Great pics anyway. I love Olympic Fire too. I have been waiting to find the right place to put one in.
SPRING 2013 #3
It's a stunner, Rosemary. You will love it. I made the mistake of putting mine in front of our barn -red shed, and the flowers would stand out a lot more in front of a lighter backdrop.
Oh, sweetie girls.....they look so innocent! I agree...that laurel is beautiful. Tried to get photos of alkanet & Rocky Mt. penstemon, but they're not very good....so here's some foxglove, very tall this year & Morden Blush taking over my garden.......and the dreaded campula which will be yanked out as soon as blooms finish......
I love that moutain laurel too!!.. Louise!!!
campula spreads too quick?.. it is pretty
Yes, it takes over....I have already ripped it out once this year.....have just as much left!
I had a campanula with bells along the stem.It choked out lilies the roots were so thick.Deadheading didnt work so this year I sprayed in very early May before the lilies emerged.I killed :
Lilies
Clematis
and Campanulas.
Note to myself and everyone Dont ever use Ortho Weed Killer.Its worse than Round-up.
I wonder if the white form of the globe shaped campanula is also aggressive. They bloom with the peonies, so I've been planting them to offset the bright colors.
Talk about aggressive. Desperate to provide an evergreen screen at the back of our property, I have planted three small "devilwood," the American form of Osmanthus. Even the name sounds scary. Hardy kiwi on the fence.
Some campanula is well-behaved.....I find most are short-lived perennials....except of course for the nasty ones that have the underground runners.......Devilwood sounds ominous....photos?
Bought Grass-B-Gon yesterday. Can't use according to the directions as rain is coming. anyone have experience with it?
No, but let me know how it works...sounds great!
We had the pretty, short blue campanula, and for years it kept coming up between the bricks on our back patio. Then, all of a sudden it stopped coming back. I sort of missed it.
Love hardy kiwi, have a few fruits this year
still waiting for fruit here - your lucky deb!
Yeah, all 6 of them if the birds don't get them first
Rosemary, thanks! afraid I don't know any peony names, except Festiva Maxima, which is a white one. They are all ones my late mother planted, and most of them have no tags. I know one is Raspberry Sundae, but it wasn't pictured in that group.
Jo, your gardens are looking fabulous! I love the Gull's Wing sib. Beautiful! Is that Early Light phlox a paniculata type (tall garden phlox)? I didn't know any of them bloomed that early. It's very pretty.
Jen, pic of the ladybug is fabby! The lilies at your place look fantastic! That Happy Returns looks great with the rose campion.
Nice at your place, Louise. I love the clem and the mountain laurel.
Marilyn, your roses look beautiful!
I'm still doing lilies. Here are a bunch of asiatics that have been blooming their heads off. They are looking fantastic this year! Some lily beetles here, but they don't seem to be too bad this year.
Karen
Karen: which asiatic is that?
Sorry, but I don't have a name for that one. It was one my late mother planted, and there was no tag with it.
Karen
Lovely lilies by any names, Karen.
Photos of natural garden coming later, including devilwood sprigs.
WOW Karen that is just stunning!!!!
pups are wiped out, huh? I can't get campanula to grow here for the life of me
Here's one of the little devilwood trees and a little background for where it is going. The part I don't want to hide is this historic house dating probably from 1680 or so. Some of the natives I planted include an Atlantic rhodi and a snowberry
Some pretty new viburnums are in the ground: v Brandywine, maple leaf viburnum, an evergreen viburnum hybrid, and Dart's Duke leather leaf viburnum
Other fairly recent additions: longstalk holly, lindodendron tree in case the ashes die, witch hazel 'Aphrodite' with a bears foot hele, 'Fourth of July' maxi rhodi hybrid is blooming in deep shade, and the Canadian amelancher seems to survive the winter moths.
