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Category: Starting and Maintaining the Garden | Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:48 am

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Some plants just don't make it. Lost several different plants to giant slugs this year: all petunias (hope springs eternal, but come July it is obvious they have become fodder for the slimy ones


( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


wave petunias ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Slugs also enjoyed the star gazer lilies. I am getting better at squishing the slimy criminals.


( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Freezing rain and unusual cold killed my dahlia bulbs. Dead. Chose not to replant, but they were pretty. Sigh.....


Unknown white dalhia ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


dahlia ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Black eyed Susan's chose not to return. Birds forgot to bring in more seeds.


Rudbeckia hirta ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

The double hollyhock hate wet summers. Deceased.


Hollyhock: Alcea rosea "Chater's Double Red" ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Driveway heather got ran over one too many times when it snowed. Pulled the broken carcass.


June blooming variety ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

The second hardy hibiscus bit the dust. It didn't like the pruning job I did on it. It shouldn't have gotten so huge. Maybe mini ones or not... Oh well, some thrive and some don't. It is always changing in the garden.


hardy hibiscus - Rose of Sharon ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Then the ivy over grew the coreopsis and smothered it. Dead.


Coreopsis ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

So ends the short list of deceased greens. Unfortunately there have been many more than shown over the years. With my gardening skills (or lack of) I will always have an excuse to shop the gardening centers.












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toni wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:04 pm:

And they were all such beauties :(

The only thing I like about living in a drought stricken area is that I always have excuses to go to the garden center

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vineyardflute wrote on Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:30 pm:

Your garden is quite the showstopper! I am sorry there were so many things working against it this year. Your pics were simply stunning. Dee

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Tooty2shoes wrote on Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:19 pm:

Wow that is beautiful. It is wonderful to see all the color now that ours is gone. If I was you I would get out the salt shaker and give those slugs a good sprinkle. I hate those slimy little buggers.

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