Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Robert on August 02, 2021, 12:13:59 AM
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Plants from the genus Zephyranthes and Habranthus do well in our garden. Zephyranthes macrosiphon is sending up their next set of flowers for this season.
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Another view of Zephyranthes macrosiphon.
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Erythranthe cardinalis will bloom throughout the summer. We grow both the red and yellow flowering forms.
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Lessingia leptoclada is a new breeding project.
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Lessingia leptoclada is a California native annual. In its native habitat it endures heat, drought, and intense solar radiation. It will flower mid-summer through autumn. These are F2 generation plants. So far, they hold promise as a new summer annual for our garden.
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This new F1 seedling of Tithonia totundifolia is also promising.
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Another view of this new seedling derived from selfing the flowers of a somatic mutation found on a plant last summer. The flowers of all the seedlings exhibit yellow and orange-red pigmentation, however this is the best. I will see if it is possible to retain this trait.
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Leena,
My wife and I watched the video of your garden. It was very inspirational! Thank you so much for sharing the video. We have a few butterflies in our garden. Our goal is to have many more.
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It´s great that You can grow Zephyranthes and Habranthus in the garden, Robert! I have to confine myself to a few grown in pots. Eryranthe cardinalis would make an attractive potted plant on our terrace, I think, and the Tithonia looks wonderful, too!
No such gems here: Lythrum salicaria ´Zigeunerblut´.
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Rosa ´Fimbriata´, reblooming well. :)
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A dainty monkshood from a derelict garden in Sweden.
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Allium carinatum ssp pulchellum with scutellaria.
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Long after flowering, the leaves of Thalictrum ´Ghent Ebony´look still attractive.
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Robert, thank you:). I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Mariette, that Thalictrum is very nice, as is the picture!
I googled it and it has also very nice dark leaves early on the season, but the leaf colour now is special.
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Thank You , Leena , Thalictrum ´Ghent Ebony´looks really special when in flower, the dark leaves contrasting well with the white flowers. But it´s an attractive plant later on, too, I think.
Yesterday I could spare the time to enjoy Your video - it´s interesting to hear the voice of someone with whom one exchanged only mails for years! I marvel at Your perfect pronounciation of the German names, did You learn our language for some time?
Your garden is such a lovely haven for flowers and insects, cosily surrounded by wood. When taking pics in my small garden I always have to take care to avoid the background of lots of blue plastic in the neighbouring garden! The gay floriferousness of Your summer-garden certainly makes up for Your long winters, and a lovely contrast to the very choice plants You grow in the woodland area. Thanks so much for sharing it!
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Mariette,
I enjoy the scenes from your garden immensely. Your garden reminds me of mountain meadows in the Sierra Nevada (when there is adequate precipitation). You have so many nice plants and they seem very happy in your garden. Thank you for sharing the photographs. I look forward to your next posting. I appreciate the tour of all the gardens.
And… Thank you for the kind comments. I do the best I can with the plants I have on hand to create a garden that my wife and I enjoy. Last evening just after sunset it was still very hot, ~ 90 F (32.2 C). The air was very still, no wind. My wife and I were on our back patio enjoying the garden. Before it became dark, all the white flowers in the garden became illuminated like little lanterns in the garden. It was a very magical experience.
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Thank You for Your very kind words, Robert! Gardening conditions are difficult here, changing from very wet soil for most of the year to extreme drought, which lasted for many months these last years. There are not many plants which can cope with our climate, so I have to confine myself to those which manage to do so - yet always trying new candidates.
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I marvel at Your perfect pronounciation of the German names, did You learn our language for some time?
Your garden is such a lovely haven for flowers and insects, cosily surrounded by wood. When taking pics in my small garden I always have to take care to avoid the background of lots of blue plastic in the neighbouring garden!
Mariette, thank you so much!
We can't see our neighbour's houses, which are about 200m from our house. There are trees in between.
My polytunnel however is easily in the pictures in the sunny garden because it is so big, and it isn't pretty at all:).
I had German at school more than 45 years ago (for only two years), but I have forgotten it and haven't used it since. Oh, except once I was travelling in Germany and Netherlands 1988 or 1989, I can't remember now which year, but my German was not so good even then, and I mostly used English. But it was good to understand even some language:). When I read Hepatica book which is in German, I mostly have to use google translate to be sure I understand correctly.
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There are still quite a lot of butterflies in the garden. Now Eupatorium maculatum has opened flowers and it is their favourite.
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There are still quite a lot of butterflies in the garden. Now Eupatorium maculatum has opened flowers and it is their favourite.
