Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos #13, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Celeste, I think your Tino's is as you suspect, but I think your Lilium 'Cocktail Twin' is actually Double Sensation from eflowergarden (or at least that is where I got mine). Mine is blooming but totally looking weird and slightly deformed. Very unusually color. Cocktail twin should be orangey red more like Sphinx.

Quoting: 6 for 6.00 Double Sensation
Size 12/14 cm ~ Height 24" ~ $1.00 each
Lily 'Double Sensation' is unique bi-color Asiatic with semi-double, rosy reddish-purple petals and white centers. This exciting lily will get better and better with maturity.

Boy what a bunch of stunning DL's being posted. I am amazed at that Thalictrum that Karen posted, mine are puny compared to that one.

Victor, nice batch of great shots...especially love your shot of Egyptian Spice.

I need that clematis Silver Moon to bloom for me too. I planted one last year, but it is still sleeping and then next year hopefully creeping and then in 2013, leaping or at least I do hope so and producing some blooms. I should buy bigger ones to begin with to get them sooner.

I got up early yesterday (5ish) and cut flowers to make arrangements for a dear friends house which was on a House tour for the Preservation Trust on Nantucket yesterday. All the other houses had professionally bought huge arrangements done for each room, but despite the hail at 11 the night before which flattened some lilies and the all night of pouring rain that was still coming down at first light as I was out cutting the flowers to use, they turned out nice enough and appropriate for her home. She was happy. I did a big wooden bowl of colorful veggies for the kitchen rather than flowers, but had to buy those as my peppers haven't turned from green yet nor have my tomatoes ripened, so those were store bought. Here are three of the arrangements. I forgot to take pictures of some of the others. Dumb. She was pleased and her house got great comments from the huge number of visitors on the tour, plus for her the price was right. I got a big hug. I was happy to help her get her house ready for this fund raiser as they do good things to encourage people to preserve old properties on the Island, especially the interiors which are often gutted without thought as to their historic importance. The houses on the tour were inspiring and some of the gardens lovely too. Patti