Garden Photos - Part 42

Yellow barberry.

JM Villa Taranto.

Small barberry - Concord something.

Neighbor's oak.

Last - unusual color on a part of Spirea Goldflame.

so nice out had to take a strole thru the garden.
JM Spring Delight

rosa the last

hydrangea retaining soft colors

million bells and a Renuncula sprouting. Good luck to him, next month.

white mums a bright spot in early afternoon shadows.

Royal Standard Pirls hosta mailed in May.
Love it when hostas turn yellow.

Redchic I have my JM picked out - 'Pixie'. The hardiest one from my research. Just need to rip out the driveway to make the new bed its going in ^_^ The colour is OUTSTANDING right now in the NE.

Good luck Dahlia. Pixie is a good choice. I really, really hope that it makes it for you. I heard and read stuff that says one of the larger problems for JM's is that in some of the zones colder than what they are rated at, is that mice and other rodents/critters if they can not find other stuff to eat they will start chewing on the shrubs most appealing to them. And apparently Jm's are appealing to them.... go figure. I don't know if you have that issue where you are at, but putting something around it that they will have a hard time getting through to chew it, might be a consideration.

JoAnn, I love the texture of your Jm spring delight. It looks great with the sun on it.

Victor, you always have all of my favorites.... aconitifulium is one of my top jms. I don't have one, but I love them. And pee wee has a fantastic color for you.

Thanks, Shelly. Wow - a JM in zone 3?!!

Victor there a couple of JMs here but they don't do very well. However I'm determined. My new dahlia bed (former driveway tee hee) will be a full sun protected microclimate that I'm hoping will push to zone 5 as presently I can do zone 5 plants in the rockery that's beside it. Pixie will have to be fully mulched to keep from breaking dormancy during Chinooks or too early in the spring. I think I will grow it in a container which I will bury in the bed over winter and then move it into the greenhouse for April and May (when our less hardy woodies get the worst butt kicking from deep freezes after they break dormancy) and then back into the garden again. Seems high maintenance but actually pretty easy/peasy to do. Ooops sorry I got swept away in the JM dream and starting writing a book ^_^

Well if any plant is worth the effort...

......it's a maple.


ugh.... these two pics were taken at about 2 pm today. It's getting typical for this time of year, but still not fun for doing anything in the yard. It's always worse after the time change due to sun height in the sky and horizons at which time. But, it's good. I don't live where you do Dahlia!

I wrote on this pic where I saw the snow earlier today when there was a break in the clouds.

Nice pics, as usual, everyone. I'm still sick and haven't been able to work in my yard all week. Today would have been a great day for it, too. I've had bronchitis and a sinus/ear infection. This is about the 3rd or 4th time I've had bronchitis since 2001. It's awful to deal with.

Debilu, I love your great arrangements. Very nice!

Shelly, I love the rhodie with the JM leaves. What a striking combo that makes! And that one that you wrote "and lots more leaves", is that a kousa dogwood? Great foliage on that.

Victor, I love your pic of the JM foliage with the Norway maple in the background. You have a lot of nice color at your place.

Karen

That was an excellent guess Karen!!! this is fun, you and I are cross posting in different threads!! hehe. It definitely is a kousa, and it's likely an unnamed seedling. The colors on it this year are an unusual color for most plants. It had some interesting seeds on it to.

Great color, everyone--the Pee Wee caught my eye, as did the spirea--good luck, Dahlia, with your plans---would love a JM--not sure I want to spend that much if it will have problems here--mainly 8 paws! Worked about 11/2 hours in garden yesterday---am going out again today to try & make a dent in cleaning up the beds. Here is a huechera that I love--one of the planet series--it may be Venus.

Okay, just finished catching up from being gone since early Sun. morn. Drove 12 hours to Michigan for a funeral on Mon. then 12 hours back yesterday in time to vote and a meeting DH had to attend. I have developed a MONSTER cold. I usually do most of the driving, but I actually asked Jeff to do some. So you know, I'm sick if I did that.
Love all the pics. The colors this year just seem to vibrate they are so bright.

