Okey dokey... here's some soggy blooms from last week...
bethnorcal9
6 years ago
Took these last week after the last rain. It's raining again now. Bloom season is pretty much over I think now...
BREATH OF LIFE CL
CAROL AMLING
CLOUDS OF GLORY
JOY
LAVENDER JOY
MEMPHIS MUSIC
PERFUME TIGER
PICNIC
RED INTUITION
SECRET
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bethnorcal9
6 years ago
THE STREAK
TROIKA
WILDFIRE
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
And some of my Japanese maples:
... and my beautiful apricot begonia opening up fuller...
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Comments (12)Oh yeah, what a lousy year for potted pansies.... I have two cement urns on my front steps that I have been planting with pansies every spring forever. They bloom and bloom till July 4th weekend or so, then I usually change them out for a mix of WS annuals - petunias, purple millet, mellies, etc. Well the pansies rotted to the core by last week and I need to pull them, but none of the annuals are more than a few inches high - too soon for them to go in. I think this is the one place I will let myself buy purchased flowering plants! So glad the penstemon have germinated for you! The Huckster red, right? Those are so late this year here, usally in full swing by now but are barely setting buds. I wish I could say that I'd gotten great germination on the astilbes and stokes you sent, but only one tiny tiny seedling in the astilbe, everything else is empty still. but they have plenty of empty company - many jugs of columbines, even rudbeckias, that have done nothing. I've never had such poor germination WSing. Some seeds germinated just fine (toad lily, silene, euphobia, penstemon prarie smoke (did you send that Eileen?) larkspur,many others) but now the problem is they just are not growing!...See MoreTwo For Soggy Sunday
Comments (16)Hmmmm....I had answered this before I took my nap. Obviously I only previewed and didn't submit. Let me try again. Those lilies in the last shot are fabulous. As I had said much earlier, I really love your clump of Black Eyed Stella. And Stella's Little sister is very pretty...like the two tones effect. Your roses and catmint and all the blooms make it appear as if your house is on a high hill. Very pretty and obviosly no drought on Long Island. kay...See MoreAre some salvias more tolerant of soggy winters?
Comments (4)Rich - I wanted to build a raised bed but couldn't decide where, then lost a silver maple in our ice storm last year so now my backyard is much sunnier and I've been studying that spot for a hummingbird garden. The salvias I have so far are interspersed along the outside edges of a mixed shrub row I planted a few years ago. I didn't do much amending when I planted them. If I have some luck growing salvias from seed this year and if last years plants return, I might have enough to start that new bed. I had divided my salvia guaranitica a few times and was planning on having lots of that to use but only had one little clump left after our horrible winter and late hard freeze in the spring last year. : ( I try to use plants that naturally do well in our poor soil rather than amend for picky plants. For the most part, salvias do GREAT here without a lot of care. That's one of the reasons why I like them. The ones I grow that are hardier like May Night are tough as nails in my unamended soil but I can't resist the ones that say zone 7 on the description. : ) Dicot - I should give salvia elegans another try. I only grew it once and while it was impressive how huge it got over the summer, I nearly went insane waiting for it to bloom. My hummingbirds were packing their bags when the flowers finally started opening. It sure was pretty though....See Morethe foggy - and soggy - brown front garden this morning
Comments (9)Oh dear Woody - gloomy indeed...and terribly reminiscent of an English February. Dunno if your forebears are Frenchies, Woody, but I have always been hugely tempted by the French peasant's mode of winter survival. According to the wonderful Graham Robb in 'The Discovery of France', the yeomanry, after seeing to their tools and burning the vine stocks, settle down into hibernation 'corked up like snails', packed into beds to quite literally sleep through the winter. And nope, not in some dark ages, but as late as 1909, the phenomenon has been recorded throughout rural France. Removed from their troglodytic cave dwellings by concerned reformers, the peasants felt more depressed at trudging up 6 flights of stairs than retiring to some basement dungeon...and even in summer, the epithet of sleepy France was true as labour cost calories so a farmer might husband their limited strength by meandering slothfully to plough a field which would normally take a day but when done by Frenchmen, might take a week. And amazingly, cash proved no stimulant to labour - Beaucaire inhabitants could make enough money in 11 days of the regional fair to spend the rest of the year smoking, hunting, playing cards and sleeping. Are we all missing a trick here? I have always been quick to down tools as soon as the household money needs are fulfilled....See More
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