Show us Your Gardens - A photo thread - October 2018
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Comments (31)Claire - love your Halloween pumpkins. When we went on vacation, the squirrels made a feast of our pumpkins - we came home to a few little remnants on the front steps! I've had a busy month - so I'm posting all my October garden photos now. My tomatoes in October were fabulous! My best tomato year ever. Hydrangea Paniculata Tardiva has taken on the pinkish hue I vaguely recall getting a division of a chysanthemum about 4 years ago from an old neighbor. I had almost forgotten about it until it bloomed this year. And I seem to remember it being pink! Not the happiest plant, but at least it bloomed this year! Maybe there is hope for future years? Morning Glories have finally covered the brush pile with foliage and blossoms Brown Eyed Susans continue to put on a show Fall foliage. The tree in front is a red maple - this is the tree that was devastated by the winter moth caterpillar. This year it has colored yellow before turning red - it typically goes straight to red. (This photo was taken on the 24th). Behind the red maple is a silver maple with absolutely no color - just holding onto the green leaves. And finally - some snowliage photos from this past weekend....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 Gardens - A Photo Thread - August 2018
Comments (27)Suzabanana, you look to have a lot blooming right now. I envy your ability to grow crape myrtles, and yours is lovely. IME the goldenrod will spread via shallowly buried runners and the seed will float around, so I usually cut the seed head to reduce weeding, but you could cut them and place them on the ground where you want more. Your globe thistle looks like globe thistle, Echinops. My garden is looking tired and unkempt right now, but I have taken a few photos, and I will look to see what is in bloom now while it is still cool. We have had just a few nice sunsets this summer, perhaps because this month it has been raining so much that we sometimes don’t see much afternoon sun....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - December 2018
Comments (15)In the March 2018 Show Us Your Gardens thread I posted about the damage caused by a late winter nor'easter that dumped heavy wet snow on everything in southeast MA. A major casualty was pitch pines which were snapped off with limbs and trunks landing all over the place. In my yard, large pieces of pine landed on an American holly and an osmanthus as well as other plants (pictures in the March thread linked above). The holly was bent over 90 degrees with the trunk snapped but not completely severed. After a lot of work I cleared the pieces of pine off the holly but left a major piece of trunk in place to act as a scaffold. I had to cut about 4 to 5 feet off the top of the holly before I could raise it up and lash it to the pine piece, hoping the splint would recover and feed the remaining holly. Many people offered encouragement and suggestions and I was asked to report back on the fate of the splinted holly. I'm happy to report substantial recovery! This is the other of two Ilex opaca 'Goldie' that I have in my yard. This one was a bit fuller than the damaged one and sustained minor damage with a few branches knocked off. Two pictures from today: 'Goldie' with minimal damage: Berries on the above holly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And here is the splinted section from the severely damaged holly with new growth coming up from the bottom.. As expected, the holly sprouted from basal buds. There's some leaf miner damage but I'm not worried about that. The holly also sprouted from below the top section that I had to lop off. Some of the remaining branches on the trunk above the splint survived and have good healthy leaves. And a few of these branches have berries! This holly is a long way from regaining the beauty it had before the nor'easter damage, but it's made a good start. The fallen pine pieces will remain in place for the foreseeable future and the other plants will just grow around them. Oh, and I had removed the other pine branches from the osmanthus and it bloomed this fall. Claire edit note: I just checked the March thread and I realized I had referred to the holly as 'Goldy', but it should have been 'Goldie'....See More
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4 years agolast modified: 4 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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4 years agolast modified: 4 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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4 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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4 years agolast modified: 4 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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4 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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4 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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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThe west side of the field as the sun was rising this morning. The oaks were glowing.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 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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4 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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4 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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