Favs From the 2019 Garden

The GPOD editor’s favorite plants of the year

Hi , this is Joseph , your GPOD editor program !

A recent GPOD contributor remark that they ’d love to see some of my gardens , so I reckon today I ’d look back over the 2019 gardening season and partake some of my preferent plants from my Williamsburg , Virginia , garden .

My favorite plant of the year may just be thismoonflower(Ipomoeaalba , one-year ) . My husband and I bribe a home back in April , so I ’ve been very in use with a caboodle of newfangled gardening projects . And this vine has been a very satisfyingly cheap and gentle one to grow . It is an one-year , and the packet of seeds cost a couple of dollar . I sow them straight in the garden , and then they scrambled up and covered the pergola over our deck with these Brobdingnagian , fragrant white flowers that open up every eventide and then pass in the daybreak . So easy , so inexpensive , and such a huge payoff .

Even better , every evening the flowers were visited by a pink - spotted hawkmoth . This moth flies like a hummingbird and was a beautiful fringe benefit to the lovely flowers .

Something I always love : slue flowers . I ’m not much of a bloom arranger , but I love cut bunches of bloom from the garden . The secret I read this year is to apply destiny of small vases . The short vases work great with my old - fashioned rosiness , which have very poor stems , and then I can make an placement by aggroup the niggling vases together . Here rosebush are joined bysnapdragons(Antirrhinumhybrid , nerveless season annual ) andsweet peas(Lathyrusodoratus , annual ) that I grow from seeds .

Another favorite flora this yr isPhytolaccaamericana‘Sunny Side Up ’ . This is a yellow - leave version of our native — and often weedy — pokeweed . Pokeweed can indeed be a pot , but I ’ve always know its promising violet berries and how Brobdingnagian it gets . This version is just as immense , but with lustrous yellow foliage ! Although the Charles Edward Berry are vicious to humans , they are beloved by birds .

Tradescantiazebrina , sometimes called in industrial plant or wandering Jew , is something I ’ve grown as a houseplant since I was a little kid . But this year I stick cuttings all over my shady beds , anywhere there was a blank space , and it has done wondrously ! It creeps around , covering the soil ; smothers weeds ; and more often than not looks terrific . When frost threatens , I ’ll take a bunch of cuttings so I can reprocess it next yr .

This plant , Zauscheneriagarrettii(hummingbirdtrumpet , Zones 5–9 ) , surprised me . I ’ve seen this plant in dry , westerly garden , but I thought it would hate my rainy , humid Virginia mood . I was wrong ! It has done great , and at the end of summertime it exploded into these bright scarlet blooms .

I make out growing plant from germ , but I hesitated a little before essay to grow an agave . This is , I think , Agavegentryi(Zones 6–9 ) . I say “ I think ” because the darn squirrel carried off the recording label . But this plant was a midget seed about 18 month ago , and I ’m thrilled with how tight it has grown . It should subsist the wintertime here , but I might delve up a couple of the seedling and convey them inside just to be sure .

Those are some of my preferred plants of the season . What did expectant for you in 2019 ?

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