Happy my variegated Solomons seal and wood poppy are doing great the wood poppy is putting out flowers. I'll get a pic for you.
New June flowers thread
Wisdomskr, Here is an organic rose fertilizer with Mycorrhizae. I swear by Dr. Earth products. The Mycorrhizae will help the plants fight off diseases before they take hold.
Hart: By the time I realized what I had done, it was deep in a pile of weeds and couldn't be rescued. But I'm not sure it wasn't a weed -- I don't recall it ever blooming. Good excuse to come visit you this summer!
Phooey on the mail order sale; I almost always hit it big time. Actually, maybe that's a good thing!
Stormyla where do you get the Dr. earth products
Now that sounds like interesting stuff, Stormy. Apparently not sold anywhere near me. :>( Is it expensive? They sell fertilizer with humic acid too, which is supposed to be great stuff. Never been able to find that around here either.
I've never heard that mycorrhizae would help fight off diseases, only that they would help the plants growing in that soil take up nutrients. Except of course that healthier, well fed plants can withstand disease better and are less attractive to some bugs.
http://www.drearth.com/ Looks like there are a bunch of places that sell it in Maryland.
Happy, I'm in a daze today apparently. Maybe I can lure you out here for the Webers sale later this month. How about fancier plants than Bluestone has at $2.50-$3 for quart pots vs $6-7 for three little pots? Hmmmmmm? That reminds me, I asked a couple of weeks ago if they had dates for the sale yet and they didn't. I need to call and see if they've set those dates yet.
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A couple pics I took yesterday.
Spiderwort just loving the cool weather.
Daylilies are popping!
Oenothera Tetragona Summer Solstice Sun drops
More blue and white winky columbine blooming
Ooo, Jen. Pretty! Don't you just love the bright yellow in those sundrops?
I really love it since I just planted it 2 weeks ago.
'Chinese forget me not' in my wildflower garden
calendula pot marigold in the same garden
Oooo Jen that wildflower mix is nice, I see bachelor buttons, toadflax 2 different colors and night scented phlox, around your calendula. And the little bug is loving it too. Hope he is a beneficial insect, those wildflower gardens will attract them.
I like calendulas too. Got some seeds for some nice ones at valueseds.com a few years ago. They came back from self sowing for a couple of years.
Okay, here's my sundrops today.
Achillea Paprika.
This poor rose. I got it in the Park clearance sale a few years ago. The plant is just not doing well where I planted it and I'm going to move it this year, but the few flowers I get are beautiful - dark hot pink. Here's a bud, a little roughed up from the rain last night. It's one of the Romantica roses - Yves Paiget.
The peach waterlily finally opened today.
And I finally got a photo of the Japanese iris in the pond. It's such a rich, dark color.
Hart, those bellflowers at the beginning of the thread are gorgeous. Flowerjen, I like your spiderwort too - the deer have already eaten mine down to the ground, so no flowers for me this season :-( I need to be more vigilant with the deer repellant spray as the foliage grows.
I love roses, but didn't think I could do much with them because of my shade conditions, but I'm getting ready to try some varieties from a list stormy found of roses that are partial shade tolerant. Here is the reason I love roses - my grandmother in her garden, circa 1960.
I use liquid fence, my neighbor had 2 deer in his yard but I haven't seen any evidence here, but use it to be on the safe side.
What a great photo, Aspen. And look at those roses!
Aspenhill that is exactly why I want roses in my garden too. My great grandmother used to have tons of them and I have fond memories of those years. I am trying to save mine from blackspot now. I am looking into some more disease resistant varieties. She had a rose/green thumb.
Jen, So pretty I agree those yellow blooms must just light up the yard. Some of my columbine are still blooming, too.
Hart, I'm dying here, waiting for my first water flower blooms. Both your water lily and iris are beautiful.
OK, since we are talking roses here. I have got to show you this. It is the only other rose I have other than the climbers on the fence out front. It is very old and had been planted in front of the Juniper hedge many years ago. Talk about black spot and whatever other rose disease in the book. It would put out these very pretty red flowers and drop every black spotted yellowing leaf. When the hedge started to encroach I didn't care, when the hedge encompassed it I didn't care. I thought it would die a hidden and possibly natural or should I say unnatural death. Nope not my rose, every year or so it struggles to push out a branch. Yes the leaves are still black spotted and yellowing but the blooms are beautiful.
In this shot you get an idea of how buried it really is.
I love those tough old roses that don't let anything stop them. Can you imagine what it would look like if it was in a good spot?
Here's my old moss rose, blooming like crazy today. I wish we had smelloboard. The scent is out of this world.
Finally got a photo of the variegated (leaves) iris that's in the pond. Not nearly as pretty as the other one but no slouch. You can see the Japanese iris in the background.
This is my cheapo lily I got on clearance last year at Walmart. Boy, is it pretty - the color is glowing orange/red with diamond sparkles that don't show in the photo.
Rose campion. I love this plant.
That is gorgeous color on el chepo.
Diane!!! That peach waterlily shot is WONDERFUL!!!
Ok...I finally took "some" shots of the yard...and actually uploaded....are you ready?
Here's the mystery blue bloom...sure ya'll will tell me who he is....
Flutterfly flowers...LOL...planted all kinds of goodies beneath a butterfly house a gentleman built for me. This bed is suppose to be reds/oranges and yellows
Course these pretty lilies mess up the whole color scheme...they'll be heading to Diane's when dug up
Ewwww - didn't know that wasn't in focus...sorry about that...ugh
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Here's a shot before I tidy up some...it's when the cacti were blooming for me...a few weeks ago
Like a bowl of sunshine (thank you, Bec!)
Had to leave too early to get this when it opened for the day...but these are the prettiest ice plants - an orangey yellow color
Mock Orange I planted last year...all kinds of growth and was covered in blooms. I didn't detect a scent when they first opened...but noticed a nice pleasant fragrance last weekend...doesn't bowl you over but nice.
Tired of "the pots" so planted my two fav EE's IN the ground last summer....so excited to have them coming up. This is Black Magic or a close relative...
And my favorite 'Illustris'
My lavender patch is all a bloom...obviously I'm not the only one enjoying them....
On a side note...so excited to see this Spanish Lavender up and blooming. I'd "rescued" it from Walmart last year & babied it for weeks - to no avail....least that's what I thought. Very pretty coming up this year for me...not the scent of say 'Provence' but very pretty to the eye.
