Garden Photos - Part 19

A Coup!!!
I was in Marshells in the home accesories dept. and found bundles of Bamboo for $6.00 Looking to support the smaller perennials and Asiatics.Maybe only last one year but HEY.

Heuchera Mocha - planted this AM.

Phlox Pixie Miracle Grace (another one, Celeste!).

PDD - the whole plant.

those are beautiful, love the spots of deep purple.

Sorry for the orange lily, but this is a fave--Thom--your DL's are fab--Pix--cannot believe you have phlox & monkshood blooming--My garden is really late! Also, Pix, great news on grandchild!

This is more 'sorbet' in color but from the back it appears more orange.

and a pic of my dry shade garden, which this year is NOT!

Ge1836......You should get a few years out of the bamboo. Didn't clean up the garden until this spring but all of the bamboo in it was OK . Needed some more however and picked up a few canes this week .

Long ones.....

Looks orange, Victor! I have a few other oranges, bought in a mixed bag, no doubt, but the orange one I do like & no longer can find is "Conn. Yankee" The hybridizer is from my home city of Waterbury, CT--he also hybridized Piedmont Gold hosta which I bought because when I was a teen waiting for the bus home (no school buses for us) the Piedmont section bus would pull in just before mine. I never realized until I read an article a few years ago, that it was indeed a Waterbury plant!

I am a novice gardener. I love all of your beautiful flowers. Thought I'd share.

Here is a picture of my three year old clematis. I tried to grow daylillies beneath but the deer got to them.

My lillies

Welcome, Bea. Very nice. Here's the same DL as above. Kind of harsh in midday sun but at day's end, when the lighting is better, the flower is petered out.

Near my pond - Echinacea After Midnight, Heuchera Midnight Rose, pink yarrow and creeping jenny.

David-P I long for the days when I drove a extended full size van.
10 foot rebar and bamboo like that would be no problem.
I am jealous.
Looks serious, what do you stake with 15 foot canes like that?

Just found this neglected lily, eaten and shaded in the far corner of the garden.Former owner did this.
I posted on the Lily forum but need advise from NEGF

what can I do to rescue these yellow stunted ones?

ge1836, are those stunted or babies? I would be tempted to leave them and watch them next year. Or dig one up and see if they are tiny new bulbs.

Here is one called 'Starburst' for the 4th. Patti

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I would like some clemetis like Bea21 has, if I found one I probably would buy it.

ge - I know what I would do with them. Wait till September when the leave are gone and dig them up with a pitch fork as not to cut the bulbs. Then move them to their new happy little home. :-)

ge--You can wait until the fall to move them, but, like I have had happen on many occasions, if you forget, you might not get to move them. After they have flowered, just pull the bulb up gently and replant it. I have a lot of "donor" lilies that got planted that way...lol.

Very funny.
These bulbs are old and growing in clay. The former owner didn't garden for a few years so they are at least thre years old.
I'm gunna dig em.
Replant in soil mixed with compost and potting soil.
I have nothing to loose as they aren't ones I purchased.
Nice orange red Patti

There is one bunch with yellow leaves and stems that have a bud. I hope the clump of non bloomers is the dark brick red. I'll keep everyone posted. I have two lily nurseries that are getting sick bulbs.

I havent even finish putting the bark on. But the first year it had care since planted 2005.

lovely colors Sherrie

Very nice Sherrie..... love your gazing ball too

Well, I worked last night into today, and I told the 3-11 supervisor that I would attempt to come in early tonight :-/ I have been moving around a lot of things, did not realize I have over 40 new DL's...lol. Most from the lily auction (about 1/3 of them are bonuses!) Didn't realize until today that I'm a modest collector of Colocasia, Alocasia, and Xanthesoma (Elephant Ears--to date, I have almost 10 different varieties!--and counting!)

