Weerobin, thank you for the photos - feast for the eyes and fun unusual plants, at least for me :) The interplay of colors and textures between the columbine and thalictrum is great!
If only I could spell :)
This message was edited May 29, 2008 12:49 AM
Continued.. Spring photos and early summer photos.
Air potato
Such strong graphic veins on these perfectly shaped green hearts! I can't picture the whole plant, but the texture of the leaves is striking in this close up. I am always left in awe of such image finds.
Our air potatoes are very invasive. I fought a huge battle (and won) with the neighbors' air potato climbing all over an azalea. They are great, though, when they are not near anything they can smother. Here they die back in the winter and come up from the roots (the potato) . Most of the time you have to clean off the dead vines.
I love Podophyllums. They are so fanciful and the viburnum is gorgeous.
This is hydrangea seemanii with clematis etoile rose. The clematis is new so there are only a few flowers but it's going to be pretty when the clematis is more mature.
It's funny how cranberry viburnums look like hydrangea serrata...
Doss, that clamatis / hydrangea combo looks great!
My best combinations usually are just serendipity.
I wish I could plan ahead better.
My method is rather haphazard.
But it's still funny that sometimes it works out as if you planned it that way...
Rob, the climbing hydrangea seemanii is one that you could grow if you have a shady wall. It's supposed to be hardy down to zone 8 but it's a Mexican variety.
Really? It's beautiful! I do have a shady wall...
Really and they are evergreen which is wonderful. They are slow to take off though and only grow about a foot a year.
Hydrangeas plus has them. They spell it 'Seamanii'
http://www.hydrangeasplus.com/search.php?mode=search
I'd recommend buying a larger one if you can afford it.
Hydrangeas plus is GREAT source. I bought from them twice and I agree that the larger plants are totally worth it. Thanks for the tip Doss, I always liked those but wasn't sure if they would grow over here!
The regular climbing hydrangeas aren't supposed to do well in warmer climates but then we get an evergreen one! And relatively rare at that.
doss, How much shade does your clematis rooguchi take? I purchased a very small plant last year and it still looks like it is struggling. Yours looks healthy with nice blooms.
Weerobin, The Kaleidoscope flowers and leaves are wonderful. Wish I could grow them.
Lovely photo of your shooting star enya, another plant I can't seem to grow.
Edge of the woodland garden, part sun to shade.
Clivia in Golden Gate Park, SanFrancisco
What a beautiful stand of clivia. Stunning.
Clematis take a lot of patience. That one has been in the ground three years. It's planted at the drip line of a tree and grows toward the shade of the tree so it can take a surprising amount of shade. It will combine with an hydrangea there - you can see the foliage if you look carefully. The hydrangea is quite small right now.
What wonderful pictures of everyone's shade gardens/plants. Weerobin, what is that Kaleidoscope?? How unusual.......just love plants that require you to really look for the flowers, kind of like hellebore and some of the native plants do that also.
Here is one shot of a really shady spot I call the Angel garden. Mostly foliage plants, but a few foxgloves.
Semp what lovely textures in the garden. I love the striped iris and they do grow very well in shade don't they.
How lovely to have an angel overlooking your shade garden bugme. Cute user name too.
I have no idea what the name of this bromeliad is, but, it does grow in the shade....
I've never seen a bromeliad like that. OF course they aren't hardy here. Beautiful plants though. I just lost one last year- I think probably to overwatering.
Here is a list of the brom's you can grow> http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/701062/ There are many, just don't water more than once a week. During the rainy season not at all.
I have used them as cut flowers, sometimes they last for weeks.
Aechmeas do very well in Sunset zone 15-17.
Is that aechmea as large as it looks?
Thanks so much for the link.
Here is a real big one, this one is 4' across>
Here is one of my fave little shade gardens.... It gets a little bit of sun in the late afternoon... We had a larger pond in here now I have more room for flowers!!!!:) Darn... But I like the fullness of this garden.. The hardy geranium and great amungst the cherry bells which really have taken over. The Oakleaf hydrangea is starting to get some buds... so pretty last year!!! The gaots beard is wonderful this year!!! So tall, I really like the airiness of them. Only wish the flowers would last all summer. Of course my fav hostas have several... Honey Belles... I have devided these many times. Keep coming on and on... Love them. The Brunnera (?) is almost done...Have a great weekend... Ronna
Hi Garden Lady,
I'd like to put some small water features in my yard. I get how to bury a container. How do you get the water to flow over the rocks and not to the sides? What supplies would i need to buy?
Tx,
FlwrPwr
Stunning plant dale_a.... That's a wow for sure.
What a great garden, Sempervirens!
Fabulous combination of colors, textures, flowers and foliage!
I don't see why you couldn't grow podophyllum in your climate - same zone as mine.
There are now several interesting cultivars with patterned foliage available.
But they're ridiculously expensive, generally.
Here's a shot of a shady garden off my driveway.
And my stewartia rostrata is starting to bloom.
It gets some morning light, but otherwise filtered shade all day long.
Very pretty weerobin. What's in the pot? Is that a Japanese Maple?
flowerpower.... all my husband did is attatch a tube to the pump.put the pump in the water. place the slate over half of the top. then placed the end of the tube over the slate in the back. then adjusted the slate so it slopes downward, with some small stones and sticks. turn on the pump. watch the water flow and enjoy the sounds. did i explain it good enough? hope so.... ronna.
Yes. Thanks. I need to give it a try.
Doss, yes it's a japanese maple. Mikawa yatsubusa.
Very sadly, most of my japanese maples planted in the yard didn't withstand last spring's devastating late frost. I lost about 20 fairly mature (10+ years) JM's.
This one survived only because it was in a pot and I could move to the garage during the late freeze.
My acer japonicums survived at a much higher rate than the palmatums.
It's made me a little gun-shy about planting any more palmatums.
All right everyone.... Do I have two different Ligularias here or just one kind???? I know I have an Othello.... But is the smaller one also an Othello also??? I was thinking maybe it was a Brit Marie??? The color on the back of the smaller one is much more purply and the top side is more vainy... is that a word??? The large one is older is that why its so much larger??? The larger one is a darker shade of green also.
here is a photo of the two leaves together. Could you please help??? I dont know why I never noticed this before but now I have to know the answer... LOL. Ronna
larger one...
smaller one.... These are my favorite shade lovers...
I think that it's perhaps DArk Beauty or something else. Britt Marie is darker than that.
http://www.bigdipperfarm.com/cgi-bin/searchstuff.pl?Botanical=Ligularia
My tiny blue geranium heralding the advent of summer :)
Of cause now I am puzzled what was I thinking planting it for
the best view from he street? You can see a bit of a curb in font.
enya_34 you will really like the geranium when it gets larger... It will be large and full of flowers and then kinda sweep out and be wider... I really like them I ahve several colors. Now my pink one is opening. Thanks for the link Doss sounds like your right the descriptions sounds like mine for the dark beauty... But the picture doesnt look like it at all!!! I like mine much better.. I wish the shipping wasnt so expensive I would order one of each!!! I have a new fantasies ligularia coming I got confermation that it has been shipped from Josh he has been really great about the emails... Ronna
Can't wait to see photos of your new ligularia Ronna. I'll bet that it's wonderful.