Found these two little guys poking up in the yard today. I think they are columbine ..but not sure. They are so pretty. Their little "tails' are almost metallic looking when the sun hits them.
Hope they have more blooms..= more seed!! I like this one very much! Don't remember buying it..maybe it was mis-labeled at the nursery. My lucky day!
yummy blue, bea, looks a bit like salvia patens, but not entirely. I simply must have it, so pretty please save me a couple of seeds if you end up with any to share!
I love your little blue delphiniums Beahive. If I were on my home computer I could double check with some pictures of our native delphinium, but I'm not. :-( But, since you don't remember planting it and you said they're little, maybe they are the native!!! whenever I see the native delph, they're usually somewhere between 6 and 10" tall.
I'm on such a slow computer that attaching pictures takes at least a half an hour. But try "googling" or maybe they're in the DG plant files. There's at least two native delphiniums. Their maybe a 3rd that I can't think of right now.
Delphinium nuttallianum
Delphinium trolliifolium (that is correct spelling-google will direct you to another plant with a similar spelling)
this is very, very rarely found in Oregon--it likes northern california better.
redchic, thanks for the name. Is that beautiful or what? Think I might need to look for some of those seeds.
I just noticed Salvia 'Hot Lips' flowering today. White with the most fluorescent red 'lips' I could ever imagine. Whoa. That is one sexy flower. Thanks CocoJuno!
But seriously, everything if flowering or getting ready to right now. Sedums, Helianthum, and finally the Cannas are sprouting. Oh, right where the ground was swelling popped the Cardoon, I now have several silvery leaves sticking several inches high in the middle of the lawn, or should I say, 'weedpatch'. It appears to be getting interesting right there.
Yeah, I know this post is no fun without pictures, but who turned out the lights outside?
Sure! I agree with you Katie! It's definitely a beautiful plant. I'm not for certain that it is the native delph., but it does look pretty darn close to it. As far as native plants go I think that our delphinium is one of the least known about and most underated!
Has everyone finally begun to dry out? At least for a while? This last week was just about as perfect of a spring week as we could ask for here. Monday started out at low 70's and the by thurs. the low 80's.
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Today was beautiful today. And tonight is the first warm evening I remember this year (was down in OR for the hot spell earlier this year. The news guy said 80's today and 70's tomorrow. 70's is good for me . . .
Wow, sounds perfect!. Strangely enough, just as I posted that last response, it started to sprinkle outside! Go figure :-p guess that I shouldn't have said anything. Nah, I think that it's going to stop and still going to be decent tomorrow. It sounds as if we have finally started spring...about 2 months late! I guess better late than never.
And summer starting last night. Maybe we're a whole season behind. Eek!
PIX, PIX - we have the same roses! Jude and Abraham - love them. If you like the apricot spectrum have you tried Pat Austin? As close to Amber as it comes! Lovely. My word the roses have been good this year - the entire garden is just a complete waft of perfume going from the citrus of Jude to the tea scent of generous gardener and that true true undescribable rose sent of Summer Song - absolutely heady this year, I can't remember another one like it. I bulked some of my plantings this year by adding in some additional bushes thinking they were a bit sparse last year - I'm not sure that was necessary, now.
Beahive - I know I am suppose to be looking at the plants, but I am just bowled over by the effect of that white fence behind your plantings (do you know what white you used?) - it just brings out the soft blueness of all the foliage - excellent effect, gives a wonderful lushness to the planting.
Its the solistice tonight!! Oh joy! One of my favourite days!
I think we are a season behind!
I agree with you wholeheartedly Laurie!! I always look forward to this day starting in about sept. on!
Ohh, redchic, we will delay it til Sept for you. Poor wet darling.
I feel the same about New Years in January - suits summer sooooo much better in my opinion.
Too bad you can't come over, Laurie, for the summer solstice parade in Fremont (little neighborhood north of Seattle proper). It's complete with naked bicycle riders . . . Fremont is said to be where hippies go when they are trying to deny aging . . .
I thought hippies just turn into 'suits' when they are denying ageing.
Some do, I suppose, but not those in Fremont . . . started out as a little logging port. Now it has a small statue of Lenin in the middle of the town, solely for the irony.
wow, what a funny thing to see! I agree. laurie you should come on over!
right now, I should get outside and do some digging. TTFN all.
