June blooms

WOW Gita you are brave.

Holly--

What choice did i have? look at this!

Here's the top part of the shrub----disgusting. I tell you! All out of shape and baren.

The leaves that grew the previous year, get weird and blotchy around mid-winter then in early Spring--they start falling off leaving bare stems.....This has only been going on for the last 3 years.

The new growth is as healthy as can be--but it will be the one getting yukky and falling off the following Spring...
Mike asked a Horticulture Guy to look at the leaves (I sent him some) and he said it looked more like some kind of damage for extreme weather conditions.....Mike agrees--

I have a hard time believing this--as this Camellia has been in this same spot for about 10 years.

All the flowers were also fungusy looking--like a watersoaked peony or Rose bloom....

Here's what the affected leaves look like----this is from May of 2009.

They start mid-winter---and then slowly fall off during the blooming time.....

After I cut the Shrub down--i DID soray it with Daconil all over the ground and the 'stubs".....
Top-dressed the soil with compost and coffee grinds and still have to go up my street to the Middle School grounds and rake up some pine needles to mulch it with.

Then--I will wait and see.........and, hopefully, watch it slowly re-grow.....

Will post any progress......Gita

Good luck with your camellia Gita, it looks like it was a beauty and worth the effort. I've never grown camellia.

Salvia 'Vista purple' (from seed)

If any of you need daylilies, I highly recommend Wynn's Daylilies, where I got most of those in the picture. GREAT prices and she sent really nice plants. Very generous with the number of fans and bonus plants too.

Those were my Mother's Day present. Marshall asked what I wanted, I said I wanted some money to get some daylilies.

Wind, I know I read something in the lily forum recently about Easter lilies being prone to some kind of virus. As I recall, someone was saying not to plant them near your other lilies. Might want to check there or ask the lily folks about it.

That Honeymoon lily is really pretty. My lilies have buds but none are blooming just yet. The bellflowers do make seed, I'm sure, but seem to mostly spread from the roots. I have them blocked in by one of those plastic bed edge things and I just pull the ones going where I don't want them every spring.

Here's one of my orienpets from last year. The flowers are huge. Oh, btw, anyone in the DC area wanting to get really nice lilies for pretty cheap should join the Potomac Lily Society. Only costs $4 a year and they do a big lily bulb sale every fall. You do have to go to their fall picnic to pick them up, which is in Arlington I think.

Here's what they had last year:
http://potomaclilysociety.org/2009_group_bulb_order.htm Their annual lily show is going to be June 26 in Wheaton, Maryland at Brookside Gardens. Details here:
http://potomaclilysociety.org/PLS%20Newsletter%20May%202010%20FINAL[1].pdf



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Yeah RCN I took a real liking to that Ruellia 'Black Beauty', too. I really do have flowers blooming in my yard can't see some of them for the weeds but they are there and I really need to get a few pics.

Lilium Asiatic, lily landini

Rose milkweed, Asclepias incarnate

Wind, that's a daylily, not an asiatic lily.

Gorgeous daylily to be sure
This one named Ruffled Apricot

Thanks Hart, I must have been either sent the wrong thing or I made an error in my garden journal. It was supposed to be this in that area http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/268669/

I'll have to go back out and check if I have another clump that I forgot about in that spot. That may be Bella Lagosi then.

I'll bet it's Bela Lugosi. It's definitely not a lily. It's a daylily, which, despite the name, isn't a lily. Anyway, it's a beautiful one.

Touching, oriental

Hi I'm new to MidAtlantic but see many familiar faces from Northeast Forum.Here are my June blooms
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/JuneBlooms2010

Hi ge

wow, nice gardens, it must be a nice view from your deck - you sure have plenty of gorgeous blooms!!! I noticed poppies too, why can everybody grow poppies but me? We have two clumps of Lauren's Grape growing now...fingers crossed...

ge,

Your Gardens are beautiful! I especially love your Astilbes---they look like clouds of color.....SOOO tall!

Welcome to the Mid Atlantic----Great people hang out here.....We have all become a family of sorts....

Gita

This is my Red Epi blooming from last June (2009)..

At this time--I am patiently waiting for my Kopper King Hibiscus to bloom. It is full of big buds!

Should be a show-stopper--as it is in the middle of my front lawn.

Gita

Hi ge,

Lucky for us that you decided to drop in so that we could have a look at your beautiful gardens!!

Teri

Thanks everyone.Feels like garden friends no matter where I go.

welcome ge ^_^

I think your flagstone path is my favorite area there. Love it!

I love Maryland.I used to do a fine art show at both Gaithersberg and Frederick

ge, You will find both Ric and I posting over here. Ric posts more on the NE than I do. I do so love your gardens they are looking wonderful.
I have been enjoying everyones blooms just haven't gotten around to taking many pictures yet but I did get out the other night to snap a few.
I just love the color of this Astilbe

Gita, your Epi is cool looking, never saw one before. I also like your hibiscus! You know I LOVE chocolate plants. Maybe you could save me a few seeds? I would love to grow that. I have a new white hibiscus seedling in a pot this year and lots of self-sowing hibiscus with the same color pink blooms as yours, but plain 'ol green leaves. No buds on any yet though, your zone starts a bit sooner than us.

Hi Holly-ann I love your gardens too.
Didnt you have pics of caladiums at a walk and arbour awhile back?

