This is one of the Brugaddict seedlings getting ready.
summer bubbler alternative.... and quick tour by request
Pat Austin pouring it on. This is her 2nd year in a container... in zone 5 no less
Butterfly has been stinking up the yard real good the last week.
Camera was goofy here and washed out was hit with the bright morning sun. I tried darkening it a bit. But it really is all rosy red pink.
Smells soooo good
Some late lilies - was actually some freebies with another order a couple of years ago and I never tagged them. Drop dead gorgeous and will romance the nose. :)
Gosh your lily and your rose are so beautiful Blaine.
You sure have a way with seedlings. So what was the cross you got from Julie?
Blaine, you pushed my button. What are the "Brug tricks" you learned? So, when do you think they have to be sprouted by to bloom the first year? I am so curious because we are the same zone and I don't get near the blooming you do. Trying to figure out what you do that I don't. Jeanette
Beautiful pictures, Blaine.
Pale Pink x Adora from Julie.
Jeanette - really, I just rushed head long into brugs and treated them like anything else. So when Brugie sent me those seeds ( had about 40!!) I planted them twice as deep as their thickness. I was lucky to have 2 sprout! 'Brug Tricks' - just the helpful hints from Brugie and Renee when I first started and what I've picked up on the forum and other venues of research. Like boiling water through the potting soil first, press the seeds down but not buried and cover with saran or something till they sprout under lights.
My limited knowledge was that they got big and had to reach a certain size before they'd bloom. So as soon as I got my first rooted cuttings I fed and watered like it was Jul. Soon as the seeds sprouted, I pushed as hard as I could. Of course that growth finally pushed me into getting a hoop house this year. Since hanging around here, it seems most folks don't start encouraging any growth till Feb. So basically I got 2-3 month jump. It worked, so I'm doing it again this year. I had my first blooms in the basement.
Those pic's are so beautiful, thanks for sharing the beauty and your knowledge. I always enjoy getting on DG. Very interesting and entertaining. gini
Good morning Gini!!
It was a beautiful cool morning with no wind. Now if I'd use a tripod we wouldn't have the caffeine/nicotine fuzz. :)
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Becky Towe, yucca and stuff. Still like this so thought I'd put up another.
One of the new dahlias this year has bloomed. Not sure which one - yokohama squash is taking over the area.
PC has great timing. Yet another flush opening for the weekend.
The bruiser in the middle is a Brugie seedling sprouted 1/29. Maybe now that it's head is over the roof and it gets to watch the sun head west it'll start setting bud.
The solidgreen at the base is GL (thanks Renee for the Feb cutting) that after the first 2 low flushes decided to try and catch Brugie.... sheesh - always gotta be a competition.
There's Snowbank on the left. One of the Maya experiments on the right and setting bud and they're intermingled with some of the seedlings started from Julie's cross.
Back for perspective. That's Dr. Seuss back there with a nice flush of buds about to open. He's one of the skanks that I stomped into the shredded leaf compost pile out of disgust this spring. HG is over on the right contemplating life. The rest of the green obscuring the pile are a couple of volunteer tomatoes from last year and they seem to think life's pretty good as well. In front... another volunteer sunflower - placement courtesy of my Goldfinch fall deadheading crew.
Different angle of Dr.Seuss back from the dead.
The only lavendar that survived along the street. I had envisioned the length of this bed with lavendar mixed in with the sedum. Guess it'll be too wet in the winter with the snow plowed onto them. Sedum sure don't care.
Fuzzy pic of Double Delight in the garlic bed but she was all lit up in the morning sun.
last for today
I was shocked in a local garden center the other day to find Metasequoia Glyptostroboides- Dawn Redwood 'Gold Rush'. This is a yellow leafed version. Me and 'Bud' will have to do some planning on where she'll go but I couldn't pass the sale at 29.99! I had gotten a smaller one 4 years ago from Wayside for $65 and accidentally nuked it 2 years later waging chemical warfare on a windy day. The Blainer bones it up again. :)
Oh Dear, I didn't realize I needed to get so many things, but now that I've seen their existance, I must have Becky Towe, a goldrush dawn redwood, Sambucus Sutherland's Gold, more Dalia's, and have already done a search on all of them to learn more. Your garden is just amazing :)
I know that is is off topic, but I've been a member for a while and I don't know how to create my own "wish list" on Daves. Could someone please lead me in the right direction? :) It would be good to compile a shopping list to take with me to nurseries and say, Okay, whatcha got off this here list?? Thanks!!
Susan
Susan, sorry I don't know how to. But then I want everything so I have no need for a list LOL
As your usual Blaine, just incredible pics.
But tell me does your Gold Rush Redwood grow as big as the regular one? How will you than have room for anything else? I was at a dinner party the other night at a friends and I took a walk down the street to admire a beautiful Dawn Redwood. It was huge and so beautiful. I loved touching the leaves. I took a pic from the inside up. It took up their whole front yard.
Boy Kell, you just taught me something. I always thought redwoods had needles And you say leaves. I can't tell from your picture. I sure do wish you had gotten a close up of a leaf. We in Washington don't have them and though I went to Claifornia several times many, many years ago and never looked at them up close.
Jeanette
8ft. your garden looks so great, you must work a lot of hours to keep those flowers blooming, and healthy, like you this winter I will have a lot to do, taking cuttings and starting over but with just the Brugs I want to keep, sure can't keep them all.
Doris
Jeannette - the Dawn Redwood does have 'needles' and it's a conifer. But unique (well along with cypress) that it's a deciduous conifer. From a distance they do look like flat needles but are oh so soft to the touch AND in the fall they pretend they are Sugar Maples and go to shades of burnt orange and yellow then drop all of their little needles.
Kell - did you take note on that? Go back to that tree this fall for the color change. It's very cool. Yes, being a Dawn Redwood means it's known to reach 100' in the wild. However comma I've realized I can plant magnificent long lived trees like this because their mature size will be never be an issue. I'll be comfortably taking a dirt nap long before they reach young adulthood, let alone become a mature specimen. Is that tricky or what? heeheeheee.. Have you checked the ages on Ginko Bilobas recently? almost hurts to try and count that high.
Susan - I don't know either. Guess you could snoop around in the FAQs or post the question in the Daves Garden forum.
yeah Doris, if I put all the hours end-to-end I'd probably quit. But I think you know that it really comes down to being consistent and working around the yard in cycles. Even if I happen to be raising the stock of the brewing companies while doing it, I figure that time has to be a better investment than getting bedsores laying around watching tv all afternoon and weekends. :)
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That is what I say to my husband when he complains that he has to spend so much time doing MY hobby. I tell him think how fat we would be if we weren't gardening!
Very good attitude :)
Susan
Three years ago, my cousin took us to a 'small' redwood forest, near San Fran - it was breathtakingly beautiful but a little too Hansel and Gretel-ish for me, I was always scared to death of fairy tales and corn fields...
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