A visit to gdinie's colorful garden this morning
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Fun morning! Visited a daylily farm - part 1
Comments (7)I didn't look too closely at anything, I was just trying to get through relatively quick, since it was hot (to me anyway) and the sun was beating down. I am planning to go back there in two weeks - if Galaxy Explosion is still blooming, I will definitely take a closer look at the scapes. I will work on posting Part 2 shortly....See MoreFun morning! Visited a daylily farm - part 4
Comments (8)Thanks everyone, it was fun sharing my trip with you all. I will try to get the other few photos of the garden posted tomorrow evening, won't have time tonight. Mantis, I don't think AAFC was orangeish, so it must just be the sun, perspective and/or picture showing it that way. If it's blooming when I go back, I will take a closer look at the coloration....See Moregarden visiting this morning - gdinie's charming garden!
Comments (3)Thanks for this write-up, Woody. It was great having you here. A great start for a day otherwise filled with painting a room. Which is why I have time to reply only now ;-). Heritage is I think my favourite Austin rose, despite its tendency for the blooms to scatter in the heat. It is also a sentimental favourite, I wrote the story halfway this thread: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3503314/forgiven?n=12 Your picture of Munstead Wood captures the colour so well, the lack of focus is no problem. The first blooms are not very big, but look at this one from September last year. It was bigger than my hand, and the colour was like in your picture. My phone just could not capture it. The fragrance is heavy and deep old rose: I got the Deinanthe from Lost Horizons last year. Then it had one flower head, now there are three. They had several of them in the gardens at LH, some were big clumps, but I saw no running tendencies. I have heavy alkaline clay soil. I may have put some wet peat deep in the planting hole, as a water reservoir, but that will not really do much to acidify the soil. I find that some acid lovers do unexpectedly well for me, like Kirengeshoma palmata too. But I have never ventured into azaleas. People in the neighbourhood supply proof that it can't be done ;-). Carefree Delight was at its greatest glory in 2015. It was so heavy, it threatened to bring the neighbor's fence down. So with bleeding heart I cut it back and finished literally minutes before a violent thunderstorm. It will never be like that again, but I still dream of letting it loose once more: And my Tali, hunter of everything that moves. I will have to introduce her to JBs!...See MoreThe gift from gdinie that just keeps giving
Comments (20)I haven't been able yet to get down to the area where we planted gdinie's gift of some winter aconites 'in the green' to us a couple of years ago and, looking down from windows in the house, I haven't seen any flash of yellow so I'm not sure if mine have appeared/are blooming here yet. I had totally given up on the ones I planted as corms in the front ditch many years ago. Last year one(!) appeared and bloomed. This year there are about a dozen! So I'm not sure what they were doing for the past decade or so, but they weren't dead! So, you never know, maybe all those ones you planted and thought were lost, might appear some year! We got a light dusting of snow overnight but it is raining here now....See Moreyeonassky
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