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What new plants are you trying this year?

19 years ago

I've bought far too many plants this year, most are ones I buy each year or have had before, but there are a few new ones I am looking forward to trying out: Ornamental Tiger Cub Corn, Phytolacca americana 'Silberstein' variegated Pokeweed, Ulmus parvifolia 'Variegata' Elm, Forsythia koreana Kumson, Viburnum trilobum Red Wing and also Sambucus Ambucus Black Beauty Elderberry. I'm looking forward to seeing how they do, especially the Red Wing and the Pokeweed. I'm probably going to purchase a Bell-flower Cherry tree also (I think that is what is outside the office where I work & if I were the lawbreaking sort I'd plantnap it).

What new plants are you trying this year or would like to try?

Comments (3)

  • 19 years ago

    Going to try a flowering Cherry tree that I purchased from the Callaway Gardens plant sale last weekend while attending the Gardening Symposium there. Also have two varieties of weeping Kousa Dogwood that i bought last fall and are in pots, still looking for the right location. Same situation with several JM's, Camellias, Hydrangeas & Native Azaleas that need to be in the ground. The garden is becoming so crowded, it's hard to find a good location for anything large or that will become fairly large.

    I can still squeeze in small perennials and some bulbs and have already ordered a lot of plants, that aren't available locally and am in the process of sowing about 100 packs of seed, mostly shade tolerant perennials, some that I received from the NARGS Seedex this past week. Tricyrtis, Native Lily and Iris, Hepatica, Trout Lily, Helleborus, Cyclamen, Arisaema, Arum, Sundews, and a host of minor plants that I want to try.
    It's going to be a busy Spring, I'm afraid and the remaining lawn is in serious danger!
    RB

  • 19 years ago

    Oh, my goodness. I think I've got about 70 new plants from see in already!!
    Right now I'm testing a red creeping ruellia I purchased on eBay late last summer. It's been given thumbs up at UGA trials, but I have no idea how long they had it in the ground...it's been in pots and most are still alive...
    Almost all the vegetables I plan on growing this year are new varieties except for a few types of spring radish and some bush beans. I LOVE to try new veggies!
    Hoping to trade for a few plants I do not already have growing in my garden. Attempting to avoid buying too many things because I need to make more garden beds before I plant too much more than I have already seeded!!!

    We bought some brand new introductions from Nurseries Caroliniana for our church garden. A beautiful variegated and supposedly very hardy jasmine for the memorial gardens. Some of the newer (last year) tiny, shrubby dwarf crepe myrtles to try. Rita's Gold a brand new tender fern for hanging baskets which has proven OUTSTANDING. It has more cold tollerance than other basket type ferns, although of course, not much below 40. It loves sunshine and multiplies very nicely. It isn't even on the market quite yet. I think it will appear this April. I highly recommend this plant for the fern lover. You can buy a very small plant and have a huge full basket in about a month or two!!
    There's a new tender alpina which is variegated but not striped, more blotchy and it has much more chartreuse in the leaf. Could you imagine Rita's Gold hanging in a basket, and then a lovely pot of this Alpina in a large mixed container sitting close by?

    GGG

  • 19 years ago

    Well, GGG, I just had to go look up 'Rita's Gold'! It does look very exciting. This is a good thread to pick up new ideas even if I didn't have any of my own!!

    Here is a link that might be useful: Nephrolepsis exaltata 'Rita's Gold'

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