Love that Trollius, Jen.
GP, the delphinium is a 'Blue Magic' or 'Blue Magic Fountain', I think :o). I bought a pack of 2 roots last year. One didn't make it, but this one bloomed last year and is bigger this year. Encouraging :o).
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Bloomin In June
Love the Delphinium, Donner. I have lots from seed, but they never do as well as the ones that I buy. Maybe this year. Is your Lavender from seed? I have a few seedlings of Munstead and Ellagance Sky that I'm hoping will get well established.
Jen, the Lily is awesome!
Look, Judy, lots of happy pots!! Two Peony. Gita's Brazilian Plume Flower (needs more time to bloom). There are quite a few not so pretty containers hidden among the Vinca in the last picture.
Roses---
I bet your Plume will bloom soon! Mine hasn't bloomed yet either--but it id huge--and it spent the winter
in my house in s0-so light.
It prefers part shade outside--not sitting in sun.....in case you are not aware of this.
Holly's is already in full bloom--but she said it was in the GH all winter....
I like the first Peony--I don't often see the ones with the 'open" center---mine are all the pom-pom shapes.
Gotta run............Gita
Here's my B. Plume--just took this,,,it is pretty big!
I found this on my walk this morning. I know you guys are into peonies just now but I thought this was pretty different and I wanted to share it with you. I would guess it is a siberian???
Gita, just moved mine to some sun.
My first Poppy ever! The Iris that Jen takes a picture of when she comes. Rose gardens starting to look good. Put the Sombreuil Climber and Clematis back up after being blown off the little arbor.
Finally have a Digitalis! (from Gita last year) And there's the potted Dicentra in the pot, (from Wind, I think. I'll go back and check)
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RRR, my lavender is not from seed. I like the cute flower heads and buy one every year. This particular variety isn't terribly hardy. I have never had one that survived the winter in my garden.
I love Delphiniums and buy some every year -- just got another one from the HD this week. I have also grown D. 'Blue Mirror' and 'Blue Butterfly' from seed. They are easy to grow from seed, and they normally bloom the first year. However, they never seem to come back the following year. Delphiniums are short lived perennials, but a couple of years seems to be too short. The one in the photo has lived longer than any one I have had.
Delphiniums do not like hot summers very much. I have to give them some shade.
Roses, your vinca bed is perfect for my style of 'container' gardening! Wonder what else you will hide there? Sometimes I 'stage' plants and trees and bushes in an area before I plant them for a year or so, to get a feel for the long term before I commit. Like trees/shrubs along the house wall with shorter bushes plants in front of them and a little color from pots of lilies. By George, I think she's got it!
In my 'bed' of variegated vinca: honeysuckle and itea (white flowers), a fragrant combo. Sorry, Jen, have been unable to ID this particular honeysuckle. Maybe someone could tell me how to grow cuttings so I can share at Swaps.
Judy
Donner, I have some D. Blue Mirror blooming in my backyard right now--it is really striking how blue it is. The Blue Magic looks similar.
Here some bloomers..I saw that my fringed bleeding heart is still blooming. It kind of struck me because it has been out for a while. Perhaps being burried in their monster cousin the regular bleeding heart has motivated them to put on a show.
The only one I have a name for is the first, pink octopus. Not too much right now. I have three deciduous azaleas that are swelling up right now, r. oblongforium, lemon drop, and a TBD. I'm looking forward to seeing them open.
LOVE your pink Azalea, Paul! Very pretty flower.... G.
Thanks Gita, it is a nice one. Lots of buds yet to come. You have space for shrub. Should I root you one or two or six?
Don't think I have anywhere to plant a new shrub. Wish I did.....
You've been here....any ideas?
Do you realize that i already have FIVE Azaleas here???
The two big white ones--the Koromo--the pretty salmon one in the small front bed-
--and a pink one squished between my Camellia and the old Yew. It's been there forever--and is doing OK.
Next to bloom around here will be all the oriental Lilies...
One is already open.....the first!
Yea I was kidding. I'd have to examine it again with the intentions of placing a shrub.
JB, Love that Iris. Yellow water iris and another iris not sure what it is.
More new flowers this morning. May be others, but we had to run and returned late. Perhaps more in the morning.
All-whiteTradescantia
Fingerhut Foxglove - Digitalis thapsi 'Spanish Peaks'
Salvia nemorosa 'Sensation Rose'
Waxy Meadow Rue - Thalictrum revolutum, an interesting native plant.
'Gold Flame' Japanese Spirea
David, The meadow rues are very interesting I agree. Thanks for the picture!
Digitalis thapsi 'Spanish Peaks' is just gorgeous.
White things in the garden always mix well with everything else. Love your Tradescantia, David.
I, too, love that white Tradescantia. The Waxy Meadow Rue has interesting flowers.
David---
Your Digitalis thapsi blooms almost look like the S. African Fixglove's.
If you have seen (on the post-Swap discussion) the pictures of the plant that
I thought was the purple aster from my neighbor--cound you ID it for me/us?
Five people got it. And it is NOT what I was told it is. It came from my Pakistani neighbor--and she
made me believe it was an Aster.
