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favorite spot in your garden or flower combinations in pots or in the ground.

Pictures please!

We are in a temporary housing situation this year so I don't have this combo currently. But my Salvia guaranitica is still surviving in a pot and if I can keep it going long enough, I plan to recreate this combo with Lady in Red Salvia (Salvia coccinea) instead of the Cherry Queen Salvia (Salvia greggii) in this shot, once we get settled into a new area. These 2 are hummer magnets, which is a plus. I need to find a white to add to the combo when I recreate it too.

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great shot of the salvia g, with the red salvia. I have a very hard time trying to get closeups of salvia g. You did great...and the combo is very pretty.

ve

Beautiful combination!

Wow that salvia is gorgeous! I planted some Black & Blue last year - does it reseed?

My favorite spot is on the front deck overlooking the garden. Lovely place to sit at the end of the workday.



I love many color combos but these pink snapdragons and the Limelight Artemesia were an unplanned combo which I liked very much. I don't think I have the Limelight anymore as it was quite invasive altho it wouldn't surprise me if it popped up again.



I also like this chartreuse feverfew and purple chives...



Another combination I like is silver and blue like the Lamb's Ears and Walker's Low Catmint here... I also use Dusty Miller a lot for the silvery contrast it provides.



Hope to see more pics from others.

Lucky thank you for the beautiful inspiration pictures! Love your view & the glass of wine looks yummy!

I have never grown artemesia but it is lovely. I always wondered how anyone could not like invasive plants until I planted evening primrose. What a disaster!

Feverfew & chives - wonderful combination.

Think I will plant some lambs ears with my catmint. Love the colors.

Thanks Ladies!

VE, you are right that it's hard to get good shots of the salvia g.s. I've taken lots to get just a few decent ones. Plus they usually show up that gorgeous but not quite accurate sapphire blue in pix but are more navy in real life (but still beautiful.)

PL, I'm not sure if Black and Blue reseeds or runs or neither. I don't think this variety reseeds but it does run (coming up a little ways away from the roots.) B&B is a beauty too.

Wow Lucky, I love your view and your combos.

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Joy, what awesome combinations. I'd love to sit on that deck and look at your amazing garden. Regarding the artemesia - in my experience, you will probably have a hard time getting rid of it. I do realize that in the south things are more invasive than up north so you might not have a problem.

Here, the salvia g comes back up from the roots every spring. I have divided and spread all around the yarden, given away, tossed, you name it. Love it because the hummers do too. The clumps just keep getting bigger and bigger each year and after awhile it too will take over, so IMHO it's worth the extra work.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful combinations.

ve

My fav is the middle courtyard. It gets pretty lush in late summer.

Or the view from the gazebo

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Z9 - love your courtyard.....and the gazebo view too. Your courtyard looks like the perfect place to spend a warm afternoon. I like the friendly puppy too!

ve

Lucky, your combinations are so pretty and calming.

Zone9lady, help me get my bearings straight. In your last picture what is your handsome dog going toward up the steps?

SSTR, he's walking up the stairs to the Gazebo to come see what his momma is doing.

We built it in 2011 for DH's daughter's wedding. Now it's nice to sit out back in the afternoon with a nice cup of coffee and watch the wildlife. (Mostly my dogs chasing squirrels) hehe

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Ah yes, I remember now. What a lovely setting!

Zone9alady what a beautiful courtyard! Magazine worthy picture. I especially love the Elephant Ears. Awesome gazebo! I would love to visit!

We love our gazebo time also. Have coffee & read there every morning in the summer.

Perfect words on the gazebo. Are they painted on?

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beautiful

Thanks ladies! If you do come down for a visit make sure it's in the winter. Summers are too hot and muggy and I stay inside most of the time. hehe

The words on the gazebo are thick laser cut steel. I just primed and painted them and we glued and nailed them on. You can get all sorts of neat stuff like that at

http://www.kingmetals.com/Home.aspx

Joyluck,
What a pretty view!!! Makes me long for spring even more!
Zone9lady, Your house and gazebo are beautiful!! How relaxing it looks. It doesn't really luck like "Florida", where are the palm trees?! Whose picture is that under your name, is that you? (If it is, you're very pretty!)

Thanks - I am going to check that out! I have a pergola with a white board across the top where I can do something like that.

