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When My English Garden Went to Pot! © By Arlene Wright-Correll It took me 5 full years to develop a true English Garden and by that time I had just turned 70 years old, my two teen grandchildren grew up and went into the service, the local teen helpers I was able to previously hire also left their homes. There was no one left but me and my garden was getting away from me. Basically my English garden is not just one garden it is about 5 or 6 of them spread out all over Home Farm Herbery. After that last frustrating summer and the beginning spring of the next year, I decided to cement over the main cottage garden in the rear of our home. I was able to hire the last 2 teens in our neighborhood to help with about 8 days of cleaning out areas and running the cement mixer. Eight days was all I could get because one of the brothers was leaving for college, so we were working like crazy. The main idea was to develop an area where I could put in as many containers that would give me the same wonderful feeling I had enjoyed in the previous years, but with a lot less work. When the work was completed, I started on my English container garden and it was a joy last summer. Now we are in the middle of winter and I am thinking about spring again and what would go into the containers. I had thought I could save many of the containers and their contents by putting them into the greenhouse with heat lights. That worked fine until we had a tornado hit Munfordville village about 5 miles from here. It did about 4.4 million dollars of damage and the side winds that we got, took a big chunk of our greenhouse roof, thus letting in the cold air and destroying all those lovely pots of flowers. This has caused me to seriously consider giving up gardening, but I just cannot. So here I am again looking at the catalogs and thinking about what can go into containers to give me back my English garden look. For those of you considering the same type of garden here are some of the plants I am considering for 2006. For sunny spots that get the sun all day long I am going to try some of the following: Σ Achillea Σ Agapanthus bulbsΣ AntirrhinumsΣ ArgyranthemumΣ Brachycomes ñ tiny daisy like flowersΣ Diascia fetcaniensisΣ FeverfewΣ Herb plants with silvery leaves e.g. RosemaryΣ English Lavender , I have several big tubs of them, beside some in the ground that are several years old, but there and many of my favorites from the many varieties available, so I will put some more in. The best varieties to grow if you are making potpourri are L.Angustifolia ñ Munstead, deep purple and growing 12 to 18 inches and is often considered the best one! L.Angustifolia – Hidcote, which grows to 24 inchesL.Angustifolia – Folgate, which grows to 20 inches. Σ NemesiaΣ Nepeta or catmintΣ Pale flowered pelargoniumsΣ Penstemon ñ the paler flowered varietiesΣ PetuniasΣ Pinks ñ that will add a marvelous scent to your displayΣ SalviasΣ Sedum spectabile ñ will attract butterfliesΣ Sutera cordata ñ hangs down over the edges of your potsΣ Sweet peas- dwarf onesΣ Trailing Verbenas to hang down over the sides of the potsΣ And of course those lovely, lovely geraniums in all different variety.For containers that will be place in places that get a half day of sun I am going to consider the following: Σ Aquilegias or Grannies bonnetsΣ AstrantiasΣ CornflowersΣ Forget me notsΣ FuchsiasΣ Nigella or Love in a MistΣ RosesΣ ScabiousΣ Trailing LobeliasΣ ViolasFor places that will receive light shade most of the day I will fill my pots with the following: Places that are in light shade all day Σ BegoniasΣ FernsΣ HeucherasΣ Lily of the ValleyΣ NicotianaThis year I will consider some climbers in pots and some of them will be Σ Clematis ñ the shorter varietiesΣ Climbing roses ñ not rambling roses which are too vigorousΣ IpomoeaΣ Lonerica periclyemenumΣ Sweetpeas – Lathyrus odoratus- good for scentBecause this year I will not have a vegetable garden, I will consider a few pots of tomatoes, and some other veggies. I did enjoy the less work last summer for the containers I did make up. There were about 30 of them. However, they still require watering, a little more fertilizing than the gardens did and small weeding out, because no matter what you do, wherever there is a square inch of vacant dirt, a weed will find its way in. Well, I am looking forward to the warm sun and the dirty hands and perhaps repairing the greenhouse. Happy Gardening! Do you have any gardening tips that you might think would interest our readers of this page? If so, email it to us at info@learn-america.com and put the words “gardening tips” in the subject line. Upon review, if we think our readers would like it, we will publish here. Back toArlene’s Garden. Send flowers direct from the grower Send flowers direct from the grower and save money! Click here to send gift baskets Click Here to send Gift Baskets! Sending Flowers isn’t unique, but sending them direct from the grower is. 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