Are you planting ornamental plants?

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I have 2 Barberry bushes, 4 lilacs, 2 hybrid poplars, 2 climbing roses to get into the ground. It's a windy 49°F with scattered showers out today...too wet and cold to work outdoors today.
 
LOVE the 'Kangaroo Paws', Kay. What a great burst of color!

Princess...sorry to hear the weather isn't cooperating when you're all set to go out and plant. Hopefully it'll clear up soon for ya. :)

I have a Cecile Brunner climbing rosebush that I dearly love. It's about 15 years old and on a trellis against the fence in the back yard. It's about 8' wide by 10' high, until the yard crew cuts it back in winter. Unfortunately, it has a short blooming season - late March/early April. It's already done blooming for the year.

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LOVE the 'Kangaroo Paws', Kay. What a great burst of color!

Princess...sorry to hear the weather isn't cooperating when you're all set to go out and plant. Hopefully it'll clear up soon for ya. :)

I have a Cecile Brunner climbing rosebush that I dearly love. It's about 15 years old and on a trellis against the fence in the back yard. It's about 8' wide by 10' high, until the yard crew cuts it back in winter. Unfortunately, it has a short blooming season - late March/early April. It's already done blooming for the year.

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OHHHH Cheryl, you just brought back a lovely old memory of my grandparents pink Cecile Brunner climbing rosebush, right here in Santa Paula. I was a little girl and it was sooo beautiful with those delicate little pink roses. Mom would pick them to make a hair wreath complete with ribbon streamers for my elementary school May Day processions to lay flowers at the foot of the school's statue of the Virgin Mary every May 1st. :flowers:
 
Neat plant, Kay! I usually wait until the week before Mother's Day to purchase my ornamentals, as here in the Midwest, Mother Nature is notoriously schizophrenic.

The locally owned garden center I frequent always has a nice variety of coleus and New Guinea impatiens, and one of my faves, Magilla Perilla. I've cut way back on the annuals I used to plant, my perennials have pretty much taken over all the gardens, which is fine with me.

Love climbing roses. I have a Blaze and a couple of Zephrine Drouhins that do fine in the shade.
 
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Kay, what a nice memory about the Cecile Brunners from your childhood!

Dawg...OMGosh, I just LOVE coleus. I haven't had much luck with them outside for very long - must be the heat here - but they're also beautiful houseplants.
 
The only ornamentals I'm planting really aren't. Bright Lights swiss chard. Colorful, pretty and edible!
 

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