What's in full bloom now? JUNE 1ST - JUNE 15TH 2010

The persicaria is lance corpral. Knautia is correct and the first one has me stumped. I usually don't get stumped but I have no idea.

Your yard looks super Pixy.

Honeysuckle popped open this weekend, I absolutely love the morning/evening fragrance.

And a more colorful one, which is unfortunately less fragrant.

Gwen, I'm still stumped by the clematis. I must flower in order to produce those seedheads. I wonder if the flowers are simply difficult to notice? I wonder if it could be Clematis tangutica? Sometimes the flowers are not very showy and are easy to miss, but the seedheads are very pretty. Take a look at this page which has some lovely clematis photos. C. tangutica is about halfway down on the right. The site is from Germany and the clematis are only half the story. Interesting drawings at the bottom of support structures for clematis, always my problem.

http://www.fassadengruen.de/eng/uw/climbing_plants/uw/clematis/clematis.htm

Hi Heidi!

What lovely photos on the website Pix.

Yes, knautia. I remember planting that now!

How do you get honeysuckle to flower like that? I have quite a few and it seems the flowers never really open to look like that. I keep planting them in hope I come up with the right variety to get what I want.

I find the honeysuckle really thrives in full sun. I have the first one planted against my house (to screen the PUD meter) which gets morning sun only and it doesn't do nearly as well as the same one growing on my fence in full sun. The second one took a lot longer to establish, but is now quite happy on a trellis at the entrance to my herb garden (full sun also). The showier one is also more prone to bugs and disease, I have to watch it closer.

The native Lonicera (ciliosa) will take a bit of shade and still flower beautifully. But it's a rampant grower and you have to keep it in check. And it looks like it should be fragrant, but it's not . . .

Gwen do you want some honeysuckle? I will gladly save some for you. Mine is huge and very fragrant.


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That reminds me- Bonehead, my honeysuckle died. :(

Pony - dang. I'm really not sure what the best way is to propogate it. Maybe I'll do that thing where you bury a part of it in the ground and let it root, then send it off to you again in the fall or maybe next spring. I did try to just root it in water and it seemed to take forever to get the idea. Anyone have an idea? I have two very healthy honeysuckles I'd love to share around.

Yeah, it's sad. It seemed like it was maybe going to be okay, but then suddenly just gave up and died. :-/

I finally have something blooming- good old Stella De Oro. She's such a trooper. :)

And my little clematis 'Inspiration' is flowering now... :)

Kate59 In the last post you had a polygonatum, I think it was. Is that commonly called Solomons ... something? It wure looks similar. That grows wild here, but it's not rampant. You have to look in very shady damp spots. I really liked it in a garden setting, if its the same thing or not.
Thanks for sharing it.

Hi Enye - it's called Solomon's Seal. Mine is Polygonatum odoratum. I know there are other species, many of which grow wild in the U.S. And even the variegated form of the P. odoratum grows wild in some places - I got mine in a trade from a gal back east who had dug hers out of the woods.

There are several true natives that look similar - Smilacena (stellata and racemosa) is called 'False Solomon's Seal' and has a similar habit, but is shorter (in my experience). Another native here, Mainthemum, is also called 'False Solomon's Seal', but out version looks a lot more like Ginger to me.

Both the Polygonatum and the Smilacena like part shade, but I don't know that they need a lot of water.

I'd be interested to see what you have up there if you ever get to take a picture.

The first poppy to open. This morning there were four opened and with the rain they were really leaning.

I really like this yellow daylily.

Iris around the pond.

Look at this mess. Medusa and September Morn all done but the clean-up.

Pink Rosebud

Peace rose climber

Hardy geranium

This is 'Dopey'. Another of my seven dwarfs.

I need to get busy downloading photos for Julie's database.
Allium christophii - one of my favorite white bulbs.
Also a peony. The peonies are really starting to go!

Iris versicolor 'Fine Wine' (I think. The tag is almost illegible) most of my iris look like complete crap this year.. I cannot believe how terrible they look, except for the ones protected underneath the douglas fir tree. This weather has been lethal for them.

The roses are really starting, too. This one might be Pat Austin. Or it might not.

Year number two for Clematis 'Blue Angel', which is not exactly blue. Two years, two blooms. What do you clematis growers use to help yours climb up trunks of trees?

I could use tips on clematis in trees as well. I forgot one of mine and it has tangled up in the lower branches of a lilac, about ready to topple it. I'm guessing training it early is high on the list.

I have one that is trying to scramble into the petasites under the cherry tree. I have used string to tie it to the trunk of the tree, but there has to be a more attractive way. Clematis are so delicate and I seem to break them with impunity.

The beauty bushes have the most delicate fragrance! My front walk smells just heavenly right now.

I thought this was a flower on my Rhododendron sinogrande until today. Slow but always interesting

This little cactus was originally from my grandmother whom pinched it at a flower show..Ha

Nice rhododendron! And cactus, too! I wonder what other plants your grandmother pinched! LOL!

Hi everyone!
I just thought I would let you know that the 'Fuchsia Forum' is having a Banner contest! I'm sure there are a few of you here in the PNW that grow Fuchsias and have some pictures that they may wish to enter...So check it out, and have fun posting!!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1105946/

Dutchess of Edinburgh clematis

The President clematis

My poor rain-soaked Dr. Rupple

The earliest of the large daylilies--Saratoga Springtime, which Julie shared with me last year. Please excuse the "deer netting" on front of it.

A coral bells that I must have acquired long before I became infatuated with heucheras.

Oriental poppy, Turkenlouis, also rain soaked, poor thing.

From l to r. Cl. America, Cl Dynamite, NOID clematis that was planted by the previous owner, and pyracantha. Better weather would have given a much better performance.