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This little bed, along my deck, gets almost no direct sunlight. The two hostas that were there when I moved in do well, as do the huge clumps of razzlefratchin violets the former owner planted, but I wanted color.
I got it.
Look at this lovely, and I got it at 60% off the middle of last summer. It looked spindly and pathetic all last year, but I dug it up last fall, stored it in the crisper drawer over the winter, and replanted it this spring, and it’s doing fine.
Pain in the fanny to dig it up every fall, but I’m too cheap to buy a new one every spring, so, needs must.
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GrandmaT
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posted 108 days ago
Man, does that catch your eye … really beautiful Dini. This photo just made me smile …
I planted Peace Lilies one year in our shade garden (at the old place). Similar story as you … half dead plants, couldn’t pass them up … nursed them, planted them that spring … and they were magnificient. And, yah, dug mine up in the Fall as well. After that they were a yearly addition to that shade garden.
It is fun having an unusual plant in your garden … and yours is awesome!!!! WOW!!!! :-)
-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b
Bon
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posted 108 days ago
Love the plant Dini.Looks good there.What is it called?
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more
dini
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posted 108 days ago
It’s a red caladium, Bon, otherwise known as an Elephant’s Ears.
I’m seriously considering putting a black one at each end of the hostas ( to get rid of those !@#$ violets ), then I’d just need something a little taller to anchor the left end.
-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.
Bon
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posted 108 days ago
Thanks Dini.Black would be awesome.
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more
GrandmaT
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posted 108 days ago
Oh yah, that would look AWESOME Dini!! :-)
-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b
MsDebbieP
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posted 107 days ago
you don’t like violets?
the black would look great. I agree.
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
dini
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posted 107 days ago
I love violets, MsDeb, out in the lawn. Not in my flowerbeds. They’re just too invasive.
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Bon
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posted 107 days ago
Dini…..was just wondering if you have ever grown the giant coleus.There is a lady in Campbellford who grows them and they are just awesome.I will get some pics of them this year to show everyone.I have to stop and admire them whenever I go by.
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more