SO! here are a couple pictures. What is this plant?
Thanks, Gita
Gita - I just answered on the other thread, but I'll also post my reply here:
"I believe that the mystery plant that Gita posted is Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, a lovely plant but dreaded destroyer of wetlands in New England."
I have seen places where there is a sea of purple covering acres and acres, displacing all the native flora and associated wildlife.
Coreopsis Jethro tull
Iris Raku Rogue, Pink Octopus, Red Hot Poker,
1 is hosta guacamole. I didn't know they bloomed this early.
2 is lychnis alpina seeds from critter that I wintersowed last year.
3 is a ground cover azalea. First time it's bloomed so nicely for me.
4 is sedum Angelina.
5 is creeping Jenny. I didn't know it had such pretty blooms.
Here is the link from PF on "Lythrum salicaria"
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1655/
Read the memnber comments. While many of them are negative==they all seem to be carbon copies of each other.
The below POSITIVE comment seems to take the other side. You will have to decide what to do.
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On Oct 1, 2005, gregr18 from Bridgewater, MA (Zone 6b) wrote:
A beautiful marginal plant that has unjustifiably become a favorite scapegoat of the so-called "bioinvasionists".
This plant doesn't destroy ecologies, it changes them. Despite the protestations of a vocal minority, ecologies are not fixed entities. Changes in ecologies, whether facilitated by humans or not, are inevitable. Ice Age(s), anyone? With that in mind, this plant has become integrated into many, usually heavily disturbed, biota, does not form monocultures, and does not create "ecological deserts". Its conspicuous blooms, instead of being appreciated, have become a signal of an ecological disaster that simply does not exist.
Purple Loosestife is highly opportunistic, and mainly flourishes in areas in which human activity has created a niche for it. The problem is not the plant, but the activities that have led to the plants' growth. A simple review of studies from the 1950s and 1960s (one study predicted that it would ruin the nesting sites of Canada Geese) will show that not one of the ecological distasters predicted due to this plant's expansion have come true, that its main sin is that it grows in areas that have been disturbed for economic reasons, and that it interferes with those economic aims.
The sad thing is that this beautiful plant is maligned because it is supposedly a "non-native invasive" in the US. The term is non-scientific and arbitrary, the product of a 1950s ideology that essentialy implies that the "native" ecology of North America was fixed at the time of the earliest European settlement. Some more sophisticated ideologues will point to geological sampling to extend the window a little further back, but the point is irrelevent since geological changes over the millenia have shifted the environment, and hence the plants that will grow in the environment, radically, even as recent as 11,000 years ago. While it is likely that the plant came in with the ballast of a transoceanic liner early in the 19th century, or was brought over as an ornamental, it can't possibly be determined for sure. If the plant had been dispersed by a bird or other "natural" means in 1437 or 1557, it would simply be considered "invasive", another meaningless term that implies that all plants that spread quickly are ecologically dangerous. Since that is likely not the case, many states waste millions of dollars trying to eradicate purple loosestrife, destroying many "native" flora and fauna in the process. If the desire strikes you, pull it up; until ecological conditions change, this plant will keep taking advantage of opportunities to spread. In the meantime, enjoy its beautiful purple blooms, and don't worry about the collapse of any ecologies.
Gita, the position that Lythrum salicaria doesn't destroy ecologies is an absurdity, but it does indeed change them (despite what your writer claims), from a diverse community of fauna and flora to a plant monoculture and the loss of much of the wildlife associated with the previously existing flora. The human activity responsible for this plant is its introduction. It flourishes in wetland areas, which are not opportunities created by humans. I have personally seen large areas of wetland completely taken over by this plant. A ten year replacement of an ecosystem by a single species in not comparable to a gradual, ten thousand year change in an ecosystem due to climate shift. Much of that post is a well-written repudiation of a host of observations , studies, etc and in my opinion is of the same distain for factuality as "legitimately raped women don't get pregnant" "sea level isn't rising" "the holocaust did not happen" etc.
For those of us who live in Maryland, it is worth taking heed of what the Maryland extension service says: "Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria, L. virgatum). Also called purple plague, this European perennial’s purple flower stalks grow up to 4 feet. One plant produces over a million seeds. Can regenerate from root or stem pieces. Often marketed as sterile, it is not entirely. Useless to wildlife, loosestrife takes over entire marsh habitats and has destroyed millions of wetland acres. CONTROL: Hand-pull small plantings before they flower. (They can flower and set seed at the same time.) Do not dig. Root bits regenerate. Bag, burn, or landfill. Treat large plants with glyphosate formulated for wetlands. Treat again as needed for a few years until seed bank is exhausted." http://www.hgic.umd.edu/_media/documents/publications/hg88.pdf.
On a different subject -- on the last thread -- http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1313971/ -- I asked you to help me identify a plant that was described to me as Liriope Licorice. When I researched it, I couldn't find a plant by that name. I reported it as silvery rather than striped. I was wrong -- it is striped. I finally downloaded the photos. Any guesses as to its identity, now that I can show a photo?
