I've never seen it more than 18 inches high, usually shorter, and yes it is soft. Try the photos at this link: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/img/mivi1a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/mivi1.htm&h=281&w=180&sz=1&tbnid=1FzQZJSwHXmM8M:&tbnh=186&tbnw=119&zoom=1&usg=__zbnTrW2Jw7seXkJ3vX4BqvUZonM=&docid=p74aRd-FQp8h4M&itg=1&sa=X&ei=oO60UdPyNM354APe0YDwBw&ved=0CIEBEPwdMAo
Bloomin In June
The park side of the garden.
It's funny -- for some reason I expect the photos to convey the sense of softness, and how easy it is to pull out. But of course they can't. The photos make it look like the weed we have a ton of that might be in the Persicaria family -- it looks like the photos of Stilt Grass but the leaves are stiffer than what I now know to be Stilt Grass, and it gets cute tiny red flowers or berries -- I haven't looked closely - but it is all over the place now. I would have taken a look at it so I could write a better description but it is dark outside now....
Happy little red flowers/berries sounds more like Persicaria, as you said. Perhaps you can post a photo?
Spent the day at Longwood today
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I love your slide shows!
thanks!
Great pics, Jen. I actually let the show repeat.
Thanks Jen, You know I have been feeling like a trip lately maybe Ric and I will go down for a day. A nice little get away. Beautiful pictures.
Thank you for sharing the photos, Jen.
Thanks Jen. I can't believe I've never been yet!
Bloomin here:
Acanthus 'summer beauty' (reservered for Ric)
Hydrangea 'Doublicious"
Anytime anyone wants company at Longwood and I am available, I'd love to meet you there. Lve that place, so did my mom. One year I took her every season to get a feel for the place year round.
I would like to do that Jan....I still have to get there to see all the bulbs and later in the summer for all the wildflowers in the field, oh yeah and Christmas
Heehee. Let me know.
This is another of the red bougainvillea I have on the deck. Not sure where the container thread and do not have time to hunt it. Just wanted you to see how it has matured over this humid wet weather. I cut it back every year almost to the bottom.
JB, how do you store it over the winter?
In the greenhouse and just water it when everything else gets watered. I leave it outside until Frost. Cut it back and let it sit until it looks like it is getting new branches, since the blooms only on new branches then I feed it and talk to it. LOL
Ah, the talking to it. That's the key!
Sally and coleup---YOOOO-HOOOOO---!!!!
My "Stinking Iris" is blooming!!!! Nothing spectacular--kind of unnoticeable....
but I kept checking.... Please check yours too.
Here are the blooms---You can hardly spot them in the mess of all the leaves.....
G.
Besides THAT---I can share a few other blooms...
1--Campanula Elizabeth
2--Orange DL--I used to have quite a clump. Where did they go?
3--"Piilu" Clematis is still in full bloom...the WHOLE plant--covered.
4--Rose Campion--back of A/C bed
5--My Carpet Rose---surrounded by Ric's stones....
Gitagal, that rose campion is beautiful...if you happened to have some extra you wanted to get rid of I'd take it off your hands ;)
Sequoia--
It is a true biennial. Self seeds like crazy!
Once you have it--you will always have it--as the saying goes..
Love that on these pictures you do nor see the silvery stems and foliage--
just the magenta blooms,,,the just "pop" from a distance...
Jump over to D-mails and well take it from there....
Gita
Here's the whole bed...
The repeated torrential rains of the past few days have really beat up the plants and spattered them with debris. Even so, a few things have managed to just begin to bloom:
Lilium 'Graffiti'
Purple Milkweed - Asclepias purpurascens
Strawberry Foxglove - Digitalis mertonensis
Campanula 'Pink Octopus'
Oops! Here are the photos:
Greenthumb, my foxgloves are an ugly brown/black mess this year. They got some sort of a fungal infection the moment they started blooming. Your foxgloves are just gorgeous, though. I can't wait for my milkweed to bloom! Do they bloom the first year?
Terp, yes I'd love to try your purple foxglove seeds for next year! The ones I wintersowed this year are doing absolutely nothing. I think I might have fried them in the heat when I forgot to open up the dome during a heatwave.
Love that Graffiti!
Noid Lily, Lemon Drops, Red Hot Poker, Black Eyed Stella DL, Caladium 'Brandwine'
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL JEN.
Love the torch lily, Jen. It is a very cheerful plant for a full sun location. I started some from seed this year. The seeds were big and germinated easily, but only one seedling survived after my 3 week absence. Now it is about 4" tall :o).
That "Brandywine" is really very striking!
ss--
Most of my Foxgloves also got some kind of crud.
The leaves, up and down the whole plant, were pale green/yellow and all speckled.
The bloom stem came up and "bloomed"---very sickly. Never saw any seed pods forming.
Pulled all these up and trashed them. Too bad i did not take a picture of the crud to show you all.
Wonder what it was.....G.
Gita, it was almost enough for me to give up on foxgloves altogether. You wait 2 years for the pretty blooms, and then they just go pphhhttthhhhhtttthhph. :(
SSG--
Sprinkle any Foxglove seeds you have, maybe, by end of July.
They will come up and the little plants will survive the winter.
At this stage--you can dig them up and move them anywhere you want....
These small plants will grow fast next spring and bloom for you.
Gita
Storms have passed, at least for a day or two, and not everything is banged up or beat down. Got a few pics of new blooms.
Digitalis 'Pams Choice' - at our WV property
Anemone virginiana
Heart-leaved Skullcap - Scutellaria ovata
Adenophoria 'Amethyst'
Penstemon 'Pikes Peak Purple'
Pouring right now
1st Echi of the year, hydrangeas, and a no spot ladybug
Not sure if i already posted these---
My Carpet Rose grew huge this spring. it is quite old--I have had it, maybe, 20 years?
It used to be where my Knockout Rose now is. I moved it to a tight, little corner bed
in front of my tall, red perennial Hibiscus. Not much else there.....
BUT--it really filled out and now covers most of the bed....
--The whole carpet Rose--pretty!--with donner's Bunnera at the bottom right and Ric's rocks as edging.
--a close-up of the bloom clusters. These always bloom in clusters. the blooms are small--no more than 2".
--"Forever Susan" DL. Susan at work gave me this one....I sur won't forget its name!
--Stellas going to town. This is the corner of my "YUK" bed. You can't see it--
but I planted the Mock Orange in the very corner. The Heliopsis Daisies are just starting to bloom too.
--Davids yellow Foxglove--a bit bent out of shape with all these rains...
took a few photos today
lots of blooms
finally a bit of a rain break, but it's clouding over right now for what looks like another round of thunder storms!!
1) critter's caladium little miss muffit starting to grow!
2) yellow foxglove
3) ? forget the name of this groundcover
4) lollypop lilies
5) organic potatoes
Love those lollypop lilies!!!!
I love the blooms on the Potatoes--such a nice color contrast.
I have a few blooms to share too:
--Endless Summer Hydrangea--not yet fully open blooms
--Proteus Clematis--now putting out some 2nd blooms--ALL singles...
--Clivia--that did not bloom when the other one did. This is a different variety--
the tips of the leaves are rounded. The bloom color is a lot more intense...Love it!
Soon to come--my Red Epi (Ackermanii) is full of buds....will have blooms soon to show you.
This is the red one--not the spectacular, bright fuchsia one.
Brace yourselves for when all the daylilies pop! There are buds on all the clumps...
That's all for now. G.
Forever Susan
Netty's Pride
Noid
Not a positive id
Happy Returns with Rose Campion
