Technical info: Zone 6b, average urban soil, lean and rocky.
2003
A late spring and a rainy summer meant not many new plants this year, just what I could carry home from lunch-hour walks to Mahoney's.
New plants, from Mahoney's, Cambridge
| Annuals | Perennials |
| Coleus 'Christmas Candy' | Coreopsis 'Limerock Ruby' |
| Coleus 'Dark Heart' | Thymus 'Harrington Silver' |
| Coleus 'Kiwi Fern' | |
| Coleus 'Solar Flair' | |
| Coleus 'Texas Parking Lot' | |
| Colocasia 'Black Magic' | |
| Dichondra 'Silver Falls' | |
| Heliotrope 'Marine' | |
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| Osteospremum 'Vanilla Symphony' | |
| Scaevola aemula 'New Wonder' | |
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2002
New plants, from Pemberton Farms & Garden, Cambridge, October 7
| Perennials |
| Astrantia major |
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| Fragaria hybrid 'Lipstick' |
Bulbs, from Van Engelen, October 21
| Bulbs |
| Crocus chrysanthus 'Cream Beauty' |
| Iris reticulata 'Harmony' |
| Narcissi (All pink mixture) |
| Narcissi Ziva |
| Tulip hageri splendens |
New plants, from Mahoney's, Cambridge, October
| Perennials |
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| Papaver orientale 'Türkenlouis' |
New plants, from Blue Meadow Farm, May 16
| Annuals | Perennials |
| Ageratum houstonianum 'Cut Wonder' | Aster 'Bill's Big Blue' |
| Coleus 'Inky Fingers' | Aster 'Bluebeard' |
| Coleus 'Pineapple Prince' |
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| Consolida regalis (Larkspur) | Aster 'Purple Dome' |
| Haloragis erectus 'Wellington Bronze' | Bergenia crassifolia 'Red Star' |
| Impatiens syricola | Carex 'Orange-Green' |
| Leonotis menthaefolia | Cotinus x 'Grace' |
| Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green' | Epimedium grandifolium 'Crimson Beauty' |
| Nicotiana 'Stonecrop Mauve' |
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| Origanum 'Barbara Tingey' | Veronica 'Waterperry' |
| Osteospermum 'Sunny Side Up' | |
| Ricinus 'Carmencita Bright Red' | |
| Tagetes 'Lemon Drop' | |
| Ursinia anethoides |
2001
Coming soon (the pictures, not the year.)
2000
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