what's blooming and what's happening 13 June?

15 years ago

Hi NE gardeners.

What's blooming/happening in your gardens? I have finally finished spreading my mulch (4 yds) on top of the 5 yds of loam I needed earlier. I wonder why my neck and shoulders hurt?

Plant swap treats are mostly in, with Annabelle seedling about to bloom! Weeds are really in full force, but weeding time is limited. Need to start deadheading -- iris, peonies (tho most made it in to big, luscious, buxom bouquets), scabiosa.

My favorite bloomers right now:

A really pretty unnamed kalmia. Broken Arrow donates their rejects to the NEWFS for their annual sale. It may be a reject, but I like it!

'Snowflake' Hydrangea quercifolia is just starting, as well as it's neighbor Aruncus dioicus (not in this photo).

The achilleas, nepeta and other drought-tolerant perennials are starting in my daylily bed. It's much nicer since I added a little variety.

A bad pic of 'Pink Mist' scabiosa in the midst of heuchera and salvia is pretty in person.

My bad karma black hole is looking a little better, with echinacea 'Sunset' buds coloring and a cerise pink achillea starting.

A bad pic of nice Penstemon digitalis 'Huskers Red,' which is looking lovely in various spots around my garden.

Looking forward to hearing what's up with you all.

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triciae
15 years ago
I love your kalmia also...very nice.

In bloom now:

Peony (unknown name - gift from friends' garden)
Rose 'William Baffin'
Iris - dozens
Geramium 'Biokovo'
Baptisia 'Twilight Prairieblues'
Clemetis 'Crystal Fountain'
Corydalis lutea
Weigela 'Wine & Roses'
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diablo'
Columbine (free-seeded crosses that showed up from neighbor's gardens)
Corydalis ÂBlackberry WineÂ
Heuchera 'Firefly'
Allium 'Globemaster'
Ajuga (fading quickly)
Saponaria ocymoides (I love this plant!)
Geranium cantabrigiense 'Karmina'
Ladies Mantle

There's gotta be more than that but I can't think of them.

/tricia
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Nancy Vargas Registered Architect
15 years ago
Blooming now:

Clematis
David Austin Roses
Campanula
Lady's Mantle
Peonies
Columbine
Iris (although my immortality is all gone due to heat)
Salvia
Bleeding heart (still!!!)
Climbing hydrangea

A little disappointed that my poppies "raspberry" are severlely stunted. I suspect voles again. They were promising a great show and now almost nothing!

Foliages are all looking pretty great
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Roses and irises and peonies! Oh my!
With all that eye candy my eyes would burp if they knew how...

The Zephirine Drouhin roses continue to grow up on the porch. They smell wonderful and have almost no thorns (important on a porch).

This shot of irises was from a week ago. I like the change in levels - the siberian iris on top of the stone wall and Beverly Sills bearded iris on the bottom, with cotoneaster carpeting the wall.

This morning I opened the shades and saw a hummingbird sitting on the Rugosa Yankee Lady. It didn't seem to be getting nectar from the rose, but the feeder is right next to it and the hummingbird was probably resting between snacks.

Also in bloom:
Dicentras
one hellebore
geraniums Biokovo and Macrorhizum
one daylily
Alchemilla
Kalmia
Leucothoe
ajuga (ending)

As for what's happening, I had to stake up a Carefree Beauty rose. The rose was stuffed between two big New England asters last year and refused to bloom, so I moved the asters a month or so ago. So now the rose decided to bloom, but to flop all over the irises. I made a tripod out of three 6 ft bamboo poles (on sale for 79c each at Ocean State Job Lot) and tied them together with twine. I then used a cable tie on top of the twine to make it more permanent. (Mindy might be interested). The poles are shoved into the ground a little bit which helps with stability. I don't know how well it will last, but the rose seems happy now.

The tripod is lopsided, but I was working in the middle of a planting bed with a panicky rose flailing around (with thorns).

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barefootinct
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My bleeding heart is still bloooming too, WG. It was some year for the monster bleeding heart! (it is fading, however)

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Peonies...although why is it that every year when they just pop we get a few days of incredibly strong storms and their beautiful blooms are detroyed. Why? Why?
May Night Salvia
Nepata
Knock-out roses, pink and red
Dark Maroon Irises, still in bloom
Painted daisies, but fading
Callirhoe (poppy mallow) looking lovely this year
Ice plant
Nasturtium I grew from seed! Yay!
A great year for my Kousa Dogwood. Wowsa!
My Clematis is killer also, this year
Kalmia
Bellflower
Johnson's Blue Geranium still going
Lamium Purple Nancy...just looking O.K. this year.

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diggingthedirt
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Great photos, Mayalena. My swap plants are also either in the ground or at least have spots picked out for them. Lots of mulching and weeding going on, but time seems to be flying and none of this year's projects has moved forward at all.

In bloom here: Herbaceous peonies, various clematis, astrantia, some of the more interesting Alliums, Cotoneaster, rhodies, campanula (persicifolia plus some of the more rampant short ones), lyre-leaf sage, dianthus, armeria, heuchera, all sorts of perennial salvias, columbine, mountain laurel, foxglove, red valerian, sambuccus, styrax japonicus, swamp azaleas.

All sorts of hydrangeas and lavenders are just budding up, along with the "western" (orange) agastaches. Buds are forming on the Stewartias - yay! This year I have lots of different kinds of nepeta, and while Blue Wonder has been cut back (in hope of rebloom?) Walker's Low is in full swing, and 6-Hills Giant is just beginning.

