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Comments (129)Sue, i love how the lime hydrangea leaves contrast with the house. I'm currently really interested in the designing something that contrasts well with my house. Yours look fantastic. And the containers is beautiful! It's amazing how many beautiful gardens are on this forum. Thyme, the deer ate my rhododendron buds, not squirrels. Thank goodness squirrels leave them alone! Usually by now something has eaten my astilbe buds, as well, but so far I'm in for 100% flowering this year. Unbelievable! Was considering removing them if all I ever saw were munched stems. I agree with you on the Mt Laurel. Good thing you already have a husband, or surely some single gardener would agree and woo you just to get to see that every other year! Does you husband ever get jealous of the laurel? ;-) Again, so many beautiful roses. Claire, I'm always amazed at what you've managed to fit into your property. Not only is it amazing diversity, but it ll looks like every single plant is in the perfect spot. NHBabs, you have the patience of Job with your voles. I thought I had tons of voles but i've come to find out i have far more moles. I am glad as it seems they are not doing the damage voles would! There are some voles, but I don't have the damage you and others have. I wish the dianthus has lived for you. Always a delight to see your many clematis! prairiemoon, i LOVE fragrance. i have about twelve peonies planted together, and in that mass they create good fragrance. mock orange is going on the list to plant so i can enjoy the smell. After about three days of good rain, I expect my soil is rejuvenated quite deeply now. We had rain on May 18, and one downpour in early June of which I am sure some just ran off and didn't soak in, but I was still grateful. This long soaking rain was beautiful to see. Everybody I met here talked about how happy they were to see rain! Welcome, July!...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - September 2020
Comments (58)Looks like it's time to start October. :-) Deanna - I love 'Alma Potschke' and wish I had planted it sooner. I'm trying to figure a way to add more. I did frame them with a 'Little Lime' Hydrangea and a Hardy Hibiscus which hide the 'bare knees', trying to blend it into the rest of the bed. It is taller than everything else there at this time. I expect both shrubs to grow taller and I have roses that should be taller in later seasons. The larger grass looks great with it and I'm wondering if I should have planted that closer. Any way you use it, it is an enjoyable plant. Vigorous, needs little attention beyond cutting back in spring. Very sturdy. I may try to buy another one looking for a more pink version. As for sedum, I've always grown it. If you are trying to have a low maintenance garden, it's hard to beat sedum. They bloom late, but they look fresh and clean all season and provide a large flower head even when they are green. They stay in one place and gradually spread. Mine will split and flop if they get too large. I've tried putting a peony ring on them to prevent that and it works. But at that point I will usually divide them. This year I experimented. Someone suggested deadheading the sedum to prevent the flopping. So I did that to just one plant. I also was hoping by doing that, to extend the bloom to give the bees a longer time to harvest them. It was a smaller plant anyway and I wasn't expecting it to flop, which it didn't. But I won't deadhead them again. It produces smaller flower heads and I really like the large heads that contrast with so many smaller flowers in my bed. And actually it barely extended the bloom. It bloomed less than a week after those I didn't deadhead. I love the rosy color when they are at their peak, but I don't really enjoy the rusty color they turn after that. But the plant has so many great attributes, that I can live with that, especially at a time of year when the season is winding down. As for the alyssum, in areas where I want to have a lot of alyssum, I don't mulch. And I used about 4 packets of seed about four years ago and I got a LOT of reseeding every year until this spring. I think the dry winter with no snow cover may have been the reason. But I'm planning on getting some packets of seed now and just scatter them where I want them this fall. I think I will wait until it is too cold for them to sprout. Another experiment. I don't see why they shouldn't sprout next spring, since they naturally drop seed that sprouts for me in the spring any way. Great observation about the pots. I love solid color pots too because as you said they are a better complement to the plants. Sometimes a little texture. Sue's blue pots are great. Love the very saturated blue colors. Since they are ceramic I imagine they all have to be brought inside for the winter? I would have a ton more pots like that if they could stay in place all year. I have a few, but I've also been buying more weather resistant that can stay out all season....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - November 2021
