Show Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - July 2019
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Comments (51)Thanks for the link, maybe this is the year I'll get one. :-) I was looking at a new map of the zones in Mass the other day and it clearly indicated that my area is now 6b instead of 6a like I thought I was. I wondered if that means you are zone 7a where you are? If your crocus just opened, then it would make sense that mine would be behind you. I also have a pretty heavy leaf mulch in some areas. Thanks. It isn't really spring until you hear the birds singing in the morning....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - June 2019
Comments (49)I’m back. I didn’t get a chance to take the photos I was looking for, but I’ll try again tomorrow. I was just looking back over this thread, and I see I missed some of the posts. Deanna, you asked for updates on the Amsonia. I just noticed yesterday, that it is still blooming and looking very fresh. And I’m happy to hear that your Northern Hi Lights azalea is fragrant. I’m going to keep that in mind. You have a lot of Rhododendron and Azaleas. I have very few. I should try for more. You have a sailboat - how amazing. It’s out of the water getting painted - will you be getting it back in the water this summer? That’s a nice combo with the fringed dianthus and the Geranium. I like the pink. I wish I had more geraniums. I saw an article in a garden magazine years ago of a collector of cranesbill - wow - her garden was amazing. She had all kinds of them, Tall ones too and they all mingled together really well. I haven’t seen anything like it since and I am always on the lookout for some of the varieties I remember but I haven’t seen any yet. Maybe I dreamed it. [g] My Nepeta is still blooming. It’s having a great year. Still upright in full sun. Reminds me, I have Salvia, that I just started to cut back on to allow for rebloom and I looked out the window and saw gold finches sitting on the stems and appear to be eating something. I didn’t think there could be seed right now. I didn’t know they like Salvia. That is a very pretty color on that viola. Claire, Your Hosta near your railing is getting so big. I have Geranium ‘Biolkovo’ as well. What a great, easy care plant it is. I also have ‘Karmina’ with it. They are a good combo. Yours looks so pretty with the bleeding heart. Look at how tall your foxglove look. And erect. I am going to have to take a photo of how badly rusted some of my foxglove are this year. I don’t remember having that happen before. I think one I have is ‘Snow Thimble’? I was just noticing that I have two Foxglove that are very robust with healthy foliage and one just started blooming and to my surprise it is sturdier, stockier flowers and stems. I was at the nursery where I bought them last and I spotted them there. Good thing because I couldn’t remember the name of them and really want to have more of them. It’s a Digitalis mertonensis. What a difference next to the purpurea. The foliage is completely clean, with erect flower stems, next to rusted flopped over purpurea. I’ve been noticing amazing blooms on the Kousa dogwoods in our neck of the woods. They must love all the rain. Aren’t you lucky to have daylilies that your Mom might have planted. And fragrant too. I haven’t netted my blueberries either and the birds will get them, I’m sure....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - August 2019
Comments (21)Yes, NHBabz I remember! When Gardenweb went corporate, I drifted away (still miss the Spike days). Since starting a new garden from scratch though I'm finding that most internet plant searches I do, after wading through all the marketing BS, brings me either here or to blogs. My partner, Dave, recently bought a tractor which has been a game changer for moving some of the rock. We're going to take a stab at building a wall with some of the larger stones that have accumulated in "inventory". We're hoping to do so without any back injuries or the loss of any fingers or toes. Wish us luck. I'm still reluctant to add many lilies. Apparently Black Beauty is one of the varieties most resistant to the beetles. I long for the day, I could just plant lilies and not have to worry they would get decimated. Don't get me started on Hibiscus sawfly larvae......See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - July 20
Comments (113)Sue, it took me a long time to figure out it was earwig damage. Only because the damage had become so extensive and a plant would look good one day and the next morning be a mess that I decided to see what was going on at night. And I wasn't seeing anything during the day that could be responsible for it. Sure enough, earwigs were all over everything. It took me a couple of weeks of nightly patrols with a cup of soapy water to get it under control. That was at least 5 years ago and I've not had that much of a problem again until this year. I have seen about 3 Japanese Beetles this year and that is typical for me. I do get the Asian Beetles, but in very manageable numbers. They make a mess of some leaves, but not a whole plant and they make a bee line to the rose blooms where you can easily remove them. If one thing doesn't get you, something else will. lol Oh well. That Hibiscus sawfly caterpillar. So sneaky, so tiny and almost the same color of the leaf. Next year, I'm going to be quicker to be on the look out for them. I'm just happy I discovered them before they destroyed my new Hibiscus. I've only had it two years. I have one other, a white with a pink eye, but it's not in a good location and gets neglected. That seemed to get a late start this year and is not ready to bloom. Don't you just love the saucer size blooms?! Sometimes a lot of the plants I like end up having the same size bloom and it gets boring. So nice to have a few plants with some drama. :-) I am going to buy more 'Black Beauty' this fall. 'Casablanca' has only one leaf with RLLB damage. No rabbit damage for some reason. And they bloom at the same time. And Casablanca is fragrant, I don't think BB is....See MoreNHBabs z4b-5a NH
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