http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-63475 Annette Wellmerling http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-63475 I have never commented on a website or blog. I would just like to thank you for sharing these wonderful ideas with me and so many others. I find myself going to this sight at least once a day if not more if I can squeeze time. I have been trying to accomplish the things your speaking of for some time now. I find the older I am the more simple I want to become. I'm not concerned with the trappings of things that just seem a waste of time. Thank you again Annette I have never commented on a website or blog. I would just like to thank you for sharing these wonderful ideas with me and so many others. I find myself going to this sight at least once a day if not more if I can squeeze time. I have been trying to accomplish the things your speaking of for some time now. I find the older I am the more simple I want to become. I’m not concerned with the trappings of things that just seem a waste of time.
Thank you again
Annette

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-55980 Shirley http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-55980 Jo, my leopard's bane is growing at one end of a huge hosta garden. I think your semi-shade would be great for the leopard's bane. The flowers do press nicely. My mother finds four-leaf clovers EVERYWHERE (without searching, she just sees them) and she presses them like you press flowers. I can't tell you how many times I have opened one of her books and found (usually several) four-leaf clovers. Obviously the ability to see four-leaf clovers is not an inherited trait! I have yet to find my first... Jo, my leopard’s bane is growing at one end of a huge hosta garden. I think your semi-shade would be great for the leopard’s bane. The flowers do press nicely. My mother finds four-leaf clovers EVERYWHERE (without searching, she just sees them) and she presses them like you press flowers. I can’t tell you how many times I have opened one of her books and found (usually several) four-leaf clovers. Obviously the ability to see four-leaf clovers is not an inherited trait! I have yet to find my first…

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-54541 Jo http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-54541 I'm going to try this plant. Do you think it will do well in a semi shaded spot where I have astilbe and hostas? The yellow would be a nice contrast, I think, to an otherwise cool pinks, purples and white. I love the leaves of this plant! And the flowers look like they would be good for pressing. I like to press flowers and add them to pages of books that I know my grandchildren will read someday. My Mum did that and I often open a book and there she is in a leaf or flower. Nice memories. I’m going to try this plant. Do you think it will do well in a semi shaded spot where I have astilbe and hostas? The yellow would be a nice contrast, I think, to an otherwise cool pinks, purples and white. I love the leaves of this plant! And the flowers look like they would be good for pressing. I like to press flowers and add them to pages of books that I know my grandchildren will read someday. My Mum did that and I often open a book and there she is in a leaf or flower. Nice memories.

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-54435 MumTo1.6 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-54435 Beautiful!!! Beautiful!!!!!! Beautiful!!!!!!!!! Yellow and esp. a bright yellow like that is my favourite colour!!!!!! Beautiful!!! Beautiful!!!!!! Beautiful!!!!!!!!! Yellow and esp. a bright yellow like that is my favourite colour!!!!!!

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-54434 BertramUK http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-54434 I just bought leopards bane last night. Mine is in a tiny little pot and doesn't have any flowers so I did a search for leopards bane and found your sight. I can't wait until my wee plant looks like your's. Thank you for the great photo's and information. I just bought leopards bane last night. Mine is in a tiny little pot and doesn’t have any flowers so I did a search for leopards bane and found your sight. I can’t wait until my wee plant looks like your’s. Thank you for the great photo’s and information.

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-54433 Evie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-54433 Once again, beautiful flowers and beautiful photos! Your gardens must be incredibly goregous. Thanks for all the information and stories. I do love your blog. Once again, beautiful flowers and beautiful photos! Your gardens must be incredibly goregous. Thanks for all the information and stories. I do love your blog.

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-5315 Shirley http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-5315 I don't have any experience with growing flowers in clay soil, but your local garden center or the Extension Service should be able to give you recommendations for perennials that will grow well in your area and in partial sun. I especially like foxgloves and hollyhocks and the other perennials I have written about in this blog, and if you check the articles on individual perennials, I usually tell what kind of soil and growing conditions they prefer. I don’t have any experience with growing flowers in clay soil, but your local garden center or the Extension Service should be able to give you recommendations for perennials that will grow well in your area and in partial sun. I especially like foxgloves and hollyhocks and the other perennials I have written about in this blog, and if you check the articles on individual perennials, I usually tell what kind of soil and growing conditions they prefer.

]]> http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane-doronicum-orientale/#comment-5299 Paul http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/leopards-bane/#comment-5299 I live on the southside of Chicago. Can you recommend colorful perennials that will do well in clay soil and do not need a lot of water. The location I have in mind only gets partial sun. I live on the southside of Chicago. Can you recommend colorful perennials that will do well in clay soil and do not need a lot of water. The location I have in mind only gets partial sun.

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