What is happening in your Garden Today Spring 2011

Love that soft pink color.
How a bout a Clem. I have this one planted on the split rail fence out front with a White Dawn Rose. The rose isn't doing very well. They seem to be having a hard time getting started and they have been there for a couple of years now. You would think they would be well established by now. It is close to the parking area maybe too much road salt or something related to the parking area. The clem is doing great though. Hard to get the exact color it is more of a dark purple with red.
Dr. Ruppel

So pretty, I need more clems!

You're gonna love Hot Cocoa, Holly. Especially after a year or two.

jen i would not want you to be disappointed later

Holly, I bought Hot Cocoa after I swore I wouldn't buy any more roses. I love that color. I would like to move Golden Celebration next to it but I'm afraid I might kill it.

Holly and Gitagal, you have a nice projects going on there. What great places to plant!
Marie, you have a beautiful yard.
Buttoneer, we seem to have similar taste in plants.
Coleup - that bicolor azalea is very pretty. Do you know the name?
Jen, I am coveting that Frosted Mouse Ears.

I took some pictures of my garden the other day.
This and that is looking really pretty......

My Roses are blooming! ONLY the first flush of blooms is worth looking at!
Then the blackspot hits--and the leaves fall off and there is NO energy for
the Rose to put out another flush.....

In October--they really try--on bare stems, now defoliated.....no leaves....

OK! As always--my favorite Rose--that never disappoints me---

"Sweet Surrender"..

My Knock Out Rose....Doing just fine by the sunny corner of my shed...

My blue, two-tone Iris---
They did get a bit beaten up by the heavy rains we had....

Don't know the name of this one--but could look it up.

My all purple iris.....This bloomed a bit later than the pale blue ones...

My Clematis I purchased last year----
Need to find the bill of sale to get the name....

Staying with the blues......My Wood Hyacynths blooms. aka "Spanish Bluebells"...

They are now done--and busy making seed pods....
I have whites and pink ones too....

My oldest Peony I own.
Huge, white blooms--tinged with a bit of red in the "throat" of the flower...

These also got beaten down by the rains...Bummer!

Two Foxgloves---side-by-side.....from my neighbor's bed--but I planted these there....
She had this amazing white Foxglove--i tried planting some of her seedlings
in my bed--and some of mine in hers.. Seems to have worked!

Here are the paler ping Foxgloves...My favorites!

This is Rhodo I gave you, Terri.

It was just sooo amazing......Like powder puffs!

Hope it grows and blooms for you for a long time!

My "Multi Blue" Clematis--and my white Azalea....

Both are spectacular ONLY in the spring.....:o(

This is a small, old Azalea that lives happily in my small, old front bed.....

It is many years old--but never grows much bigger/taller....
Very pretty blooms!

And, lastly--the Brugmanmsia that I thought died.....

Then--I cut off the totally dead top--and the fat stem started putting out
all this new growth.
It is my older Dr. Seuss.....

OOPS!!! A couple More...

This is the Pink Evening Primrose--in my YUK bed....
Fighting to exist--but still puts out a few blooms every Spring...

This is my neighbor's beautiful Columbine....

I had many seeds from this at the Seed Swap---some labeled as "OLD"...

IF they grow for you--this is what they will look like....

Very nice. I like them all. I have luck with columbines also. My purple ones, that I assume are generic, reseed every where. I have not had much luck with the fancy ones reseeding.
My poor Peonies look the same way. It never fails, when they bloom we get a hard rain and they droop.
This pic is of one I transplanted a few years ago amongst the day lilies. I dont have that much blooming now. We have been so cloudy.

Marie--

I have four peonies the same color--all struggling, as one is in too much shade,.
Two of them are right under my forever overflowing gutter, The water just comes down
in streams--and has eroded the bed in a straight line right down the middle---
right where these 2 Peonies are.....I will have to dig them up--but have no where
else to plant them....:o( The bane of my gardening life......

The fourth is in my YUK bed--4' from my . huge Silver maple....
My "YUK" bed is so called b/c it is solidly full of Maple roots--yet many things have survived there.....

I know I had a good picture--but cannot find it at this time.....Gita

Go back to May 11th where I posted my Mystery Plant.....

It now has branched out on top with some odd formations.....
Can't call them "blooms"--as there are none....There are odd, triangular-looking
growths--which seem to hold a seed pod in the center....and an minute yellowish
bloom of some kind....

Asking again--if anyone can ID this?????

If NOT--I will post these on the "Plant ID Forum".....

Here is the top as it looks now.

Macro close-up of the top--what appears to be a seed pod in the middle--
and the minute, yellow bloom....

What is this?????? Greenthumb--maybe you know?????
Put your Master Gardener brain to use here....

I don't want to have this spreading around. Will yank it up in a flash--GONE!!!!

Thanks--Gita

What makes some get blooms that are so tall and fall over?
The one I have in more sun the blooms are more even with the rest of the plant.

Loretta, the bicolor late blooming azalea I posted is called "Marthe Hitchcock" It it a Glenn Dale hybrid and featured at the National Arboretum

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/azaleablossom_2011.html#May20

Curious plant, Gita. Did it self sow?

Thank you Coleup.

Because this bed has such a hodge-podge of "stuff" growing everywhere in this bed
--it is hard to say. All kinds of low, matted, odd things....Hard to tell the "real" plants.

--I will guess that I first remember seeing it in spring of 2008 as a small. ground-hugging plant.
However--the leaves were very much like it is now--kind of in a rosette.
--In 2009 it grew on 2 tall, reddish stems--one of which bent over and never straightened up.
--Last summer (2010) it just seemed to gather a bit of mass....getting some "oomph" now...
--This spring--it started growing more stems, That is what you can see in the 1st pictures
I posted om 5/11. Also--you can see the reddish stem is still bent. Obviously, NOT broken.

Now--it is growing the funny things on top. Will keep track of it.

I did post on the ID Forum. Waiting to hear back.....Gita

WOW!!!!! It was ID's as a "Mole Plant" or "Gopher Spurge"...
Euphorbia lathyris. VERY interesting......

Someone even sells seeds to this plant!

Here's the link to the Plant ID forum.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1184444/#new

Within this link--there are other links given--with pictures, information,
articles, etc.....Scientific studies, discussions as to whether it is invasive, etc.....

I have to read up more on the provided links.
Don't have time right now...

Gita

Holy cow,. does it really keep moles away. I could use that plant...lol
The sap from that plant is like the sap from my pencil cactus.It will give the same results if gotten on the skin, or if in the eyes it can blind you for a few hours.

I've had seeds for that for years but never tried to grow it.

Let's see...we got the weigelas blooming...


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baptisia carolina moonlight

irises

Hellebores are finishing. Didn't notice that snail on my hostas.

Strawberry begonias are starting to bloom.

Columbine - this was suppose to be Dove.

Here is Ida Red from one of Mamajack's Coops last season. A few others opened but I missed them because of all the rain we had.

This cute little geranium I got on clearance last fall. I also bought Rozanne but I don't see it anywhere in the garden. That is disappointing.