What's looking good in your garden this week?
I'm afraid I'll miss the pipping going on in my hosta garden due to remodel commitments, but I took a few pictures of some that would not be ignored.
That's Mango Salsa and Southern Gold above.
Short Fat Fannie and Angel From Montgomery to the right.
All Jazzed Up (a streaker doing its thing) with LS Full Tide pipping a bit.
Sunny Side Up was new last year, first time I've seen it as it emerged. I got it from PDN.
Show what you have, pips or full leaves, or some signs of spring. I have more for another set of four pictures.
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9 years agoAnd...
Bennie McRae is a fragrant one,
Eye Catcher above.
Small Grand Prize in two pots above.
Bibb Lettuce is a Stuart Asch hosta that is gorgeous in spring but sort of disappears around August, in Mobile. I think it would like a cooler climate.
Volcano Island....whoaaa, look at that color!
Paradise Island.
More another time.
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October 2012 garden updates: what looks good/awful in your garden
Comments (22)That's awesome euqruob! What do you do with them? Are they fruit like or veggie like? I'd love to see/hear more! It's cool for sure! Here's a rescue adenium that I picked up for just a couple of bucks early this year. It was terribly abused and had gotten stuck in the holes of its cheap plastic pot. No leaves, no blooms, and virtually no soil. Now it's got a ton of leaves (and a nice pot after I cut away the old plastic one) and blooms. I really like the peppermint look of the fancy double flowers! Here's some Merremia dissecta ("Alamo vine" or "mile a minute vine") that I got as seeds from old Mr. Baker at Baker Nursery years ago. This spring I planted three seeds at the base of this 6 foot tall iron obelisk/armillary and they have quickly consumed it. Talk about house-eaters! The vines are covered early summer through very late autumn with nice morning-glory-like blooms that stay open well into the afternoon. Full, hot sun (yes even here) and fairly regular irrigation keep these vines looking great, and blooming. Take care and happy gardening! Keep the fun updates coming! Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Pics, so far, from my garden, October 2012...See MoreNovember 2013 what looks good/bad in your garden?
Comments (26)Interesting information, Mary, thanks for taking the time/effort to post it. Interesting about it being toxic to the caterpillars! Good to know! Here's a plant that's looking good now, as it does every single day of the year, good ol' Euphorbia rigida in my front garden. I have several of them out front. Some get full sun all year and some get full sun in summer and mostly shade in winter. All grow, thrive and bloom for me. I water them once a month in winter and once every week or every other week in summer. That's it. The only real maintenance is a quick once-a-year trimming of stems that have bloomed and set seed. Stems that bloomed will die (but there are always other stems that won't bloom until next year), so I trim them back to about 3 inches (new side shoots sprout from the base of the fading just-set-seed stems). So easy. The trimming is once a year, and takes a whopping 5 minutes a plant. I don't know why everyone doesn't grow these! In any case, here are a couple of kinda bad pics from this afternoon, LOL. That's an Agave parry and a "cardon" cactus (Pachycereus pringlei, a muuuuch faster, bluer growing relative of the saguaro) to the right in the first pic. Happy gardening all! Here is a link that might be useful: Pics from my garden November 2013...See MoreWhat's looking good in your garden this week?
Comments (24)Where to start....great reading what's happening in everyone's gardens. Plums are great this year....especially Green Gage and a standard prune type. Grapes are wonderful too. One of our 30 year old semi-dwarf antique apples, Northern Spy went down in an ice storm but is producing a huge crop lying down. Actually all of pear and apple trees are heavily fruited this year. I'm feeling guilty because the Sptizenberg crashed during the summer probably due to its exceptionally heavy load. What a tangled mess as it overlaps with the Northern Spy. Golden Russet which is a super apple for us is still standing as is the Jonathan, always a favorite and the Transparent. The Red Delicious is standing but as you all know it is not a good westside choice. Even had a huge first crop on my fig (Atreano) with the second crop showing some promise of ripening this year. Enjoying antique tomatoes (green zebra, pink accordian, black prince, gold medal) along with my old standbys: principe borghese, siletz, carmello. In the perennial bed the asters, rudebeckias, caryopteris, salvias, agastaches and some old roses are putting on a nice bloom show while color is beginning to show in the vibrinium, blueberries, aronias, etc. I am relieved that I did not lose too many plants to heat, draught or deer this summer. Transplanted a few shrubs yesterday to shadier spots in hopes that they will be happier next summer. Divided some daylilies and japanese iris too. Time to get started again......I think i wore myself out yesterday with the gardening and preserving but am ready to go out and enjoy the rest of this sunny day in the garden. Hope you are all doing the same! jwww...See MoreNovember 2015 what looks good/bad/great in your garden?
