Show Us Your Gardens - A photo Thread - September 2016
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Comments (28)pixie_lou: Nice job on the hardscaping in the front of the house - have you decided what you want to plant in that big empty space on the left? nhbabs: Gorgeous pictures! I love the muted colors, particularly the delicate pinks and the morning mist view. Nothing very dramatic here for the end of September - lots of berries and grasses and goldenrod. The cotoneaster along the wall: Volunteer crabapple fruits: Winterberry with Euonymus 'Silver King': Winterberry with Osmanthus 'Goshiki': Miscanthus 'Cosmopolitan' is beginning to bloom, but the seedheads aren't all fluffy yet: About half of the seedheads are open. The birds are finding them. The old forsythia leaves are turning red: The path to the house is getting wilder: The wisteria pseudo-standard keeps trying to extend its reach and I keep cutting it back. I usually leave some vines in the skirt if they're not a tripping hazard. You can't really see them in the previous picture, but the three big Blushing Knockout roses are blooming. Not a huge flush but still pleasing. Sedums with Juniper 'Grey Owl': A few plants are still green. Maybe it's because of the shade but the slugs haven't bothered these. Hosta 'Paul's Glory' with variegated Solomon's Seal: and Hosta 'Northern Exposure': Claire This post was edited by claire on Mon, Sep 29, 14 at 12:41...See MoreShow Us Your Gardens - a Photo Thread - November 2016
Comments (25)Susan: Your beautiful Japanese maple somehow reminds me of Lucille Ball in all her glory. It makes me smile. Bob Lem: I hope your lilac is saving some blooms for spring! A few non-flower pictures: My two Ilex opaca 'Goldies" are beginning to develop yellow berries and they coordinate nicely with the climbing hydrangea fall foliage. The white pine 'Nivea' is covered with cones: And an old birch that's on its last legs (or would be if it had legs) has developed a nice collection of bracket fungi AKA shelf mushrooms: Since none of them seem to have squirrel bites I suspect they're not edible, or at least not tasty (not that I was going to try them myself). Claire...See MoreShow Us Your Gardens - A photo Thread - September 2017
Comments (36)I have two, and they sometimes die back a bit in winter, but that is most likely due to the voles which are particularly bad in this bed. They should be rock hardy for you. The Ogons are 3 & 4 years old, started from rooted cuttings. The white flowers are early (before the foliage has mostly unfolded) and nice, but not super long lasting. To my eye, the foliage is the main attraction and really sings all season, delicate and bright yellow-green, transitioning to orange tones in fall. Mine is in full sun, and it may be less yellow in less sun. There is a much older one in a garden a couple towns over that has foliage interest, and that one is in morning sun but is shaded by the house by midafternoon. It stays more yellow than the green plants and it's a beautiful fountain of fine-textured foliage all season. I think it's probably 6' or 7' high. I don't think this is a plant that wants a lot of pruning....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 Morespedigrees z4VT
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