Today Alan Weisberg is sharing one of his favorite flowers with us: cleome (Cleome hassleriana, annual).
From the foothills of Haycock Mountain in rural southeastern Pennsylvania I’ve been gardening for 40 years on three acres of what was once a 100-acre farm, with a fieldstone home and barn built in 1741. The restorations of the structures, landscaping, additions, and vegetable and flower gardens have yielded almost as many failures as successes, with plenty of lessons learned.
The seedpods are plentiful and easily stripped at the end of the season for planting elsewhere or gifting to like-minded gardening friends. Large flower heads are commonly pink, lavender, and white, though a red variety is also available.
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Comments
What a gorgeous place!! Thank you for sharing.
I also love cleome. However here in Toronto Canada they are hard to find at nurseries. I did take some seeds from plants in a local park at the end of the season. Thank you for explaining the best way to plant the seeds. Your garden and home are awesome. Well done!
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Lovely setting and beautiful gardens. I'll definitely try the cleome this year.
So very pretty.
Such a darling stone cottage and garden and barn- the whole place is just idyllic!
Your Cleome plants are beautiful, and I like your advice/instructions on how to grow them too.
Would love to see more of your garden, very inspiring!
Thanks for sharing :)
Just lovely - I will try them! Thanks for sharing your very pretty gardens.
Simply exquisite, house, garden and barn!!! I, too, love cleomes. Planted a few 17 years ago and now have them in large groups every year. Thank you for taking the time to share with all of us!
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