ssgardener, that looks like a Penstenom
End of May blooms
SSG, it looks like a Penstemon digitalis. Maybe a 'husker red'?
lol, I'm dyslectic
"Penstemon"
Some photos from last weekend.
1. Part of my garden
2. Lobelia 'Wild Thing'
3. Spiderwort 'Sweet kate'
4. Iris
5. Chives from Gita
so many pretty blooms
Jen- your yellow Noid iris- I have one like it and trying to figure out what it is. Does yours have a very prominent rib up the leaf? Terp gave me mine as a 'yellow french iris''. One reply on ID suggested 'pseudocorus' but that is a huge six foot tall swamp monster and also desribed as having folded leaves which mine does not have.
Ha, that's pretty funny! I actually ordered a small Husker's Red early this year, not knowing that I had it in my garden already!
I'll check for you tomorrow Sally
LOVE "wild thing"!
From yesterday:
Yellow Foxglove - Digitalis grandiflora
Straw Foxglove - Digitalis lutea
Iris 'Caramba'
Clematis 'Josephine'
Bowman's Root - Porteranthus trifoliata
Love Caramba!
Every day something new. From today
Heuchera richardsonii (?)
Noid Iris
Rhododendron
Campanula persicariafolia 'Takion Blue'
Salvia 'Eveline'
ooohh!!
Is that a perennial Salvia?
my peachleaf bellflower just popped overnight I swear. also Penstemon digitalis. Campanula Pink Octopus is ready, Elizabeth will be along soon.
Variegated Brug kept buds all winter so it has several open blooms right now.
Sally, yes it is a perennial Salvia. I grow very few annuals intentionally, most of mine are weeds.
oooo, love that Noid Iris
I like the campanula and digitalis! Very nice!
Sally here's pic of the whole plant, hope it helps
Iris Mavericks Game
Took some close-ups today that I wanted to share---G.
1&2--MY favorite Rose (again!)--"Sweet Surrender"--macro of bloom.
Note how "bunched up" the center if the bloom is. It usually has 2 whorls.
Wonder if anyone ever counted the number of petals???
3--"Proud Land" Rose bloom macro---a bit out-of-focus--sorry...the wind was blowing..
4--This plain, pink Peony just mesmerizes me--it is almost neon when you take a photo.
And--that touch of white (?) all around the edges.....this has been around forever....
but I have never noticed this 'white edging" before. Can it evolve????
5--Estonian Clematis--"Piilu"--(Little Duckling)--small blooms and can take part shade.
It grows in a big pot on my patio.
Absolutely Lovely!
thanks Jen, now have to look at mine...i'm still ?? on this iris.
Ice Plant 'Firespinner'
Gita -- that clematis is to die for.
I love those ice plants, I just planted some can't wait to see them bloom
A few people on "the other site" commenting how great that Little Ducking Clem is
That peony certainly catches your eye!
Happy--you can order all kinds from the company in Estonia.
There is a husband and wife who propagate all kinds of Clematis--
and most of them (all??) are hardy to Z 4 or 5. Estonia itself is 'up there"--
just above Latvia.
My EX is Estonian--I (we) spent 25 years here involved in all the shenanigans,
endless parties, Festivals, Folk Dancing, drinking, and all that goes with it...Crazy life---just ask my daughters...
Wouldn't trade it for anything....
The Estonians still have a "Club" here in town--but it is no longer all it used to be....I miss it...
Brushwood Nursery would have their Clematis... Here are 2 links to the Estonian farm that produce these.
http://hummingbirdfarm.net/kivistik_clematis.htm
http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemnamedetail.cfm?dbkey=4
Pics from last year....the blooms are quite small--about 3"+.
love it, need 1 for my deck
Here are the pathetic pictures of my poor sickly rose bushes. Last year they bloomed and looked like a picture...this year they are blooming and looking like "whatever"!
JB--
Do you cut your Roses back--carefully,selectively and correctly--either in very late fall or early spring?
Always cutting a stem down to an outward facing node? Going as far down as you see comfortable to do?
And--I apologize if you already know all this--I just feel that it can be a matter of so-so Roses,
and beautiful Roses.
All those skinny "ends" on the stems will not produce much bloom--and if they do, it will be so-so...
I had to twist her arm (my Pakistani neighbor) to let me cut all her Roses back this spring...
She just still does not think that I KNOW what needs to be done....she is always right! (hmmm..like me???)...
I could tell that she was uncomfortable me spending 45 minutes giving all her Roses a hair-cut...
She was like--"No! NO! Not that one!!!
