Show us Your Gardens - A photo thread - October 2018
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Comments (10)Ah, Sped... my last house was near woods, which is a wonderful place to walk. In the woods behind our house was a meandering and through massive stones left behind by the glaciers. One "group" of stones was actually a single huge stone that had broken into four massive sections that were very tall and about one/two feet apart. The kids used to love running and winding through those spaces. Here, we have distance views and open spaces but no peaceful woods. The nine grasses that we planted give an architectural presence to what's basically a flat, open yard. None of our grasses get any attention from us, so I can't say which environment they prefer. They do get a great deal of sun. The one you like is, I think, a miscanthus (?). We cut it up a year ago... it was huge and also bare in the center....and replanted a tiny section. That has really spread in one season. When my grandson moved back to the US from Ireland years ago, he was a "wee lad" and a bit intimidated by that huge grass. He always called it "The Witches House." And so that's what we've called it ever since. Defrost, is that rosemary one that you've had for several years or just a recent purchase that you want to keep? I tried growing rosemary inside once. Not successful. We haven't good lighting for indoor plants because of the set up of our house and also no garage. I hate to throw things out!...See MoreShow Us Your Gardens - A photo Thread - October 2017
Comments (19)From early this month, the harvest moon from my yard. Some of the pumpkin harvestHowden, Cargo, Wee Be Little, Musquee de Provence, Knucklehead, Toad, Red October and Delicata squash Hyacinth bean vine "Moonshadow" with yellow Mexican torch. Heuchera "Palace purple" Cherry hot peppers still going, Susan...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - Jan & Feb 2018
Comments (57)Thanks Babs. I sometimes see a few scales even now, and I just pick them off with a Q-tip with a little alcohol. But when it's outdoors, when it's warm, I actually really blast the whole tree with the garden hose. I go all over, under, around etc. with quite a strong spray of water. I hold each leaf and make sure it's clean. Really not that hard to do, and only once is fine. It really helps to remove debris, scales etc. The plant seems to enjoy it!...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - October 2020
Comments (58)Sue, this is just my 2nd year with PJP - and I've been impressed. It struggled some in mid summer when it was really hot and humid for about a month, but once the weather started to cool off, I trimmed some of the ugly foliage, which wasn't that much and it set a slew of new buds. I've had a couple of dozen blooms this fall. I garden organically so no spray. It's such a white white rose and fragrant. I put a minor effort into it this season and it's performed well. The best of all 5 of my roses. Just some compost and alfalfa meal in early spring, then more after the first flush of bloom and some liquid fish emulsion fertilizer when I remembered it. That's it. The foliage looks very clean right now too. I bought 'Amber Morning' at Bluestone some years ago. It's very hardy. I always trim it back by half to keep the flopping to a minimum. I do have one in more shade that does flop more. My sun exposure drops in the fall too. Even in my full sun garden, the angle of the sun puts it behind a mature Maple that is south of my bed, when during the summer it manages to get above it. So actually that A.M. does get reduced sun in the fall. Oh, one thing - it is late to bloom. It just started opening and all the buds aren't open yet. I'm not doing much fall clean up this year. Just my front bed that is along the street. My neighbors are always nice to complement the garden, and even nicer when they ignore the mess when I don't get to it in a timely way. [g] I've decided not to move anything or work on any projects. Not up for it this fall, but also, I felt the plants weren't up for it. They really struggled with the drought and the heat and I still don't think we've had enough rain to make up for it. So I didn't want to stress them further. We'll see in the spring, I may redo and move a few things. Nothing major like the project you're getting ready for. I was trying to catch up on the thread this morning and see you had two dumpsters of tree stumps?! That is a LOT...LOL. You must be happy to have that done. Now I imagine you're amending soil in the new area? Have you considered lasagna beds? I've done that in the fall a couple of times and loved the way it worked out. Lots of earth worms and pretty much ready to plant in the spring, if you have enough precipitation over the winter. That is some color on the Callicarpa!...See More
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI wandered around the garden this morning before it started raining to see what might still be in bloom. Although we have approached frost a couple of nights, my selfseeded Nicotiana scattered around the gardens are still blooming well, and the leaves are undamaged.
A few of the clematis are pushing out blooms now, though we may have a killing frost later in the week. Rugoochi has just a few blooms left after blooming most of the summer, but this Princess Red seems to be pushing out new flowers even though the foliage looks fairly bedraggled.