Eupatorium species are so great for all pollinators. I didn't dare plant maculatum but E. perfoliatum is also flowering now. It remains a bit smaller in size and has a delicious linden-like fragrance.
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Gabriela, that is a nice white Eupatorium. E.maculatum is big, mine is taller than me:).
I have Ageratina altissima with white flowers, that is also a big plant.
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Some summer flowers:
Campanula versicolor
Echinacea ‘Delicious Candy’
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Echinacea purpurea 'Alba' and Echinacea purpurea 'Green Jewel'
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Gabriela, that is a nice white Eupatorium. E.maculatum is big, mine is taller than me:).
I have Ageratina altissima with white flowers, that is also a big plant.
Ageratina is also a sort of Eupatorium after all :) I think many are still calling it like that. My tallest perennial is a Rudbeckia 'Herbstsonne' which thrives in a difficult spot where not many others would, and this also keeps it a bit in check (but just a bit :)
Herman: the red Echinacea has a really good name!
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Nice to see lots of flowers still for everyone. With our warmer and drier than usual mid-summer, it feels like many things are finishing early this year-though some things that struggle to make seed will be happy! Late season natives are still coming on, but I have fewer garden plants that begin late in the season- by fall I'm mostly captivated by the colour of the native plants and trees, and not focussed on the garden.. still lots of flowers, though..
Here is Cyclamen purpurascens which flowers from mid-summer until covered in snow. The patch of plants was set back somehow, several plants defoliated- the winter? or from removal of Diervilla suckers last fall? I replanted the affected bulbs, did a couple of layers of natural mulching/amending, and watered a few times during the drier weather.. they all seem to be coming back nicely. This larger plant is not one of the ones that was mostly defoliated. With Cirsium acaule, a native self sown sedge etc.
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A partial view of a semi out of control section of the Eurasian/Mesic Beds- Oxyria digyna starring in this view, Cyclamen in front.
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This Monkey Puzzle is about 25 years out and developed unusual many
cones this year. It is a pity, that no male plants are nearby and the resulting
seeds are all empty.
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The Clematis Express is on the way (Clematis mandshurica)
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On one of our regular trips we go through a Council estate called Breightmet, (meaning Bright Meadow). Brian kept asking me to slow down so he could see this wonderful display so we went and took a good look. Just outside a block of about six houses where it would normally be just grass this flower meadow has been planted. Isn't it wonderful.
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Local Gentiana pneumonanthe
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Local Gentiana pneumonanthe
Nice colors, all the spots i know are with very dark and deep blue
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This Monkey Puzzle is about 25 years out and developed unusual many
cones this year. It is a pity, that no male plants are nearby and the resulting
seeds are all empty.
Fun! How tall is it? is 25 years from seed?
Giles-- that's nice to see wild :)
Shelagh - better than lawn!
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Recently temperatures have cooled. Until a few days ago high summer temperatures prevailed and it appeared that this summer would be the hottest on record. The cool temperature would be pleasant; however dense smoke from the Caldor and Dixie Fires have blanketed our area for over a week now. In our region, enormous and extreme wildfires are now a yearly occurrence with dense smoke that we frequently endure for weeks or months. It is not pleasant to garden with choking smoke and ash falling from the sky. The plants and garden suffer too.
The seasons are shifting. Cyclamen hederifolium is blooming throughout our garden.
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The emerging small white flowers of Acis autumnalis are another harbinger of the end of summer. The species seeds around our garden in locations that are relatively dry during the summer.
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The first of the Colchicum are emerging from the soil.
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This specimen of Aquilegia formosa is sending up some late season flowers.
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I hope to find a good home for Scutellaria baicalensis in our garden. The flowers are very attractive and it is also a very strong medicinal herb.
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With the dense smoke it is much easier to get somewhat satisfactory photographs of white Nicotiana species and varieties. This is Nicotiana ‘Priscilla’. This variety enjoys shaded locations in our climate, produces large white flowers all summer into the autumn, and the flowers are nicely fragrant at night.
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Woodland Tabaco, Nicotiana sylvestris, has long-tubed white flowers that are also fragrant at night. The leaves are huge and very bold.
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Certainly is Cohan.
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Cohan, we bought this tree about 25 years ago as a pot plant. It was about 60 cm (2 feet) in height
and maybe 5 years from seed.
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Beautiful pictures from everyone - Shelagh, such flowering meadows are shere delight, especially when met with so utterly unexpected!
