Roses and scenes from an English garden...
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8 years ago
..part 1...
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8 years ago..some more...
^'Francois Juranville' in the Peony garden..
^..one of the G.S. Thomas borders...
..a few more to follow..
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A few scenes from my garden
Comments (13)Thanks all for all the compliments. I am really goofy over Wynter. Mantis, she isn't a red head, but a blond, at least now. That iris is Paul Black. Sarahlee, this is the fifth year for the dutch iris, and all I do is allow the ratty foliage to die on its own after the blooming is over....nothing else. Probably like the weather or something. I have a daylily in a pot that has a couple of bloom spikes, but it was a Bill Maryott daylily which means they were probably left form last year. I have noticed that all the blooms are coming closer together. right now, All but one peony is blooming, the roses are in their spring flush, and the iris are at peak. And the iris are so pretty this year, I will have trouble getting rid of more of them, but I do have three of them to dig up. My pictures are not up to usual quality because I have not been out early to take photos....See MoreGarden scenes: larkspur amid the roses
Comments (18)Lily, thank you for the compliments. As for edging, I do it the old-fashioned way. Using either a hoe or, if I prefer to get down on my knees, a garden hand claw, I loosen the dirt next to the lawn edge, hand-pulling out any grass or weeds that don't want to grow in a straight line. Or if the edging is a real mess because I've neglected it for a long time, I get out a shovel and insert it along the grass edge, loosening the dirt that way. Then I have to get down on my knees and use the hand claw and hand-pulling to take out weeds or grass that I don't want. I'm not always real conscientious about doing the edging, but then I remind myself that if I do it every couple weeks, it goes real fast cuz not much gets settled in the dirt where I don't want it to grow. As for lawns, I took my Dad's advice years ago (he was an ex-farm boy). In the fall feed it with a high nitrogen fertilizer (lawn food) a couple times--5-6 weeks apart--and feed it again in early spring, and then water it occasionally in mid-summer when it gets too hot and it hasn't rained in some time. Do that for a couple years, and your healthy grass will spread out and take over most of the weeds. Oh yes, I forgot the other thing: mow the grass regularly and never real low. That way the weeds never mature enough to cast seeds about, but the grass gets thicker from being "pruned" (mowed) so often. And I have been known occasionally, during the fall or very early springtime, to cast a couple handfuls of grass seed on some bare or thin spots, but then I have to remember to softly spray them with the hose a couple times a day to keep the seeds moist for a couple weeks until they germinate. That routine gets old--and as I get older, I do it less and less. There--now you know all my secrets to an acceptable lawn. The real secret is: Go across the street and look at it. If it looks nice from there, it's good enough! That bit of wisdom has saved me a lot of worry and work. : ) Kate...See MoreRoses and garden scenes
Comments (19)Great pictures, Krista! I really enjoyed seeing them all. I always admire Eglantyne, but as Ingrid said, it’s not suited for climates without a winter. Yours looks wonderful. I like your Reine Victoria very much, as well. I’m always getting it mixed up with La Reine, and need to find a clever way to make the difference between the two stick in my mind. Absolutely love seeing all the detailed shots of Stanwell Perpetual! Just how “perpetual” is it for you during your growing season? It’s a fascinating rose. I’m fairly certain I saw Stanwell Perpetual in Cliff’s garden when we went and dug out some roses he was giving away. I know it had “Stanwell”, or something very similar in the name, and I admired it very much. The blooms were exactly the same shade you show in your first photo, so I’m almost certain it was Stanwell Perpetual. This was in late January, and it was one of the roses that was most covered in blooms. The soft pink color is just beautiful! I also really like your Siberian Iris. That dark purple goes so well with pink roses. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us! Lisa...See MoreSome Images of English Roses From Summerland Ornamental Gardens
Comments (10)Thank you Vaporvac and Sheila. I very much hope that both of you can make the trip sometime too. We are trying very hard to have the new Canadian Heritage Rose Garden completely finished by next June, 2022 at which time we very much hope to be able to celebrate with a formal grand opening dedication and rose tour. We still have an arbor to build and place as the new garden's focal point and the structure on which to drape our climbing roses. We also still have quite a few roses being grown on by John in California that we could not import due to Covid and border closures. We have begun to clear more ground on the edge of the English Shrub garden to allow us to plant more of the early Austin Shrub roses. We are having to dig out old plants of Russian Sage and do some serious weeding, but are making progress, though we did break an irrigation head last week trying to get a huge old root ball of Russian Sage out from beside and under it. Russian Sage and Oregon Grape, both garden thugs, especially when they get into places where there is even minimal irrigation. We also have a site where we will be moving a few of our OGRs which are struggling in neglected areas and will also put some of Paul Bardens roses in various beds when we get them from John. That will be the culmination of my piece of the Paul Barden's Roses Are Becomming Rare currating project that we began on the Antuque Roses Forum two years ago. We will have a good collection of Paul's glorious varieties once we get them in the garden and can grow them to maturity. I am especially looking forward to growing some of his OGR hybrids here in our zone 6b winter climate. Of course that will take a few more years. I am hearing rumours that they are considering opening the border to travel in late June or July. That is still rumour, but Canada's Minister of Public Safety was apparently overheard talking about the possiblitly of late June. That would certainly be welcome news. The grand opening and dedication of the Canadian Heritage Rose Garden will likely be in the first or second week of June when our roses are at peak bloom. In normal years, we hold our rose tour at that time. So stay tuned, I will post any confirmation and dates on the forum next spring when we know for certain if it will be a go. Cheers, Rick...See MoreUser
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^Liriodendron tulipfera and the Croquet Lawn...
^an earlier photo of the Victorian pond and rose arches... I like the covered porch in the background...
^Georgian...18th Century....
.old stables...
..hope you like... I might have a different garden tomorrow...
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