Hostas in my Neighborhood (June and July)
This spring and summer I brought my camera with me as I walked around my neighborhood. I photographed all the plants that I liked. That made my walks more fun! I thought I would share the hosta photos with you.
These are June I think and they are reverting! They do look so cute though. I like the blue mixed in with the plant, but I know that the blue Halycon will eventually take over the plant. That's a shame. These hosta haven't grown in size for many years. I think that would be due to tree roots.
This house decided to plant a row of hosta down both sides of the front of their property. That was about 3 or 4 years ago. It's been fun just trying to figure out what variety they are. Some are pretty easy to tell.
And here is the other side of the house.
I think this house looks very well kept!
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newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
3 years agoContinuing . . .
I wonder if this is Halcyon.
Plantaginea! Too bad I didn't walk later in the season to see if they bloomed.
I wonder if this is June. They look like it, but then they seem to have a more muted coloring to them. I'll check on them again next year!
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
3 years agoContinuing . . .
There is a blue hosta by the front door. Maybe Blue Angel? The two on either side of the rock begin to suffer mid summer. I think too much sun and maybe not enough water. The one by the door fares better.
This photo and the next ones are taken at a townhouse complex not far from my home. I think the builders did a nice job finishing off the outside. And they had good taste in plants!
I wonder how it turned out that the blues are of different variety. Maybe they looked alike when smaller?
So next year I'll have to walk around on some new streets in my area and see what other hostas I can find. I found such pretty plants in the spring. They just made my day!
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3 years ago"those 4 june look to be putting up a valiant struggle near what looks like 2 HUGE maples ... if my bark ID is right ..." Now you made me curious about what kind of trees they are Ken! I will assume that you are right though.
"i wonder if the struggle is why they are sporting/reverting so much ... and i see a thin white line in one of them ... is that one named??? .. and is that a streaker next to it???" I hadn't even noticed the white line. Streaker? Let me see if I can crop the picture to bring it closer.
"also i note ... how little else is growing in those beds ..." I think those tree roots are sucking the life out of all the plants there. In fact, there is another cluster of Junes closer to the front door. I guess they just love their Junes!
"So many questions.. so little time.. but what a great post for the usual fall doldrums ... thx ... got more??? " Thank you! I have pictures from private gardens I visited. Maybe I should post some of those.
"anyway .. did anyone ask you why you were taking pix ... new garden friends???"It's fun to take pictures! It's just a little game for when I get out there for a walk. And part of the game was to see where I could find some nice hosta and whether I could figure out what hosta they were!
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3 years agoThere are sycamore trees on that street. You can't help but notice them. The trunk is quite unusual looking. I will have to go and have another look! I'll report back.
Found a few more houses with hosta:
This picture was taken at the end of May. Those two hosta were very bright. I wondered whether the one on the right could be Dancing Queen.
This house has the majority of their front yard planted. I always make sure if I am walking down that street to cross over and have a look at the garden. I have taken a few photos of other plants in this garden too.
And Nicholsworth, you said we have no rocks around here! LOL
The next photo is what this same house has planted on the right side of their driveway (with more rocks)!
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3 years agoSorry Nicholsworth, I forgot to get a picture of the house with the rocks I don't like. I think the rocks are too big and there are too many of them. Just looks so out of place. I still plan to get a photo and I will post it.
I did get a picture of the house with the Junes. It wasn't easy though. I was in my car and there were people around and too many cars driving by---probably because of the nice weather.
Here is a photo showing that this property has three trees: (those poor hosta!)
The tree closest to the house has some June hosta planted on one side of the tree.
Another view here:
The tree closest to the house has pods on it.
The tree closest to the sidewalk with the 4 Junes is the same tree that the neighbor has.
So what kind of trees are these?
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3 years agoNicholsworth, I should say the rock in the other house are not ugly, just too big for the property and overpowering. The weather is nice for the next few days and I will go for a walk around my neighborhood and get that picture!
The tree with the Junes does look like a sycamore tree. I couldn't check the leaves on the ground because of too much activity going on around there. I may have a walk to that location also.
Here is a cropped closeup of the neighbor's tree which looks to be the same. Both trees are located near the sidewalk.
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3 years ago"i bet all of them.. were planted just after the house was built ..." Not so sure about that. Houses here were built around 1962. History says that this area used to be a woodland. When selling, the owner requested specifically that there would be an effort (from the developers) to save some of the trees from being destroyed. One of my immediate neighbors (original owner) told me that she bought the lot before the house was built. The developer asked her to mark all the trees she wanted left on her property. She believes that---even though we are across the tree from her house---we had a different developer build our house. So she does not know if the our developer did the same in regards to the trees. There is a good chance, I think, that our two sugar maples (in our backyard) were here when the house was planted. No wonder nothing grows well in our backyard!
So I drove by the house with the Junes (too lazy to walk!) and saw a lady drive into the driveway. Finally saw someone outside of this property! I talked to her, but she didn't know the names of the trees. She did think the tree by the Junes was a sycamore since it sounded familiar to her. What really struck me was the she was pretty much like me maybe 10, 20 years ago. She said that they had had a landscape designer landscape their property after moving there in 2007. She thought they landscape designer would use plants that would survive under their conditions. They didn't. She also said they removed soil in some areas to improve it and planted other shrubs etc. They aren't doing well. She doesn't know why! Ha! That was me struggling to grow under trees! She said she had removed a couple of the Junes that were smaller, improved the soil (not sure how) and planted them back. They didn't do that much better. I have to wonder whether she had removed the tree roots from the hosta before replanting. From my experience, the tree roots are quite tough. Sure they'll die, but the tiny, wire-like roots are so strong. I don't think the roots can break away from the tree roots for quite some time.
So here are some more pictures.
Sycamore tree? with blue spruce tree
Sycamore tree leaves
Leaves picked off the ground (back side)
top side
I will continue . . .
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
3 years agoAs for the tree closest to the house, it is quite an interesting tree with beautiful bark. I tried to get a closer photo.
and for fun, I changed a couple to black and white:
Mosswood, Kentucky Coffee Tree does seem like a very good guess!
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Nicholsworth, I finally got a photo of the house with the rocks---not a good one (from my car)---but at least you can get a good idea of what I am talking about.
Both my husband and I believe that some of the rock that was there was removed when new owners took over the home. The rocks look way better than they did years ago as the grass and plants have grown around the rocks taking away from their bold statement. Only one rock remains on one side of the driveway. Do you like them?
Going back to the sycamore tree, I would guess that the city planted them. There are several on the same street planted only feet away from the sidewalk. Whose bright idea was it to plant in that location? I've noticed those trees before---who wouldn't?---due to their distinctive loss of tree bark. Now I'm curious----how many of these trees are there on that street?
I remember walking down another street in our neighborhood. The one street is distinctive in that there are large mature trees planted on the boulevard or close to the sidewalk. They are now huge---the whole street! I thought to myself---that's the way to do it. The huge trees should be planted on the city's property near the street so that you can have your own bit of backyard property to have smaller trees (to suit size of the lot). When you have a smaller property with huge trees, you don't get much left on the property to grow a nice garden, pollinator's garden or vegetable patch! Damn!
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