This is year three for my "Hymenocallis" ..and in previous years I was lucky to get a couple scapes with blooms but this year it's leaped!!!Boy, did I miscalculate how big this one can get..I'm gonna hafta dig it up and divide it bigtime!!!..Live and learn eh?...Jeanne
They are beautiful in the Moonlight..of course they are spectacular and so different in shape and form..wanna see me upclose??
I've got several of these filling up with buds about to open..seems like it's time for anything white in my garden to be front and center!
My other crapes are starting to join in...
Remember me planting "Dynamite" last year..she is very happy and what a bloomer..I'm very glad I found this one...
Beautiful pics Jeanne. Do you happen to know the name of the white lily in the second pic? I love that. I've got a couple of crinums, but not the one you have that I've always called "swamp lily". Your's is so gorgeous I may have to find a spot for one. Just how big is that thing? It's gorgeous.
crowellli, I saw a specimen growing in the San Francisco Conservatory that had to be over 6 feet in diameter. Something to drool over!
Jeanne - When you divide it.......(hint, hint), I don't live far away.....That is purely beautiful!
CJ
Ceejay..you are welcome to some!!..I use to live down the road from you off Kuykendahl in Wimbledon Country..till I moved out here...I'm not sure which cultivar it is of the Hymenocallis..maybe you can figure it out?
http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Hymenocallis/Hymenocallislist.shtml
Everything is beautiful.
H liriosme is the first one.
Such a beautiful plant. Thank you for sharing. I don't envy you for having to dig up and divide that big "baby"!
Jeanne, I, too, have a Hymenocallis and lived off Kuykendahl in Spring Creek Oaks while our son was at Klein H.S. What a small and wonderful world!
Jeanne - I have no idea which one it is. You might be able to find someone at Extension (just down the road from you on Airport Rd) who knows. We have a wide range of talent there... I understand dmj1218 sells some bulbs, and she may be correct on her ID. I Just don't know.
Hi flowerette! I live east of Kuykendahl and I don't have any Hymenocallis, but I know where Klein H.S. is. :-D
I found out which one it is...It's as I thought..."Tropical Giant" duh...as big as that bugger is..LOL...
Well it's gorgeous and makes a grand statement in your photo. "Look at me!" That's called an architectural plant and every garden needs one. IMHO
Ceejaytown, A-n-d, I know where the Woodlands is; very nice area! Do they still enforce the rule of no cutting down underbrush, etc.?
carol
Wellllll...... They still have the rules, but if you do it quick, while no one is looking....LOL It usually gets stickier with the trees over a certain diameter. But it is done on a regular basis, and I don't know of anyone that got in big trouble over it. With the lots getting smaller and smaller, the trees are dying on their own from construction damage. So most trees have to be replanted anyway.
CJ, did you happen to remember me last Thurs when you went to Mont Cty? Any good info for me?
Oops! What was I going to do? Totally brain dead here, Smockette.... But I go again tomorrow.
My water problem.... Who to talk to in Mont Cty? Cty Commissioner or someone else? Please!
& thanks for your help!
You have to address your water district..it should have phone numbers on your water bill...
The back garden is filling in nicely
With Summer bringing her heat..it's time for the Brugs to start really showing off..can you believe that on the left is my "Loquat" tree..he really is growing by leaps and bounds in his year three..maybe I'll have fruit next year?!?!
So is my Pink Brug...do you see the other climbing rosa "Don Juan" behind there..I am training her to arch over and that empty space where you see the white lattice will be my wall of clematis one day..right now it's just a holding area for potted up clematis for now that will get planted this fall...
I am so in love with climbing rosa "Compassion"..can't wait till she covers her part of the gazebo...
Oh "Abraham"..how you make my heart sing
Round 2 for this clematis has been spectacular..shame climbing rosa "DublinBay" isn't blooming with it for me to show ..but I do see buds!!...
Speaking of roses..I planted both David Austin's rosa "Tamora" and "MisBehavin" last year..they really have taken off finally!!..They love their Alfalfa Tea
Many times reds and pinks are hard to capture properly with the camera..wished you could see this rose in person..she is such a vibrant color..people always inquire about her name
"Tamora's" opalescence color is another one that is hard to capture with the camera..sorta of a pearly beige with just a hint of Apricot..
If you are wanting a really red red Crape..might I suggest "Dynamite"..just planted last fall..I'm truly amazed at it
I so wished you could be here to see it in person..I'm not sure of the proper terminology for those plumes of colour...maybe Panticles?..anyway they are huge much so like my white ones!!
My second Clematis "Avant-Garde" that I planted last fall is having her first bloom cycle
I am seriously considering planting a white clematis with my J&P rose "Red Simplicity" this fall for added colour and dimension..maybe another "Huldine" or "John Huxtable"??
I am so enjoying the blue of the Plumbago in my gardens..I think I need to add more blues..any recommendations?..TIA
How I wished I could fastforward this bed to the year 2010 and see the roses totally covering the trellis bench?..ahhhhh
JeanneTx, that is part of my problem! I don't live in the city & do not have a water district to pay b/c I have a well. I'm out in the country with no city amenities!
This city girl just keeps learning new things about country living!
Just fought 'City Hall' although it was Montgomery Cty about raising my taxes 3rd yr in a row. And I won! I only bought my house 3 yrs ago!
I would love to come see your beauties in person some time!!!
What is wrong with your water in your well?..You will have to call someone independent out to check your water since you are not on city water or part of any the MUD Districts...you are welcome to come anytime...I live on lake Conroe in Willis...Jeanne
Jeanne - Beautiful gardens!! And I am amazed at your clematis. Word is they don't grow here.
Blue plants - Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile), Salvia sinaloensis (short, ground cover type, with electric blue flower spikes and burgundy touched leaves), Ceratostigma plumbagnoides (another ground cover type with blue flowers and leaves that turn burgundy red in the fall), the groundcover Speedwell...I have these and love them.
BTW, you're going to need a lot more room for your Plumbago! LOL!!
Linda - Will check tomorrow.
Ceejay..that isn't true..clematis will grow in our zone..heck I have a friend even growing the viticellas in Arizona..and you know how hot and dry that place is...water is the key..morning sun..afternoon shade and roots kept moist..I have some in full sun but I water them....Thanks..Jeanne
