#1. Pachysandra procumbens. Strange spring blooms with beautiful mottled foliage in the background.
#2. Phlox stolinifera Sherwood Purple.
#3. Pachyphragma macrophyllum. Forms a nice spreading colony with time.
Your Woodland Shade Favorites 3
Finally (though I could go on, trust me...)
#1. Arisaema mirabae.
#2. Epimedium brachyrrhizum.
#3. Epimedium x versicolor Cherry Tart.
Looking forward to next weekend's display!
Oh Weerobin, how inspirational. I am establishing a new garden with more shade and you have so many wonderful things I have never grown - in fact, never seen or heard of! I particularly love your members of the anemone family. I have fall blooming anemones and anemone blanda, but now I see the possibilities. Thank you so much for taking the time.
And there are never too many! The stuff in my yard is bland by comparison.
woodspirit - I didn't try cuttings. I also know for sure I didn't pay that price for them. More likely it was around $5.00.
What fantastic photos! Weerobin - you're an inspiration for all of us.
One of these days I'm going to drive to St Louis just to peruse that beautiful garden!!!
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#1. Anemone blanda. Brilliant blue really stands out against dried leaves of winter.
I am really late getting into the game ie having 'Anemone Blanda' in my garden. But last fall I planted tons of them and so I am hoping I see these beautiful flowers this spring...only green tips thus far in my zone 5b.
Weerobin - keep those photos coming! That 'George Baker' Corydalis is amazing. I think my current favs here are the Hepatica and Epimedium. Always keeping an eye on them for the first flowers. The former has been blooming for the past week and the Epimedium buds should be opening today with all of the warm weather up here. I think the various phlox might be blooming by the end of the week.
woodspirit - I found this page on seeds for the Fusion impatiens. Lots of good photos! I would guess they can be rooted easily since they're grown from seed but I may be wrong.
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1003&bih=486&q=fusion+impatiens+seeds&gbv=2&oq=fusion+impatiens&aq=1S&aqi=g1g-S1&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=2422l7281l0l14906l16l10l0l0l0l0l1531l3204l4-1.7-1.1l3l0&gs_l=img.1.1.0j0i24.2422l7281l0l14906l16l10l0l0l0l0l1531l3204l4-1j7-1j1l3l0.frgbld.
I loooove wildflowers, and yours are wonderful, Weerobin! Thanks for sharing them. I am so excited every spring when our woods come alive with the wildflowers. I hate that some don't stick around long, though.
These aren't wild, but seem to like shade. They grow in a little rock garden close to my pond. Can anyone I.D. them?
pirl, thank you so much.
i guess you need the picture.....
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Just found the impatiens again (online) at a local nursery and the description said it grows to 2' in the garden. I'll have to buy it again.
Last summer was the first time for me growing Fusion Gold Yellow Exotic Impatiens. I so hope I can find it again as it looked so cool in my garden...a very unique impatiens and not easily found in nurseries (at least not in my neck of the woods) and so not often seen in residential gardens .
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Woodspirit, the 1st pix is veronica georgia blue, which looks like your plant?
Georgia Blue hugs the ground and spills out nicely between rocks, as in your picture.
But it needs at least half sun, at least around here.
Thanks for the comments guys, but you've definitely got me wrong!
You'll notice you never see a full 'garden' picture of my yard, just individual plants.
From the street, my yard looks like the woods everywhere else.
I have to get vicarious enjoyment of the real gardens of other DG'ers.
They're the real gardeners. (You know who you are...)
As for me, I have 2 acres of wooded property here in suburbia.
So naturally I focus on woodland plants which of course aren't as well known.
In the spring, they're often ephemerals which as KyWoods notes don't hang around long.
Which is why this time of year, you'll find me crawling around on hands & knees with a camera.
Here's a few more from last weekend.
#1 is the veronica peduncularis Georgia Blue, mentioned above. Full bloom right now!
#2 is a spring flowering bulb which looks great in the woods, chionodoxa.
#3 is an ephemeral corydalis, corydalis stenantha. It's really little (few inches).
#1 is another woodland anemone, anemone x seemannii. It spreads nicely for form a woodland ground cover.
#2 is epimedium omeiense. Big purple spiders hovering over the low foliage.
#3 are my virginia bluebells just getting ready - should be in full throttle next weekend!
#1 is one of my cutest little trilliums. It's called trillium pusillum. Its only about 2 inches tall. It's supposed to spread to form a colony, but this is only his second year, so no significant spread yet. I think he's adorable!
#2 anemonella thalictroides. There are lots of named cultivars with spectacular blooms, but this is the straight species - a volunteer. I think it's pretty in it's own right.
#3 is leucojum which also does nicely in the woods in a damp spot, as opposed to other bulbs which can be fussy about drainage.
That's all for this past weekend.
I hope to have more pix of what's happening in my woods next weekend,
unless it's a rainout!
What gorgeous pictures Wee!! Have you been outside crawling around in the dirt already this morning!? =)
I love the Anemones and Corydalis (I love Anemones anyway), I bet they look really great together! =)
You are an early bird. And the pictures are beautiful!
Love your plants and photos, Wee.
Wee. you definitely tend toward cool colors. My absolute favorites - the blues and mauves, but you throw in yellow and I go with pink - but there are exceptions.
I just replanted the Deutzia Chardonnay Pearls from my house. Pic 1 is how it looks now.
Pic 2 shows how it will look in a few weeks.
