White in the garden 2023
i will load a couple pix from my phone a bit later ... or i will forget until tomorrow.. lol ..
ken
Hosta plantiginea
pure white 6 inch flowers heavily scented
i dont know why the pic is turned
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2022-2023 TROPICAL FLOWERS IN MY ROSE GARDEN
Comments (131)March 7, 2023, I repotted 2 Brugmansias yesterday, after growing all winter inside home, into 12” pots still growing in bay window. They have been turned toward sun to straighten out leaves. Pots & Brugs are actually twice as big as photos Jan. 27 above. (They will be moved to bigger pots when it’s warm for outside.) Fruit Salad Brugmansia Angel Sweet Summer Brugmansia March 7, 2023: 3 PASSIFLORAS in bay window of home all doing well, filling out more leaves, BIG inside pots. Possum Purple Passiflora , in second season now, grows the best-it has the most hardy big glossy leaves-overgrowing it’s pot/obelisk & I just don’t want to cut it back-so beautiful & green-little gangly, Lol! ! May Pop, in 3rd season now, sprouted 5 new shoots & has many new long stems filling out obelisk, again. Victoria, in second season now, is nice & green, very full in obelisk! Daily watering makes them all most happy inside/outside! MORE TROPICALS: I’ll add a new African Violet, Orchid, Mandevilla and begonias as warmer weather comes. Anyone adding tropicals to their rose gardens this spring? Love to see photos?...See MoreSpring 2023 - What Roses Are You Planting In Your Garden?
Comments (1412)Kimberly - do you want to start a new Summer thread...it's a bit long to be running the Spring Seasonal thread. :) :) Kitty - Oh, that naughty Houzz. That can be so frustrating. Yeah, that'll be fun to grow them at the same time. :) :) Thank you about my yard and the wedding. I'm really hoping that my passifloras can start growing (seriously...they've done nothing all summer)...wouldn't they be beautiful along an arbor for Kedra/Chloe to get married? I'm going to grow them next year...and if they still don't do anything, I'll toss them. Rats. Plus, with their big leaves they get really torn apart by all the hail we get. That's a good idea about getting the soil ready for poppies in 2024. What kind of flowers did you get at Lowes? GardenNut - excellent about the lemon tree! You'll be selling glasses of lemonade in front of your house in no time. LOL :) Yeah, I don't think it's asking too much for our roses/plants to get it together and WOW us. :) :) Kitty - uh oh. I didn't see that coming. Your peony poppies got knocked to the ground by the rain. With our hail and downpours, I'm thinking that these poppies may not be a good idea. I was really excited about having them in the wedding bouquet. I guess I'll just try and see how it goes. :) Oh my gosh, your Gladiolas are sooo beautiful!!! I'm wondering about the flowers you've planted in the circle...will they be too short to be seen once the roses grow? I love your Mandevilla!!! Wonderful!! Your Rosemantic Fuchsia looks great! I'm starting to love my Rosemantic Cream...the blooms look like peony poppies...all stuffed with petals. Everything looks wonderful in your yard. :)...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens-A Photo Thread - April 2023
Comments (13)PM, thanks for the thorough Daffodil info. I’ve already looked at Colorblends website and am going to place an order for Ice Follies and scilla for sure, other varieties still being decided. You always provide such excellent information! One question for all you daffodil people. If I plant bulbs in the middle of VERY established japanese pachysandra, will it be able to sprout and bloom above it? This pachysandra gets plenty of spring sun before the canopy has developed. The pachysandra would easily disguise the failing foliage. Will it strangle the daffodil bulb? I’ve love to turn that carpet of green into something more interesting. The pachysandra was likely planted 20-30 years ago and it has spread extensively. It’s just too much to try to diminish it, but I am able to pull runners out of some small planting areas dotted amongst the Pachy Ocean. Oooo, you all are getting me excited! Our area will soon have all these blooms. When our Sunday rain is over I’ll take some pics. Things really emerged during the early April heat wave, but we were DRY for close to two weeks, so they halted. Now with some moisture they are emerging, but temps are back down to cool. Today we are supposed to get 2” of rain! I’m sure with May’s warmer days things are about to take off. Regarding the heat wave, I overestimated the moisture in my wintersowing milk jugs and for the first time in several years lost some desired seedlings to dryness, like some good salvia varieities that came with few seeds to begin with, so I won’t have many that either waited to germinate or survived the hot dryness. My pulmonaria is blooming. Sigrid, I am always disappointed to see the lungwort so tiny and straggly when it blooms. The internet pics have such full foliage when it blooms. Mine bloom so soon after emerging that you barely notice it. Does yours ever bloom with full foliage? Anybody else?...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - August 2023