Robert, colchicums and cyclamen start very early in Your garden, here is no colchicum in flower yet. Nicotiana sylvestris self-seeded, but will not be of flowering-size in time, I´m afraid.
This is Lythrum salicaria ´Zigeunerblut´with phloxes.
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Begonia sutherlandii adorning a tub with a brugmansia - unfortunately this lovely species will not survive in my borders.
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Echinops banaticus and Phytolacca americana ´Silberstein´- the leaves being more showy than the flowers.
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Trautvetteria caroliniensis
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Scutellaria incana and Thalictrum ´Splendide White´
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Some late colour in our garden.
1.Anaphalis margaritacea with Heuchera Marmalade.
2.Asarina procumbens, very pleased with this as it was one of my choices from the last limited Seed Exchange. We have 3 in the garden now all flowering.
3.How about this Dianthus, no flowers but what a perfect circle.
4. A late flowering little Dianthus.
5. What we think is the original Heuchera Palace Purple.
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Just a few more.
6. Rudbeckia Goldstrum.
7. A very dainty Stachys niveum.
8. This one is a little taller Stachys officionalis Candy Floss.
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Robert- nice to see the autumn flowers coming along, I guess they make a lot of sense in your climate! sorry to hear about the smoke! Since our weather has turned cooler with a decent amount of rain (then a *lot* of rain last night and all day today, still coming down to some extent now, near midnight-- such lengthy rains are rare here) over the last week or two, we have not had smoke.. we'll likely have some warm and drier weather yet to come, but feeling very autumnal here currently- only reached a high of 8 C for a short time this afternoon.
Mariette-- lovely Begonia, and fly, too!
Rudi- Araucarias are strictly houseplants here, but an interesting genus! It's suggested that the super long necked herbivourous dinosaurs evolved to feed on the tops of Araucarias, which were widespread and dominant forest trees in those days!
Shelagh- always interesting to see Anaphalis margaritacea in gardens-- it appeared on its own in mine, not sure from where-- maybea bit from something I planted as a teenager (theoretically native, but I've never seen a wild one). I was very happy until it seemed too happy-- I thought it was set on taking over the entire area. I did chop and pull some, but for whatever reason it occupied a little zone and seemed to stop with that!
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Cohan I never investigated where it came from Botanically but I would never have thought of Canada.
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That's much too pretty to be Palace Purple, Shelagh. Palace purple isn't silvery in the leaves like that, and has a different way of present the flowers, that are a dirty cream color. Palace Purple is a workhorse in perennial gardens, in my opinion, and unrefined. Sorry to say I don't know what cultivar you have, but it is a nice one!
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Thank You, Cohan! This is a begonia to survive in a shady border: B. taliensis.
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Roscoea purpurea
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Closer.
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Pollia miranda
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Geranium nodosum
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Thank You, Cohan! This is a begonia to survive in a shady border: B. taliensis.
Roscoea purpurea
Closer.
Pollia miranda
Geranium nodosum
Nice set, Mariette, great colour on the Geranium.
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Hi Mariette,
As usual, yours (and everyone's) posts are great additions here, and your detailed pics give a lot of insight.
I am wondering if you (or anyone) can tell me about Pollia japonica. I grew some from seed this year, btw found they do not need scarification (or presoaking), and now I'm wondering if I really want them in the garden. I really don't have any place that they can wander. How long will they stay clumping, do the clumps just get larger rapidly or do they have long stolons (like sumac).
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Hi Rick,
I´m sorry, but this is my first attempt to grow a pollia. Judging from what I read, Pollia japonica is an avid spreader and more suitable for generous woodland-situations.
Hi Cohan,
thanks for Your kind comment. Obviously, You own a much larger and more attractively situated garden than I do. Your lovely, natural looking plantings are something I admire everytime You show pics. As I cannot achieve anything of similar beauty, I have to put my focus on details, I´m afraid.
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Hi Rick,
I´m sorry, but this is my first attempt to grow a pollia. Judging from what I read, Pollia japonica is an avid spreader and more suitable for generous woodland-situations.
Hi Cohan,
thanks for Your kind comment. Obviously, You own a much larger and more attractively situated garden than I do. Your lovely, natural looking plantings are something I admire everytime You show pics. As I cannot achieve anything of similar beauty, I have to put my focus on details, I´m afraid.
Thanks, Mariette! We all work with what we have! There are advantages to smaller gardens- you are more able to keep on top of everything-- I have planted too much, and never really catch up on weeding! and of course, outside the actual garden, there is a lot fo work all year-- mowing, managing fallen leaves, shovelling snow....lol