Just as I’m beginning to take garden planning more seriously, just as I’m installing more hardscaping and thinking about garden bones, just as I go in search of a shrubbery, I pick up this little book which says, more or less, “Forget design. It’s about the flowers.”<\/p>\n
This book is not so much about gardening as it is about the game of lists. If your garden was a blank slate, if you could plant anything you wanted to grow (but only if you grew it from seed), what would you plant?<\/p>\n
I’m not sure I can even come up with a 100 plants to grow from seed at this point in my gardening career. I’m not very good at raising things from seed. But, I’ll have a go at making a list of my own. Why don’t you add a comment and tell me what you would grow.
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\nWell, I’ve decided to be somewhat realistic and contain my list to things I know will grow in Austin Texas (zone 8)–even if I haven’t tried them yet myself. I’m really more of a bulb and shrub person.<\/p>\n
1. Consolida ambigua (larkspur)
\n2. Lupinus texensis (Texas bluebonnet)
\n3. Lathyrus ambigua ‘Cupani’ (sweet peas)
\n4. Viola hybrida ‘Penny Orchid Frost’
\n5. Viola hybrida ‘Sorbet Lemon Ice’
\n6. Papaver rhoes (poppy)
\n7. Cosmos
\n8. Helianthus annuus ‘Velvet Queen’ (sunflower)
\n9. Luffa
\n10. Dolichos lablab
\n11. Calendula (pot marigold)
\n12. Cypress vine
\n13. Eschscholzia californica ‘Buttermilk’ (California poppy)
\n14. Achillea ptarmica ‘The Pearl’
\n15. Althaea rosea ‘Nigra’ (black hollyhock)
\n16. Alyssum maritima
\n17. Amaranthus caudatus (Love-lies-bleeding)<\/p>\n
Wow! I’m going to have to give this some more thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
\nJames Fenton
\nFarrar, Straus and Giroux. New York. 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}