#15 - New garden: pond, seating area
What's Blooming in Canada part 3
I guess I should have waited...there were more treats to come. Ü
Don
And still more :-) #16 - Peony
#17 - Red Poppy (thanks echoes - these are from your seeds)
#18 - My garden watchdog :-)
#19 - Seating area under red maple
#20 - The length of my woodland garden in the front
Last #21 - Yarrow, new this year too
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Don
You're welcome - I'm glad you enjoyed them. --Ginny
Ginnylynn
wow! How was your "garden watchdog "made ?
that looks great !
Please share your secret
I really enjoy these visits and am tempted to copy some ideas
off to the store to follow up on some of the plants named !
Please feel free to copy away! I honestly believe that duplication is one of the highest forms of flattery :-)
My "garden watchdog" is actually a commercially available "Forest Face". Unfortunately, the only claim to fame I have with it is that I recognized a good spot to hang it on my tree. Just do a google search on "Forest Face" and you'll find a number of online storefronts you can purchase them from. You might even find stores in your area that carry them.
--Ginny
This is my forest face that I got at True Value hardware here in Sidney last year. They had trouble getting them in because they were so much in demand. I think you can get them at some of the garden centres too.
Glenda
More peonies blooming this week.
Coral 'n Gold
Cinncinati
This is an unknown - one I rescued from my aunts garden so it is very old.
The blooms seem to stay fresh longer than any others I have. It is a bit bent over just now because of some heavy rain.
Looking lovely Ginny, Glenda and Carol. Ü
Drooling over your Japanese Maple Ginny and am wondering if mine, growing in a pot, will ever attain that size? ;) Actually have a Sugar Maple potted too (poor thing but at least it isn't dying in a box at WalMart).
Hey Pam. We bought that Japanese Maple last fall at its current size, and its rootball was still wrapped in burlap. So I think if you give it a big enough pot, it will probably grow up big and strong too :-)
Thanks Ginny! Ü
Nice pictures, ginnylynn. I also love the "Forest Face". And the begonia, in particular.
fancyvan, looking at your peonies, I'm thinking that when we dig up and redo the window well beside which my peonies are located that maybe I should get some new ones. I like the Coral 'n Gold in particular.
Ann
Ann there are hundreds of peonies out there!Some of the new ones are really neat (I think) - look like genetic mutations!
Here's one I am going to order this fall.
It is called summer carnival.
If the bloom wasn't so short lived and alway getting bashed down by violent thunder storms in our climate, I think there would be another addiction coming on.
Ann
fancyvan were are you ordering it from, what a beauty i think i would like to get that one to.
http://www.peonygarden.com
I ordered from here last year - he is in Ontario. Most of his roots are brought in from other sources although I understand he is starting to grow some of his own.
I know people here who order from the USA but I have not tried that yet.
carol
I took a look at the site. I find the color varies a lot from one page to another. And unless I missed it, the descriptions were very brief. For someone who has not bought Peonies in over 20 years, is there a recommended site that lists varieties with descriptions of their color, fragrance or not, bloom time (early, mid, late) without having to click on each individual variety's picture? I need to learn more before I order new ones with all the new varieties available.
Ann
Here are some more recent yard pics.
My first Calla of the season.
My Canada Day hanging basket.
some Campanula - that which has escaped the neighbourhood groundhog. I looked out the window to see him potter into the yard and start munching some of my other Campanulas. I hope it will have the effect of making the plant branch out with many stems.
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Ann, your Campanula is C. persicifolia, the peach-leaved bellflower. They can self seed like the dickens! I'm constantly thinning them out.
My pride and joy right now is my Magnolia sieboldii, a summer blooming magnolia with intensely fragrant flowers.
Also blooming now is my Incarvillea mairei that I grew from seed. It is much hardier than the more popular I. delavayi and also more compact. Why nurseries don't sell this one instead of I. delavayi is beyond me.
Thanks Todd. I'll try to make a note of that, but beyond Hostas and Heucheras, I'm not much into naming the varieties. LOL
I've had some self-seeding, but so far not too much. They make great cut flowers; so at this time, more would not be a problem.
Ann
ViolaAnn what a pretty hanging basket i like the color combo.
the town were i live are putting hangin baskets through the town myself and a couple other agreed to plant them up now that i seen that one im going to do one like it .
Thanks fancyvan for that link just got through looking at them all i have my eye on a fue, some of them are not cheep.
Have a few more pics - my first Chicago Peace Rose
Some Shasta Daisies
Achillea Paprika which, unfortunately was flattened - maybe by squirrels - before I got it properly staked. Was bought last year in end of season sales in a 3-4 inch pot.
Delphinium Galahad - also bought last year in a small pot at end of season sales.
Delphinium Camilliard I may have shown you before. Also from end of season sales last year. The first stalk was two tones - mauve and blue. The others seem to be just blue.
One garden down next to my driveway and the street - a problem area as it gets dry very quickly. but it has a variety of things blooming. The Maltese Cross has become my signal to water. Some Veronica, sedum and others.
Ann
Some years ago I planted a Dropmore Scarlett Honeysuckle on one side of the arch on the garden gate. Neglecting to read about it I carefully pruned it down every year. Never flowered! About 3 years ago a gardening neighbor said to me Carol I dont think you are supposed to prune it down. So then I read about it! No more pruning! Now 3 years later it has for the first time really flowered and the bees are all over it.This is just the middle part of it.
This is another view of Raspbery Ice which really shows how it got its name!