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Oh please Patty no one can top yours.

Zone9alady...what a lovely backyard!!!!!

Z9aLady, your place is always so beautiful! I really enjoy seeing pix of it and your delightful furbaby too.

Great photos. I'd like to see more!!! Here are my favorite combinations.
Mums and ageratum

Zinnias and snapdragons...

Lily and Liatris...

My favorite for last, iris and clematis...
Most of mine are accidental because I forget where I plant things.
Joyluck: LOVE your view!!!

Wavy, yes thank you, that's me from earlier last year.
We live about 23 miles from the coast in a
hilly area near a state forest. We have lots of oaks, pines, hickory, sweetgum, dogwood, magnolia and cedar, with saw palmetto and sabal palms mixed in.
The palms trees are closer to the coast or further south as we still get down to the 20's and teens here and the palm trees can't take that. I lost my large lemon and lime trees to low temps so I guess I'm too far north for the palms.

Loveangels and LuvRPups, thank you!

LRP..I also have a white GSD too, I guess you could say they are another favorite part of my garden...hehe

JM those are some wonderful flower combos. Just beautiful!

Pattie, do you mean your white pergola with the green swing? That would be a perfect place for some words.

We also put a saying on the front entrance to the side pergola several years ago.....if you seal them well you don't have to worry about them rusting.

JM, lovely combinations you got there! I am in love with those daisy type mums - so cheerful looking!

Thank you Jeanette!

JM beautiful flowers. Love the iris with the clems - I would have never thot of that & it's beautiful! I may have to plant some zinnias this year - such a perfectly shaped flower.

Yes Zone9alady that is the area! I looked at the letters yesterday - I just have to think of something to write. Love your walkway!

Wonderful to see the different gardens and combos! Great inspiration. Thanks for the nice comments on my pics.

Patty louise love to see your favorite spot and combos. You have so many lovely places and flowers but I wonder if you have favorites?

OMG! You all have such beautiful yards. I need help LOL

I had to divide some day lilies several years ago & just stuck them here! Now I love day lilies & maiden grass together!

Love to have coffee under the privet tree with hostas & azaleas. Another happenstance arrangement!

Favorite area of all. My statue with spireas, azaleas & rhododendrons under the dogwood tree.

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Last one, I promise!

I struggled with this area for many years & am finally pleased with the knockout roses, Russian sage & day lilies!

Gorgeous PL! I don't know how you keep up with all that

Do you have to cut down the maiden grass in the fall?

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Do you have to cut down the maiden grass in the fall?

NO! DH does. LOL! I bot him a saw blade thingy that fits his weed eater. Nice gift I think!

I am in the yard a lot!

Patty Louise, it always such a treat to see pictures from your place. They do my soul good!!!!! And to have that rusty tin roof in the background? Sheer perfection.

Thanks PL, your fav places are lovely! I can imagine sitting on a bench in your pretty garden and not getting much work done! Love your statue.

Pattie Louise you have such beautiful gardens and landscaping....You should charge for tours!

Florida Farm Girl thank you so much. I love that roof also - LOL. It was aged & used in a movie & then we bot it.

Thank you Lucky & Zone9alady! I can hardly wait for spring altho I would love a wee more snow this year.

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I can hardly wait for spring altho I would love a wee more snow this year.

Yeah? C'mon up here tomorrow and bring your shovel . We're supposed to get 24-30 inches by Saturday afternoon!

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I can hardly wait for spring altho I would love a wee more snow this year.

Yeah? C'mon up here tomorrow and bring your shovel . We're supposed to get 24-30 inches by Saturday afternoon!

LOL We have a bit we could spare also - it's over the top of my high boots when I get off the path with more coming. Altho we usually seem to only get 2"-6" at a time this winter.

Bring it on! I love that it's so quiet & magical when it's snowing. And we don't have any company! I feel so snuggled in!

Lovely pics everyone! I'm really looking forward to spring and having things in bloom again.

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Patty Louise, it always such a treat to see pictures from your place. They do my soul good!!!!! And to have that rusty tin roof in the background? Sheer perfection.

I couldn't agree more. Such talent!

Patty, that is some tree, the privet. Beautiful trunk structure. What does the top of the tree look like? AND your knockouts are so compact. Mine are not compact at all. I'm going to go out and wack mine down some branches.