Garden Gems for May 2012

Before & After are great - looks nicer and looks to be easier to mow :)

Looks like a totally different yard, Weeze

This isn't a daylily, Rose Campion and Foxglove, from the swap on Sat- already blooming 'Biokova'(thanks Jill!!!!), berm

Great foxglove....mine haven't bloomed yet.....

Sea Thrift Dusseldorf Pride and Allium ostrowskianum, berm back to front, Blue Mouse Ears from swap(thanks Holly!)

Love that allium...can't understand why they don't do well for me! I put a quarter on top of clem Ibi to show its size.....

WOW how gorgeous!!!!

I must have planted some of them too deep cause the bloom is just resting on top of the soil

Thanks guys. I'll fess up, Bill and Victor definitely influenced my JM buying, but I only have 9, not even close to the boys.

Looks great Jo! such a difference. Gardening is such an ongoing and ever changing project, that it's pleasantly surprising, sometimes truly amazing, when we look back to what we started with.

Jen, your berm is looking great, and it's only a year old, right?

Viburnum carlecephalum, it's done blooming now, but for aroma lovers, it's a must have. Intoxicating scent that fills the entire yard.

Yep only a year old

Gotta have a smell good Vib

Thanks for the nice comments, guys.

Wow, Weeze, huge change to that area! What a difference! It's like night and day. I must have that Vibernum.

Your place had a big change, too, Jo, and certainly looks great! I'm more shocked by seeing Weeze's changes, as I've seen how yours have progressed, but this is the first I've seen of hers in ages.

OMG, tradescantia, Jen!!!!!! Your berm is looking good!

That is one big clem flower, Marilyn! Beautiful!

Bill and Victor are big time JM collectors and JM addicts, just like I am with my daylilies. However, They will never have as many JM's as I have daylilies. I don't even know if there are as many cultivars of JM's as I have DL's. I have about 1,000. There are over 70,000 registered DL cultivars. No one would be able to collect them all, and probably no one would want them all. There are a great many that are nearly indistinguishable from each other.

Karen

SD Iris 'Indian Beauty', Intermediate Iris 'Blue Eyed Blond', SD Iris 'Serendipity Elf', SD Iris 'Buster', SD Iris 'Forever Blue'

SD Iris 'Big Blue Eyes' Calibrachoa "Cherry Star', Violet 'Etain', Primrose, SD Iris 'Cat's Eye'

SD Iris 'Mariposa Wizard', Intermediate Iris 'Hi', Noid Iris, Pink & Blue FGMN, and the last of the tulips. :(

wow that mariposa wizard is cool Celeste

boy-o-boy Celest.Those are great.

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