Comments (13)Deanna, The Berms. The last two winters I have been focused on figuring out more ways to address drought in the garden. My full sun bed in the front of the house, slopes away from the house , of course, as everyone’s does. So the rain runs off into the street to some extent. I already capture the rain coming down from the downspout into the rain barrel, but I thought, maybe if I built a Berm along the low street side of the bed, it would keep the rain on the property and keep that bed moist. It has really been successful in that regard. Of course, it’s not a great year to judge it because we have had so much rain. Next time we have a drought will be more instructive. Aside from that purpose, I am seeing the added benefit of building up the soil. I chose the location by where it would capture the most water and fit in with the design of the bed. It allowed me to still grow the plants that don’t like wet feet on the other side of the Berm, at the top of my steepest slope, if I want to - like Salvias. All the plants directly behind the berm really benefited this year. Not only water, but fertility from the Berm breaking down. The volunteer squash was such a delightful surprise. The foliage is so attractive and the plants have remained healthy all season. It has just taken off all along the top of the berm, and I’ve had to “arrange” it around the Sedum AJs and Grasses. It climbed into a Sedum and deposited another squash, which was a fun surprise this week. I had a half dozen seedlings and I thinned out to two of the strongest. That squash has grown 100% better out front in full sun on that berm than it ever did in the back where I get 5hrs tops and tree roots to contend with. And I don’t think it looks out of place with the rest of the perennials and shrubs. I want to do it again next year. I also had volunteer borage come up. I discovered a few years ago that Cardinals have some kind of interest in the Borage plant, that I still don’t know what it is, but I grow that for them now. I think I can grow the squash and borage together in the Berm next year. But there are so many possibilities for what you can grow there. And you could grow nothing in it too. I wouldn’t plant perennials or shrubs in it, because it does break down and needs to keep being replenished. I have grown them right up next to it though. To build it - well, depends on whether you compost or not. I have two passive compost bins that I bought from the town years ago when they were trying to encourage people to compost. I fill them up with any kind of plant material - deadheaded hibiscus blooms at the moment, weeds that are not going to seed, grass clippings, leaves. Then we collect kitchen scraps - egg shells, coffee grinds, banana peels, vegetables, orange rinds, paper towels sometimes, tea bags…etc. Nothing diseased. I leave the tops off the containers to allow the rain to keep it moist and if it doesn’t rain I have to water it. That’s all I do until it’s full. In the fall, last year and this year, we have a pile of branches from pruning in the spring that I haven’t used yet. We have grass clippings. By the time I am building the berms, I’ll probably have brown leaves. I will take it all….the branches on the bottom, and then layered on top the contents of the compost bins, the leaves, the grass clippings. I make them a couple of feet wide and a couple of feet high. Maybe 18”? Depends, I don’t want to shade the plants behind them. I shape them like a long wide sausage…lol. I do curl the end sides to keep the rain from running around the side of them. Then I top them off with a good thick layer of bark mulch. I’m not sure I would always do this if it was in an out of the way area, but right in front of the house along my best bed, I wanted it mulched. This year, I plan to replenish by pulling back the bark mulch and adding to it then adding another thick layer of bark mulch again. I want to add more branches this year to slow down the break down. If I could get away with not having to replenish it every season, that would work out best. I’m also adding new locations where I plan to grow vegetables next year, for the fertility. I found the beautiful soil in July and I constructed the Berm last Fall. So, not that long really....See MoreMischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
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Poppy
Different poppy
Madame Plantier rose.
Guirlande d'Amour rose.
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last yearI enjoy them too, and it gives me new ideas for companion plants I want to try with my roses. I've always loved nigella but never tried growing it. Your white variety is just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing that! Your roses are gorgeous too, I planted a baby Madame Plantier last year and I can't wait to see her bloom!
