This was NOT a good time to get the full Wayside Gardens catalog in the mail! Because now I want lots of stuff! There seems to be more in the catalog than on-line, but maybe not--the pictures are prettier in any case. And then ON TOP OF THAT, they sent me two emails in the last two weeks morning. The most recent touting sales on late summer-autumn bloomers, and there is a salvia there that I am coveting--at least I know I can't go wrong with salvia around here! This one is a bicolored 'Mohave Sage' salvia: "such blooms -- the petals are azure-blue, the bracts are rich rose, and they combine to create an effect that looks like rich plum-purple from far away! Sweetly fragrant, the blooms arise on tall stems held above the aromatic silvery-green foliage, which keeps this evergreen handsome (and fragrant) in all seasons." Yes, please!
Earlier there was one showing off Wayside's some new heuchara "varieties that draw upon native Southeastern parentage to display rich colors that stand up to sweltering sun without fading." Ahhhhhh!
From top clockwise: Citronelle, Mocha, Brownies, and Caramel (I even love the names!)
Then, just browsing the on-line catalog I found Clematis 'Fascination',
which "reaches 4 to 5 feet long and sets hundreds of small, bell-shaped 1 1/2-inch blooms over a long summer season. Each flower is rich violet edged in silver, breathtakingly beautiful and ready for cutting or garden enjoyment." They recommend pot culture as well, and I think it would look awfully sweet on the front porch twining around our nondescript metal pillasters...I am mourning over the fact that I cannot grow peonies here since
it's too hot here in the summer and
not cold enough in the winter, but it's probably a darn good thing or these might have to come home with me! The top one is 'Pink Hawaiian Coral' and the bottom one is 'Green Halo'. Waah! As you know, I am a complete sucker for peonies and need to move somewhere cooler if only to grow them again! I did transport some tree peonies down here and one herbacious one that I bought up North, but had not seen bloom yet, "Prince of Darkness" (it is supposedly a dark maroon, but I haven't even been able to find a picture on the web) They are in pots in the theory that that will allow them to be cooler faster and longer than if they were in the ground. I lost one due to, I think, a lack of watering in the winter, but still have one purple and one yellow tree peony, and the herbaceous one. They all leafed out this spring, but did not bloom--still recovering poor dears...
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