The most interesting plant in bloom in my garden, though. is Crambe cordifolia. I'll try to get a photo when I have a minute and a charged battery.
runktrun
15 years ago
EveryoneÂs gardens look so lovely and much further along than mine I believe I am 1-2 weeks behind the rest of you.
I have an over the top, uncontrollable, irrational fear of rodents and my neighbor to the east clear cut his property last fall, my neighbor to the west built two wings and a garage this spring and his neighbor knocked down his barn that abuts an agricultural field replacing it with a new home. I seem to have the only safe property for ALL of the small critters in the area which I was tolerating the massive rabbit destruction, the skunks that got under bird netting and dug up my moss, but the gargantuan sized barn rat now living in my front garden is more than I can bare. I have called the pest control people and they put out poison/bait traps for the rat but now what if I stumble on a rat carcass??? I may need to take a break from gardening for a while.
I thought I would share that a sign at a nursery where I bought a caster bean plant added that this plant acts as a mole repellent. When I asked him about it apparently moles are not fond of the caster bean oil either. kt
barefootinct
15 years ago
A rat! Um. That would probably keep me out of my garden for, like, forever. I'd just walk away from that garden and never look at it again.

Once we spotted a small...and I mean tiny... mouse in our bedroom. I made my husband clear the room, empty all the dresser drawers, paint the walls and ceiling, and put up new curtains before I would sleep in that room again. Seriously, I slept in the living room until the work was done. I'm not joking.

Irrational Rodent Fear...yup. Give me spiders any day.
runktrun
15 years ago
barefoot,
Would you be willing to co-chair the New England Chapter of IRF (Irrational Rodent Fears) with me? I wonder how many other members would sign up??? kt
paigect
15 years ago
Sign me up to the IRF! KT, I'd be happy to loan you my Tiger for a day. He'll take care of that rat no problem. All of my neighbors have mice in their basements - - not me.

OK, let me think about what's blooming. I've been busy and neglecting my gardens, but I did a quick weeding today.

Hydrangea Annabelle - - getting ready
Spirea Little Princess
Peony Sarah Bernhardt (almost done)
Clematis H.F. Young (almost done)
Clematis Niobe
Salvia May Night
California poppies
Perennial foxglove (the yellow ones)
Lady's Mantle
Geraniums - - Victor Reiter, Jolly Bee, Rozanne, magenta type I got at last swap
Tradescentia
Knockout roses
Creeping thyme
Lavender
Mountain bluet
Clematis x durandii
Scottish moss
Heuchera palace purple

I think that's about it. I really need to make sure I get out there this week to keep up with the weeds. The crabgrass has emerged . . .
sunshineboy
15 years ago
Quick note of caution...KT, please ensure that the rat poison put out is animal safe. I know that sounds silly. But I am a veterinarian and occasionally see a very ill or dead pet after ingesting a deceased/poisoned yard pest. Castor bean pellets are a good mole/gopher repellant...but strichnine and anticoagulant poisons can kill both the pest and also the pets. Ive seen your cute lab wandering your yard in pics and Id hate her to eat a deceased/poisoned pest. Ok, safety aside...

In bloom are:
climbing hydrangea
tons of california poppies
anabelle hydrangea
daylillies
dicentra
fringed leaf bleeding heart
shasta daisies
missouri primrose
azaleas
rhodies
dianthus (look awesome)
colombine
salvia
nepeta
weigelia
peonies
nasturtium
castor bean plant
brocolli (ate for dinner last night)
jacobs ladder
foxglove
irises (finishing up)

and lastly...lots of weeds in flower that I must be picking to stop from seeding!

Enjoy the moisture and your yards...sunshineboy
diggingthedirt
15 years ago
Love your dog, sunshineboy. Isn't that an unusual breed - especially for a vet?

Your irises look lovely, too. Mine never quite make that kind of show. Either I'm not dividing them often enough or ... maybe they like to be fed.

Claire, that Zephirine Drouhin is spectacular!
runktrun
15 years ago
dtd,
Funny that rare breed dog reminds me of your pup which could be one of the best looking dogs I have ever seen.
sunshineboy,
Thanks again for the heads up about the possibility of secondary poisoning when using rat poison. kt
terrene
15 years ago
Very pretty pictures, Mayalena and Claire! It's funny how the coastal residents seem to be a week or two behind in blooms, despite having milder winters. Must be the cooling effect of the ocean in the Spring.

What's blooming - a few late-blooming Peonies, Penstemon, Gaillardia, Asclepias tuberosa just starting, Salvia, California Poppies, Scabiosa Pink Mist, Sweet Alyssum, Dill. Also, Mountain Laurel, Mock Orange, Kousa Dogwood.

Some pics -

Gaillardia, can't remember what cultivar but it's a dwarf and has come back for 2 springs now -
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Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies' -
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Penstemon 'Husker's Red' -
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A tattered Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on the Scabiosa 'Pink Mist' -
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A funny little Green Bee on the Salvia 'Caradonna' -
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This is a winter-sown seedling of Digitalis purpurea on May 27th, after it was planted it out. There is a penny next to it for scale -
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Here is the same seedling today, 3 weeks later - look at how much this baby has grown! When I look at pictures of tiny seedlings and compare them to their current size, I feel like a parent marvelling at how much their child has grown -
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