Daylilies
Yes, they were the only ones started before we left for Fl. and they are looking pretty good.

Memory isnt too great.I just remember how stunning they were.

wind----

Unfortunately--My KK Hibiscus does NOT produce any seeds. It must be a serious hybrid!
It makes the seed pods--like any Hibiscus would--but then they all turn yellow and drop off.
I tried rooting a cutting in water last year--but nothing happened.....

Your best bet is to find someone that has the Kopper King Hibiscus all rooted and available.
I bought mine at HD about 5 yrs. ago. Seems that year it was all the "must have".....It was new--and all the HD's carried it. There were so many all over the place that no one bought them--as they were "NEW".....All th reddish/coppery leaves were strange--and it may have seemed as a "fad".....

As Fall came--they were still sitting around--piles of them--at all the HD's--and then they got marked down 50% off.
I bought 2 of them. Planted one on the West side of my house---and one on the east side of my house....
The second year--the one on the West side got this crazy mosaic virus and succumbed and never grew the next year. The one on the East side--AM sun--thrived and grew and grew in this tiny bed against my house into an amazing plant. Click on my name and go to the very bottom-and you will see me standing by the blooms.
I am 5'8" tall---and these were the second blooms after I cut it back after the first flush.

In October of 2008, I decided to dig it up, as it was growing in a bed only 2' deep, and move it to more spacious quarters to this small, round bed on my front lawn. That was a VERY careful act--as Hibiscus have far-spreading, fleshy roots. Much like Peonies.
I did the best I could--and was SOOO pleased to see it bloom so well the following year (the picture I posted above). This year (NOW)--it is growing like crazy--and I cannot wait to see the blooms all over it. It is covered in buds! In another year--I know it will be massive! A sure "traffic-stopper" as people walk by.

You could go to PF's and search for it and see if anyone has it for sale. Make sure they are growing plants, NOT cuttings! That did not work for me----Not saying it cannot--maybe one just needs to know HOW!
I have NOT seen it anywhere since that ONE year every HD had it.....It is GONE!!!!! Weird!!!!!

The red Epi also does not make seeds. I have cuttings rooted (they root so easily!) and will be glad to send you some for postage. The name of this game is PATIENCE! May be a few years before they bloom.

I believe the "time" is when they have become root-bound in their pots. My Epi was in a 5" pot for 4 years--and then it exploded with blooms......Then--the following Winter (inside) it withered and got all dessicated--and almost died. I carried on a few of the not-so-dead cuttings....They seem to be doing OK.
Basically--this year--i am starting all over......I planted the surviving cuttings in a 10" HB and am hoping to see the amazing blooming once again....It will take a few years b/f it blooms....I KNOW that!!!!

Here's a few more blooms of the Red Epi.....

Here is my front-of-the-House shot from July. 2009.

I was so happy to see the KK Hibiscus bloom this well just the year after being moved....
You can bet I will post photos of this when they all bloom any time soon now.....

Gita

Mercy...I'm drooling at all ya'lls prettys!!! I'll just add one...haven't had much time to take pics...this is a coneflower I picked up at the Green Springs sale - not only is she pretty BUT she has a very nice fragrance to boot...and obviously I'm NOT the only one that enjoys her!!

My 'Kopper King' isn't blooming yet, but I love the foliage! 'Plum Crazy' is another fun one. I just can't get over the fact that we can grow *hardy* hibiscus with luncheon-plate sized blooms! (I did break down and get a tropical hibiscus at HD a couple weeks ago when they were on a great sale... got a pink one, told DH it was for Joyanna, he thought that was fine ROFL.)

I thinned out my "stand" of Heliopsis (sent them home with my folks) to make room for more coneflowers, maybe some phlox.. I think the tall yellow blooms make a great backdrop!

I'm not sure what variety this is... could be 'Magnus', started from seed. :-)

First bloom on a pretty cool DL seedling (bought the seeds for this one), 'Starman's Quest' x 'Jester's Collar'

A favorite from the first time I started DL seeds. (parentage unknown -- I just mixed them up and grew them out!)

The "total dog" from the same batch of seedlings. I meant to mark it last year so I could dig and toss it... will try to at least mark my clumps this year before they finish blooming! I always think I'll be able to tell which is which by looking back at photos... not so much!

It has actually improved slightly in appearance this year, but the color is still very muddy, and I think it does need to be composted. I need to start getting more ruthless about digging and discarding plants that don't measure up!

A new Yarrow (Achillea) for the butterfly bed.. 'Pink Grapefruit'

I agree about plant dogs.There is always another plant in the pipeline.

Plus you gotta make room for new things from swaps!
I'm still seeing a few Little Gem magnolia blooms. With the heat, it was either not as fragrant as last year, or I couldn't be outside long enough to smell them.
My spiderwort bloomed a good long time, especially the native one, about two months I think, but it has quit. I moved the native to a shady spot near Woodland poppies. I thought the grassy foliage and blue flower would be a great contrast for the poppies. And that the yukkiness of the bed would be something the spiderwort could tolerate and even be constrained a little, which can be a good thing with native Spiderworts, or so I read.

This was the simplest pot to set up and came 100% better than any of the others that my daughter quickly threw together for me while I didn't have the use of my left hand.