Thanks Hart, what great deals, I didn't get any fuchsia this year, I sure do like them.
The other three clematis were planted in the last couple of years and they are Multi-blue, Snow Queen and Ramona. Here is a pic of Ramona, I just love watching this flower the color changes day to day.
I have been enjoying all your photos... I bought a little henry this year as well Stormy
Hollyanns I can only imagine how beautiful the president clematis will look when it is in full bloom.
Claypa I am trying to grow some nasturtium so I may try it in the salad but only mine. If I put it in the kids it may be awhile before I get them to eat salad again. LOL Dolly madison lily is right up my daughters alley. She LOVES pink flowers.
Holly, love the clems
Those colors are just stunning, Holly. I used to have fuschia every year and haven't had any for a long time. This one was so pretty and I know the hummers will like it. I haven't planted any petunias near the pergola this year like I usually do just for the hummers, so this will be their substitute.
Beautiful pix everyone! Holly, that "karalee" is pretty. Is it a Guara?
Gita, Your Hydrangea & Brug are looking great. Love that Nasturtium. I got some Variegated ones with orange blooms. Still haven't planted them.
Your Lilies are beautiful. How tall are the Regales?
Claypa, I'll have to double check the ID on that Silver Scrolls. Very pretty Dolly Madison. And you have Hollyhocks already!! You and that Magic Dust!!
Pretty Fuschia & Dahlia Hart! Even better that they were such a bargain.
Holly, Your Clematis are all beautiful and I know that your new trellises will look wonderful.
Holly/Ric.....Will take a photo tomorrow of my neighbor's Hydrangia.
It is quite broad...of course, she cuts it back every year (against my better advice), but it still blooms like crazy every year. Then she sticks all the cut off ends in the soil, and bends down the lower ones and buries them in the dirt--and everything "takes" for her---and--I DO NOT consider her a gardener.....
My guess-if i don't get to answer you in the next few days--the mature bush is about 4' high and about 5' broad.
Have to hit the sack now.....Gita
Onewish, you will really like Little Henry. He's a Very reliable bloomer.
This lily is Tango Cappuccino. It is 3' tall.
They were planted 2 falls ago and are increasing nicely. They are planted under Maples.
This is Centranthus Ruber. Shortly after taking this photo, I was weeding in this area and weeded one of these! It's now sitting in a bucket.
I love this little well behaved Dicentra. It's been blooming for 6 weeks.
"weeded one of these! It's now sitting in a bucket."
Wee oooh weee oooh weee ohhh Send the plant ambulance! Emergency plant rescue! Who's responding?
Verbascum Mullein. For some reason I thought these were going to be yellow, but I quite like this ivory and rose color. They are blooming under Black Walnut.
ER, Sally, That would be me!! LOL
Heliopsis? Helianthus? Every year I have to look those two plants up again.
This NOID Heuch was the first one I planted 4 falls ago. Last year I divided it and wasn't sure if it would bloom again this year.
Well, One of these Astilbe turned out to be white.
I am going to go out on a limb and say heliopsis (false sunflower, oxeye). Helianthus is a true sunflower.
Wisdomskr, It seems that once both of them are in bloom I can tell them apart. I haven't seen the other one yet this year.
Stormyla your shade garden is wonderful. I love astibles but I have yet to get one to grow in any of my shade beds.
strawberry candy daylily
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Cola asiatic lily. I had three of these and two city line (I believe) orange asiatics together but only one cola came back this year. I am not sure if voles got them or all the vinca (which is now deceased) affected them.
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Maybe I should move my Heliopsis to shade. Look at that!
Heron daylily next to the zucchini in the vegetable bed. I like how the yellow in the center of the lily picks up the yellow on the zucchini blossom. The foliage has suffered a bit because I split it for the first time this year and it hasn't been happy since.
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My neighbors hydrangea. Honestly this hydrangea is the bluest hydrangea I have ever seen. The blooms will get darker than this. She wants me to take some of her plants because she is ill and has had to move into an assisted living facility. I would like to take a cutting from this hydrangea but I don't know how to root them. Help?
Night beacon daylily. Blooms are gorgeous this year but the foliage hasn't liked all the rain.
Oooooo, I'm crazy about dark purple/maroon daylilies, especially with lime green/yellow centers. That's gorgeous.
