Show Us Your Gardens - A photo Thread - July 2017
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Comments (39)Molie, I have a few white daylilies, but 'Light the Way' is really quite stunning. I also love 'Delia O'Brian Brown'. Steve, I can smell those lilies through the screen! And I'm sneezing! LOL! I really love the look of lilies, but I'm so allergic to them. Tried them for a couple years but just had too many issues. Then the beetles came.......then I really gave up. Will have to continue to enjoy your great photos! Isn't Marie's garden awesome?! I'm so glad Barb took pics while we were there. One of those gardens that is just so much fun to stroll around and find all the cool stuff planted. Such a wide variety. Claire, my viburnum was flowering beautifully, until they all started to turn brown, shrivel up and fall off. So no berries for me this year. I was just happy that the shrub appears to be OK. I was a little worried when the flowers were giving it up. I really like that carefree delight rose. Soooo pretty. Rooguchi clematis has been a blooming powerhouse for weeks. It doesn't show much sign of slowing down yet. Mohawk viburnum with its beautiful berry display. I love the way they change colors over time. Sorry for the blurry photo. I really need to ditch my point and shoot and go back to my D-SLR. But you get the idea. It's loaded with berries.....and the birds and critters never eat them. The daylily bed never disappoints. Delphiniums are now all cut down in cottage area. Hoping for a repeat bloom this fall....See MoreShow Us Your Gardens - A photo Thread - July 2016
Comments (30)Hi Defrost. You can pick up the nasturtium seeds that have dropped in the fall, but mostly I pick them off the plants after they have formed and are ready to drop off. This requires letting the blossoms go to seed, as opposed to picking off dead blooms to keep them neat. I bring the seeds indoors and dry them on paper towels. Usually I let them dry for several months, which is probably overkill, and then I store them in paper envelopes until spring. Nasturtiums are one of the few annuals that I do not start in pots indoors, but just plant directly in the ground on the last day of May. I'm in zone 4 (although I think sometimes our climate is closer to zone 3) so if they grow for me here, I'm sure they would germinate planted directly in the ground for you, probably planted earlier. If memory serves, you are in MA or CT? Much warmer than here. My mom grew them one summer (Boston area) when I was a kid, and my job was to water them! They captured my imagination then, and I still like them now, many years later! This photo shows a clump of seeds about half formed in the center of the picture. They grow in clumps of 3. I hope this is helpful. Also I neglected to mention, pinkmauisunset, how much I love your gladioli! How do you manage to keep yours upright? I finally have mine corralled between a wall and a fence to keep them from falling over, and I shall see how well that works.. It is a pain to have to bring the corms indoors for the winter, but the show they put on in summer is worth it! Also Molie, I am so taken with your Canadian border patrol daylilies. The name and how well it fits is the biggest draw! I tried to find some to buy but with no luck. Apparently new daylily strains are fleeting and become obsolete in a few years. Therefore I shall just enjoy photos of yours!...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - Jan & Feb 2017
Comments (55)Well, I finished the rose pruning today and removed vast quantities of deadwood; enough so I could unravel most of the healthy canes and hoist them onto the shepherd's hooks. I did have to cut out some green stuff as well. This was the rose pathway on January 8, 2017. I only shoveled as far as the rose blockage. After the snow melted I was able to shove the roses up a bit so I could sidle past, but I got bitten each time. That's sweet Autumn clematis on the shelves to the right. That doesn't bite. And this is what is left today. I won't describe the state of my favorite work shirt that took the brunt of the thorny resistance (the hat and sunglasses and gloves protected most of me). I also cut back the sweet Autumn clematis that's growing on the fence and the storage shelves. The real test will be whether the roses bloom around the Fourth of July as usual. I also need to figure out how to maintain the roses so they don't get this tangled up again. Claire...See MoreShow us your gardens - a photo thread - April 2017
Comments (26)Finally spring appears to have arrived! I'm loving everyone's blooms and at last have a few of my own to show. The forsythia and pussywillows alongside the brook are flowering. A lone clump of daffodils in one of my perennial beds is in bloom, but the others are not far behind. Also my blue spruce trees have grown substantially from the little twigs I planted a few years ago. They are in the tan area at right that we're reforesting. (The tan area just to the left of it is proving a challenge. Of the 10 crabapples and lilacs I planted here only a single crabapple is still growing. For some odd reason this is a blighted area!) My little pots of planted seeds are under the rain table's plexiglass cover today, as the weather is somewhat volatile with an unpredictable mix of blue sky and dark rain clouds. I think I have snapdragons, cosmos, and marigolds in this group, but time will tell when I see what sprouts. They spend the nights on the glassed-in back porch. I have other containers that go out on the front porch by day, and in the garage at night. I lose track of what is planted where!...See Moremoliep
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