2010 Garden Photos - 16

I'm really liken these Silene orientalis I grew from seed last year too! Excuse the horrible lawn! We've been slacking on it's maintenance this year.

*Edited to fix name.

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Last but not least ... This is my shed garden. I have been trying to make it a moon garden. I thought it fit well since the shape is a half moon and white flowers seem to go best with the paint color. I am planning on moving the Daisies when they are past They are more wild than I would like for this spot. Not sure what white flowers could replace their bloom time though.

Great Pictures everyone.Butter and Sugar is steller.
Rain all day today.Doubt there will be any pix.

Just beautiful Songs & Meredith!!

Its really low and the weathermap showes entire area orange.
I went out in the rain( found the right setting on camera) and took pix of Matrix which I could see blooming thru the gloom.

Nce colors. Rainy days are actually great for photographing gardens.

I like as low light as possible for flowers.The whites dont burn as much.
Sun interferes with contrast,its too much.
I usually photo in the AM or late afternoon.

Nice bright colors Ge!

Wonderful pics everyone. Specially liked the iceberg rose and clem, white s in the moon garden and the bright colors on a rainy day. Lovely all of them.

Meredith, I'm so jealous that you can get ice plant to come back for you! I tried two times, and it just doesn't make it thru the winter for me. I made sure the soil drained well and everything. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I just bought another beautiful one the other day to use in a container on my sunny deck, but I'd really like to get it to come back if I can. I'll post a pic when I get the container planted with it.

I was pleasantly surprised that it came back! The spot it is in is very hot and dry. I think the rock mulch is beneficial for it too. I also could have been lucky thiswinter too, it was thefirst winter they were plantedand it was rather mild and we didn't get asmany freeze thaw cycles as we do some years. So hopefully they will be perennial but you never know with zeric plants in NE. I tried Agastache cana from seed three years in a row and this past winter has been the first I have actually had some return. It could be the spot and it could be that I used rock mulch where they are planted as well. The first two times they were in more exposed spots and didn't have a rock mulch. I have also heard that pools might increase the hardiness zone near them because the water doesn't freeze all the way so can radiate some warmth to the ground near by. Not sure if that has any thing to do with the ice plant survivng. You can see how close they are to the pool in this pic.

What an absolutly beautiful picture.
What is that plant?

Thanks! Ice Plant - Delosperma cooperi 'Mesa Verde' http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/67208/

I just think it's the coolest plant. I love anything that blooms all summer like that. I'm going to try dragging the container against the side of the house for the winter. If it doesn't make it, I'm just gonna keep buying it as an "annual". Kind of like I do with the peach Heucheras!

Yes and it started blooming at the end of May which is pretty early, so I was excited about that. They actually have moreflowers on them now than they did in these pics. :) Di dyou know in order for plants to survive in pots they say they should be two full zones hardier than yours? Maybe they just didn't make it because of the pot? I had some Agastache rupestris in a pot near my house and they didn't survive winter while all theones in the ground have come through 3 or 4 winters noproblem. Those are also supposed to be hardy to zone 4.

Great job on the delospermas.Wish I had a rockgarden.

Actually, the ice plants that didn't make it were in the ground. But they also didn't really thrive there because they were in partial shade....I think that plant really needs full sun. So it will be happy on my deck pot. If I can get my husband to help expanding the left side of my daylily bed, which gets a sliver of full sun, it might do ok in the ground there. I actually bought a second ice plant yesterday with that plan in mind.

Well good luck with them, hopefully the second time will be a charm! Mine do get a lot of sun. : )

Beautiful, ladies! Like that arbor/gate, Christina.

Wonderful photos from everyone!! Great to see them on a rainy indoor day! Too many beauties to name individually, but each one is just perfect!

Check out this lupine that was supposed to be red.......I have more "misnamed" plants that I've bought last fall and this year....I actually like the white lupine, but it was labeled red.....bet it was a seeded hybrid that didn't come true to the parent.

Save me some seeds please...I don't have white!!!! I'm sure I can find something close to red.......will this do?

This pretty pink astilbe was supposed to be Fanal (red)......don't think so!

it's a lovely pink though!

Celeste - I'll be happy to send you some seeds! You gave me some reds and purples that I will plant in this same area in front of the front porch. Do you nick your seeds? I read on a seed packet that they should be nicked and I haven't done that yet.

Heirloom mountain laurel that was in a photo taken of the house in 1880......

Wow - looks great for a 130 year old photo, Louise! ^_^

Yes, it is, Celeste. I like it.

NOID peony that just opened in the friendship garden...

LOL, Victor! The photo is a sepia photo taken by an itinerant photographer named Howe. It is right on the wall behind me and I love looking at it. You can barely see the mountain laurel, but it's there in the same spot as this one is today.

Here's the other 19th century bloom - the heritage rose out by our mailbox. It has lost about 50% of its plant size this year, so I'm a bit worried about losing it. The blooms last a very brief time, so I got his one yesterday just after it opened.

oops - I forgot that this family peony that has moved a million times in Hank's family also goes back into the 19th century. It's the one we're going to dig up and replant.

Wow. When did Hank's family buy the property?

climbing hydrangea about to explode with blooms.......

Louise those are wonderful plants.The white Lupins is dramatic.

1947....the house was abandoned after the depression and required a lot of work, most of which was done by us in the last 22 years in preparation for living in it during our retirement years. We have kept as much of it the same as possible, and the front looks pretty much the same - structurally, at least - as it did in the 19th century. It goes back to 1763, so some changes on the inside were absolutely necessary. We closed in a corner of the ell in the back and made it into a more modern living room with lots of glass and a tree house dining porch. You can't see the modern part from the road. This is the garden around the original 1763 well.......

Wow - wonderful to have a place with such a history.

Thanks, JoAnn - sometimes you end up with better than you bargained for! LOL

This is a longer view of the well, with the BBQ pit just off to the right of the photo. We dug up the old bricks from the beehive oven that was there originally and Hank reconstructed them into the fireplace and BBQ we have today. I requested armitures on it, so he used stones from the property and we capped the arms with bluestone so we could use it for RUs, etc. LOL

BBQ pit and fireplace garden....

Is that black metal fence at the property line??

Thats a very creative way to treat the well.Doesnt the house look like this?

Beauty, Jo!

the only thing missing in that last photo are the DG friends sharing the place with us in the fall.....:)

I really like the house and trim colors.