Garden Photos - Part 48

here are the two I grew

the other one

they still look really pretty to me, even if the petals are smaller. they look more "starlike" like that.

I guess they would be pretty dramatic as a mass of 10 plants or so.
They just seemed "unfinished" to me.

I find them interesting but im with Jo Ann, I like them full petals and big blooms!

Patti love those cardinal pics. The amar. in the lower left of the collage looks like the one I bought my mil for Christmas.

it grows at my place wild do you know they are wild carrots and also blue asters grow wild over my way it is nice in the fall all those pretty little asters along the woods I did take some out last fall as I was cleaning out a bed of 12 by about 100 made by the last owner but she didnt keep it up and all I found was asters and service berries but this spring I am going shop for hostas and astibes since its all in the shade started the columbines yesterday two flats of them they will look great with the other two but I wont have the right effect for a couple of years I going to try and zig zig the hostas and every opening in the back will have astibe and the front openings will have columbine the short green with the tall fancy ones I think they are called orientals hoping that will make it look better since that bed runs the lenght at the front of the house.

I see Celeste's 'Baby Blues' DL is the current random plant!

Hey! Cool!!! Thanks for the heads-up Vicotr!!

Catching up with this thread. My goodness all these lovely pics of amaryllis, cardinals and those pics of QAL , holy cow. Always neat stuff to see here. Oh and congrats to Celeste on random pic. Very nice.

Victor, I noticed you have pictures of Clematis 'Dutchess of Edinburgh' on PF. It looks so pretty. I especially love that it starts out green. I have a thing for green flowers these days. Do you have it growing in shade or sun? I'm looking for some Clematis for shade or part-shade. Another question, do you add some support to get your Clematis to climb through your shrubs? Any help would be appreciated, I've never grown Clematis before and I know you have quite a collection of beauties.
Dyane

Hi Dyane,

Hope all is well with you. How is the baby doing? How was her first holiday?!

I have three plants of Edinburgh. One in full sun and two in part. The ones in part do fine. As for climbing through the shrubs - no support, except for a twig or something to help it get started if it can't reach. Best shrubs to use are ones that have a fairly open, but not too open, structure. Too closed - like an arborvitae, for example, and there is not much to grab onto. Too open, or when there is too much space between successive branches, and it will require your assistance to help it climb higher. That's perfectly fine, as long as you remember. If not, it will flop.

Thanks, Victor. Baby's First Christmas was great. Her older sister (who was only 17 months at Xmas) "helped" her open her presents and promptly ran off with them!! It's fun with the babies but they don't really know what's going on yet as far as holidays go.

Thanks for the Clematis tips. I have a line of Forsythia along the back property line that I will be replacing with other flowering trees/shrubs in a few years but in the meantime I thought it might be fun to try and grow some Clematis through them. Sounds like it shouldn't be too hard. I'm just trying to find a few varieties that don't mind being shaded.

Great to hear about the babies and Christmas! Silver Moon is very shade tolerant.

Thanks, I'm making a list.

Hagley Hybrid is another.

So far I've come up with

Dutchess of Edinburgh, Hagley Hybrid, Daniel Deronda, Guernsey Cream, Kiri Te Kanawa, Nelly Moser, Pink Fantasy, Vyvyan Pennell

Any experience with these?

I had a huge spread of nelly moser covering the fence across my driveway for 20 years until someone being "helpful" didn't know better and yanked it all ... never recovered .... have to plant more.

Dyane I have those as faves for the clem co-op.
Daniel Deronda is a stunner.

I grow the first three - had success with all.

Dyane, I bet that you have some really sweet pictures of older sister helping younger sister open her presents. You definitely have your hands full with them being so close.
I have both Guernsey Cream and Vyvyan Pennell in locations where the get a couple hours of full morning sun (maybe 8-10am) and only filtered light after that. They're both only 4 or 5 years old and had maybe 15 blooms on them each last year. I thought that was pretty good given their age and lack of sun. The ones that I have that do the best in the shade are my montana's. It's likely only because they are such prolific bloomers in the sun, that shade just slows them down a little. what they lack in size of bloom, they make up for in fragrance! They get about an hour of full sun in the morning and hour in the late afternoon, filtered light in between. If I had to guess at a number of blooms on them, it was likely around 60 or more on each plant. Although, they are a little older than the other clematis. I think that I planted them 6 or 7 years ago.

The sun was out this last weekend. A little chipper, but I don't care because there was sun! So I did my regular weekend walk(s) between local display gardens and a couple of cold houses. Mostly witch hazels beginning to bloom. But there are a few others.

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no introduction needed here. second viewing for you Karen!

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another

hebe

the black willows are almost out!!!!

sorry I couldn't get a better pick of this rd., But I would've had to have hiked quite a ways up a nearby hill to get a straight shot and the wind was going at 40+ mi... So, you'll just have to settle for some slightly crooked pictures. this rd I took on the way over to eastern oregon weekend before last. It was the rd punched in through the cascades that precede the freeway.

another view of it, these turns were just above the ones in the first pic. It's the only rd that has the potential to make me car sick---when I'm driving!

ok, that's all for tonight. maybe more in the morning.

Good morning RC
I am so Johnzin for a Witch Hazel, maybe DD and I can work something out for next year.
OMG The pic of the drive thru the Mts. Just beautiful.

Morninr Jo Ann. The early bird as usual! Why wait for next year! Get a head start and get one this year! I have more pix of them to add, but it will be later today. I agree about that stretch of Rd. It's something!! Have you ever seen that "Zoom Zoom" add for Mitzubishi cars where this car is zipping around some rd with a bunch of 180deg corners in it? I think that there's more than one. Anyhow, if I didn't know better, I would swear that it was filmed on that rd!

I have to negotiate very carefully w/DD . We agreed we wouldnt start any new gardens.
But I might be able to enlarge an exhisting one in such a way as it will need a WH. Do they get really big?
Just chose my clems for the co-op

wow, those are all beautiful clemas. Very bright and cheery. Some witch hazels can get farely wide in time. They tend to be broader than tall. But, they can be encouraged at an early age to avoid that. But there are some smaller growing varieties as well as a weeping one

I fell in love with the wide aspect.
I saw a picture of one at the edge of a Cherry orchard.
Sooo beautiful in bloom, against the black winter bark of the cherrie trees
Can yo name some of the smaller varities? It would go near some Vibernums.
This is a head on of a area that swings to the right and follows a line of spruce trees.
I want to deepen that border for poppies ,maybe I could fit in a WH

Yeah, i can come up with with smaller varieties, but I think I'll wait until after sleep when i'm working with a clearer mind:-p It sounds as if it was a very impressive view of the hazel!!

Your pictures are always great.
Nighty nite

RC, that road reminds me of one we took from Durango to Silverton to Ouray Colorado. One of the most beautiful road trips I've ever taken.

Beautiful shots, Shelly.