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Another question: The Brookside Gardens park I went to last weekend had tagged its trees with tags like the one in the photo (I know, I photo'd the wrong side of the tag). My question to you: What technology did they use to stamp the information on the tag? It looks a lot nicer than my scratched tags.
Happy, perhaps your mystery plant is Liriope spicata 'Silver Dragon' http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/37006/ . As for your question about the plant tag, you need to upload a photo.
that's the same Liriope I suggested on the previous thread
there is just a basic "variegated" but it's not as pretty
I remember you suggesting that flowAjen, but I bullheadedly recalled it as a full or blotched silver rather than striped. But with the photo, I am sure you are both right! I wonder why the owner recalled it as licorice?
greenthumb -- I thought I had posted the stamped tag -- here it is.
Regarding that liriope, is that one much of a "runner"? I'm a little cautious about introducing those to my yard....
Happy, here is a link to a stamper for plates like the ones at Brookside. My guess is that they have sufficient funds that the one they use is computer driven rather than manual. http://shortorderproducts.com/Metal_Stamping_Pages/ms_ab_Model_40/ms-ab_Model_40.htm
Oh. Well. Thanks. Sigh.
On second thought, I think my scratchy labels look pretty good!
OK---Moment of truth.....
Greenthumb--
Do you recommend that all of us that got this" Loosestrife" just pull it up and get rid of it???
I do not have a problem doing this---sadly.--but if it has to be done--it will be done...
More so because I live in "White Marsh". Aptly named--as this whole area is a bit Marshy--
here and there. There's a White Marsh Run (a stream/river) that meanders throughout this area.
Perhaps you could post the serious waning on the "After Swap Questions and Chat Thread. "
I would consider it a favor on my behalf.
Wanted to post a picture of the leaves of my New England Aster. Very similar--NO?
Thanks, Gita
I'll re-post coleup's informative post from another thread on this forum:
Purple loosestrife Virginia and Pennsylvania
Purple loosestrife, hybrids and cultivars are regulated as noxious weeds in Virginia (§3.1-296.11 et seq.) and Pennsylvania (3 P.S. 255.1 et seq.), but are not listed in Maryland (Dick Bean pers. comm.). The Virginia law declares it illegal to move, transport, deliver, ship or offer for shipment into the state. The Pennsylvania law prohibits sale, transport, planting and propagation. Although it is legal to sell L. salicaria in Maryland, individual nurseries have voluntarily discontinued its sale as a potted plant (Dick Bean pers. comm.).
http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/issues/restoration/non-natives/works...
Maryland
ttp://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/Plants_Wildlife/PurpleLoosestrife/
"Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) is a highly invasive non-native plant that threatens significant portions of Maryland's marsh, swamp, and coastal habitats. By crowding out native wetland species, purple loosestrife can reduce biodiversity, eliminate food sources for marsh animals and change water flow patterns.
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in partnership with the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the State Highway Administration (SHA), has begun a program to identify, treat, and ultimately eradicate purple loosestrife within our state. We need your help in order to make this effort a success."
Because Maryland does not have the huge infestations of purple loosestrife that New York, New Jersey or Minnesota do, we have a realistic chance of controlling this invader before it spreads widely and does extensive damage to our Chesapeake Bay wetlands. Other parts of the country have been fighting its spread for decades, sometimes with great success, while in other areas purple loosestrife has been able to dominate.
We plan to search for the plant, identify it, report and map its locations, and use one of three methods to reduce or completely remove infestations. That’s where you can help!
We are training Maryland residents who spend time outdoors in habitats where purple loosestrife may grow to recognize the plant and report its locations to DNR using an on-line or paper reporting form. Those who take photographs in the field are also encouraged to photograph the Purple Loosestrife they have located and include these in your report.
When those locations are mapped and assessed, we will control the populations -- removing them by hand, by careful use of safe herbicides or by releasing a beetle that eats only purple loosestrife.
"Don’t grow this plant in your garden!
For many years, we thought that there were sterile cultivated varieties of purple loosestrife. But researchers have found that seemingly sterile cultivars will cross pollinate with other cultivars or with purple loosestrife growing in the wild, and can produce pollen or seed. Garden plantings of purple loosestrife can thus add to the spread of this invasive plant. There are a number of native and non-invasive landscape plants, like salvia or gayfeather, that can replace purple loosestrife in the garden."
Read more: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1315579/#ixzz2VTtYCxan
Took some more photos this morning before the rains moved in:
Penstemon 'Red Rocks'
Thalictrum dasycarpum
Green Dragon - Arisaema dracointium
Lillium cernuum
Allium caeruleum
Thalictrum and dasycarpum are wild!!! Keep them coming.
Thank you Greenthumb---
I will print the information out and pass it on to my two neighbors.
The Pakistani lady will not understand any of this--but maybe one of her daughters can translate
and make her understand.
Right now--her one "bush" is located in an edged area near the driveway.
She is so proud of it--and says how beautiful it is...I tried to explain "invasive" to her today
but did not get anywhere....
Again--here is where HER Loosestrife is located.
G.
