Any suggestions for winter hardy color in the DC, Annapolis, Baltimore area of Zone 7?.... BESIDES pansies.
(This may sound like a fit)
If I hear pansies, pansies pansies one more time I'll scream (fortunately you won't be able to hear me
What if you want something else or don't like pansies..... are you just out of luck for places that get that cold?
I also bought pansies one late fall and they died. Didn't do well at all. So that didn't endear me either. (I go and buy flowers just because that was pretty much all I had, and they die anyway) I bought some for my mom's house in Phila. and they did better there.
She gets afternoon sun. I face south and get direct morning/noon day sun. (Painted my garage door and it was only 66 degrees and it was HOT)
So do you have either any pansies tips should I try them again..or other ideas BESIDES them.
(Oh and also no winter ornamental cabbage. I'd feel like I had a vegetable garden on my porch.Whenever I see them I always think "who would plant CABBAGE in their front yard) And I'm in squirrel and rabbit heaven around here already. I keeping the cabbage might be critter food.
I like pansies. I'm in zone 6 and they'll bloom over the winter whenver it warms. Sometimes I'll lose some (if the winter is cold) but I do like the colors and the smiling faces.
I'm not sure what else to tell you to plant that will winter over.
Something that I do in Feb though is plant lettuces in my planters -- they're empty and the green lettuces look really good until you can plant annuals in them.
Martha
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I'm in zone 5 and love pansies which do well here. I would suggest trying some of the Icicle Pansies (a brand) grown in Canada. Ask your local garden center what they would suggest. I have lovely red berries on my holly bushes. That's all the color once all of the leaves come down.
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Don't know how long they would survive in your area but what about snapdragons? The ones I babied thru our loooooooooong HOT summer have taken off again & are blooming now.
I've always thought that ornamental cabbage seemed a bit much but now it's all the rage in fancy floral arrangements. They take large heads of ornamental cabbage and put them in urns and charge a fortune. Who would have thought cabbage could cost so much!!
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