June 2016 Blooms - part 1
Please enjoy. Helen
Mama Africa 1st year, ordered from Lugwig's Rose early this year. It has powdery mildew in my garden but the blooms are exquisite and they last forever on the plant (a couple weeks). Even when the blooms are old, they have a very interesting look to them.
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Comments (13)Thanks :))) Karen, Some color combos for yellow: ...with shades of purples and blues, shades of red/orange white, and greens. Mixing the reds and oranges with yellow is going to be more "hot" while sticking with more blues and purples will give a more "cool" or tranquil effect and white ties everything together. A few years ago I wanted to add a punch of red here and there because I had SO much yellow with purple and blue and now this year with all the volunteer red poppies and maltese cross (and even their volunteers) I'm VERY thankful to have all the white LOL! Don't forget anything with big or dark green foliage works too for different texture against fine foliage like yarrow. That is something I'm always lacking here because everything I have is usually fine textured and in the silver or blue/green catagory...like lavender, hyssopus, golden marguerite, yarrow, ect. Usually these are the most tolerant of drought and heat so I tend to go for these the most ((sigh))...See MoreWhat's Blooming in Your Garden - a Photo Thread - June 2015 Part 2
Comments (51)Several of the perennial Geraniums are in bloom, include this dark-leafed variety, probably Midnight Reiter. It's much looser in growth than I expected. The reverse of clematis Rebecca There's quite a bit in bloom now, but the dark buds of this hand-me-down phlox is nice. Bed behind the house, mostly blue, purple, orange, and gold. Not sure of the clematis ID off the top of my head, but the daylily is the weedy old-fashioned one, perfect for holding the slope, Knophia is a seed-grown unnamed, and the Caryopteris is Sunshine Blue. Further along, Scabiosa Butterfly Blue (which needs deadheading) with a young Spiraea Ogon And a favorite clematis that seems happy here, Venosa Violacea. And turning around, the corn is so far past the "knee high by the fourth of July" goal, that it's already over the farmer's head, so it must be close to 6' already. The wet spot on the left side is wet again after about 5" of rain in 10 days or so....See MorePlant Swap 5 June 2016 in San Antonio -email for address tect1@att.net
Comments (3)The swap was fantastic and the hospitality was incredible. Thanks, Vivian. Thanks to all for the fried chicken, the fried rice, cookies, fresh lemonade and mojitos, etc., It's always great to meet new gardening friends. Thanks, too, for all the new plants and related gardening items. Your generosity was amazing. (We've started 30 more orchid tree seedlings for the next swap.) :-)...See MoreWhat's Blooming in Your Garden - a Photo Thread - June 2016
Comments (43)Molie and defrost, your rock encircled gardens are both very beautiful! Jane, that Salix integra was worth all the effort you put into caring for it. It looks so light and fluffy! Claire, your impressive rugosa rose bush is what I hope mine will become! I love your other roses, but my luck with growing roses of any other kind has not gone well. I think it is just too cold here for most of them. We visited the Calvin Coolidge homestead last year. It is not far from where we live, and at a slightly higher elevation than our house, so I have to figure that if the massive rugosa rose bush next to their preserved house can thrive, so can the same type of rose on our own property. Molie, you are quite right that the wading birds would dine on goldfish at your home! "Blue heron attack" is a recurring theme on the koi pond forums! I think our pool placed right next to our house and surrounded by open land is a deterrent, but there are many creatures always on the lookout for a free fish dinner. I haven't noticed birds drinking from the pool, but many insects find that the artificial lily pads and plants provide safe footing to land and drink. Of course any unfortunate enough to fall into the water will become fish food! We do also have our brook, surrounded by pussywillow bushes, so I imagine most birds find that a safer place to drink and/or bathe....See Morebayarea_girl_z10a_ca
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThank you everyone for the kind words.
Beth, I remembered we ordered Mama Africa around the same time from Ludwigs' Rose. I just moved it to a more morning sun location and hope it won't have powdery mildew anymore. It makes me smile every time I see the blooms that you posted. Out of the small pots come the gorgeous blooms. It's amazing. If I keep mine in that small size pots, they will refuse to bloom for me. I have a few root bounded roses in 5-gallon pots that need to be moved to bigger pots but I haven't had the time to do them yet. Pure Posh is a very nice and healthy rose. It is in one of the root bounded 5-gallon pots and it is happy to grow its roots through the bottom holes of the pot to reach the ground for more water and nutrition.
Elvi, my area is less hot than yours so I use the 21" width x 17" height plastic terracotta pot. OSH has it for $17.99. It has internal drainage reservoir with self-watering disk to prevent damaging root rot. It has no holes at the bottom so I drilled in the holes for the drainage. It was my first time learning how to drill holes and I think I did a good job :)
If you don't mind the strong green and blue colors, you can get the same green/blue pots at Home Depot for $9.98.
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