White Eden
Crocus Rose
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last year@Meg-zone8aOR Nigella is super easy to grow, and some might describe the reseeding as... Overeager lol. But they are easy to pull. Here's a full bush shot of Mme. Plantier and a closeup, these shots were from its 2nd season, and it was planted as a band, so you can see it's a very vigorous rose!
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last year@Meg-zone8aOR Yes, I think they are best that way, they don't like to be transplanted so I just direct seeded in the garden once and they've reseeded themselves each year since. They also come in single forms, and in shades of blue, here is a single blue with some white candytuft.
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last yearlast modified: last yearCostus speciosus ginger aka spiral ginger
Moonflower vine...flower closing in on this groggy little night visitor.
Lotus
Brugmansia Wretched Mess
Sanservia aka Mother in Law's Tongue bloom..they are fragrant
Hige type Morning Glory
White Super Nova blooming with Painted Lady et al.
Music Notes Clerodendrun
White Mandevilla
Random Brug with hawk/Hummingbird Moth
White fragrant tropical Waterlilies
Lizard's Tail Bloom..anyone have pond/bog plants?
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
last yearlast modified: last yearTahitian Gardenias..the most fragrant gardenis. Blooms are easily 5 inches.
I have noticed many very fragrant flowers are very Insignificant looking and white. I have a lot of those. I hardly ever take pics of them but they are priceless in my garden and add layers upon layers of fragrance.Stephanotis
Pink Jamine although just the buds are pink.
Maid of Orleans Sambac jasmine
The best fragrance of the all: a strong vanilla jasmine..Michelia Alba aka Magnolia Alba. I can smell this an acre away on a humid breezy afternoon.
White Plumeria
The most insignificant but intoxicatingly sweet flower..Cestrum Nocturnum aka Night Blooming Jasmine
Pope John Paul ll ..looking ratty lol
Brugmansia Antique White in the foreground
Miss April Brugmansia with a stuffed skirt
Dahlia
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L Clark (zone 4 WY)
last yearL Clark (zone 4 WY)
last yearlast modified: last yearCasa blanca lily
muscadette lily
Morden blush rose
Betula pendula bark
Markay MD-Zone 7A (8A on new map)
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Woodland phlox
Thalia daffodils
Foxglove
White swan coneflower
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last yearlast modified: last yearLotus moon pearlbush
White swirl iris
Dappled willow tree
Veronica white wands
Culvers root
Limelight tree
GardenHo_MI_Z5
last yearA few more...
Datura
Bobo hydrangea
Candytuft
daisies
Little quickfire in its white stage
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
last yearI never used to use white until someone got me a white begonia and it just glowed. I have been a fan ever since.
Easy Spirit
Desdamona
L Clark (zone 4 WY)
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Feiy (PNWZ8b/9a)
last yearlast modified: last yearI'm not actually a fan of whites, so most of the whites in my garden, with the exception of roses, seem to be smaller plants as undergrowth additions. But even roses are hardly pure white. Haha.
Hornungia alpina 'Icecube'
Candytuft
Foxgloves. They are all weed, beautiful weed. LOL.
Dwarf Goat's Beard
Dahlia, the number and arrangement of pink and white petals vary randomly, which is very interesting.
Strawberry
Tiarella
Saxifraga × urbium 'London pride'
Allium
Orlaya
Poppy
Nigella. A seed from a neighbor fell in the garden two years ago, and there are now thousands, what a thug!
Phlox
Gladiolus murielae, may be the best fragrance in my garden.
Dusty Miller. A dog knocked the mother plant off, so I stuck the broken part into the soil and it got rooted!
Cyclamen
Delphinium, poor little thing. It's the only one bloom survived from the rabbits.
Small bulbs. Not sure what it is. They grow on the hillside and come back every year.
Feiy (PNWZ8b/9a)
last yearAnd then it's the rose's turn.
Margaret Merril
Arctic Sunrise
Icecap
Madame Alfred Carriere
Bolero 2004
Blanc Double de Coubert with Sweet alyssum
Iceberg
Darlow's Enigma
Out of Yesteryear
Snowbird
White Koster
Marie Pavie
Candy Cane Cocktail
Birthday Girl
erasmus_gw
last yearThese are all so pretty, the snow pics as well. Your little Beta has a lovely place to romp, Feiy. All those tropicals are so neat, Sultry.
