More Fabulous shade plants!
May/June flowers
oh! Love the red and white!
No new pictures today! Had to come in out of the garden early today, feeling under the weather to bed for a few hours.
Tomarrow is another day.
I finally caught this guy in the act! I fill this tube every day and he is such a piggy. He dive bombs on anyone else who comes around, even the squirrels. He would fly up into the tree whenever I came out. He eats that entire holder full in about 16 hours. He even chases the squirrels and robins away from the seeds that fall on the ground!!
So sorry to hear that Lady. Yes, Scarlet! OK here's a mystery plant. Do you think this could be a Martagon or a Pumilium? I know that I planted both of those, but tags all faded..
The foliage is very strange for a lily.
Stormy, thanks for the pictures of sun loving plants thriving in the shade - opens up so many possibilities for me. I've been needing something kind of tall and spikey - I think I'll go searching for some of the peach leaved bellflowers today.
Aspenhill, you might enjoy this old thread.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/915379/
Also Tall Phlox will grow and flower very well in shade.
Stormy, thanks so much for the info. I saw Casa Blanca lillies blooming away in the shade in that old thread - can't wait to try those now too... Terri
LOL, Terry, they are growing under Black Walnut and they increase more and more each year.
You're kidding!! The black walnuts here killed lilies faster than a speeding bullet. Not to mention a slew of other plants, trees, shrubs, roses I planted before I found out about juglone.
Stormy, what is that orange rose? It's gorgeous.
Aspen, hopefully we'll have a swap soon where I can give you some of the dark purple clustered bellflowers. They love the shade. They'll be blooming soon and I'll get a photo.
Chris, I hope you're feeling better today.
Hart, I am doing better today. I think my medication and what I ate had something to do with it. I am out gardening today.
Glad your feeling better, Chris.
So glad to hear that Lady!
Hart, I went out to look at the tag which was there last fall, but is now MIA. I think that I have the receipt though. It is even more spectacular today and highly fragrant. Up until this year, it only put out about 2 blooms per season. I think that bed has just been loving that Mushroom soil and leaf mold.
This Double Knockout sits about 4' from the BW trunk.
This "Peace" rose sits about 5' away from the side of the BW. I think that it would get much more blush if it had more sun, but I'm happy to have it. We shady gardeners live on hope!!
On my way out to look at the rose, I saw my first Stella bloom.
Hart, have you seen that "Hot Cocoa" rose? I saw one at a nursery the other day and it was fabulous. As the roses faded, they took on all sorts of unusual hues.
The 'Peace" rose was my grandmother's favorite. I can't believe how well your roses are blooming in the shade.
Chris, so glad to hear you're feeling better and out digging in the dirt.
I've seen Hot Cocoa. I love orange and coral roses. My favorite, one I also killed by planting it too close to the black walnuts, was Marmalade Skies, a florabunda that bloomed and bloomed and bloomed before it died. The color was stunning and similar to the orange one in your photo but the flowers were smaller. It made up for it in the number of blooms, though.
Another favorite is a hybrid tea, Dolly Parton. Monstrously huge (get it - Dolly Parton, huge) flowers in a gorgeous dark coral. That was planted at my old house and I've never found a replacement.
The rose that first made me love roses was a climbing Peace that covered the back fence where I lived in Richmond years and years ago. It covered itself in blooms every year and was so pretty.
The only rose that survived anywhere near my black walnuts was that Dr. Huey rootstock I posted photos of above. Some might live a couple of years and then they just died, most died the first year. Dumb question but are you sure that tree is a black walnut? Because roses are extremely sensitive to juglone.
I would love to be able to grow roses in the back yard where I have more room, but there's no place back there that isn't within proximity of one or more of the black walnuts.
OK...........someone is rattling my chain. Been painting a shed. With changes that sneak in all of a sudden it was suggested that we brown tone the out building. So it is now becoming bamboo which is a tan stain with a touch of red in it strong enough to cover the grays and tans that were weather worn for years. The program is ten minutes of painting and ten minutes admiring the handy work. The camera is pouting. I promise to join the fun later today or tomorrow. LOL And my body requires three hours of cross body training three times a week. Feeling good and losing a small amount of weight.
Doc, That wasn't a chain. It was a smoke signal!!
Hart, Yes, Resin himself ID'd them for me, as well as the local tree guy. And my hands have sure been stained enough by those darn nuts.
I just ordered a climbing Westerland, a coral and a beautiful one called Dream Come True. I'm going to look for Dolly hehe and Marmalade Skies. I want a dark purple for the mix too or a deep wine magenta. I have my eye on Lasting Love.
Smoke signals...........geese you are to my Southeast while most of the winds are from the West.
Don't think that is a good way to communicate with me. Someone in Vermont is getting my messages. LOL
That's too funny, Doc. We were having discussion on the best way to propagate or transplant a native Mountian Laurel and wondered if you had any thoughts along those lines.
