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Comments (4)One of my sisters appears to have one of the Ice Angels series (or probably one of the precursors to it judging by the age, but the flower looks like Ice Follies"). She lives in Delaware County, PA, which has been a Zone 7 for some time. Hers, inherited by the previous owner of the house (who was also the original owner when the house was built in the '50s), is several decades old and is probably close to 10 - 12ft tall. It is also a spring bloomer (starting around April and going into May). Neither she nor I nor any of the old-timers who live on her street who were also original owners - most in their 80s now, knew what it was! We just haven't seen these up here - at least prominently in the landscape. Once I ID'd it thanks to GW, on a visit to my sis when she had a BBQ for the neighbors, I let them all know and they were appreciative since all loved it over the many years. My sister and her DH have only lived in the house for 3 years now, but just from observations, it will get some winter burn on the leaf tips but the buds seem to do very well down here. It was planted across from a neighbor's garage wall in a south-facing location. She had since put up a 6ft privacy fence between the garage and her property, so the protection should be similar or even better. These are very slow-growing and I expect it has taken hers ~30 - 40 years to get to that size. Depending on how big a shrub you buy, it could take at least a decade or two to get to 6ft. I don't know how hardy the buds are but they seem to skirt our late frosts and snows down here. I can't vouch for your weather up there. We haven't had below 0° F in 11 years. I think most northern gardeners have the fall-blooming ones so they don't have to worry about late frosts in spring that can decimate the spring-bloomers. Here's what hers looked like last year (we were by there Easter this year and it had alot of nice fat flower buds on it):...See MoreMost Fragrant Camellia?
Comments (48)This is obviously a little late in this discussion, but if you're still there, there are two other fragrant camellias I really love- the very sweetest strongly scented plant I know of is a lutchuensis hybrid from New Zealand called Quintessence. It's a white single with spreading growth- in fact, a true dwarf camellia. After 20 years+ it is still not more than 2' tall (c. 3' wide). It grows in a very protected garden in Portland OR with a sheet put over it when it snows. Would make a great container plant but don't let it get cold. I don't know where you'd buy it- a nurseryman friend brought it directly from NZ. The other is a single white/pink sport of Cinnamon Cindy called Cinnamon Scentsation (don't confuse this with the japonica scentsation). A friend has a large plant of this here in Portland and on a warm spring day I could smell that sweet plant from 6' away! Lovely scent- it's another hybrid by Wm. Ackermann whose lutchuensisXjaponica cross he named Cinnamon Cindy. If you'd like this, Kathy at the Van Veen Nursery in Portland OR will make you rooted cuttings of it for a very reasonable fee....See MoreSome photos of my flowers
Comments (54)PM, If you build a mound starting with rocks and even concrete rubble, bricks, cinderblock etc. then a layer of medium stones, then gravel and finally a nice sandy loam, you'll have a great start. This could be a feature of your garden or even used as a berm for interest. (I think multiple levels in a garden make it much more interesting than a flat site.) I mentioned "White Sands" because of the intense red flowers. I am hoping to create a dedicated cactus and succulent garden soon, now that I'm retired. Well placed rocks will create the backbone, but they MUST be to scale. Small ones just look wrong in my opinion. I'd rather have a few large ones placed with the striations going in the same direction, as you see them out west in natural rock outcroppings. NO WAY would I place small round rocks painted white! Yeccch! For accent, I envision spiky yucca and agave, with mounds of prickly pear and echinocereus here and there most likely placed against a rock. Between them and the rocks, I would fill in with sempervivums, sedums and ice plants. There are also a lot of xerophytic plants that have a very soft look and would contrast the spikiness of the other plant material. Portulacas are good annuals, as are gazania and most of the mediterranean herbs too, like hardy rosemary and thmye. It's a different kind of gardening but can be very beautiful too. You don't really need full sun all day for most of these to do OK. Just because they CAN tolerate sun all day doesn't necessarily mean that they have to have it. I've seen plenty of cactus out west doing just fine in the shadows of huge cliffs or among pine trees where they get dappled light part of the day. Would you like some prickly pear pads? They will tolerate our wetter soils better than other types. Basically you can throw them on the ground where you want them to root and walk away! Of course you can give them a little more attention by rooting in sandy soil in a pot for a few weeks. Bill...See MoreQoestionable 'Found' Rose List #1
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