summer bubbler alternative.... and quick tour by request

hardcore gardeners usually have some kind of water feature and generally with some kind of pump for cycling the water.
3 days ago I had a wild hair and cut a sucker off my Peaches&Cream then put it through a loop of wire in my stock tank. Figured it was a BIG bubbler. She wilted at first like the others but perked up next day. Today (3rd day) I looked closely and the stem wasn't even in the water. It had curved and was just above but she was just as turgid as when still attached to mom. I repositioned and will let her go till I see nubs. Next test is to lay one in the tiered bird bath fountain.

Now for a quick tour of a neophyte bruggie's garden....
This is a wide shot of the "New" summer bubbler. I have other ideas for floating cuttings in the tank.

along the east side of the house

one of the Dr. Seuss got skanked up with mites in the hoop house before getting planted. He's got a second bloom opened tonight.

Under the bing cherries. I just potted put the 2nd Maya in a big pot just the other side of the weigela

You are so creative!!!! I love the way your yard looks.

I have chosen critters over plants. One of them is always digging, or laying on or in my plants. I suppose it's a good thing I have so many, plants that is!!!

Please keep us posted on how your cutting does.

Judy

this is zoomed in but in the foreground, there are now 5 brugaddict seedlings in 5 gal pots sunk in the shredded leaf pile various other trees and stuff I don't know where or have room to plant.

Over the garlic bed to the hoop house. There's a peony (left over from a 2003 plant swap held at my house) that's about to bloom. It like the company.

I expanded this center bed by a couple of feet and planted one of the Maya's, snowbank, 3 of Brugaddict's unk palePinkxAdora crosses and 2 new Zephrine Drouhin's on the end.

This was a couple of days ago and they act like they don't even know they got transplanted.

Peaches and Cream that now has 6 open tonight. She is my favorite so far except there's no real fragrance. The sucker at the bottom is what's in the stock tank now and I cut it off right after taking this picture. That's Golden Lady on the bottom to the left and 2 blooms are opening tonight. Just behind PC with the big green leafs... actually a "seedling" I started from Brugie In Feb. It's starting new growth since being transplanted and is already approaching 5'.

This is fun. Got two tours tonight without having to get in the car. It'd be quite a drive to get there
Mary

One of my seedlings in a 1/2 barrel in the lower left. Otherwise.... more pre-brug yardscape

It was a quick coffe tour and when Harlot, Lamour and the others that are all budded up start blooming with more than one flower, I'll post a true BRUG tour.

We can't all be in the sacred CA and FL zones where they stay inground year round. are 12 foot tall trees with 20hundred blooms.... and oh yeah, I might have to dig up and throw away 50 today just to make room for new ones. ;)

This is one of my stupid-non-brug sedum... which I love. :)

Sorry I posted in the middle.... I thought you were finished.

Judy

ok, the Snow Angel Heuchera is cutsy too!

This message was edited Jun 7, 2005 6:29 AM

fine by me Judy... post in the middle or show up at the driveway anytime!! Get a sniff, have a drink and talk shop. I like gardening visitors. :)

Oh wow Blaine!! Your place is wonderful! I agree... 2 tours in one night is perfect! Your Peaches and Cream looks yellow?! Just an outstanding yard!

You may not live in California, but your plants sure do not know it. Each bed is better then the next. Each plant is perfectly groomed and lush.

I may have the weather but I do not have the room. Most of my plants are in containers, including my brugs. I am so ground envious. Wait, next year you will be drowning in brugs!

So now I have a new must have plant also. Your Snow Queen Heuchera is calling my name. Funny, I have been noticing these plants for awhile now, all the great variety. But I have not seen a white one around here. Would you please take a close up for me? THANKS

In picture 8, what is the rusty colored bush next to your Zephirine Drouhin? And how did your Zephirine Drouhin's roses get so huge if they are new??? Nosy people want to know. LOL And if you can, I would love a close up of that rose.

THANKS THANKS THANKS. I really loved your tour.

Hey Blaine...where is the photo of you in the Green mu'umu'u and the brewski?

I had a bed of garlic once...and my FAVorite thing to do was to cut off the buds when they were at the Russian Orthodox Church Dome phase and put them, en masse in a tall vase. HTG..they would change form at least every 12 hours,...twist, turn...I first thought it was light (they were inside) but it wasn't....fresh air? Really cool. Cut 2 and 3' stalks and let them move!!!

Beautiful Garden!!! Talk about a season/zone warp!!!

