Happy- as I was getting ready to scan the charts, I read where you can find it on line....
http://www.gardengatemagazine.com/extras/58deadheadingGuide.php
May/June flowers
Holly, I have three Iris from the Coop that I can not match up exactly with photos. That Iris is one of them. It is either Pennelatta, Vivid look or El Cerritto.
Wow, away for a few days and so many posts to catch up on!
Terri, we've missed you but looking at your photos I can see why you haven't been around, you've been busy!!! Everything you've done looks beautiful and what a lovely setting, especially with the tranquil view of the pond in the background :)
linuxogre, I've been considering adding more Roses to the gardens and I'm definitely thinking more about Knock Outs with your recommendations. Love your arbor :)
Stormy, I am so envious - I've tried Campanula 'Dickson's Gold' at least twice and can't keep it alive - what's your secret? Your Martagon Lily is gorgeous! Ours is blooming and I haven't had a chance to get photos but the blooms are much smaller. As for your Bleeding Heart, if you time it right, like now, you can prolong the blooming. I've found once the foliage starts turning yellow it's almost too late. The flowering won't be nearly as nice as the early spring blooms but at least it won't just wither away!
hart, you have some beautiful Roses! I'm kicking myself because one of the vendors last weekend at JMU had some very healthy Roses for sale - New Dawn was one of them. If I hadn't already bought a slew of other plants I might have been able to "hide" just one under our table. I think Rick would have slapped me if I did though, I've still got plants to get in the ground that I bought in April! I'm working on it, got a little planting done yesterday morning but I've got a long way to go :(
Bec started a continuation thread since this was getting long "June Flowers" Here is the link http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/996584/
ON MOUNTAIN LAUREL.............. the best way to probagate would be to send your nickel to a nursery for a potted plant. The second best way would be to air layer. Cuttings in a cold frame taken just as new growth begins to show in the spring. I have heard of some backyard players working in a blend of sand and peat while using semi-soft new growth. The former Billerbeck Applichian Nuseries near Waynesboro rooted his cuttings in Pennsylvania Peat and Vermiculite in a green house with high humidity.
To dig them from the state owned forests is illeagal. In most states that is true of most if not all plants. In spite of the fact that illeagal is just a sick bird you still can not dig them with much success. The problem is the roots are scattered all over the mountain and can not be taken with the plant. What you go home with is ten years worth of plant and one years worth of roots.
It only takes a year to develop a nice root base by air layering. Go for it. Go fifty yards back in the woods where casual notice would not be likely or go to private land with permission.
Thanks, Doc!!
Thanks Doc, you have dmail
Some blooms on the Red Epis have already bloomed,,,,,Here are the next-to be ones! I am SOOO thrilled!!!!
Will post about 3 pictures of them on three different fronds.....Weird how they just creep out of a leaf!!!!! And then--become these awesome blooms!
One...
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Two---more "pregnant" fronds.....Can't wait for this one to all open!
These are well on their way......
Sorry that this is so fuzzy! This is fully open!
Hart--HERE ARE YOUR CLUSTERED BELL FLOWERS!
They finally "took" in my "YUK" bed!!!! SO pretty!!!! I look forward to them multiplying a lot!
And--Jill--Your Not Chocolate daisies just started blooming....
AND--The T-showers just hit---it is pouring out there.....
Hurrah, Gita! Now don't panic if we go into a real hot dry spell and they disappear. They'll come back before the summer is over. And they will spread for you too, not super fast. It took them about 6-7 years to fill the big bed where I planted mine.
Oh, and Debbie, you're welcome to cuttings from my New Dawn. It's a tough one too.
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Hope you gave that Not Chocolate Daisy plenty of room -- my clump of 3 plants has become huge! I WS'd some seeds for a variegated version... cute little seedlings... will pot them up for fall planting.
That red epi is gorgeous! No buds on either of my epis... But a lady who dropped in the other day with Aspenhill fell in love with your Ric Rac cactus (growing gradually larger from a piece you gave me a while back), and I broke off a piece for her. It's never bloomed (but I think it does?) for me, but it just looks really cool.
Bec started a continuation thread since this was getting long "June Flowers" Here is the link http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/996584/