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 What has been your best "performing" flower this year?
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Tammyd
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: What has been your best "performing" flower this y |
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One of the best "performers" I had this year was dianthus. I bought 4 plants at a thrift store and they have grown, spread and bloomed continuously with little care. No pests or diseases just pretty masses of flowers all spring and summer and still blooming. I wish I had a huge bed full of them! 
Dianthus ( photo / image / picture from Tammyd's Garden )
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Jewell2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I love my lamb's ears. The silver foliage and lavender/pink flowers are always pretty and the bees love them. The plants multiply and multiply and they flower forever. I pull them like weeds, pot them up for plant exchanges and use them as fillers for flower beds. Oh, did I mention they don't need much water.
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Droopy
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:19 am Post subject: |
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None of our blooms have been outstanding this year, bar the Parahebe, Parahebe catarractae.
Since it's evergreen it's decorative even in winter. 
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cherylad
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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I think my best one has been the Ground Orchid I picked up on the mark down rack at Lowes. It's just blooming away... Still!
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toni
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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For whatever reason none of mine have been outstanding either but the best of them were the
Iris germanica (Bearded Iris)
and the Canna X generalis (Canna Lily)
And even they weren't all that spectacular 
The Coreopsis was in constant bloom but it has become the thug of the backyard, so I will have to have a long talk with it about being better behaved. And I just realized that I never took a photo of it for PlantStew
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stratsmom
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My morning glories on the south side of the house have been spectacular! They were all volunteers from last year's plants I have one impatien that I bought on a clearance table at WalMart that has surprised me.
The foliage isn't too healthy looking but it has bloomed it's little heart out 
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margie12u
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject: FLOWERS |
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I think my zinnias and my roses done the best this summer, they were just lovely, Oh yeah my Marrigolds were pretty to, I had the biggest marrigolds I had ever seen, I didn't know they got 5ft. tall, I sure had them in the wrong place for there height.Ive learned a lot this summer from you all.
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Netty
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:40 am Post subject: |
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I had the most amazing Lavatera growing in the back garden this year. It grew 4 feet tall and got so wide it looked like a shrub!
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Sjoerd
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It isd difficult to say which one was the best. Actually most of the flowers did really well this year--once they got going.
I guess that the one that I liked best was the Knautia macedonica. It is still making flowers.
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cajunbelle
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Without a doubt, my pink Angel's Trumpet, started from a cutting. It is now 4 ft tall. and about 5ft. wide, it just finished another flush of blooms and has 23 more buds, last time I counted, it has been a work horse:
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Bluewolf
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:34 am Post subject: |
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I would have to say my best performer this year
would be my Peach drift rose it has been full of blooms all season long even with all the rain and cool temperatures
really surprised me since it is only a first year
Full Peaches ( photo / image / picture from Bluewolf's Garden )
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Jewell2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:15 am Post subject: |
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That is a perfect rose. I can see why you love it. Nice!
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wannabe
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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My petunias do the best of any of my flowers. They start blooming the first of june and they are still doing very well. I like them because they reseed themselves every year and I don't have to plant, only weed. wannabe
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Tammyd
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Bluewolf, that rose is a beauty. Everyone at the stew has a magical green thumb!   Sjoerd, I know there is no way you could choose because you are a born gardener and judging from the pics I have seen, everything performs well for you.Cajunbelle, that pink Angel's Trumpet is definitely "heavenly".
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glendann
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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My Passion Flowers have been the winner hands up as they bloomed from Spring and still blooming.
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