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Friday, April 26, 2013

Lavender Lantana Run Amok


Lavender lantana has run amok in the front yard. It has climbed over the White Indian Hawthorne shrubs. I am liking it this way, kind of casual and wild. If you have't noticed I am not a formal landscaped yard type.



Joe hauled these large rocks in here and the lantana wants them too. If you are looking for it at a nursery it is called lavender trailing lantana. I saw it at Lowe's last weekend. I recommend pruning it in late winter which I failed to do this year. Do as I say not as I do y'all.

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Olive






33 comments:

  1. Hi Olive... your Lantana is just beautiful!... I am not one for formal gardens either... I love letting the plants grow in wild abandon... little free spirits coming up here and there... happy weekend to you!... xoxo Julie Marie

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  2. Olive, I love your yard. I so wish my stuff would grow for I have a very slow growing "green" thumb! Love the large rocks! I have some but mine are more like large white marble...both very pretty!
    Shari

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  3. I sure do love your rocks.....Joe did a good thing for you...
    Love ya girl....
    Mona

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  4. I'm in love with the color purple in any yard!

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  5. It may be "wild", but at least it stays alive all winter. I've not tried it in the ground, but I don't think it would make it up here. just read your last post, too, and I so agree. Parents don't do their children any favors by making excuses for them continuously. xoxo

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  6. I agree with you and like the "wild" look. I'm not one to have everything just neat and orderly - especially in a flower bed. Love the big rocks. Your Lantana looks wonderful!

    Judy

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  7. I like an untamed garden look too. Our lantana gets huge each year, but sadly it can't handle our winters, so I have to start with new plants every spring. I've not seen the lavender color before...it's beautiful!

    Kat

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  8. I'll take lavender in any form I can get it! Looks lovely to me. There's not a live thing outdoors up here, except for the birds who migrated here a month ago and are waiting for spring.

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  9. The lantana and rocks look pretty together. I've never planted it in the ground up here, only in flower pots. And even then it doesn't grow very large. It must love the warmer weather. Hope you have a relaxing weekend.

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  10. I just adore lavender and have lots in my garden. I also love things that ramble in the garden! Hope you're feeling ok today. Take care..

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  11. It's very pretty. I like plants that climb through each other too.

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  12. Lantana sure will do that...we have a neighbor who we call the purple lady...everything in her yard is a shade of purple...she has this pretty plant all over...it seems to always be blooming! have a wonderful weekend!

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  13. Lantana dies here every winter but we buy it each spring as the bees love it. I've never had the lavender color though. Must look for it for our untidy garden.

    I also just read your previous post and want to tell you that it touched me.

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  14. I'm not a "formal" gardener either. My neighbor who I loved so much back in Texas had a bunch of that purple lantana. It was so beautiful every year.
    Brenda

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  15. I love that Lantana - I'm sure it must attract butterflies like crazy. In it's wilder state it is more beautiful and carefree and to me that is what a garden should be, not totally reigned in as some prefer. Ann

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  16. I laughed out loud when I saw your title! We have the same likeable problem with our lavender lantana. I got ours a few years ago for $1.25 at Ace Hardware, when it was just a tiny little piece. Now it covers the side of my house and is growing down to my basement door. There's a few Mexican petunias and daylillies in that same bed, but you'd never know. Our raised garden beds are in front of it and it's trying to join the tomatoes. I wanted to cut it back this year, but just couldn't. I'm into the free growing, casual look too. Enjoy your weekend! Best, Vicki

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  17. Yours looks so pretty. Ours went crazy here in Florida and got kind of 'leggy' so we cut it way back. It's hardy and grows so well even in the heat! Enjoy your weekend!

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  18. Oh how I wish Lantana was a perennial here! I just can't seem to grow it as an annual.

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  19. Your lavender trailing lantana is so pretty. I had yellow the last couple of years and it came back last summer, but so far it doesn't look like it will this year. Yours is gorgeous. Have a great weekend,
    Babs

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  20. Hey Olive; As usual, your yard is just so Beautiful. The purple Lantana adds just the perfect touch to your yard.
    I wish that I could get cuttings of your plants, and 'try' to get them to grow here! I need somethings that I cant harm, and this looks like a Wonderful plant to me!!
    Have a good weekend! :-)

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  21. I love it, Olive! I always liked my garden beds with more of a casual cottage look, too. My husband liked things neat and tidy ~ very traditional looking in our garden beds. However, since I did all the gardening, you know which way they went! : ) I'll have to look for this plant since I want to add some different plants in to the beds around the condo this year.

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  22. I love your gardening style ~ managed, but free to be. Have a great weekend (**

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  23. We think alike on a bunch of things . . . and even on the freedom in the landscape, not tight and formal . . . free and flowing . . . Love the Lavendar lantana . . .

    Jack and I travel the Michigan farm roads where the farmers throw their big stones out by the roadside. We make a gathering every so often and bring them home for the gardens . . . We enjoy our rock capture adventures . . .

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  24. Love the look of your trailing Lantana! It looks so cool against the rocks too! Hope you are enjoying your weekend, Olive!

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  25. It looks lovely.

    It would be wonderful to have your post be a part of Seasonal Sundays.

    - The Tablescaper

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  26. Right there with you - perfectly manicured lawns are just not for us. LOVE the natural look and your lantana running amok ;) I just came back from Lowes. Now I have to go back - all your fault :)))

    Hugs and purrs,

    "her" and Romeo

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  27. The lantana is beautiful...love the color! I'm sorry to hear you've been having a rough month, Olive...I hope you are feeling better soon! XO

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  28. Olive, I would rather have your lantana run amok than ivy that has taken hold and climbing trees. My garden gets by with benign neglect :)

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  29. Olive, you won my giveaway for The Design Cookbook! Yay, you! : ) I just need your mailing information and I will get that out for you this week. {kpassarette (at) yahoo (dot) com}.

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  30. Love the "gone amok" look - so much better than formally landscaped!

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  31. I love any flower or weed if it's purple

    I just might make a trip to lowes
    or we have a huge nursery named Starawberry Hill

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  32. Olive,
    it looks lovely! There's alot to be said for wild! They are perfect growing around those great rocks that your "handy" Joe got for you! More wild, less work! Works for me!
    Rebecca

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