Have fun. I think I'm supposed to be getting some sleep about now!
neofarmer & redchic01..Thanks for your help with this mystery flower. You put me on the right track for my research and I think this may be a blue butterfly delphinium. Not sure where it came from as I checked all my receipts and no record of purchasing this plant. It is also coming up in the middle of one of my fairy gardens
and I know I would not have planted it there.(iris and liatris were planted as a background to the garden) Glad it is here anyway! It is just beautiful!
Laurie..sorry to say..there is no paint on my fence. I choose to install
vinyl fencing with this house as it is low maintanence. I have had wood fences in the past which need painting or staining all the time and I just do not enjoy painting. I have my garden cottage (shed) that will require staining every few years..that's enough for me! Getting up to the roof will be a tricky. My daughters ex boyfriend stained it for me last summer. Hope she gets a new boyfreind who needs to earn some $$ by next summer when it will need to be stained again. :)
OOH its adorable! I love your little cottage! Do take more photos of your garden as a whole. I enjoy the individual flowers, but I love to see how they are put together.
Laurie, we DO have the same roses! I have Pat Austin!! In that spectrum I have also Abbye de cluny, Compassion, Collette, Lady of the Mist, and Evelyn.
Cute little house. And that little delphinium is a darling.
Pixy ..ask and you will receive.
Full view from in the iron gazebo to cottage. Pond is approx 18' long. Not a huge yard..but a lots of stuff crammed in.
view from cottage to gazebo
side yard near the gazebo
From the area above the path continues to the vegetable garden.
Still have borders to finish and I have been working more on the drip system. Need to roll up the hose also!! Work in progress, excuse the mess & the A/C. What a monster..need to cover it up somehow!
Ugly...
Looking from the gates of the Veg garden to the gazebo
I had a large covered raised deck built off the back of the house. Comes in handy with all the rain! This area is surrounded by roses..roses and more roses.
this path leads to an "overflow" veg garden. It has not been worked on and everthing back there is temporary. I have three potted tomatos, three 3 x 3 raised bed (ugly black plastic ones) containing peas, lemon cucumber/squash and one dedicated to asparagus.
I hope to have nice raised beds made and have a potting table back there one day.
Bea ~ OMG! I so LOVE your yard! It makes me wish I had smaller so I could be closer to done! I can imagine sitting out there with a glass of pinot. . .what a beautiful and tranquil setting. *sigh* Thanks so much for sharing!
outta. Thanks.. If you are ever in the neighborhood.. let me know.
One last picture is the other side yard. This is the only mostly shady part of my yard and where the garbage cans etc are stored.
My favorite plants are here..just wish the setting could be better.
I hope to plant some trees in the yard once the drainage problems from the lot behind are ever corrected and make more shade! Lovin shade plants..was not able to grow many in my California homes.
The End..
Front of house to follow. In transition now as Iris's are mostly gone & dying back... Lots of great summer selections coming soon...
Beahive, that is fantastic. Perfection, everything so clean and tidy.
Willowwind...Not really ..all the mess is shoved in the cottage as Mom was here last week... Next project ..organize the shed and behind it too!!
Beautiful Bea, really nice and love it all.
By the way, Now I know where my Delphinium went, Mine didn't come back, so I guess it was unhappy here. And popped up in you yard. LOL
I know the fairies took it.
Took this coming home tonight. First time I ever really wanted to get out of my car.
Tills
Red sky at night, sailor's (or shepard's) delight! Lovely tils, just lovely.
BEAHIVE - what a garden, and so much in so little!!!! My word, that is fantastic! I keep thinking about your neighbours craning their little necks out the upstairs windows to see more - envy envy is growing in their little hearts - I can't imagine that they have not commissioned your talents" And how brillant about the fencing - all the joys of a painted fence without the work - the 'shed' is enchanting, and complete with a person sized elf door! wonderful!
Is the grey bin your composter in the vegetable area? Look incredibly IT - does it do something special? Only unsettling bit for me - I was wondering if you would consider changing it for some more organic looking. But otherwise, Perfecto.