Comments (18)Those cantaloupes look great, I wish I had more room in my back yard for more spreading plants. Here's a few pics from my back yard this month: My tropical guava is in the ground now and I thought these tips looked pretty cool (I think it's a sign of cold stress?) I got yet another perennial spinach plant. This one is called Longevity Spinach (Gynura procumbens). Here's my other spinach, okinawa spinach. My Michelia alba is still blooming. I love how the smell lingers in the yard when there's no wind. Ylang Ylang is still doing pretty well even though it's been out in a few 37 degree nights. One of my ice cream (Blue Java) bananas is growing a flower. Hopefully it slows down a little to miss the cold in Dec/Jan, but I doubt that :)...See More
sandyslopes z5 n. UT
9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoVery nice to see leaves already in the south. Volcano Island is a colorful stand out right now.
Here comes Liberty!
Daffodils 'Delibes'
And all that bad stuff in the background is what I cleaned up today. I'm tired, but it looks so good now that it's gone. A lot more neat and tidy.... so imagine that as you look at this picture. :-)
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santamiller
9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoWoW! That Volcano Island is already awesome!
Fried Bananas
Guacamole
Fragrant Queen
Fragrant Bouquet
First year Autumn Frost
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9 years agoHey Mocc- I have the twin sister to your Volcano Island...mine is called Island Breeze. It came last year as a bonus from Hallson's, and it has that same unbelieveable color, thick leaves, and red legs. HL doesn't have Island Breeze listed, so perhaps it isn't registered? Both are wide-margined sports of Paradise Island (PPAF). I LOVE it!
-Babka
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9 years agoLovely to look at, Santa. Sandy, I can see you have a real springtime look going on up in Utah. A friend in Idaho is working in her garden now, like you are, cleaning up, watching things begin to bloom. She said it wasn't a typical winter, she did not get to play with her non-gardening toys long enough. I guess you might have experienced similar conditions.
Santa, your hosta are moving right along there, especially the fragrant family. My Autumn Frost is just poking above the ground now, almost swallowed up by the other three hosta in the same tub. I planned to separate them before now, but spring sort of snuck up on me.
My Autumn Frost shares a tub with American Sweetheart, Yellow Splash Rim--both of which are doing great--and a bit slower but nice is Moon Shadow, the smallest of the four hosta in this tub.
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9 years agoBabka, that must be how I got my Island Breeze too. I have it, took a picture today in fact.
Let's see......where did it go.... there is shadow covering it, sorry. Volcano Island is said to be a tetraploid. I wonder if IB has any ploidy to it? So far I haven't heard. Both are outstanding!
bkay2000
9 years agoIt's spring. Everything is beginning to look good. I've been playing in the dirt today and found many surprises. I had little bittty "thingys" (after all the discussion, not sure what to call them) in a big pot which once held two fairly good sized starts of Queen of the Seas. I'm not sure what happened to them, but I was ready to toss the pot. I dumped it out and it was full of roots! I'm not sure what I will do with it, but it's not dead.
So Sweet, of course, is leading the pack. It's not fully leafed out, but close.
Yes, my Squash Casserole has pink edges.
I have cold damage on Old Glory and Guacamole. I seemed to have skated on the others.
This is Sugar and Cream, which seems to have recovered from 2014 maladies.
Invincible looks better than ever
Irish Luck, one of two. This one was new last year from Hallson's
A really nice surprise. This is Fragrant Dream which was a total bust last year. It looks like what I expected of it - nice big leaves which will eventually have white edges.
Group shot.
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9 years agoNice! BKay, your group shot looks full and beautifully arranged.
I have only one Irish Luck, and it is looking good too. I looked at the leaves late today and they seemed to have a dark charcoal green blush nearer the leaf edges. Invincible isn't doing much here, but both my Invincible Spirit's made me smile.
Look at this picture of a plantaginea, if you please. Notice anything strange that should not be there? About the 12:00 position on the plant. I will be busy tomorrow I see.
Slugs give me the creeps.
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9 years ago
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