What do you like to grow??

Another Connecticut person here. This year I plan on doing alot with Russian Sage, I love the look and scent of it. It truely is a tough perennial. This past season I planted quite a few varieties of the branching sunflowers and I will grow them again this year. I also have alot of daylillies and I have used many butterfly bushes (budliea) in my landscape. I love 'em! Scott, I have a cottage in Old Lyme, perhaps we can meet.

Hi Scott, I love butterfly bushes too! Do you have any of the tri-color bushes? I have one on either end of my little house and they bloom magnificently year after year. They grow almost to the soffits and people are always asking me what I did to make them different colors....lol. I cut mine back to the ground every year - is that what you do? Happy gardening! Maureen

Hi Maureen, I don't have any of the tri-colors.....yet. I do plan on getting a couple this year. I cut mine back to 2-1/2 feet in early spring,and I give each one a shovel full of cow manure, when they start to really leaf out I give each one a handfull of 5-10-5. I also fertilize again at bloom time. --==Rich==--

My entire back yard is a perennial garden. Part shade and part sun. I have a neighbors redbud tree to contend with...I must pull up a MINIMUM of 5-800 baby trees every year. God forbid I miss one and it gets to be 6" tall. They are harder than heck to pull out then. I have Hydrangeas, several types, lilies, daylilies, iris, roses, a tree peony, flax,tall phlox,delphinium, purple and white coneflowers, liatris, poppies, Shastas, black-eyed-susan, Bettony, clematis, I'm suer I'm missing - oh, peonies.... Lynne

I like to grow just about anything I love to garden and plant I also like to do landscaping. I live in a 4 different season area and in the winter time it can get boring , but I am gonna try to start making pottery.