potted, and have them on the balcony in the summer. So I really don't "plant" anything. I checked off "other."

I have a 1/2 acre and the majority of my flowers are in LOTS of pots on my patio and deck=LOL

I also have 3 cut flower beds with zinnia , cosmos from seed...and snapdragons