What is in full bloom now? JUNE 16 - JUNE 30 2010

My yucca is setting blooms. It doesn't bloom every year and once died down completely. I don't know what it thinks it is doing.

Spiderwort, purple.

Dark pink peony, huge!

Allium and lavendar Spiderwort.

THe second of three lilys I have. Love them and don't know why the deer haven't eaten them.

Really dark almost black columbine

Smoke tree in full bloom. Elm behind is also blooming

Also the two cummingham white rhodies. They are the last to bloom. And I do have all the others deadheaded.

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The catmint is going strong. I really love this plant.

And violet Spidewort.

Maybe this one won't be blurry.

Pretty!!! The deer around here have never bothered the lilies for some reason... slugs beat them to it maybe. Grr.. The only thing the deer have done to really raise my ire so far this year is to snip my Allium bulgaricum right in half, and right before it bloomed... And he/or she didn't even eat it! It was just for fun! :) This is what it would have looked like:

And Shadow in the rock garden^_^ with foxglove

Cute!!!! My niece's cat is named Shadow as well...

I like that allium a lot. Maybe the smell irked them. ^_^

Shadow in the rock garden with foxglove- sounds like something from the game "Clue". hehe. Very cute photo. :)

LOL It did have a ring to it.
Loving all your pics.

Ditto on enjoying the lovely pictures!! The lilies and roses are to die for (well maybe not literally). The spiderworts, alliums and everything else are gorgeous too.

I finally had time today to run around with a camera, so I have a bit to share too. Something in color. Yippee.
White Camas finishing up its bloom time. These are somewhat different than the native kind...bigger and bloom later. I had some blue ones too,I thought of the same type, but they did not bloom at the same time

I also have geraniums, pink, white and blue. Some of the blue were from the generosity of someone at the Round Up last August. The others were supposed to be Birch's Double and are clearly something else. I like them, but not quite what I was expecting when the bud opened.
This pic is of the pink ones, which are a year older than my others and going to town now.

The white geranium is in here between 2 Heucheras and a daylily.

A Hebe that made it through the Winter.

Loverly!!!! I need to research white camas and hebe now.

Love that hebe

Sexy Rexy. I love this floribunda rose.

The blooms on this climbing valentine rose are marvelous..to bad the rest of the plant looks so bad this year. The dreaded black spot!

Whoa. Gorgeous picture!

Pretty roses. :)

I'd like to try growing a few roses. Never really done them before. There's one here that came with the house, and no matter how much I prune it, it grows back all scraggly. The blooms aren't all that hot either.

I meant Sexy Rexy. Valentine is nice, but Sexy Rexy had me at hello.

I've been back in Oregon for a few weeks now and have been so busy with my daughter's upcoming wedding that I've had no time to read DG threads. All the photos are so beautiful! You all have been busy tending your gardens. So lovely. My own garden is looking a bit abandoned right now and I need to make time to clean up before out of town guests descend next week. This is one time that I'm glad it's so small!

Bea, Julie and I just finished spraying our roses, finally and feel the same way about the results of the black spot. Pretty depressing. It is good that some of the blooms have survived and the rain has allowed them to open decently. I have and love Sexy Rexy too.

I like both those roses! Bea, if we ever meet up at a gathering, I would love cuttings.

Sharon, what do you guys spray with and what is the spray for?

Podophylums are kinda funny plants..I bought the original at Heronswood probably 10 years ago. It seems to thrive in surprising places and barely exist in others. I believe this one has been there for four years and surprisingly competes successfully with the cedar roots that run rampant in this little garden bed.
Thanks to you Sharon I have an early bloom on Margaret

Beautiful roses Bea. I have bad black spot also and am in the process of removing all the leaves. I only have five, all done except the climber.

I am a reluctant rose gardener. I have 3 florabundas which are all fairly disease resistant and healthy, and a Chicago Peace which limps along but has beautiful blooms. I also inherited 2 gaudy tea roses (bright coral and hard yellow) from my sister which both so far have severe black spot and blooming shoots coming up from the root stock. I moved all 6 to a location of its own, with strawberries at their feet. It is in full sun with good air circulation, away from the rest of my gardens. What do I do about the root shoots? They bloom with little bloody red single roses. Do I whack them off at ground level? Lower than ground level? What do you suggest about black spot, other than pull off the leaves (which will leave one bush pretty much barren)?

Definitely take the root shoots below the graft down as far as you can. This is the vigorous root stock that was used to support the grafted part. I will let Julie respond to you and Gwen also as to what to do about the blackspot. Good chemicals are the answer at the right time of the growing season, which was very hard to achieve with this terribly wet recent weeks.

Will do on the rose cutting. One of these days I hope to get together with the WA group. It may be quicker however to send you some cuttings. d-mail your address and I will try to get a few to you.

I just remove the leaves with blackspot. Do not put them in compost. They need to leave your yard totally. (Or you can burn them.) There's not much you can do with all this rain. Once it stops raining, water from below only. Keep the area around the base as cleared out and clean as you can.

If you don't want to spray with toxins, and I recommend that you do not, your choices are leafless roses for a while or leaves with blackspot. You might check with your nursery - there may be something 'organic' you can spray on the roses to help. I'm not sure.

Thanks Gwen. I don't use toxins either. When my boys were young my next door neighbor with her picture perfect weed-n-feed lawn would often send her toddler over to play on my lumpy weedy lawn because she had just sprayed some poison on her own. Go figure.

Messenger works well on roses, I hear. And some people say it helps the rose defend against black spot.

i believe Messenger is no longer on the market.

Hi all,
I'm newly out of lurkdom. I've been enjoying all of your wonderful gardens. Here's a happy show in my garden. Forgive me if you've already seen it.

Alongside this honeysuckle, I have an unknown red climbing rose (with a lot of blackspot), and a pale pink peony, which usually makes a smashing combo. But the peony is too shaded now and didn't bloom this year. It will have to move this fall.

I'm torn about keeping the rose. I refuse to spray and hate the look of the yucky leaves. But it's in a corner of my yard I don't see close up, so maybe I can live with it. The rose looks nice tangled in the honeysuckle.

Sheri