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» CarolWallace - You are so right! The first time I gardened I yielded tothe temptation to just keep on planting because everything looked so bare. Now I've come to absolutely depend on annuals and summer bulbs to do the job. Since I have to dig up callas and cannas and dahlias anyway, they make great temporary fillers, which get stored for winter and may very well end up filling an entirely different hole next season.When I did my neighbor's front yard garden, we made heavy use of verbena and impatiens and something the stores sold as "Cobbity Daisy" to fill in the bare spots. The garden looks very lush - but we both know that notonly are there a lot of spotsd that will be empty again come spring, but that we still need to get more perennials next year. The budget simply ran out this year. -- posted by CarolWallace » JaneHollis - Only drawback ... The trouble is, Carol, that I love some of my temporary fillers so much (like pure white Cosmos 'Purity'), I am dreading the day when my planting becomes so mature that there is no room for them!-- posted by JaneHollis » CarolWallace - I suspect Thatwhen my plantings become that mature I will look at them carefully and decide what I can do without so as to make room for my cosmos. ;-)-- posted by CarolWallace » Gay_Klok - Thanks for informative article, Jane. I have to admit to be lazy as far as annuals are concerned - I am inclined to let the self seeders have their fun - poppies, granny-night-caps, verbascums and forget-me-nots [blue, pink and white], foxgloves are the 'fillers in the country garden. In the town garden, white honesty and foxgloves took hold some years ago and I have to say has been very useful.-- posted by Gay_Klok » JaneHollis - Another lazy gardener ... Gay, I must confess that I am looking forward to cutting down on the annuals I grow. The garden will be three years old next year, so I will probably simplify the annuals drastically, probably sticking to white Cosmos. I also appreciate the self-seeders - in my garden the stalwarts are Californian poppies, Opium poppies, foxgloves, sweet alyssum, snapdragons and poached egg plant.-- posted by JaneHollis » JaneHollis - White cosmos seeds Peggy,My white Cosmos ('Purity') came from Thompson & Morgan and I bought them from a garden centre (rather than having to buy them mail order which I have to do with more unusual seeds). I don't know whether T&M seeds are freely available in the States, so that might not help you! Hope you can get some because they are heavenly! -- posted by JaneHollis
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