Gita, I do not feel left out, just totally over come with the beauty of all the these beautiful plants you all have in your gardens.
I gave up a good 90% of gardening outside when I moved here to the Tree Farm. My old body just can not handle the bending and stooping and lifting anymore that the outside gardens require. I am more frustrated with aging, nothing else. I hate getting old. LOL When you all get to be 84 I will bet your gardens will also be downsized. What was that old saying,"ain't funny McGee"....OMG who said that and how long ago. Sometimes the things that pop up in my mind scare me.
Must go clean up my flower arranging shop now. It is a mess but today is a good day to do it since it is so cold and windy here. Only things I design now are cemetery cones and not too many of those anymore except for the family. My designing days are dwindling also. Wish I could take off weight as easily as I can stop doing other things. Later gang. Happy Memorial Day to you all. Remember our fallen heros and loved ones. JB
End of May blooms
Love the sweet shrubs JB! They are very cool. Happy memorial day weekend.
Hi everyone! My garden is blooming and moving at the same time! My roses and clematis chose this year to leap. I am enjoying the blooms and thinking about what to do differently next time. I am bringing my plants with me, dividing and sharing perennials and running out of pots. Digging things up is faster than planting them in this rocky soil, but is still quite a job.
My potted lilac bloomed for the first time. The early bulbs are done. Most of my columbines came back with blooms. The irises, peonies. clematis and roses are starting to bloom.
I am getting used to a new camera, new software and new os. I'll get it all sorted out eventually and pop in with pictures.
My late lunch break is over, better get back to packing.
Hi Lori (GardenQuilts)
Where are you moving to. Maybe you and Jessica and I can get together sometime this summer.
Regards,
Teri
Only have a couple things to show you--
1--"Proud land" red rose starting to open. Talk about long-stemmed Roses--
you could have a 3' stem with these...
2--donners "Ruby" Streptocarpus...in full bloom now.
Ruby--we were talking about people owning plants that are called the same as their names.
Well--Here is one for YOU!
Ask donner to give you one...
Gita
All of my other azaleas have finished but this one has just started. Will try to find the name. It stays low and spreads out sideways. Blooms are almost palm of hand size.
The strep is doing great, Gita. Ruby has this plant. The very first 'Ruby' that I gave away was given to Ruby because of the name :o).
Coleup, that is a very pretty azalea. Love the soft pink. I was at White's last Saturday and got an Azalea ' nacoochee princess', the same as the one with light pink flowers that Terp took to the swap. White's also has quite a lot of late blooming azaleas that will bloom in another few weeks. Late blooming azaleas extend the season by a month. Very nice.
Judy that is pretty. I will be with the chapter this Saturday, I can ask around. I posted on another topic that there is a nursery out west that does custom propagation of rhododendrons. They might accept anything though. I only add it in here because there has been quite a few people discussing cuttings, if you missed the post here is the website.
http://www.vanveennursery.com/Custom_Propagation.html
That is pretty!!
Nacoochee princess is lovely, isn't it? Thanks again, Paul.
Funny what a difference a week makes. Last week was perfect for the swap. By Tuesday, the azalea flowers next to the kousa dogwood were all spent and falling. But, now the 'coppertina' nine bark is blooming as well as the Feverfew and some white alliums, so the garden is in a white period.
Neighbor put out some wicker furniture for trash day, so I talked to him and now they are in my yard. And they are red...my favorite color. Score!!!!!
I'll have to check them out, Paul, when I'm in Oregon in July. Remind me!! I tend to forget things.
A couple flowers (wild?) in the front yard, any guess what the could be? Took the pictures with my cellphone so not so great. I really like the blue one.
Robin, the first one looks like an annual bachelor's button. The second one is cute, but am not sure what it is.
The bachelor's button will reseed itself if you do not cut of the spent flowers.
I thought it looked like bachelor's button, I really like that color.
I think that is a bachlors button also. Some florists are using them in designs now. Can you imagine? Along with the wild dasies, the tiny ones. Anything goes these days.
Here are some survivors of the awful wind we had for several days.
A few of my iris. I have a lunch date with a friend to come and see the iris and it is raining. Yuck. Instead of a garden tour and lunch under the gazebo we will hit a local restaurant.
Mountain laurel that is 12+ foot tall, pink butterfly still looking great, spiderworts, and noid coral bells knocked over from wind.
Wow that's a tall one!!!
Eye of the Tiger Dutch Iris
Home Fires Phlox
Dianthus 'Starburst'
Climbing noid rose and roses
The eye of the tiger! Nice.
ADRIAN!!!!!
LOL
Wow, beautiful pictures. :0
TERP, I am so in love with your Mountain Laurel. I doubt that I could be successful with it here, but some day I just might try it.
Thanks RRR. I love them too. There are huge patches of them growing around here. I really like it when they grow out and up as they do in the wild. Believe it or not I tried to propagate them a few years ago, it was very difficult. They are also very slow growing so it is better to buy them, I think.
Why do you think you won't be successful with them?
That Mountain Laurel flower is very pretty. I don't think I have seen a Mountain Laurel in bloom.