Since Paul has gone down to Harrisburg to be with friends of ours, long story short, couple have been trying to have a child for a few years, due to health issues of mom, has not been an easy road to travel, and after a miscarriage last year, another attempt was made, and she just found out that her and her hubby aren't having just 1 child, but 2! So, Paully is down there with them, and I'm left to my own devices, thank whom ever that there are no nurseries open :-)

Here are some photos of the plants on the deck, I shifted a lot of things around, A LOT...

Here is the other corner of the deck...

Here is a close up of 'Bed of Nails' can't remember the genus/species off the top of my head. If you look close enough at the purplish veins, you can see the "nails." Believe you me, they are little prickers to...transplanting this was fun...lol.

To the left of the plant is the variegate brug from Logee's (got it at the Fall RU, thanks Kassia for telling me how to mother it!!!) To the right is Agave 'Spot', really neat looking architectural plant!

I have no idea what happened to me this year. I usually don't try to 'match' my color schemes up, I usually do loud/obnoxious contrasts...?

This whole container (container and plants included) cost me about $15. Not sure on the cultivar of banana, I do like how the maroonish/reds play off of one another!

Here is the corner of the deck as soon as you come from the house (kitchen) onto the deck...it's kinda busy...lol.

Pirl--The datura (I believe it's 'Purple Metel') is one that I bought at the seed place you informed me of, thus far, the only one to send up multiple branches and flowers!

Banana canna, Colocasia, Canna Tropicana, Peaches and Cream brug, Diamond Head (the black one) Colocasia, Giant Colocasia, a wave petunia, and growing up the Banana Canna is a variegated morning glory (Tie Dye)

Yesterday, just as I was about to go to sleep (about noonish) I got this delivered. This is what 3 tons of "loose" west mountain stone looks like...lol. I started to separate it...this is going to take longer than what I thought!

Almost this whole area...thought about it now, but I should have used the hose to mark out the area. Where I am standing is the narrowest part of the new bed (where I'm at, there is about 10-15' to the shrub line dividing my property and my neighbors.) It will start to the right of the stairs, head over the wall that was/is there already, and from the stairs, curve out and down toward where I'm standing, and follow the shrub line up. I have no idea if that made sense or not. Will post a new thread when it actually begins to get done.

Dahlias I started, these were on the deck until I moved them, for the new bed...the one I just got the stone for...lol. The DL's were both purchased from online vendors, and from the lily auction. There are over a dozen Dahlias, and 40+ DL's.

ge1836. . . I miss having a full size truck/van too. But whenever I think the little Mazda is cramped, the repair bills on a 454 Suburban float before my eyes...did manage to carry 20' bamboo by lashing the canes to the passanger side door.Only had a mile to drive however. Pounded steel stakes into the ground and lashed the bamboo to them (don't need a lot of them--the framework of the cages themselves provide stability, a few anchors are enough).

Montage of the cages....June 1st and this morning, July 4th (nature is astounding):

Do you pick off your tomatoe suckers? I don't think I like doing it especially with what I am seein here.

Thom--don't know how you find time to work! What super projects! Love the stone & the container plants--I don't have many places to put containers--shady porch on front of house--screened porch on back--rambunctious dogs all over back yard! Here is a hosta garden my DH planted---other than corn in the veggie garden, the only thing he ever planted--there used to be a Norway maple in the middle--now it's a bird feeder!

Looks great, David. Tons of work, Thom. Beautiful, Robin!

Wow those tomato cages remind me of "The Godfather"
That is a really big project. Great success w/ the plants.
I was going to write and ask you how you transported.
Yes the repairs on full size equipment are daunting.I don't miss the van and have a Honda CRV now just have to make tough choices as to what size projects I can handle.

shickenlady....I only prune to remove diseased leaves. To prune or not to prune is a never ending debate in the Tomato Forum. I come down on the side that the more foliage and more stems, the better. Others believe pruning makes the plant put energy into producing fruit (but where does a plant get energy? From leaves!).

Took the photo below yesterday after removing diseased bottom leaves. Not removing suckers weeks ago led to a tangle of fruit bearing stems. Many plants have 4 or 5 leaders.

Forget the dmail. I take you have direct watering drip system