Shelly, RE: favorite time to visit OR. We haven't had the luxury of picking the best times garden-wise. DH is a teacher so we are limited to school vacations. WE've been in late March, end of June - mid-August, and in late December. Of those times I think Aug. is our favorite. It does get hot, but then cools down nicely at night w/o the HUMIDITY of south Jersey. Dh always has projects lined up for him to work on while we are there, so good weather is a plus. Someday, when we can pick the times we come I think the fall would be great. I think, we'll be out in the summer next year. Jeff would like to drive again.

I've been writing down names of lots of "wants" so I can look them up later.

Usually I am drawn to the 'hot' colors, like in the second arrangement, but that arrangement with the callicarpa caught my eye.

I'm not doing much today, except looking at lots of photos from the contest. WOW!!! You really have to pace yourself. It can be overwhelming, so am taking breaks every so often.

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Just what I always wanted "Men in trees"
What we did in the garden today.

chain saw instruction

nearly done

done

Awe ... poor tree .....

Yeah! .... new garden!!

UGGGGGH Move the shade loving hostas.
The tree had been staked by former owners who pulled up the stakes but left the wire giuides that grew over the wires,killing the tree. The guides were about seven feet up. In July all the needles dropped off in one day.

What kind of tree, Jo Anne?

So sorry that happened to you ge1836. I think you should have to pass a test before you are allowed to have a tree :(

Spirea thunbergii 'Ogon' starting to develop its blush tones.

With P. Summer Wine.

Ge can not believe they previous owners left the wire wrap on teh tree - incredible.

Victor - Spirea thunbergii 'Ogon' is the one that avant gardens sent as an extra - nice picture - hope mine grows up soon. i think the little henry is behind it. I'm also jealous that you bloom earlier and your leaves are still turning. everything here is pretty much on the ground - big fall clean up is here.

The leaves are really just starting to fall here now. You will love Ogon, Bill. It's one of my favorites.

The previous owners of my house had a 'synthetic burlap' choking the weeping beech. They must have assumed it was real burlap. Luckily I got it off in time but you can still see the marks in the bark.

JoAnn those are great pics, sorry to hear about your tree.

Sometime ago when I was a teenager, my mom bought this fruit tree that was pretty little and then a couple of months later she hung a bird feeder on it that someone had given her as a gift. It had this maybe 6mm gage wire that was used to hang from. I mentioned to her a while later that I thought that it was digging into the tree and probably needed something different to hang it. Long story short, about a year later I tried to pull that wire out of the tree branch (wich was actually a leader on the tree now) and couldn't do it. She still didn't want it cut off. So, to this day that tree still has a bird feeder stuck in it. I did cut one end of the wire off a couple of years ago, but now the top of the "roof" of the bird house is digging into the bark. I'm undecided about finally cutting it off w/o her knowing (i'll replace the hanger for it) or just letting nature take it's course and see how it plays out. So far that silly tree seems to be just fine.

I'm jealous that you all still have most of your leaves! I'm sure that they'll set sooner in the spring as well.

Shelly, that is an unusual color for a kousa, but very nice. I like it better than the usual color, in fact.

Nice Heuchera, ROBINDOG. I love just about any kind of Heuchera.

Jan, that's a bummer about your cold. I know how that feels. I'm still having trouble with brochitis/sinus infection. Finished antibiotics last night and still don't feel any better yet, but last time I had bronchitis 1 1/2 years ago it lasted for about 12-14 days from the first day I started the antibiotics, which are the ones you take for just 5 days. Seems they don't work any quicker than the ones you take for 10 days or so, just a lot fewer to take, and therefore easier to remember. I hope you're feeling better soon and that your cold doesn't get worse.

Oh, poor tree, JoAnn! Hate to see things like that happen to a good tree.

Victor, nice 'Ogon' spirea, and looks great with 'Summer Wine'. Poor beech, Victor! I love the any form of beech tree. Alas, I have no room for one here, unless I got the columnar type, which name escapes me at the moment.

Karen

What's worse is when that happens to dogs. When people put a small collar on a puppy, then neglect it and never remove it. The damage it does is horrid. I hate to see that.

Karen

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Karen. Have to take mom for an echocardiogram tomorrow, so I'll see if I need to go myself.

Love the 'Ogon'. Yep, it's going on my list.

Thanks. Hope both of you feel better!

Thanks, Victor. I need to get back into my gardens. So much to do.

Karen