Pillu aka Little Duckling has a nice little bunch of flowers. I don’t think it has ever managed a rebloom in my garden.
This is a selfseeded fall blooming Helianthus with selfseeded white catmint/ Calamintha nepeta serving as a groundcover.
The late blooming monkshood/aconitum is just opening flowers this week, later than usual. In previous summers it has bloomed early enough that I have photos of hummingbirds visiting the flowers, though the plants are highly toxic to humans. I don’t know if they are tough enough to withstand a few degrees of frost.
My last flowers to bloom, an orange mum, are just beginning to show color, but aren’t really blooming yet.And finally, a view down the field one morning where the fog from the river (off the left side of the photo) started half way down the field.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI forgot one photo I took last week that wouldn’t post for me then with Hydrangea paniculata White Diamond, selected for the way it retains its white flower color until quite late in the season along with a few final flowers of clematis Little Bas, a favorite of mine.
This contrasts with other panicled hydrangeas such as the rich pink of Quickfire which had light pink in late July into early August, but has been a rich pink since early September.
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5 years agoLove that view down the field, NHBabs, and the Quickfire hydrangea is a beauty!
A few small pleasures here:
Aster 'Fanny' has just started blooming:
and Rhododendron 'Anah Kruschke' is pretending it's spring. Just a few buds are opening and the nighttime temperatures are approaching freezing now so she'll probably face reality from now on.
Crabapples are still hanging around:
and cotoneaster fruits too:
The big old Osmanthus is blooming even though it got hit by a big pine branch in the late winter nor'easter.
Both of my Goldie American hollies have berries (still green now) even though they also got smashed by that nor'easter.
Miscanthus 'Malepartus' is getting fluffier:
Blushing Knockout still has a few blooms out:
As does the classic Knockout;
Oops, just reached the Houzz limit so I'll continue on another post.
Claire
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoYankee Lady rugosa has another bloom:
and the rose 'Carefree Delight' is still blooming next to the winterberry which has fruits:
Sedums are blooming nestled under the Gray Owl juniper.
Claire
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5 years agoGreat photos. Your yards look much better than mine now. It's just been a strange year. We were so very dry in summer and now have plenty of rain. I've had about 6 weeks of minimal garden attractions, so I need to plan on some things for this season. I have a huge number of coneflowers, some milkweed, Joe Pye, and blooming Verbena bonariensis, bit it didn't come together for a pleasant view. Many things were not proportionally sized, V bonariensis being one of them. It is a variety that is supposed to be 2-4' tall, and they are over 6' tall. Instead of V bon peeking its 4' flowers up amongst other things, I have giant stalks awkwardly towering and bending over everything. Even my Veronica, which was correctly 18" tall last year, grew to over 3' this year.
I finally have some fall things that have just begun blooming. My 'Raydon's Favorite' asters and 'Sheffield Pink' mums suffer from no pruning, and the asters clearly needed it. But, they are blooming nicely on their gangly long stems, though it took a while for them to start. We finally got mum blooms this week.
My Heuchera/Tiarellas NOID bloomed all summer and are still at it, which surprises me.
Rozanne lives up to her reputation.
My tall Salvia 'Blue Cloud' must clearly be deadheaded in the future. I have a thunderstorm of seedlings everywhere. What a promiscuous thing. This area is under a Japanese Maple and still not planted, but they divided and conquered.
And, lastly, it's nice when the violas of spring bloom in Fall, like a "Coming Attractions" movie trailer.
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5 years agoMany things have been killed back by temperatures in the mid 20s F, but the monkshood/Aconitum is still blooming well.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThe west side of the field as the sun was rising this morning. The oaks were glowing.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoFar more colorful than we are by now, Jane, and I like the way the Hakonechloa grass and evergreens really enhance the color of the maples. Most of our red maples have dropped their leaves, but the one behind the house holds on longer. I will add a few photos when I have the time to wait for them to load.
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5 years agoA couple last photos for the month which I couldn’t get to post last time I had time available:
Lonicera sempervirens Major Wheeler, a selection of a native honeysuckle, has been blooming since May. It still has a few flowers perfectly placed for viewing from inside the house and will continue to push out a few flowers until we get much colder, usually around the end of November. These have survived several nights into the mid20s.
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5 years agoThis vignette was a pleasant surprise today. The scotch and Irish Moss contrast beautifully with the resting hostas and hakonechloa grass, surely partly a result of our rainy October. Today’s rain makes it even more striking.
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