Some viburnums are still going. This is Onondaga.
What is happening in your Garden Today Spring 2011
Heuchera
Beautiful pic's everyone.
Gita, You just gotta love that Plant ID Forum.
Ric is working on the Arbor again.
I am heading out to plant some more. Think I will see about digging out a few pots. Maybe get the Caladiums started and the EE's in the ground I have been running late getting those started. I think my Peony is looking pretty nice. It is the only one I have maybe I can find a few others in different colors.
Loretta, Love that peach iris. Did I get a peach iris from you?
Here is a close up of the Peony.
Holly---We cross-Poster....:o)
OK! Everyone dig up a rooted division of their Peonies for Holly...
August is THE time to dig Peonies...transplant or move them..
As a rule--Peonies do not like to be moved--but one just has to--sometimes....
Just in time for the Fall Swap...Dig gently--and considerately!
Later today--I will come back and read up on the Mole Plant....
Sally!!! YoooHooo!!!!! You sure could use this in the back of your
mushy, Mole-infested garden. Right?
There was a large picture of this plant in one of the links----It looked almost Pretty....
NOW--it is noon already--and I have not done a darn thing in my garden.....
Rain is coming (DAH!)--so don't know how much I will get done....
Went o 2 grocery stores and am on my second load of laundry....
Have to make a triple recipe of Seafood Pasta salad for Monday's Cook Out
at the HD. Needed some ingredients...
All departments take turns to be responsible for these all day Cook Outs on Holiday
Weekends....This one is up to the "Front End"'s turn....
Service desk
Head Cashiers
Cashiers
Returns
Phone Center--only MOI--and rarely nowadays...
Lead Generator (one)
Lot Attendants and Loaders (3 guys)
OK! Rest time is over.....Need to pot up the 10" Hibiscus I just bought.
They are on sale this week for $9.98. Reg. $17.97
Did I go off-topic again???????? Sorry! Gita
This message was edited May 26, 2011 11:02 AM
Holly, I didn't bring any irises. They aren't big enough to split yet. Do you think it's peach? I thought it was yellow and mustard. This either came with my house or someone gave it to me as an extra. I never bought it.
That is a beautiful peony and I love the surrounding rocks!
From the many links---enlarge this one and you will see this plant in a more mature size....
Rather pretty! Gita
http://davesgarden.com/products/market/view/10500/
I think the pic looks peachie but you know how cameras can be the color isn't always quite true. Beautiful either way.
Just got done potting up my Astilbe. I planted some at my Parents & some at Jens. Just not sure where I will put the rest so I potted them up for now.
Gita, Looks like you could make a few $$ with that plant. LOL
Well, I'll try to keep my hands off my Peony till August- AND try not to fill in its intended spot before then also! I need to lift mine an see if replanting with more care t9o the planting depth, in a slightly brighter sdpot, will make it bloom. It white like Gita's.
Yup Gita always tours my garden and we sink into the mole tunnels back by my far corner LOL. I have a different Euphorbia from hart, maybe I should move that there. I also have Holly's red Castor Bean plant back there this year, two of them from seed, looking good.
Sally---
Now that you have many links and articles to read to this "Mystery Plant"----
I can see an article coming.......Why NOT? While all this is fresh in your mind.
You could tie it in, nicely, to your own Mole problems...
This guy Nick--the bio-scientist--with all the reference links--who seems to know
all about it would be a great source...
Of course--you can always use any photos of mine. You know that...
Now I have to traipse through all the links provided and copy them in Word
and save this information....After all---I HAVE this plant!!!!
Gita
Here is the PF link to this plant. Someone posted it.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55261/
Make sure you go "down under" and read all the member comments.
Scary!!!!!!! I am getting rid of this plant while it is still young.
The story about the white latex-like sap exploding when the plant was cut
and spraying the gardener in the face and eyes--sure sounds very serious.
I will wear gloves, eye protection--and long sleeves....
Mystery solved----and the culprit will be hacked!!!!!
Phew!!! Gita
Now! On to nicer things......
This is my "Monkshood" plant. Have had it for many years...
This photo is, actually, of two of the long-stemmed sections I dug up and moved here 3 years ago.
Every year--it grows healthy as can be--and then, close to Fall, it starts
rotting out at the roots. Don't know why! The blooms come so late--but they are pretty.
I am lucky if I see one or two blooms of this any given year...
Perhaps I should spray it regularly with some kind of a Fungicide on the roots?
I hear this plant is also very toxic IF ingested.....Seems there are SO many!!!!
Gita
Here is a picture from October 2009 of its blooms...Sp deep blue!
You can also see one of the dead stems here--due to this root fungus---whatever.....
Gita,
Maybe you ought to spray the leaves on the plant and even partially dig out the roots & do the same with a fungicide spray?
This message was edited May 27, 2011 9:03 PM
Gita, that Gopher Spurge (we call it Gopher Purge) is the exact same plant I am still spraying with Roundup, every time we see one popup from seeds we missed. Absolutely difficult to eradicate and not very pretty, either.
