What's Growing, Part 2

Snowhermit, I hope you don't mind but the other thread was getting long.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/600788/

My Clematis is showing some color now.
Polish Spirit.

Andy P

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Beautiful, Andy, I don't have any clematis, just do not know wher I could plant one

I start my dahlia inside early to get earlier blooms. Here is extase - a short border variety.

Andy, I love the color of your 'Polish Spirit'. Here is the first bloom ever on 'Arctic Queen'.

Al, beautiful dahlia. I love them, but I stick with perennials. My mother always had dahlias, but it's too much work for me...the lazy gardener.

Oh, wow, I just realized how fuzzy that pic is. I'll have to take another one.

This message was edited Jun 19, 2006 6:23 AM

My new poppy finally bloomed! No disapointment with this one....she's beautiful!! I feel like I am so behind in bloom time from everyone else. Thank you all for sharing your beautiful photo's, it has kept me hopeful!!!
Celeste

Oh love that Polish Spirit- it's a good strong plant too.

Bigcity-You reminded me that I have left my Dahlia tubers in the basement! I gotta go put them in the ground...

You will be seeing more of that Clematis, I have 3 mature vines growing in a 12 foot stretch of fence and 3 young ones coming along further down the same fence.

My Asiatic Lily 'Lollipop' has started to bloom too. Here is the first pic this season.

Ivy, Get those Dahlias in...... I still have a few too, I ran out of room. LOL.

Andy P

great pics everyone - makes me realize that I have to take the time and take some of my own.

Andy, I'll be looking forward to a sea of purple clematis from you. Love those deep purples. I have have a few oriental lilies with buds...no blooms yet.

Celeste, what is your poppy's name? I love the color.

Thank you grampapa!
If memory serves me correctly it is called "Queen Alexander". I love the salmon-pink color too.
I have oriental and asiatic lilies, most have buds and one dwarf is about to bloom.
My spiderwort's are in bloom, along with the pink thrift, mock-orange and red lupine.
I have had one daylily bloom so far but many others have buds and I am anxiously waiting!

Celeste, Very pretty! I may have just planted a bareroot one of those. What is the name?

Oops! Cross posting. That's not the one I have but that may change!.You don't sound far behind me at all. None of my daylilies have opened yet.

The clematis's are nice. I didn't have any but picked some up today on sale. I'll test my local laws and grow them up the telephone pole support wires.

bigcityal,
Let me know how that works out for you! Actually I tried it one year with sweet pea's, nothing happpened but I didn't want to push my luck and try it every year!

the last of the iris's.

the first of the roses.

2nd rose: "Gypsy Queen"

Lupine is almost done for the year.

Like the Gypsy Queen.

I had tried Black Eyed Susan vine there, but the bugs thought it was really tasty so I'll try that.

and my Pixie Lamp Post is waiting for the flowers around it to bloom, so am I !!!

love the lamppost, pixie. what do you grow around it? your 'Gypsy Queen' looks almost like a miltonia orchid. beautiful!

Great Lupine!!! I would love that, but I've had no luck so far.

Sarahskeeper: I remember seeing your big bowl of stawberries in one of the previous threads and was wondering ... I put a couple plants 2-3 years ago and then lost track of them during our big remodel. This year they have formed a huge area of groundcover around an existing garden bed. I have had a lot of fruit but everytime I go to pick the ripe ones I find that some creature has already taken a bite our of them. I have no experience with this, how do I protect my strawberries?

Lots of critters like the Strawberries. Some years I only have a few so I use bird netting. Just drape it over the bed and hold down the edges with stones or something. Lots of bugs like them, too.
I have plenty of plants this year, there is no way short of an Alfred Hitchcock movie will I need to net them.
One days picking.
Andy P

I got a fan of this from a DGer in MS, I am hoping in winters in a nice warm spot for me.

Pixie - I have your Pixie plant for your Pixie garden,
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/114214/

Pixie, Beautiful! I love the iris. The leaves on your roses look great (first one a rugosa?). The lupine is so full! I guess Maine is the place to grow them.
Which of those Pixies is you?

Al, I've not had luck with knip. overwintering but it could be my soil is too wet.

Dave47
Yes the rose is a rugosa and the lupines grow great here in Maine. There is are 2 fields of them on my road. One of them is really a large empty lot (you could build 2-3 houses on it) and every year it is full of lupines. Mostly blues, and purples but has some white and pale pinks also. I think I'll take some of my red seeds and go spread them in it this fall.
Im the 5' 4" pixie with blues eyes and brown hair that hides really well from camera's.

grampapa,
I have several daylilies around my pixie lamp post, along w/a hot pink aster, echinacea and baby's breath. I usually throw a few annuals in too.

I just read a book to my daughter called "Miss Rumphius". It was about a woman in Maine who spread lupine seeds everywhere!

Maybe you have discovered the real "Miss Rumphius" Ivy....would that be you Pixie??? So exciting - like discovering who Clark Kent was!

Awesome! It really is a great book, if you have kids who like to garden. Pixie -keep seeding!

I have Euphorbia, Cushion Spurge - probably 8 plants. I had to go to plant files and look it up - they've been in the same spot for years and I had no idea what they were. Anyway, they are falling all over the place, and, Andy, I saw you wrote that they can be pruned. Severely? Will they continue to grow this year if I cut them back? Love them in the spring, but right now they look a little wild. Thanks for any info.

Kay

Ivy & Anita,
You let the cat out of the bag! I was not to be discovered...ever. Who would of thought that DG would have 2 flower slueths??????

P.S. It IS a great book!

This message was edited Jun 20, 2006 4:59 PM

I've got to check my copy to see if Miss Rumphius is 5' 4" with brown hair & blue eyes!

Pixie, don't forget to post again when your pixies are surrounded by blooms. must be so pretty. gram

Kay, I'm down to only one 'Cushion Spurge'. The last of the originals I started from seed a long time ago. The seedlings they make can get very leggy, like a a ground cover. I didn't like that so they are gone.
I do prune the old one later in the season after it falls over. I may cut it in half, they bush out fine after that. They look a little funky for a couple weeks, though.
Andy P

Andy - Thanks. And that is a wonderful photo with the dew or drops of rain.
Now THAT's the way I would love for them to look just a little longer. But since they are one of the early spring plants to brighten things up, I think I'll keep them anyway. Kay

Does anyone know - is it too late to plant glads? I have 60 corms (bulbs?) that I bought early spring - keep waiting for the end of frost to plant - then got into planting other things and forgot. If I don't get them planted, will they be any good next year? Yi, yi, yi!!

Okay, sorry to have taken so long, but at last, here are some pics of my garden stuff:

First up, some of my hostas and my Fargesia nitida.... Note: the hardware cloth cage around the bamboo clump is NOT for winter protection.... at least in the normal sense... It's to keep those darn rabbits from eating the whole clump to the ground during the winter months (the rabbits around the house will eat any bamboo culms less than about .5" in diameter during the winter).