Summer Bulbs - Pictures and Discussion - Part Deux

time for continuation thread, don't ya think?

I'm almost convinced it's 'Black Pearl.' That is the only one that I had last year anything like it.

Andy, I mean the tree above your fun mailbox. Sweetgum tree?

(Thanks Voss for the new thread. I haven't forogotten my box for you by the way...)
K

And, thanks to "Moonglow," (who I've not seem for a while here due to perhaps being eaten alive by her bareroot rose addiction?) I exhibit the first Orienpet of the season in my garden.

'Visaversa'

Hi Kenton! 'Visaversa' is lovely!

THE lily is growing. It got nipped by a late hard freeze that took us all by surprise in May, but it has recovered. Not looking as well as it could, but nevertheless, it's a trouper. I will post a picture when it blooms. :-)

KB:(I was just going to ask, thanks! Some plants will learn their lesson and not come up so early next time. I don't know which ones of my lily patch are that cvr, so it will be a suprise when it blooms.)

Kenton, Yes Sweetgum. I had forgotten the other name. You have a keen eye.
I planted 2 of them shortly after the house was built in '86.
Here they are last Fall as they started to get a little color.
Andy P

Andy - that lighthouse scene is magnificent!

Kenton - cool lily!

Voss - thanks for getting us to a new start!

Kenton, my calla picasso are doing so pitiful. We had some rains and they seemed to yellow right after that. I remember my Green Goddess was ugly the first year, pls tell me it is a case of first year uglies? I seem to remember you gave Picasso a ho-hum review in the plant files.
Black Pearl is gorgeous

Moonglow (Annapet) went to work full time. I miss her a lot. Then again, she might have gotten eaten up by her roses....

Thanks Tammy, It looked a lot better when I first put it out, before the paint started peeling, LOL.
There is reflective paint in the light stream (from the lighthouse), when headlights hit it they light up.
Andy P

very cool and so artsy. I never evolved from drawing stick people, sigh...

Clever fellow, Andy. Next stop, glow-in-the-dark paint.

Voss, you might dig out and store your Picasso. It is the kind that needs it, unlike 'Green Godess.'
Picasso just doesn't seem that vigorous. I have a plant I bought as 'Purple Haze,' which it certainly is not, I'm so confused... It doesn't look like last year's 'Picasso!'

We lost our Sweet Gum this year. Or so we thought. The whole upper 95% of the tree died and then it started growing out the bottom. And that bottom growth is more vigorous and healthy than the original tree ever was. Go figure.

Below a graft, maybe?

I had a sweet gum in the back yard of my city lot (last property). If you can imagine this huge tree in a postage
stamp size yard? Well - I hated that I had no yard (it was all tree & gum ball seed pods) so I had it cut down.
(Oh - don't hate me! It really was a great tree in the wrong place).

Those roots grew trees for a number of years! I had the tree guy grind out the stump too. Amazing life in that
tree. I think there were still treelings after five years.

Tam

Still a beauty K. It has to be Picasso, don't you see that artistic swerve?

Calla Crystal Blush is still waiting for the blush, but it does start this way.

interesting that is starts white. very beautiful

No, no graft.

Now for the gaud show. We have had the pristine.

Dracunculus vulgaris, with what I think may turn into seeds. I could only see the double row of yellow flowers atop the little black beady ones. Now that it's going limp there are these yellow seedy bumps with fine hairy things below those. I'm not sure if the hairy stuff is a mould, I squidged it a little, but will leave it to see what happens.

Mold.
Watch the beady gold guys, (or gals?) Good luck!

Are you sure you can post such pictures here! Nothing too vulgar allowed
on DG ya know!

K do you think I should try to remove the mould? Perhaps it needs it. I hoooope I get seeds!

Tammy, you can't have seen the Calla thread!

I missed it! On the Bulbs Forum? I'll go look

Wallaby, I wouldn't touch the 'mold', it may be needed. Let nature take it's course.
Cross your fingers, too.
Andy P

Andy that's what I thought, but I squidged it a bit more this morning! It's still there, I did wonder if being in a slightly more humid greenhouse may have something to do with it.

Anyway my fingers haven't dropped off yet, and I am keeping them crossed, heart in mouth (what an image!). This is like a new baby taking it's first breaths, all so tense!

My hairy alliums are about to pop. Patti

Can't wait to see what they look like!

Larkspur make everything look prettier, don't you think? Here's more lilies (grand cru) amongst larkspur & black eyed
susan. And the lovely clematis jackmanii superba behind the fence just starting to bloom...

(edited to add name of lily)

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I'm gonna post most of these over in the lily forum but since they are summer bulbs...some more
lilies! I've clearly gone lily crazy ... they are gloriously blooming everywhere today!

Explosive, Tam.

Just don'e stick your fingers in your mouth, eh what, Wallaby? That particularly misty mold has been in every old Drac I've seen. Maybe needed, like Orchid seeds need mold.

Very pretty Tammy!

Patti that is a great shot of the hair allium, almost spooky!

Funny how these happy accidents happen, I have a dark red self set snapdragon echoing the red lilies.

Thanks K, it must be needed then! your post wasn't there when I started mine, long time post!

wallaby1, you have given me another combo. I will do the red lilies, red snaps with a red and purple fuschia that I bring in for the winter that is a nice sized shrub. That should be a winner. Thanks. The hair allium is totally strange. I think it is at it's best when opening. I'll take another tomorrow. Thanks, Patti

Hmm, I also have a hardy red and purple fuchsia looking for a garden spot. It looks like there is a space....good thinking!

Lovely combo Wallaby. I love self-seeded surprises.

Tam

y'all I hope my lilies like like yours someday, being that this is my first year with them. I will be heartbroken if they don't come back. I have really loved them this year.

Tammy, I love your larkspur in the mix, it has to be my favorite annual, and gorgeous with those lilies. Having trouble finding a sunny enough place for them here-grrrrr.

Janet, that's a lovely accidental combo- love it when that happens! What is the fuzzy stemed plant on the right side of the lilies?

Voss, those red asiatics are really robust, they were quite small when I planted them out in spring last year, but did as well last year. I really expected them to do worse this year, although the soil is quite good in that spot they are at the top of a fairly steep slope, in sandy soil, and with little rain for such a long time I am surprised they have put on such a good show. I took the young ones off and grew them the same way I did those, just in a long window type planter with lots of composted material. I could pop you some over if you want.

Tammy, don't you think many garden cominations that work are by chance accidental anyway? I have the yellow asiatics peeping over dark dahlia Bishop's Children foliage and a yellow-green ceanothus leaf above. It looks at me from my kitchen window, and is a real stand-out. It wasn't really by thinking about it! I'm at my daughter's now, babysitting, will post a pic later.

Neal, I suspect you already have a good idea what it is! Leptospermum nitida that I grew from seed, the poor L. s. Red Damask is next to it, dead. The leaves are supposed to shine silvery, haven't really noticed it yet, perhaps the hairy effect is meant to do that. Not flowered yet, but they are alive and look well. The new growth does look fuzzy.

Thanks Janet, I've only ever seen the cut flowers- that downy new growth threw me.

yes, janet, i'd like that.

The yellow asiatics, with dahlia Bishop's Children dark leaves under, Ceanothus Pershore Zanzibar above.