Wisdom, why don't you just dig up a chunk of the plant? That sure is a beautiful blue in that hydrangea.
Stormy, if you want some of the yellow mullein, let me know. They pop up in my yard every now and then and I could save you some plants or even seeds if I let one stay and flower.
Hart I will need to split these in the fall or next spring. You are welcome to a couple of fans.
I would love some! Have you seen Margo Reed's daylilies? She has quite a few maroon and purple spiders.
http://spiderydaylily.homestead.com/MargoReed.html
http://www.woodhengegardens.com/categories/Margo_Reed_Previous_Intros/
love the tango Stormy!!... I purchased a few of those.. and didn't realize the company sent a replacement if they ran out without notice.... looked nothing even close... gggrrrr
Wisdom my neighbor must have something close to yours... (photo is from last year).. she sticks rusty rail road ties & nails in the ground around it... to give it a hand
Wisdomskr, The thing with Astilbe is first they have to survive the critters. If they do, then the most important thing is no sunlight and never let them dry out. They get crispy right away and will die. I tried 3 years in a row. First year I planted hugh gorgeous expensive ones. They were close to the front of the bed and got limited sun. They fried. 2nd & 3rd years I planted bare root ones. Almost all of the second year ones got dug up and tossed about by critters and the others dried out a couple of times and died. Last year I planted lots in total shade and added polymer crystals in the holes. So far, most are surviving. Those early 90 degree days that we had before the trees fully leafed out were tough on the Astilbe. I watered them 3 times a day on those days.
That Cola lily is gorgeous. Hope it will multiply for you. I love your Night Beacon. I put one in last fall. I hope that it will bloom this year. I was looking for Bela Legosi, but when I saw Night Beacon, I chose it instead.
That's a good trick Onewish. I have to get some Iron out to treat my Rhodos and Azalea which are bleaching out with all of this rain. Maybe I'll give the Hydrangea a dose too.
Next year I can give you some Cappuccino.
very cool
Great lilies, day and otherwise - here's the first non-'stella de oro' here.
Stormy, I got a good laugh from the magic dust comments. The closest I come to magic dust anymore is milorganite and bone meal. And the other day I realized there's a small bag of epsom salts in the shed, said to repel groundhogs. There were three babies this year, and I'm trying to repel them from eating my asters. Until now, they have not eaten anything I cared about enough to take action - they go after the neighbor's veggies.
I try to go out in the yard as often as possible to shoo the young groundhogs, and when I got home the other day I walked straight out back to see if I could see any to scare them off. Well, I didn't see any, but heard the familiar alarm whistle sound they make - I kept looking and looking to see where they were, and suddenly a red-tailed hawk flew out of the pine tree carrying a young groundhog, across the yard to the woods, chased by three or four smaller birds. I wouldn't have thought it was possible, but I saw it... no camera, of course.
Male winterberry, scads of flowers and tiny bees and wasps
'Baby Bunting', a tiny little hosta with nice purple flowers
more hostas blooming
No flowers, but this Lobelia cardinalis is huge this year, and there's hundreds of seedlings! I'm thinking of potting up as many as I can, and try for a mass planting of them for next year. It's kind of weird, the one stem isn't as red as the others.
Gaillardia still going in its third year. Spider mites love these, but never seem to destroy them. I do hose down my little spruces everyday if it's dry, to keep the mites off 'em.
Last pic, sorry to be hogging the thread, but I guess it's about time for another anyway. This bud is a Clethra alnifolia from a cutting from Sally's neck of the woods
Claypa, That's a beautiful spider lily. I know that you're keeping your secret. Last year I used 20 - 20lb bags of Milorganite and did not have your success. Not counting the 2 bags stolen by a big black dog, I used 10 - 5lb bags of bone meal. Maybe it's not dust. Are you singing to them??? Whizzing in your compost??
People on the rose and lily forums are always talking about treating them with Epsom Salts. Can't remember what for. I had saved this really neat website with recorded groundhog sounds with interpretations of what the various sounds meant. But it's on my other computer which DSO has been going to fix for the past year.
Hawks have to eat too. Glad I didn't see that. I'd be having Alfred Hitchcock like nightmares.
I've been wanting a couple of Winterberry, but there are too may to choose from.
Here's Happy Returns.
