A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 cascading bloomers heat/dought tolerant??

angelblossom

Oh goody goody gum drops........

I will be part of your garden for a long while with perennials.. Ha hah
enjoy............

barb

That's the great thing about GH we can be blessed a showing of friends in our gardens!!!

Ivy geraniums love sun,and do well in pots.I've had them hang several feet down from window boxes.Wave petunia's get big root systems,I often repot them in August to keep them looking good or give them really big pots.I like the hedge wave petunia's better than the regular cascade waves-the hedge has height plus it cascades.My ice plant has consistantly disappointed me in hot,dry places.It only blooms well with lots of water and moderate temps.Calendula does great in hot,dry places.

Oops,forgot selene.Great plant.Unusual color foliage,cascades nicely out of pots,likes heat+dry+full sun and is a perenial here in zone 8.I get more requests for cuttings from it then anything else I have.Has a pretty,white,balloon type flower on and off all season.The white/green foliage is very attention getting.

Reba; Thank you so much for your info!! I'll be looking up selene sounds really nice and because it tolerates heat , dry and full sun conditions sounds like my kind of plant!!

Reba I pm'd you about selene flower,, But never mind I found it I think is this it??

silene uniflora druetts variegated also know as..catch fly plant or rock companion
http://www.perennials.com/printthisplant.html?item=1.492.200&type=Plant

I have no idea where to get this tho I'm on a search for that now!!!

Boy,are you good!!! Yup,I misspelled silene,I looked it up also and I do have a variegated silene that sure looks like Druetts.Nothing else they say about it matches mine Mine is happiest in full sun in the hottest part of the yard and dries out frequently with no problems.Mounding? Mine hangs several feet over the pot edge in a thick sheet.I tried to transplant it to a richer,shadier location where it would get more water this summer and it didn't do nearly as well.My Sunset Western Garden book describes it as s.uniflora (s.vulgaris maritima) accurately but the web site I find on it shows a totally different plant.I bought mine 3 years ago as a tiny plant and every fall I whack it in half to give starts to those who have asked.This year I divided my half into 3rds and stuck it back up on my inhospitable hill with my sedums.It is a nice plant. I wish the information sites and books could agree

Your website for silene is the best!!!

Reba Maybe remember me in the spring for some starts???

Looking for it in seed form now!!

No problem-if you remind me in the spring. I suffer from CRS,I'm lucky if I remember my zipcode

okay Reba I'll remember I'll mark it on my calender I have one Just for the Gardenhelper I write people names in on months I have to send to them boy I tell ya it getting filled up fast> MArch 'o7 needs a new page!