Could I make a suggestion? Start a new thread with that in the header. That way if anyone is looking for that mountain laural propagation info later they won't have to plow through umpteen posts in this thread to find it. We should probably do that with some of these other discussions like roses, etc. too.
Aside from really hating the long, long, long threads, I think it's almost impossible to find anything here because when you do a search, it calls up a thread that started talking about this, then went to that, then veered of onto this and a sidebar quick trip to that. If you make it through all 200 posts rambling here and there, you might be able to find what you were looking for.
I've heard Westerland is a really good rose. I've been looking at some purples. Ebb Tide is supposed to be a good one. I was kind of drooling over Falstaff, a David Austin rose that's purplish red, and then I read that William Shakespeare 2000 is a really good rose. It's not quite as burgundy as Falstaff but apparently fades to a nice purple. Indigo is another one I've seen mentioned but I prefer a much fuller rose. It's about one step up from a single. Souvenir du Docteur Jamain, Tuscany Superb and Midnight Blue I've seen mentioned too as nice purples.
Ebb Tide is fairly new so probably easy to find. It's a florabunda too so you'd get lots of blooms.
Lovely pictures everyone - I just managed to squeeze in 1++ hr in the garden pulling some weeds (read, silver maples) - pulled a ton of wildly spreading violas as well, chopped down some clems & sprayed the roses - we've had so much rain that everything is growing nicely, but, I see signs of snails, and blackspot :( Guess it's time to bring out the nuclear strength stuff!
Stormy, you might like this one. It's climbing America. It's still small because it started from a $5 Walmart plant, but it's healthy and just covered with buds and blooms.
Another bloom
An old moss rose I started from a piece I dug from the old cemetery behind me. Only blooms once but the scent is out of this world.
New Dawn climber
New Dawn and the moss rose together. New Dawn is the lighter blooms, moss is the darker pink.
Here are the clustered bellflowers I was talking about. Just starting to bloom today. In a few days, that whole bed will be awash in dark purple.
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Pink sundrops. I shear them back after they bloom and they bloom again.
Let's see, the brunnera we got in the mini coop last year, the eensy little oenothera I found at Webers last summer, the groundcover coreopis, the bellflowers. I forget what else.
Nice blooms being posted
Yes, I made up the basket. We have 6 baskets around our front porch and I made up 3 like that one. This is the first year I've tried bougainvillea and I just love it so far.
Stormy - thanks for asking Doc about the native Mtn Laurel :) We have a non-native hybrid in bloom now. I'll have to take a photo and post it, it's pretty. Your shade flowers are really great and quite cheery for the shade. I have a special shade garden that has terrible clay soil. I'll have to go back and look again and check out the link you posted for some ideas. Also, I think your lily may be a Martagon vs a Pumilum because Pumilum are usually not spotted and it looks like yours has some faint spotting. I'm by no means an expert though. Our Martagon (L. Backhouse) look terrible this year. One is mia and one is getting choked out by its surroundings!
Pretty Peony Wind. Some folks on the bulb forum ID'd it as a Martagon. My records show it to be Martagon Claude Shride. I planted several but this is the only one I can find. They must have become vole food!!!
I saw that Bouganvillia and admired it. When I lived in town (Philly) many years ago, I had one growing in my bathroom skylight. Lots of petals always dropping in the tub!! But I loved it enough to put up with the mess. In summer it would change locations and wrap all along the fire escape railings and down the fire ladder.
Question. Does anyone cut back their Bleeding Heart foliage after the blooms die? Some folks say this creates a rebloom. I have 7 or 8 kinds of Dicentra and don't know if this would apply to all.
Oh what absolutely beautiful flowers everyone is posting.
Hart the roses are great my America is looking wonderful just like yours, I'll try to get a few pics.
Stormyla, Love, Love, Love that purple flower. Have to look it up.
I was just looking at one of my bleeding hearts it is yellowing and dying back. I was wondering if I could just cut the mess back or had to leave it for a while more.
I have a chart from garden gate mag that says cut the flower stems down to the basal mound of foliage after they've finished to keep it flowering much of the summer into fall, can reseed.
Ooooh, where's said chart, Jen?
Hart, That moss rose is beautiful. I had ordered an Ebb Tide and have been eyeing that Shakespeare..
Holly, Which purple flower are you speaking of?
Hart, that Brunnera is a beauty. I think I have that one, but it is growing very slowly compared to the others.
I checked Lowes & HD. Neither one had any climbing roses. But I'm also ok with a rose that will grow to a tall bush. I only need 6' to cover that fence.
Hart, Do you want to start a June thread?
Two toned light and dark iris.
I got a freebie issue of garden gate and it's in there.
I checked the current free issue and it's not in it.
I'll have to play around with scanning a pic of it and see if I can post it here.
Thanks!!