Comments (23)Dee, you bought the Julia Child rose? Wow, that’s great, it will be all ready to just start growing in the spring. So many orders have been delayed, you won’t have to wait for it to be delivered to get it in the ground. And that’s two nice roses still on your shrubs! I have a couple of buds left and I’m still amazed at how good the foliage on Julia Child and Beverly look. Petunias are really hardy annuals I guess. Too bad those never got out of their container this year…lol. But if you leave them there and pile some mulch around it they might survive the winter. Or you could stick them in the middle of a compost pile. I decided to leave my dahlia tubers in the ground. If they live they live. I dug out a grouping that was in a container and decided to put those in the middle of the compost bin. They’ll make it or they won’t. We got out and did some work today. It was freezing this morning, colder than freezing! 22F on the back porch. Normally we’d be out there early trying to get things done, but today we waited until 12n, when it was 40F by that time. Full sun, blue skies. It was very pleasant working out there. I wasn’t thrilled with the harvest from our tomatoes last year, so I decided to make more of an effort, so today, we started a lasagna bed where they are going next year. My DH cut up some cardboard and we laid that down, then he shoveled out half the compost bin and we layered that with a trash barrel full of chopped up leaves, and topped it all off with more compost. Should be much better soil there next year. I had to move a Lily bulb. The last time I had to dig one up, I had already cut the dead stems off. This time I left about 3ft of the stem on it. It was much easier to dig it up and move it that way. We are now working on getting the large annual pots emptied and put away. I left mine out last winter and two very nice 22” clay pots were all busted up. And I have some other material that is like paper mâché, cardboard, something. It’s very sturdy and has lasted many years, I just don’t know what material it is. Last year I left the pot full over winter and it developed some vertical cracks on a couple of sides. They're still useable but, this year I’m putting them away. I still have perennials in them that grew pretty large and I’m trying to find a place for them. Nepeta, Sedum and a Penstemon in one and a Phlox paniculata in the other one. I had one pot of Black Pearl Sedum waiting to be planted and we got that planted and an Oriental poppy moved out of the way of the tomatoes. And that’s that. I’m ready to stop for the day. Tomorrow morning I should be able to finish up all the outdoor pots and get them put away. DH hasn’t stopped yet. He just keeps going and going. He’s already mowed the lawn today, Set up a fire pit for company tomorrow. Broke down half of the compost pile, helped me and now he’s putting the tomato cages away in the eaves of the garage and finding a place to put a tall wooden trellis for the winter. He already tried to clean out the front gutters this morning but the leaves had enough water in them to freeze and he couldn’t get them out. Monday is supposed to be 60F, so we’ll have to wait for then. We are almost done for the season! There's barely a leaf left on trees and shrubs. We’re having company tomorrow in the backyard with a fire pit for Hannukah. My daughter already made the Brisket and DH will make the latkes tomorrow. I am really looking forward to it. When we first started getting together in the yard, I was not happy about it, but we got a fire pit and we are all enjoying it much more now that we have that. Even when it's been mid 40s, on days when the sun is out and there's not a lot of wind, it's very comfortable and such a nice change to be outdoors in the fresh air this time of year. And I hate to leave this long post on a Photo Thread with no photos [g] ....so.... My poor broken clay pots. I didn't enjoy them this year in this condition and I'm probably going to just break them up after i empty them. Pennisetum That's Babs on the left, and her brother Fritz on the right. They are such fun company! They love running through the leaves....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - November 2022
Comments (4)Surprise, there is a November thread already - good job Babs! Glad to see you are taking lots of photos of your property. That first photo is gorgeous! I love the mist in the background and the color of the sky with the pretty clouds. Quite a constrast to no leaves! We haven't gotten to that stage yet. Sue - lots of pretty plants still blooming in your garden. You do get your money's worth! That C. weyrichii Apricot is a very pretty color! My Mums bloom late too but at least this year, the warm weather is so extended that I feel like I am getting my money's worth. What a cute photo of the cat enjoying the darkening sky! Deanna - I love your friend's roses - the color combinations are so pretty! I was out yesterday moving plants around - it was such gorgeous weather, I didn't want to go back in the house. [g] My Mums are still blooming but after a rain, they splayed open and are half on the ground. Doesn't matter, they are still very pretty in beds of leaves. This is 'Beverly' this morning. I am really enjoying this rose. You can see how tall it is. It was not described as a climber but it sure seems to want to perform that way. After deadheading the first blooms, these canes shot up about 8-10ft. And really the photo does not do it justice. When I walked out the front door earlier - the stems are nice and red and it's just a very pretty sight. I do want to provide some support next year. Here's a close up of a few blooms... This is 'Savannah' Another rose that a photo doesn't quite capture how beautiful it is. It has a luminous quality to the color and the petals arrange with a button center like an old rose. Both roses are still very fragrant. Here is a very poor photo of my Penstemon 'Dark Towers'. A few weeks ago it was gorgeous. Attractive seedheads and multi shades of red, still looking pristine. It's looking quite raggedy today. I'm moving them around this fall to try to get a better combination of their fall colors....See More- 17 days agolast modified: 17 days ago
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