Comments on: Color after Labor Day http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/color-after-labor-day/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Blackswampgirl Kim http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/color-after-labor-day/comment-page-1/#comment-6540 Blackswampgirl Kim Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:16:43 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2749#comment-6540 I'll be bragging about a few things soon... but in the meantime, I have to say that the biggest "secret" I can pass along to other tired home gardeners (like me) is TROPICALS. It amazes me how puny they look when they get planted... and how big and lush and full they look at this time of the year, when our "regular annuals" are completely petering out. Very fun. :) <em>Kim, I know exactly what you mean - a lot of the tender perennials that we propagate and ootch through winter look so wimpy and pathetic when we plant them (salvias and African blue basil in particular) that it's truly amazing that they're now the giant workhorses pulling the garden through September. I can't wait to see your tropicals! - I've been wanting to try brugmansia for a while but never quite believe that it'll get huge and bloom all in one season... -kris</em> I’ll be bragging about a few things soon… but in the meantime, I have to say that the biggest “secret” I can pass along to other tired home gardeners (like me) is TROPICALS. It amazes me how puny they look when they get planted… and how big and lush and full they look at this time of the year, when our “regular annuals” are completely petering out. Very fun. :)

Kim, I know exactly what you mean – a lot of the tender perennials that we propagate and ootch through winter look so wimpy and pathetic when we plant them (salvias and African blue basil in particular) that it’s truly amazing that they’re now the giant workhorses pulling the garden through September. I can’t wait to see your tropicals! – I’ve been wanting to try brugmansia for a while but never quite believe that it’ll get huge and bloom all in one season… -kris

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