Here is the link to the Lancaster County Mennonite Nursery Trip, finally getting it organized.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1185070/
Buttoneer, I put a watch on that Lancaster thread but it is a pretty far drive for me. Sounds great though. I have that lily of the valley you pictured. I'm waiting for it to spread but it is taking its sweet time.
Buttoneer--
I already cut off all the tops of the Mole Plant. Still need to dig out the roots.
It was just one plant--so not too hard...
Re the "Monkshood"
When I was spraying my Roses early in the Spring with Lime Sulphur, I gave the
Monkshood roots a spray as well. Will try to use some other fungicide again--
thanks for the reminder...
I have it in 2 places....
Sent Sally a D-mail re the Lancaster trip....Gita
Can someone tell me what this is? It came up all in the front flower bed, I guess from seed. I do not remember planting it last year. The flower looks like a butter cup when it is fully open, but the stem is at least a foot to 16 inches tall.
Sedium ground cover in bloom.
My new hydrangea. I will have to look up the name , I forgot what it was.
They called it Cityline Paris.
This message was edited May 28, 2011 9:13 PM
Marie - that looks like evening primrose - Oenothera fruticosa.
Agreed with Loretta. Its perennial and won't rebloom this year. but will spread with runners
Marie-kap,
That plant looks a lot like my Ranunculus (buttercup). My plants get to be two feet tall (when the deer don't prune them back). I've attached a photo from last year since mine isn't blooming yet.
Your stonecrop is spectacular and I love the bunny. I was wondering if you have any problems with deer. Do they eat the stonecrop? I'm looking for a nice groundcover that will survive heavy deer populations.
Thanks,
Kathy
wmf8vm, mine are rounded on the edges, and it is in single stalks not runners. I have pulled them up one by one and planted them elsewhere .
The ground cover , well so far I have not seen anything that has eaten it. in fact I almost wish something would. It spreads so much and you cant kill it. Pull it up and drop it somewhere and it will grow...lol
Marie---
I agree with Loretta.....It looks like the yellow Evening Primrose.....
I used to have this eons ago--so pretty! However--it multiplies rather quickly.
Lots of new off-shoots to share.....
Your Hydrangea--it might be the Endless Summer Hydrangea....
I have one--it is lovely! Blooms heavily in the spring--and then, off and on,
during the rest of the summer...
Trim back in LATE fall to shape the bush as you like. When it has gone dormant.
DO NOT trim back in the Spring--as you will be cutting off that season's flower buds....
To change color to BLUE--feed with all kinds of acid fertilizers.
Coffee grinds---Holy Tone--Soil Acidifiers--etc...
To keep it at pink--do not. Alkaline feeding will keep it pink...Bulb food, Bone meal, ashes, etc...
Gita
I dont think its a primrose. They say that they get 4 to 5 ft tall. this one is only about 12 to 16 inches, it look almost like a phlox by the leaf and stem formation, and the blooms form like a phlox.
Marie--
That would describe the Evening primrose that I had years and years ago.
I know there is another one--a pink one....which is semi-invasive and a ground-hugger....
The blooms look pretty and delicate--but the plant is far from delicate...
Here is a picture of the pink one....
Almost but still not it. here's a better picture
And here is the rest of them in the flower bed.
It survived the voles this winter, so I plan on keeping them what ever they are, not much else made besides the salvia.
This message was edited May 29, 2011 9:33 PM
Marie, you might want to look into the Ranunculus a little bit. Most of the varieties (there are 600 species) have rounded petals. Mine are on single stalks that get to 18" - 20". Ranunculus also have "claw-like" tubers. You might get a better idea once the seed head forms too...Wikipedia has a photo of what one variety looks like. Some of the varieties are native so that might explain their mysterious appearance in your bed.
marie, your yellow flower is unmistakeably the cultivated Evening Primrose, much shorter than the wild yellow one also called E P. species fruticosa on this list from Plantfiles
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher[common]=evening+primrose&searcher[family]=&searcher[genus]=&searcher[species]=&searcher[cultivar]=&searcher[hybridizer]=&searcher[grex]=&search_prefs[blank_cultivar]=&search_prefs[sort_by]=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search
wm your Ranunculus sure looks different from any I know, but I really only know one Ranunculus, a wild buttercup. To me your photo looks like this Lysimachia
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1126/
or maybe you selected the wrong photo to post?
This message was edited May 30, 2011 7:46 AM
That yellow sedum, aka Graveyard moss- I've never seen anything eat it and yes it goes everywhere. But I have no deer problem.
Sallyg, that is it. Thank you .
Now comes the question as where in the world did it come from?
A little rosette of O. fruticosa could easily sneak into some plants dug from someone else's garden. When not in boom they retreat to little rosettes with underground parts that roam out sideways and pop up.
I guess they can self seed too since I know the wild ones can, and do, in my yard.
That has to be it. It had to come from another plant that I planted last year. Well at least the voles dont like it, it came back strong.
Wow, Sallyg, I think you are 100% right. That certainly looks like my plant. I received it in a trade a couple of years ago and was told it was Ranunculus. I guess you don't always know what you are getting with a trade. Thanks
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