Carol

What a sight, so well planned and organized, not to mention well tended, groomed, healthy and surely must be this side of heaven, it's so beautiful, it doesn't look real, if I lived there I'd never leave home. Of course, the bubbler is super and I love the water feature idea, but I really loved your clear glass bubbler inside that you posted earlier, I will try both, and report. Thank you for the tour of your garden, it's a work of art!!!

Shelly - thanks.

Kell - I got fatfingered on that heuchera. I had a memory jog from a comment scoot made and actually I believe she's Snow "Angel". Just looked for a tag but tag is gone and it's one I haven't made a metal marker for. The big rose just starting to bloom on 7/3... that's 'Autumn Damask' I've babbled about before. The ZD's are little green splotches right on the corners of the bed. The rusty colored bush is actually the flowers from a tall columbine

Carol - sounds fun but in my main garlic bed, they don't bolt. But I've stuck heads around various other places, they crowded and send up seed heads. I'll have to try it. didn't have anyone take a pic in the mumu .... yet

Sherry - the 'glass' bubbler is actually a soda bottle with the top cut off. :) Trust me... nothing is perfect around here. deadheading is something I've very bad about putting off especially when everything starts popping like they are now.

requested pics coming...

shelly, here's a close up of the peaches and cream. They are a chiffonish (can I say that?) yellow when they first open but then get peachy

kell - close up of the columbine that looks rusty from a distance

closer shot of the Snow Angel heuch

tighter shot of the Autumn Damask around the windmill.
Whats neat is look back at # 8 that was taken on 7/3. Now four days later it's loaded. AND I've ticked her off again. I went over the whole yard with the first foliar feeding of the season and splashed her so she's dropping leafs. So's that white Souvenier De Philemon Cachet.

Here's a different angle of the Autumn Damask on the Windmill.
Ahhh, if you could just stand there this morning.... no wind so that amazing rose fragrance just envelopes you

Here's the Harlot I mentioned. Loaded up and luckily not as short as the GL in the next shot.

You have me totally committed to :bubbling" this fall - i out grew my GH the first year. Your gardens are lovely and lush; hoping to have mine at their best July 4th for my big do 80 th B'day for DH. going out to them right now, while it's cool.

Three out of 5 diff varieties of clematis have started blooming. This is around the trunk of the street tree

Blaine all the pictures of your gardens is totally amazing! What the heck are you feeding your brugs to get them so big and lush and green and flowering. Boy do I have a way to go compared to you.

kell, I just picked up a couple of the Snow Angel Heuch at a plant sale so I can send you one.

:) Donna

Congrats Polly on the 80th!!! I've figured if I see 65, anything else will be extra credit.

Donna - they've just been on blue water at different intensities since I started with cuttings in the basement this winter. That and the occaisional fish emulsion and now outside in ground some beer, amonia, urea (ok, my garage pee jug gets dumped in the mix now and then), epsom salts and alfalfa meal. Basically just a hit or miss varied diet dependant on how involved Bud is in the mixing that afternoon.

Well I'm sure not going to tell DH about the pee jug. He would happily contribute to it.

Okay so it's a secret...lol.
:) Donna

Wow. Beautiful yard, Blaine. I agree with Kell, looks like you live in California with all those blooms.

Blaine, Just absolutely fabulous garden. Everything looks so happy and healthy.. Is Dr Seuss in the ground or a large pot. I thoroughly enjoyed the garden tour. Thanks. DonnaS

Good job Blaine, you are just so creative. I love the summer bubbler, what a cleaver idea. I wish I could keep things that neat. Thanks for the tour.

DonnaS, Dr. S is in the ground. Set buds but still pretty cheesey foliage. He was hanging out in the back of the HH with some goofey suavs that had a spider mite party. You know, they never touched Peaches and Cream that was right by them. ??

Blaine, your place looks great. The Midwest has some great soil and conditions for growing awesome plants and we don't have to put up with all the traffic in California to have it. I feel good about that. LOL! When is the tour, or is it over? Can't wait to see the next round of pictures.

Your yard is fantastic. Everything is so neat and healthy looking, not even one hole in your brug leaves. Mine are so critter eaten that they are downright ugly. Do you spray everything to keep it looking so healthy?

You are so hot, Blaine. LOL. I just love it all. But your Autumn Damask is the best!! How often does she flush for you? And PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE post Harlot when she opens.
thanks

Thanks for the close-up of PNC. This is just so neat!