Do you divide your Dianthus, Jen? My Dianthus looked big, but it had only grew out of a single stalk without rooting along the way as it spread out. I gave it a severe cut this spring, and there are no flowers now :o(.
Donner- take a look at these pictures of Mountain Laurel and Rhododendrons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/windbeamwaynursery/sets/72157626376020728/
Terp: Mountain Laurel is notoriously fussy. My neighbors' have a nice one -- I am planning to air layer it.
Wow! I am going to go find a Mountain Laurel :o). Thanks, Terp!!
Can you purchase domestic Mountain Laurel? I never thought of doing that until I saw those pictures in the link. I had so much of it at my other house I called my farm Laurel Run Bird Farm because the Mountain Laurel ran the entire length of the property and it was just a picture this time of year. The house was surrounded by rodies and Lauel and all my pics are gone with the old computer. I miss them so much. The aroma was outstanding also.
I hadn't but your question made me look at my "time to divide "chart(that I should be referencing) and for Dianthus it says " Divide every few years to extend plant life; tends to be short-lived if left undisturbed, divide in spring by clumps"
Now I know why my Itsaul is not doing too well
These were lovely until the rain yesterday and now most of the bigger ones are laying down.
It must have rained more than I thought.
JB- I have a dark pink one like that it was growing where I grew up as long as I can remember (only 50 years lol) Is yours an old variety, do you know? Some of my moms peonies came from her original house and could be near 100 years old.
No, maybe only 10 years old. This farm was subdivided years ago and most of the old plants went with the other section and were destroyed when they made it into a development. So sad.
Thanks, just curious.
Oh, hard to think about ....
A few more things popping----part of the "miracle" I mentioned.
Nothing I have posted was planted in recent history--they are just THERE--doing their thing...
No wonder I write Poems to my garden.....
SO! Some new blooms to show you....
--"Sweet Surrender" Rose--OH! I LOVE it so--and its fragrance....It is SO old....but dazzles me every spring.
--Close up of bloom
--"Autumn Sunset climbing Rose
--"Proud Land" long-stemmed red Rose--yesterday
--Knock Out Rose--by my shed. Yes I did cut it all back last fall...
My tea rose has pretty pink flowers and almost no leaves on the bush. I need to take a pic so you can see how weird it looks. Your roses are beautiful Gita. You must take good care of them. Ours grow beside the barn and no one does anything to them and usually they are very pretty, but this year. Oh well. Something had fun eating holes in the leaves. Sick looking thing.
Some more pretties....
--"First Prize" Rose's one and ONLY bloom for this year....I do think it is dying...
Have had it since 2005 and it never gave me more than ONe (maybe two) blooms ever.
Would LOVE to find it again and plant it in a better location.... Farewell, lovely...
--Deep pink Peony---this is pretty old....
--Lighter pink Peony---this is old too...
If I may--------
Seems this may be a good time for me to post my 1st Poem I wrote about my garden.
It was in 2003--when, like this year--spring just never wanted to come....
It is called "SPRING" and the frustration shows.....
********************************************************
SPRING
Make a wish for the sun to shine,
Let the days be yours and mine!
Flowers swaying in the breeze,
Birds all singing in the trees.
Snow to melt and grass to grow,
Tulip- heads in my beds to show.
Geese on wings in the sky above
All living things, full of love.
The Earth is stirring—my green grass grows,
Daffodils blooming in pretty rows.
Robins hop, and Sparrows nest—
Which fork in the tree will be the best?
I scan my garden and hope for the best,
That all will be well, before I rest.
Where soils is now—oh so bare,
My flowers will be fighting for a place to share.
I worry and fret-- I scan the scene,
Will it ever again soon be green?
Will Roses bloom and Lilacs sway?
Their fragrance wafting over my way.
I have to remind me, day by day,
That nature always has her way.
Flowers grow—and seeds they sow,
And where they land—I do not know!
Here’s a Pansy! There’s a Mint!
Sunflowers!!!—I had no hint!
Here’s a Maple—there’s a Holly,
What’s peeking out there?
It’s Lily of the Valley!
I sit and I savor—on my porch swing I rest,
Again to my Garden, I’ve given my best.
My eyes and my senses caress all I see,
And again it’s given it’s best to me!
I look at the Earth—I look at the sky,
I see another Summer flying by.
I fear not! Worry not, for you see—
There will always be another spring for me!
Gita (April 8, 2003)
Thanks for reading it.....G.
That is so nice. Thanks for sharing.
nice
Allium moly 'Jeannine'
1st caladium
Noid Iris
Scabiosa Blue Butterfly
Red White and Blue
Such a variety of blooms on here... Amazing and wonderful. Flow...I love that blue butterfly.
I got this from last fall's swap, but I have no idea what it is or where I got it from! Any ideas?
Terp, I was led to believe that the mountain laurel all need dappled sunlight in a woodland setting. Most of my property is full sun except for a little triangle near the front porch that is all filled up. Our property was once farmland and pretty much cleared. We have a very thin very wild tree line except for the 12 trees that we placed around the property (purple plum, kousa dogwood, red crab apple, kwanzan cherry, weeping cherry, weeping willow and etc. all scattered here and there).