What's Growing Part 7

New Glad

Pansey

Moss Rose

'Fat Lady Sings" and yes thats really the name. I just bought it, it's still in the pot so I'm not to upset the bloom isn't perfect. I just like the color and how the petals curve back some.

"Black Eyed Susan Vine" I planted this kind of late in a hanging basket outside. Wasn't even sure it would bloom, but it did!

Al - here's the same color combo
Not a great photo but its
Echinacia 'Magnus', Rudbeckia, Buddliea Red Delight, and the purple foliage is Shiso Perilla, an annual Japanese salad herb that re-seeds and I recommend to anyone as a great summer foliage

Lots of nice pics, nice flowers, everyone. Nothin' new here.

Pixie are any of your glads the hardy ones?

Al, I'll have to remember 'Ruby Tuesday'. My mother's name was Ruby :-) besides, it's pretty

gram

Lovely, everybody.

I Love Diablo Ninebark. It is the best shrub I've ever planted. It has about every color in the leaves- blue, red, purple, yellow.... and this year I didn't whack it back and it showed these amazing flowers that turned RED after blooming. Incredible.

Here are the buds (note the red stems and pale lime green new growth):

and here are the red flowers as they age, they are really a beautiful crimson- sorry for the blur:



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Hey, Al. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Gram ~ the glads are not hardy...dig them up every year. Auntie used to grow them when my husband was a kid and he missed seeing them. Since Auntie is 82..it's my "job" now. LOL I've been doing it for 6 years now, and I always cut a big bouquet for her. She enters them in the fair cause I won't do it, Im kinda of shy and really tongue - tied in big crowds, besides as far as I'm concerned...they are hers anyways.

Ivy1 ~ Nice plant, I am going to have to look into that one..especially now I know it flowers!

Very nice Andrea

Ivy - I have 4 Diablo's, they really are nice.

Thanks Andy

Hap-py Birth-day to ..you...Hap (wait, I forgot, I can't carry a tune)

Al, hope you're having a great day! and many more!!

Best wishes,

gram

Happy Birthday, Al !!!

Nap, that's a pretty pic.
Andy P

Thanks, Andy.

Thanks Gram and Nap - it was a good day. I should have another one in a couple years :)

This was a natural for me as I like dahlias and cosmos, this is Northwest Cosmos(a dahlia)

Al, how could you resist? very pretty (and the fly likes it, too!)

So now you guys (Ivy & Al) have me hooked on ninebark. what a pretty plant. the more I look at my 'standard' landscaping, the less I like it. I think I would like it much better if I added a few of the more interesting native shrubs between the goldmound spiraea and the Hetz junipers. and I think I found a nice spot for a helenium or 2 today.

you can tell I don't have much going on in my garden. so I'm busy planning new things. got 2 new hosta today, Stained Glass & Queen Josephine from Glen Brook Farms. Thought I'd try an online nursery in NY state. Nice big plants. The Stained Glass has buds on it.

oh, yeah. also got a pic of a clouded sulphur butterfly (actually in my butterfly garden) today...it's a good day :-)

Nice pic Gram.

My DW tries to attract butterflies, but I figure I have some many flowers there is bound to be something they'll like. Theory courtesy of Old Country Buffet.

My helenium are all in full force now.

Love that butterfly gram!

Al, Iike your theory ;-) I was excited about that butterfly all day! Doesn't take much to amuse me these days. Spent a year and a half and according to DH about a million $ trying to get butterflies into my garden and I got ONE!

I wish I had a laminated butterfly poster that I could have outside. By the time I go back in to look it up it's gone or I've been dragged into something else. I have to say the #1 butterfly magnet in my garden is always Buddleia. My White Profusion is blooming right now and the flutterbies are on it all day long.

Yesterday I found 2 Monarch Cats! Always a highlight of my year.

My 2 buddleia 'kicked the bucket' over the winter. I'm going to work on putting in more host plants. Congrats on the cats! that's exciting.

grampapa I just posted on the Propagation forum about rooting Buddleia cuttings. I've failed the last 2 yrs to root them in the fall - when I'm thinking about Buddleias - but maybe this yr I'll succeed. If so, I'll be glad to share. You keep in touch with me tho - I'm terrible about remembering stuff like that.

I'm going to try White Profusion, Black Night, Petite Blue Nanho and Red Delight. One of these days I'm getting a yellow one.

Buddleia will bloom the first year from seed if planted in late March/early April or Winter sowed. I always have seed to share around January when I collect them. I have the common lilac colored ones.
Another butterfly magnet is the Agastache.
Here is a pic of my neighbors Phlox. He has a few colors but only one white with rose center.
Andy P

Oh, is that pretty. Kay

That's a sweet one, Andy

My gold mound spiraea has decided to do some re-blooming. Still has the heads from the spring bloom, so it looks kind of neat.

I've been complaining about my 'standard suburban landscape' plants, but I guess there are reasons why they are popular. the foliage on the PJM Rhododendron is pretty right now, too.

here's a closeup of my Elfin thyme now that it has finished blooming...has kind of a hobnail effect

grampapa - the elfin thyme looks really cool. Where do you use it in your garden? Is it a real low plant? Kay

alyrics, it's very sweet of you to offer the buddleia if it roots. I'm thinking I might just try to replace it with other things, though. I'm going to get some Joe Pye weed for sure. got an order today from Richter's herbs with some salvias (also some mints ~which will be contained in pots~, 2 oreganos, tri-color sage, rosemary, a couple of thymes...oops, I sound like a scratchy 60's LP). and definitely zinnias next year. all the folks on the butterfly forum swear by them. I have 3 kinds of weigela, but I'd like another one...I keep seeing new varieties.

Kay, Elfin thyme is about 1" high and spreads. I put it in March '05 and the biggest one is about 8" across now. not sure how big they will get. the pic is right after they were planted, just to show you where it is. I have several different kinds of creeping thyme in different places in my garden, but this is the smallest.

gram

gram - good that it's low! I have an Alberta spruce that husband won't part with and it needs something interesting around the base - narrow space and kinda' sloping(?) (on a slope) - sort of. Not too clear, is it? K.

Kay, is it shady? I think this needs sun.

It gets filtered sun. Not too shady, but not full hot sun either. Might not work, huh? Kay

Mountain Valley's site says it needs 5 hours of full sun to look good. how about lamium? lots of varieties, looks pretty whether it's in bloom or not, about 6" (is that too tall). I have Silver Beacon. a good place to look is Classy Groundcovers. they have EVERYTHING. even if you're not interested in buying from them, it's a good resource for ideas for ground cover type plants

http://classygroundcovers.com/

gram - thanks. I'll check there. The lamium is pretty, too. Kay

I love lamium and it works for me. I've heard others complain about it being invasive but I have it in dry shade and 1/2 shade and it does well.
There are 2 bellflowers that are shoet & work in shade: siberian & dalmation. I've used siberian and its done well (thr real name of each of these campanulas begins with "P" and each is long) Hope this is of some help Kay. They are both available at Bluestone.

Gram, Your elfin thyme pic looks like a face to me (fairy crossing = mouth, rocks = hair) Cute!