Gorgeous plants! The Epimedium is impressive. Were you flat on the ground for that shot? I'm a big fan of Anemonella as well. My little colony is rebuilding itself after having been dug up to get to the house foundation a while back. Have it planted near Jeffersonia diphylla which has the neatest seed pods but the flowers only lasted about a week with all of the warmth here. I think maybe the Leucojum is a little more forgiving in terms of siting. Most of mine are in dry spots just above a slope and bloom reliably. I was surprised to see them out so early here.
True, most of the May blooms are sun loving plants - peonies, tulips, roses.
Crumbs - one of my roses - I think 'Lavender Lassie' - already has a few small buds. I just cut it back two weeks ago. DH was asking me what I'm going to do when we get a frost (since it's only March). He suggested going down to the dollar store to stock up on cheap sheets. I don't even want to think about that.
If it's in the ground it may be fine. I learned years ago that if I take my container roses out and they leaf out, I can kiss them goodbye if there is a frost.
My roses in the ground are leafing out, not budding, and I don't dare prune them. The day after I do the temperature will fall to 20.
Same here, mine are badly in need of pruning, and it's been in the 80's here lately. It's soooo tempting, but scary.
I love those wildflowers--I absolutely have to get some of that last one in WeeRobin's photos! We have the red trillium, and the anemone in our woods.
I'm sure it is Veronica Georgia Blue. I remember the name now. It is getting leggy and has longish stolons. Should I cut them off, or replant the whole thing. They are in a very narrow pocket in a rock garden.
This is my trollius, bloom early. It is not as tall as the information I've found and this is its first good year. I do not know what ph it prefers although I'd guess acidic, nor if it should be fertilized. I do know it doesn't like it dry and grow well above creeks and ponds.
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I just replanted the Deutzia Chardonnay Pearls from my house.
I got two a Deutzias 4 years on the clearence rack at lowes. I didn't and don't know much about these plants but the tag read part shade so in my woodland garden they went. They are great now should I do anything to them in the way of pruning? In passed years I cut them back to the ground when they went dormant but last fall I left them be. I see that they are leafing out on old wood now.
I have never cut them to the ground. They are fully hardy in my rather cold zone. I just let them start leafing out and then cut the old wood. Here is what the deal wood looks like - you can see it at the tips. I'm glad you wrote this now because I was just about to prune it.
I was moving, so I actually put the whole plant in a pot and kept it in my garage over the winter.
The second picture is from last May of 2010. You'll see a bit of dead wood on the left.
Unless they are so overgrown that they are scraggly and need renewal pruning, you probably can just prune them rather than cutting them to the ground. They will bloom earlier.
Not a great picture but here are my blooms from last year. Any idea what variety? Should I prune after they bloom or as they're leafing out?
Hi everybody!
Before I go any farther I have to say WOW. . . I mean WOW!! Weerobin your blooms are just absolutely beautiful. To repeat DonnaMack, your photos are truly inspirational.
And the rest of you that have posted pics as well, Thank You! I have sooo much shade and many of those plants never crossed my mind. Some I've not even heard of.
The Yellow Impatiens sounded interesting so I searched a bit. There's a nursery that sells the JUNGLE GOLD seeds (they're listed in Garden Watchdog) called SWALLOWTAIL GARDEN SEEDS. I looked them up and they do have a few negatives here & there so you'll have to read the feedback & make your own decision, but most seems to be positive.
This link doesn't hit in exactly the right place. You'll have to click on the Jungle Gold link then scroll back up to the picture or you can forget about the link and just scroll down. They're near the bottom of the page.
http://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/annuals/impatiens.html#
Wow, that's beautiful. MUCH more so than mine. It looks like a deutzia scabra. Very much like their Cosall Pink. Here is an image at White Flower Farm:
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/61601-product.html?utm_source=rkgkeywords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=2011%2B11%2B01&utm_term=
The advise an annual light pruning, which is what I do once I spot dead wood. As you can see from my pic, I didn't catch all of it.
The Missouri Botanical Garden advises pruning after blooming. That way you don't lose the blooms.
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/plant-finder/plant-details/kc/v570/deutzia-scabra-codsall-pink.aspx
You have a very special plant!
Here is one of my "King's Ransom" Brunnera that has come up this past week. It is so cool to see that the leaves are exact miniatures of what is to come in a month or so. I have put a penny coin nearby to better see how small but perfectly formed is each leaf.
(I actually like the design and colour of "Jack Frost" better)
OOO - like the 'King's Ransom'. Might have to add that to my "want" list.
I killed 'Jack Frost' last year. Brought it home from the nursery and it went downhill from there. Same with a pricey Heuchera, same nursery. I like an old white-edged variety - exact name unknown, maybe 'Dawson's White'. It shows up more in my shade.
I generally prune Deutzia after blooming (unless its obviously dead wood) since they bloom so early.
Cindy, we treat our Deutzias the same way.
Thanks to Donna and Cindy who helped me with the deutzias. I keep my tags and the Lowes tag says it's a "Pink Minor." It's happy but leggy because I didn't know what to do with it. Now that I know how to tend to it, my little $5 clearance orphans should be quite happy.
CindyMzone5, are deutzias blooming now for you? Hmmm, way too early for yours? Mine too, and they both blooming at the same time?. The weather has lots to do with all these early blooms, doesn't it?
One of my fav. woodland blooms this time of year. Native decidous Azaleas. I finally have a few in the garden, yeah! The blue blooms in front is some sort of squills I think.
No, mine aren't blooming, just leafing out. It wouldn't surprise me if they bloom soon, though.