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Gerbera Daisies & New Guinea Impatiens

Here are some flower pictures. Gerbera daisies are currently popular as a wedding flower.

New Guinea impatiens:

I want to plant a bleeding heart, I love the romantic flowers. Before planting anything up here we have to make sure it is deer and rabbit resistant, and do well with our cooler spring weather at this altitude.

The ground squirrels here eat all our petunias, so they have to be in hanging pots. They seem to leave the snapdragons alone, so I can plant them in the flower beds. I'm hoping they will leave the bleeding heart alone.

I also bought a six-pack of nasturtiums. I think they are so wholesome looking and I like the smell. One year I planted marigolds, thinking the rodents would leave them alone, but they loved them, ate them all up.

posted on May 5, 2011 9:40 PM ()

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Now you need to put in a picture of a bleeding heart. I have a fuschia
hanging basket that is absolutely beautiful. It is a small blue flower
with a red interior.

comment by elderjane on May 6, 2011 6:41 AM ()

The picture right below the impatiens is a bleeding heart. I took it last May at the garden center with snow on the ground around it, one of those spring snow storms that we could use a couple of this year.

reply by kitchentales on May 8, 2011 7:52 AM ()

That's what I was thinking, that the growing time would be shorter and the growth start would be later. I hope bleeding hearts work well for you. I love them! What about flowering bulbs? A later start would work for them, too, unless they just get munched up.

comment by marta on May 5, 2011 10:17 PM ()

One year I planted bulbs and the ground squirrels thought it was a buffet expressly for them. I've heard that hyacinth bulbs are very spicy/hot like peppers, so I wonder if they would fare better because stores sell bird seed cakes with hot peppers to discourage the squirrels. They don't bother iris, which I love, but we have trouble getting enough light or something to make the iris happy. And those plants that say 'rabbit proof'? I'm wondering if they are golden mantled ground squirrel-proof.

reply by traveltales on May 5, 2011 10:24 PM ()

Checking out Rutger's University site on deer resistant plantings, I was pleased to see that peonies, forget-me-nots and snapdragons are in the rarely damaged category. What is your hardiness zone in Colorado? Because of the elevations on the map I just looked at, I couldn't tell exactly. Can you plant bulbs? Or do they get munched up?

comment by marta on May 5, 2011 9:55 PM ()

My zone is 4b, but I'm discovering that is just pure hardiness with respect to how cold it gets in the winter, it doesn't account for the last frost date at this 7000 foot altitude, so our growing season is short. My hope is that a perennial like a bleeding heart would just bloom later than down on the plains.

reply by troutbend on May 5, 2011 10:08 PM ()

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