A few peonies are surviving. Nick Shaylor picks itself up and Solo Flight seems to cross the Atlantic. Daphne smells great, and NE woodaster grows wild with the sundrops
Hydrangeas
Very pretty colors, Jen. Nice that yours are out already.
Bumble on butterfly weed that was supposed to be 'Cinderella' which is pink, doesn't look pink to me!!!, surprise Coreopsis stowed away in a pot of Forget me Nots, bunch of DLs, Dianthus Zing Rose, Coreopsis Cosmic Evolution
I have to get some peonies, I love them!
Can't wait to see how all your new shrubs fill in
Karen, the lilies have made a grand statement......Rosemary, love the rhodos...I also have Nick Shaylor, just starting to bloom. Jen, love that purple hydrangea.....
Rosemary, those are some lovely additions! What fun to see them "grow up"!
Jen, nice cheerful colors! You HAVE to have some peonies!
Karen, your Mom's lily clump is fabulous, and you have done a great job with the surrounding area. Nice!
I know these peonies for Jen will come out all stretched from my ipad, but I have to post them anyway. 😁
LOVE all the peonies!!!
Nick Shaylor looks like it ought to smell nice, but it is scentless. I want more peonies too, especially some later ones to stretch out the season. Thanks for looking at the shady areas in their "before" state.
When one doesn't have that deep red, as in Karen's lilies, it leaves a hunger.
Rosemaryk;
Love the deep red lily remark.So true.
Everyone's pictures are wonderful--peonies are addictive, I want every one I see... Clematis are like that, too, and roses are next. And Lilies. LOL. Not my fault, can't be helped... Flowajen, you have hydrangeas already?! Love the greens!
Woodland plantings are so peaceful...
This weekend I finally caught up enough to relax about what's left to do. There are plenty of chores and projects left, but all the must-be-dones are either done or edited out. Entrance planters filled, beans, squash, nasturtiums planted, fence up around the tender greens, Blue Garden well started, Standard PG Hydrangea that Sandy felled replaced, and its bed refurbished with a new scheme. Seedlings, co-op and trade plants either planted or potted up. Etc, etc, etc.
All sorts of things are popping... A Martagon Lily has its first bloom (1), Lush Lupines (2,3), Rose What a Peach (4), overview.
Lots of Captain Jack's Spinosad seems to be keeping the lily beetle population down, hope it works on the Japanese ones too. Maybe this year I'll get more than one flush on some of them...
Looks great, love the lupines! that's another one on my list
So lovely, Pam! The garden view would make me happy to wake up every morning. It is the restraint in the design that lets each plant group shine. I can't quite make out what the shrubs are that tumble a bit over the closest retaining wall (personal interest). Can you tell me?
The gardens are looking grand, Pam.....you've gotten a lot done.....what's in the blue garden other than lupins & siberian iris?
Loverly!!!
The blue garden in embryo... It all started because of the Platycodons a friend gave me 2 years ago, dug up from her garden in the middle of the summer because she couldn't make the color ' fit in.' I took them home, one looked like it wouldn't make it, but the other kept right on blooming. I fell in love with them then. Then last year they both came up strong and glorious, but much to my dismay, I realized that they didn't fit in there either. :-(. Too close to red, red roses, and lots of purple on the other side. Yikes! So this year I moved them to their own section far away, the trellis garden started last summer with a very different idea in mind.
Blues recede, and these are farther from the house, so I have to figure that out, I know. Meanwhile, I've been just stuffing that area with everything blue I come across: Ceanothus Marie Bleu, Veronica Sunny Border Blue, Dracocephalum, both annuals and perennials, even Lobelia Crystal Palace, the blue-blue one. I also have a bunch of blue flowering trade plants in pots, waiting to see how it all looks together before planting in the ground. Jekyll and Hobhouse say pale yellow and cream make blues pop, maybe other pastels that don't just make them look dark...
Just another Work in Progress, lol...
very pretty I must find some gallardia. (spelling?)
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