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Post by lugg on May 29, 2022 16:07:28 GMT
Gorgeous Bjd and Kimby.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 4, 2022 8:59:35 GMT
Next to the kitchen door.
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Post by bjd on Jun 4, 2022 9:05:32 GMT
Obviously your climate suits clematis better than mine does.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 4, 2022 13:47:27 GMT
Oh how fantastic! Obviously just loves where it is planted.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 4, 2022 17:41:59 GMT
Gosh ~ it's blooming its brains out!
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Post by bjd on Jun 9, 2022 9:36:40 GMT
Alstromeria First blooms on the chitalpa tashkenti tree. None last year, full of buds this year. Pentstemons and catmint on the new flower bed I dug this winter. Dahlia Freesias
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 9, 2022 11:09:17 GMT
Good show bjd!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2022 13:55:08 GMT
Happy and healthy plants, Bjd! the chitalpa tashkenti tree <-- a new one on me!
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Post by fumobici on Jun 9, 2022 14:48:51 GMT
Beautiful flowers bjd, I adore Penstemon. We are on our way to breaking record after record for wet May-June and the forecast is for more and more as far as the forecasts can see. Some plants are loving it, others, not so much, but I'm not spending much time in the garden anyway. I'm going to Tuscany at the end of the month and actual heat will be something I haven't felt in almost a full year.
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Post by bjd on Jun 9, 2022 14:58:46 GMT
Happy and healthy plants, Bjd! the chitalpa tashkenti tree <-- a new one on me! Actually no, Bixa. You saw one in my garden in Toulouse when it was in full bloom. They are quite rare here though. I bought this one discounted at the garden centre a couple of years ago. The clerk told me nobody knew them so the only one they had ordered just sat for months. I got it for 10€.
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Post by bjd on Jun 9, 2022 15:00:37 GMT
We are on our way to breaking record after record for wet May-June I have been watching gardening videos by a young woman in eastern Oregon. She said that it has been much cooler than usual and that they are getting lots of rain in what is normally a very dry area.
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Post by casimira on Jun 9, 2022 16:34:28 GMT
Gorgeous blooms BJD. All your hard work really paid off.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 12, 2022 15:07:25 GMT
Potatoes are in bloom
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 12, 2022 15:46:29 GMT
Beautiful healthy plants & pretty flowers!
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Post by casimira on Jun 12, 2022 16:41:06 GMT
Thank you for posting that picture of the potato blooming. It brings back so many, many fond memories for me having grown up on a potato farm. I would pay to have a print of that pic if at all possible, Mick.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 12, 2022 16:44:04 GMT
I’ll see what I can do.
Grandson is at Glasgow School of Art. If he doesn’t know I’m sure he can find somebody who does.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 12, 2022 17:41:30 GMT
All of those flowers are so lovely that one wonders why there are not more suicides in the dead of winter when most gardens are totally ugly.
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Post by casimira on Jun 12, 2022 18:30:24 GMT
All of those flowers are so lovely that one wonders why there are not more suicides in the dead of winter when most gardens are totally ugly. I don't understand your reasoning in saying that Kerouac. People who live in regions where there is a dormancy period where they live expect their crop of whatever to go through a dormancy stage. Why would this be something they are well aware of cause people to become suicidal? It makes no sense at all.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 12, 2022 18:51:24 GMT
Some people are just SAD <---- click
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Post by casimira on Jun 12, 2022 19:10:21 GMT
That's true but if someone in a region where there is a freak and too warm a period in the winter it would not allow for them to have a substantial harvest that the dormancy stage allows.
Then, I could understand why that would be cause for some people to possibly become suicidal because it's their livelihood and they are dependent on it.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 13, 2022 4:52:08 GMT
Besides the pin cherries (on the previous page), we have 5 other native shrubs/small trees that bloom in our yard, and all 6 have white blossoms. This is Serviceberry, so named because the old timers knew that when it bloomed, the ground was thawed enough to dig graves and hold services for those who died over the winter. Also called Shadbush (for a fish spawning run) and Juneberry.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 13, 2022 7:18:32 GMT
Good information kimby. Thanks!
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Post by bjd on Jun 13, 2022 14:49:45 GMT
The chitalpa tashkenti has opened more blooms.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 13, 2022 15:04:15 GMT
I had no idea of the "service" part of serviceberry! Lovely picture, Kimby.
Your Chitty-Chitty Bloom-Bloom is going to town, Bjd! What a great landscape tree, with its graceful form and the fact that other things can be planted beneath it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 14, 2022 14:43:49 GMT
When my serviceberry blooms, I am going to go fishing instead of burying the dead people.
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Post by casimira on Jun 14, 2022 18:48:40 GMT
One of our neighbors has a huge Serviceberry tree and when it fruits, the birds go crazy for the fruit.
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Post by lugg on Jun 14, 2022 21:21:52 GMT
Gorgeous blooms all. How wonderful is a potato plant bloom? Bjd - your garden is blooming so beautifully. Whatagain that clematis is just lovely. Kimby - I wondered if the Serviceberry was related to what I know as a Juneberry tree - aka the Snowy Mespilus . It looks very similar
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Post by Kimby on Jun 15, 2022 4:05:10 GMT
Kimby - I wondered if the Serviceberry was related to what I know as a Juneberry tree - aka the Snowy Mespilus . It looks very similar Ours is Amelanchier sp. Wikipedia explains its similarity to species around the world, and the etymology section talks about the (fanciful) explanations for the common names. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier
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Post by Kimby on Jun 15, 2022 4:08:34 GMT
The birds like the berries, but so do the bears. They bend the taller stems to the ground and stand on them while they strip berries from the higher branches.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2022 4:39:48 GMT
Bears -- you can't take them anywhere nice!
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