Here's a snow pic from a few years ago. We've had no snow this year , but had the polar vortex at Christmas which did some damage. It has been a mild January. Some roses are already leafing out. They might get zapped later. Daffodills are starting to bloom and some crocus.
From my kitchen window 2017
Amaryllis : I bring the whole pots of them in for the winter
Artemisia Powis Castle, one tough plant
My seedling of The Generous Gardener, Aunt Lucy. Smells like face powder, which Aunt Lucy smelled like.
Blush Noisette
CandytuftI loved this plant by my mailbox. It was so sparkling white in early spring. City workers dug it up when they had to dig down about 12 feet to repair the sewer line. I tried to save it but it didn't make it.
Crabapple tree, always a welcome sight in spring
Dahlia
Foxgloves...they don't grow wild here so to me they're not weedy and they don't even reseed very well.
Foxglove and dwarf cosmos, Cutesy
Rose, Ducher
Oakleaf hydrangea
Clematis Huldine, pretty young plant
Mischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
last yearlast modified: last yearKen what a great start with Hosta plantaginea. Every pic is wonderful from the familiar to the exotic. GardenHo knows how much I love her garden so you are not alone in that erasmus.
Achillea ptarmica The Pearl
Actaea j. Cheju-Do
Aruncus aethusifolius past its prime. I adore it.
Aruncus dioicus with a bit of Rodgersia p. showing on the left and a bit of Actinidia kolomikta above.
Astilbe Bridal Veil
Campanula persicifolia
Clematis Mrs. George Jackman
Poeticus?
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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First year, actually 1st few weeks for Delphinium Innocence.
Dictamnus
Digitalis
Gillenia trifoliata is a favorite of mine and butterflies.
Gypsophila repens
Hosta Elegans
Climbing Hydrangea
Iberis
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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Iris s. Snow Queen
Leucanthemum Becky
Liatris Floristan White with a White Admiral.
Duchesse de Nemours
Krinkled White
Persicaria polymorpha
Platycodon Fuji White
A seedling of Platycodon Hakone Blue
Not a great year for this Primula
Salvia Schneehugel
41 North (Zone 7a/b, NE, coastal)
last yearlast modified: last yearSeveral of my favorite flowers are also white; including gardenias, yucca, and magnolias.
This Winter has been very mild, almost 0 snow, with most days in the 40 or 50's. I have experienced DEEP snows here though. This year is just way off the charts, though not complaining.
I think this Southern Magnolia is the cultivar 'Victoria'. They all have a very fresh, clean fragrance, and OMG do honeybees absolutely LOVE their blooms. And these flowers are so ancient, they evolved before BEES were even on earth!
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Ruellia humilis, Wild Petunia
Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot
Stellaria pubera, Giant Chickweed
Trillium grandiflorum double, Great White Trillium
Thalictrum thalictroides, Rue Anemone
Aronia melanocarpa, Choke Cherry
Cnidium monnieri
Asclepias incarnata, Swamp Milkweed, white form
Sedum ternatum, Woodland Sedum
Dionaea muscipula, Venus Fly Trap
Datura wrightii, Sacred Datura
Eurybia macrophylla, Large-leaf Aster
Achillea gracilis. Native Yarrow now seperated from the old world Achillea millifolium.
Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort
Symphyotrichum ericoides, Heath Aster
Ipomoea pandurata, Manroot
Hibiscus laevis, Halberd-leaved Hibiscus
Feiy (PNWZ8b/9a)
last yearJay 6a Chicago
last yearlast modified: last yearErythronium albidum, White Dog-tooth Violet, Trout Lily
Primula meadia, Shooting Star
Trillium grandiflorum, Great White Trillium
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, Giant Waterleaf
Hydrastis canadensis, Goldenseal
Ceanothus americana, New Jersey Tea
Pycnanthemum virginicum, Common Mountain Mint
Cardamine concatenata, Cut-leaved Toothwort
Maianthemum stellatum, Starry Solomon's Seal
Boltonia decurrens
Anemone canadensis
Eryngium yuccifolium, Rattlesnake Master
Doellingeria umbellata, White Flat-topped Aster
Clematis virginiana
Dicentra cucullaria, Dutchman's Breeches
Osmorhiza claytonii, Sweet Cicely
Parthenium integgerium, Wild Quinine
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