She has all these Roses she grows from cuttings--and they are long and skimpy and not on strong stems.
Now that they are all growing more compact--and are full of blooms--she acknowledges that it was a good idea.
Looking at your pictures, DEAR JB, I cannot but wonder if you did cut yours back to
encourage new stems to grow and bloom. Did you?
Of course--all the Roses I have are hybrid Tea Roses. Very old ones to boot!
My neighbor's are all either cheap versions of hybrids or shrub Roses she has grown from cuttings.
She keeps asking me for cuttings from my beautiful roses--and I keep telling her she will
not be successful rooting the cuttings like she does with her roses.
I let her do cuttings from my roses last year--she watered them, and took care of them--in my bed..
Just because they had new growth from the beginning, she said--"SEE? They are growing!
NOPE! None of the survived....now she is asking for more cuttings. i said she had to wait until fall.
Of course--seems everything she sticks in the ground grows---so she may still prove me wrong...
Wouldn't be the first time.........:o)
Gita
I get the tiny green worms on my rose too. voracious.
Yes Gita, my SIL does that religiously and correctly since he was VP of a nursery he knows how to do it and I do not. LOL....I never tell him how to trim unless it is a gardenia or a tropical which I KNOW HE DOES NOT KNOW. Do not get the wrong idea, he is adorable and so nice but when he trims the trees and shrubs around here my daughter and I go find the wine bottle and just let him go. He is a mess when he trims.....very little left of bush. But, they all come back and look wonderful in time.
This is the first year these have looked like this. I should try and find last years shots. They were beautiful and he even said, See, I told you trimming was good for them????? Never said it wasn't. The leaves all have holes in them. It must be a worm of some kind. Never saw it like that before.
I will ask him how he cuts them someday he is in a good mood.
Terp, love mountain laurel too!! one of the owners of a garden center near us said they are not allowed to sell native mtn. laurel because apparently people were digging up the native to sell it... or something like that. I've always wanted it. We bought a hybrid mtn. laurel, but it's not the same. I think you can propagate it by air layering. If you ever propagate yours, save us some pretty please lol
our peonies are blooming now
our hanging baskets are just starting to take off too: Illumination® Peaches 'n Cream Tuberous Begonia; Sophie Cascade geranium; petunias
Here is a closeup of the blooms on the big rose that the leaves (starting at the bottom) is now being eaten by whatever. Really pretty flowers but awful looking plants with holes in the leaves. I really must spray it with something but I do not know what. Will ask my neighbor if you do not give me an idea. Thanks in advance.
JB---Those Roses are lovely!!!!! LOVE the color!!!
My roses' leaves are also full of little holes. I think it must be the Earwigs"....they feed at night...
I sprayed all my Roses, as well as my shrubs with NEEM this morning.
HD is, finally, carrying it. It is made by "Bayer"--but under the name of "Natria"....which, I believe,
is their Eco-Friendly product for all kinds of things...
G.
Just received my camera from my DD (mailed it to me). There's still sooo much to do! Need to weed all over again because the truck carrying the mulch last week had an accident. JB, I tried to get a picture of the bugs that are eating my roses, but they're too small for my camera to pick them up. The warm weather is finally starting to wake things up here.
RRR--
Is that a Clematis behind some Phlox in your 1st picture?
If not--what is it?
Gita
Do earwigs eat plants? They are just beginning to hatch and these leaves have been eaten for weeks. I have been watching them go.........darndest thing I ever did see. Wait until I get a pic of a closeup of the little pink tea rose. They are so adorable too...
I use neems in much of my sprays, so I think when the sun goes down and it is not to windy tomorrow I will spray. You just can not spray with sunshine or it will harm the leaves.
Earwigs are omnivorous, eating plants, other insects, decaying plant material etc.
The clematis in the first photo is spectacular!!! What variety is it, RRR? What is the shrub in the last photo? Mock Orange?
Gita, the clematis is "Josephine"
Donner, the shrub is Mock Orange.
They are so ugly they freak me out just looking at them, now you tell me this. Holy Cow! I am getting that spray out now.
Everything's growing like Crazy!!! We're getting our first bloom on the Agave!! The Lamium never looked like this! The smoke bush is smoking (it's partner on the other side of the driveway never smokes). I thought somehow I missed the Kousa Dogwood's blooms, but it is just happening now. We have the new fence in front of the air conditioners that I will put Honeysuckle and bushes (Red Wing Viburnum and Ghost Weigela) around. The Fencing was very inexpensive but pretty. 24.00 for each two sectioned piece, so this fencing cost us 48.00!!
