2010 Garden Photos - Part 13

Wow, nice pics Wc and Tex.
I have one echi in bloom so far. Peonies, wisteria, clems, irises and roses going strong presently. Hollyhocks have buds, waiting to see what color they are; These are the volunteers from dropped seeds.

Ohh that's a pretty one! - like the way the stamens spread out!

holy smoke.. a new thread today.. going to need another tomorrow.. lots of great blooms!!!

think the tag on this one was Superstition

Disco Music

sigh... don't remember.. have to check the tags again tomorrow.. too sleepy .. sorry

I have the name for this one somewhere too

slacker!!!

Onewish (Allison? correct me please if that's not your name) - your red and white rose looks like 4th of July. It can be Candy Land too. Is it a climber?
I love the colors on those TB irises especially the 3rd one. It compliments the aliums in the background very well.
I just ordered a bunch from an iris co-op. Getting them this July.

Superstition is a dark purple, almost black iris. It is behind many of the best black irises.

Tex...great pics....I'm a big Austin fan too, your Golden Celebrations are gorgeous...mine (2) are about to bust! I also have a Graham Thomas and Gertrude Jeykle doing well, plus a Dark Lady...have a couple Glamis Castles I moved in leaf...not sure if they will make it...don't like those as much, get blackspot and they don't grow as vigorously, if you have anohter White selection you like (with scent), let me know....

I can't agree more about the shrub roses...so much better than Ts and the floribundas are hit or miss...love climbers too, I have about 8 of those...I'll post pics later...took some good ones yesterday...

Victor...all my climbers and shrubs do pretty well...The Knockouts can be nice (I have two single red, three double red, three pink, one rainbow) but not necisarilly better than the other ones...I do spray neem once in a while and I have to spinosad in the spring or the saw fly larve will eat all my leaves, even on the knockouts...but not too bad....

The roses are beautiful.
Its hard to grow them here so I just admire other peoples.
Rosa Rugosa will bloom soon.There are 2 other reds NOID.Pix when they bloom.

Tex yes it is Allison... the rose is Candy Stripe... it's a tea... I do nothing to it... only gets a couple hours of sun.. never really thrived.. but still living

Iris... I have quite a few from a co-op that will be blooming for the first time this year... don't feel shy to tell me a name is wrong when I go out and get the names later... it won't be the first time they were incorrect... the tags were stapled to each one so if they are wrong.. it was from the vendor

We inherited the roses we have.DD is good with plants but doesnt have a lot of garden time. As the "mother" here I wont go into her territory so the roses got prunned and manured last fall and are showing much improvement.Lots od buds on the red climber.

Allison Since we mainly grow median irises, I am not an expert on the TBs. But we do see a lot of them on tours & at convention.

more iris opened this weekend

this yellow one is really yellow

i guess this is the yellow one:)

this is actually purple

last iris

i should have said b iris - here is the patch of sib's all opened

i took these a few day ago - all of the lupine are now opening - i will get a better shot when they are ready - all were ws'd

some firewitch

a long shot - the omure yama jm in the front here has really grown this spring!

last one

Hard to keep up. Roses are looking amazing especially Scentimental, but I love all the striped ones. Boojum just posted a picture in Cubits of one called Life Lines which is a Climbing Rose that I must get next year from Brushwood.

I also have never have pinched my Montauk daisy's but I think I should. Good idea. They are very old and huge, though I did finally divide a couple of them last year.

Not many pictures yesterday as I was snapping all the excavating work going on and trying to get everything we had to move back in the ground as soon as possible. Not moving very well today! Too much digging.

Here is one collage. I will do better today. I should too have more Iris open. Wha, Nice patch of Sibs, Patti

Wha, Stunning shots of your garden in the last two photos. Patti

Everyones pics are so nice.This is what makes the terrible winter worth getting thru.

Great shots, Bill. Is Omure staked??

Beautiful again Bill!

Stupid Fecus grass I started from seed 3 years ago.

These are purple NOT blue!

Hot Pink.

Purple lupine I started from seed last year.

I did not plant these. HOLY HAVE SOME LUPINE! I have to do something with these as they are going to over take the little garden bed.

nice iris patti
i have the same problem sherri
victor i did have it staked for three years - took the stake out this spring on most of my jm's - i noticed i was not watching them close enough (or they were growing faster than i realized) and was damaging some branches with the ties too tight.

... interesting how purple registers as blue with some cameras!
- Nice big irises wha!
- I like the yellow one in the bottom left corner Patti!
- wish I had that many lupines!

You know who this am
- Another one on the same bush, different from the others I've posted, it came out more pink than white.

I like these also, some little wild ones that smell real nice, but they're extremely thorny.

- this am

The colors all comes down to filter. I know these aint flowers.
This is yellowish - which it is.

Here is the same thing. I was lucky to get it as I dont have a UV filter. Remember the hippie days under a black light?

Cute little hat - a throwback to the 60's!

I like the hat! Great for Irish.