Ilona has another post, this time on her ten favorite perennials, or rather, if she was limited to just 10 plants in her garden, which 10 would she pick?

You can tell she's not in the Valley. Where are the Crape Myrtle? What, no lavender? No azaleas, gardenias, or camellias?

We really are lucky here in Modesto, we can grow almost everything but the most tender tropical plants. (And even those, if we're careful). Plants that don't like the heat can be grown in the shade, and really cold winters are rare enough that we can get away with growing plants that really don't like frost.

[Update:] Ilona has given us another reason we're spoiled. We don't have to worry about when to start our gardens.

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