Time for some happy pics....
mbug_gw
5 years ago
,After my last post with the ugly HVX pictures, it's time to get back to some happy hostas.
Ivory Cost.....posted one not long ago, but I really liked this new pic.
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Front side yard of my house.... Large Abba Dabba Do on left. Paradise Joyce between two Guacs in front of Peonies.
Closer look at Paradise Joyce in filtered sun.
Cherry Berry .....even the name is happy!
Forbidden Fruit bottom left, Ben Vernooij bottom right, Strawberry Parfait center,
Antioch peeking in on right
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.....w/a little fern action
Dancing Queen in front of Irish Luck ....taken at twilight
June Spirit
Lakeside Midnight Miss.....starting to show some real character after a few years
Golden Prayers .....my favorite small yellow
Stag's Leap ....love this guy...keeps improving steadily
Thanks for indulging me!
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Comments (17)RE: Alliums. They generally multiply. Different species and varieties bloom at somewhat different times, from about Mid-May to about Mid-to-Late-June here for me. Generally seem to be pest proof, but I lost an entire large planting, over 100 bulbs, of the expensive Globemaster to voles a few winters back, just made me sick when I saw NOTHING coming up in the spring, then realized the entire bed was undermined with vole tunnels. I don't know if they ate them or just chewed them up tunneling through. The species A. aflatulence is about the earliest of the larger, purple globe types. Gladiator seems to bloom a tad earlier than Globemaster if memory serves, but not by much, a few days. A good later one towards the end of the allium season is A. christophii or 'Star of Persia' which can have basketball sized heads and which multiplies incredibly freely, since it self-sows seeds and those seedlings will bloom the second spring....See MoreQuestion that's bugged me for some time (White Brug) Pic
Comments (5)So many brugs have what I have to call a flaw and a weakness when grown by gardeners in temperate to hot climates: They won't bloom until temperatures cool off in the fall. Remember that most brugs are from higher altitudes in the foothills of the Andes Mountains. Some even struggle to stay alive in the worst of our hot summers. If you leave your brugs in the ground and let them freeze down every year, they have to spend the spring pulling themselves up around their old stumps and may have no more than short green shoots in June. So, forget about having flowers during the cool weather in the spring. That is why so many people have started keeping their brugs in large containers that they plant in the ground in the spring. Then, in the fall, they lift them, cutting off the roots growing out of the pot's drainage holes. They prune them back to the second fork, and overwinter them in a basement or garage. When they plant the bare trunks after last frost. The growth bursts out with little delay before they start budding out, even though most blooming will stop when the real heat arrives. Fortunately, hybridizers are paying more attention to producing new hybrids using brugs that have proven to be good bloomers throughout the summer....See MoreJuly picture time. Please everyone post some pic of your babies.:
Comments (30)First is the big labeled family photo. Citrus: there's seedling lemon, tangelo, pummelo, yuzu, along with an unlabeled sudachi. There's also a larger grafted yuzu and a grafted calamondin. As for non-citrus, there's three nightshades (tamarillo, naranjilla and coconas), two pots of seedling guavas, and a rather spindly ice cream bean seedling. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/davidals/Project1.jpg[/IMG] Second is the unlabeled pic. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/davidals/Picture547.jpg[/IMG] Third, is a closer view including the big yuzu and calamondin, the pummelo and tangelo in front of them, and the big naranjilla on the right side. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/davidals/CopyofPicture548.jpg[/IMG] Last, this is a close-up of some of the seedling (non-grafted) citrus - from top to bottom, yuzu, pummelo, tangelo and sudachi. The black pot is tamarillo sprouts, which I need to thin out. To me, the only notable thing here is how different papeda-type citrus look from other citrus when young - smaller, slower in growth, smaller leaves, but very lush, small (not visible in this pic) spines, but more of 'em than other citrus. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/davidals/Picture537.jpg[/IMG]...See MoreFound some time to post a few pics!
Comments (13)Thanks all for the compliments. The Undivided Heart Seedlings are amazing. I still have 3 more from this cross that haven't even sent up a scape. Not sure if they are going to be lates or if I will just have to wait another year. Rita - It is good to be back. I so missed everyone and seeing their daylilies and garden shots. Mantis - the Golden Throne seedling is a first year 3-way branching with 9 buds. The first bloom got caught up with that edge but each one since then has greeted me wide open every morning by 7 am. (and it held up thru the 5 min down pours we have been having.) Vickie - Usually a white piece of paper (even if I have to have it in the shot) gets me the correct color. But, not that seedling. I sure wish I could capture the color it is amazing....See Morembug_gw
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