Pacific Northwest Gardening: The Roundup Party is over Part 2, 1 by

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Man! Next time we all get together someone please remind me to put on a little makeup and try to be more aware that cameras are everywhere! Plus, I better never turn my back to the camera or I'll come face to face with my derriere right on the internet! I'm scaring myself just thinking about it! I've been known to smile, really, I swear I have.

So many things I knew the answers to as I was reading all the posts and looking at all the photos. I don' t know how you all have the patience to post all those photos. I'm just amazed! Let's see -

Lynn, the sign in the greenhouse that says 'Dream' should actually say 'Dream On!', or maybe 'In your Dreams!'. That's how I generally feel when I wish the garden would look a certain way for more than, say, a week. But, truth be told, I put the sign there because I always dreamed of having a greenhouse with a pointy roof. Somehow, the roof line really mattered to me.

Pony, that's dahlia coccinea that you loved. Wait until they die back and I'll take a look at the tubers to see if I can get a piece from them for you. I grew them from seed, which is easy, but the color is variable. I threw out half of them to get these colors. However, they will bloom the first year from seed, so it's not that long a wait. I'm impressed by how they are constantly in bloom.

Clerodendrum trichotomum - otherwise known as Peanut Butter tree because the leaves smell like peanut butter. The bees go insane for the flowers from this tree.

The beautiful pink plant at Sharons is Justicia somethingorother. I think someone else posted the species.

In case anyone was wondering, in the photo of the succulent pots, the blue plastic pot with sedums in it is just a bunch of cuttings that are rooting. Not meant to be decorative, I just forgot to move it.

Tree with heartshaped leaves is a redbud. I have yet to see a bloom on it.

I love that hidden pot at Sharon's house. Between her place and Julies, the entire hillside is going to be an oasis of color.



So, I still have large amounts of Crocosmia 'lucifer', and these purply blue siberian iris. Also, Lynn, you forgot to get cuttings from the coleus, and the baby Foxglove 'Pam's Choice'. I have zillions of babies from these as I let them go to seed.