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Post by Kimby on Jun 15, 2022 13:34:27 GMT
Snork!!
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Post by lugg on Jun 15, 2022 17:05:57 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jun 15, 2022 18:13:14 GMT
Oh, but wilder gardens are so much nicer! I'm glad you let nature back in.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 16, 2022 4:29:21 GMT
Yes ~ what Bjd said!
Really, the garden is not wild -- more like relaxed in the loveliest way.
I adore that patio rose, which is so charmingly old-fashioned looking when fully open.
What are the funny little flowers right after the foxglove? Your color combinations are wonderful!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 16, 2022 13:45:43 GMT
Your garden is perfect as it is, lugg. If you don't believe me, just ask the pollinators.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 16, 2022 15:05:12 GMT
Your garden is beautiful....I don't grow roses but I can appreciate them in your garden. Stunning.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 19, 2022 10:18:18 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2022 17:07:08 GMT
Beautiful, Mick!
Do you keep those in the greenhouse in winter? It never occurred to me that hydrangeas could be so robust and floriferous in a pot. That doesn't even seem to be a very big pot. I've often wanted to have hydrangeas in my patio, but thought there was no space for them. This changes everything!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 19, 2022 17:52:35 GMT
It was a pot hydrangea present for Mrs Cactus last year and wasn’t a particularly big plant when I potted it up in a decent sized pot this year and it has grown well. Needs lots of water. Half the pot is hidden. Perfectly hardy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2022 23:09:49 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by tod2 on Jun 20, 2022 11:44:00 GMT
I love your garden Lugg. It has just the right balance and I am so jealous of those tall foxgloves. They are magnificent.
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Post by lugg on Jun 21, 2022 19:44:28 GMT
Thank you all That Hydrangea is beautiful Mick - Ive just re potted mine and it just has a few tiny buds - hopefully next year it will be good. What are the funny little flowers right after the foxglove? That is a close up of the tiny individual blooms on this Sambucus ... this year. I planted it in 2017 and it was so small - now i need to keep it under contol live.staticflickr.com/65535/52146891126_f80e96fc27_c.jpg
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2022 20:33:15 GMT
Thanks! I do remember your picture of it when it was newly planted, but can't find it. It's fabulous now!
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Post by Kimby on Jun 24, 2022 2:26:15 GMT
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. Updated to add: “ The local native Serviceberries, Amelanchier arborea, have small, hard fruits, which tend toward dryness, and only once in a while is there a tree with sweet offerings. The bounty in my bucket is a western species—A. alnifolium, known as Saskatoons—planted by my farmer neighbor, and this is their first bearing year, which they do with an enthusiasm that matches my own. Saskatoon, Juneberry, Shadbush, Shadblow, Sugarplum, Sarvis, Serviceberry—these are among the many names for Amelanchier. Ethnobotanists know that the more names a plant has, the greater its cultural importance. The tree is beloved for its fruits, for medicinal use, and for the early froth of flowers that whiten woodland edges at the first hint of spring. Serviceberry is known as a calendar plant, so faithful is it to seasonal weather patterns. Its bloom is a sign that the ground has thawed and that the shad are running upstream—or at least it was back in the day when rivers were clear and free enough to support their spawning. The derivation of the name “Service” from its relative Sorbus (also in the Rose Family) notwithstanding, the plant does provide myriad goods and services. Not only to humans but to many other citizens. It is a preferred browse of Deer and Moose, a vital source of early pollen for newly emerging insects, and host to a suite of butterfly larvae—like Tiger Swallowtails, Viceroys, Admirals, and Hairstreaks—and berry-feasting birds who rely on those calories in breeding season. In Potawatomi, it is called Bozakmin, which is a superlative: the best of the berries. I agree with my ancestors on the rightness of that name. Imagine a fruit that tastes like a Blueberry crossed with the satisfying heft of an Apple, a touch of rosewater and a minuscule crunch of almond-flavored seeds. They taste like nothing a grocery store has to offer: wild, complex with a chemistry that your body recognizes as the real food it’s been waiting for.” (https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/) And to think I thought the berries were insipid!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 24, 2022 6:57:16 GMT
Thanks Kimby. Just my sort of information!
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Post by lugg on Jun 27, 2022 19:49:57 GMT
Great info Kimby - thank you.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 28, 2022 2:39:07 GMT
Black-eyed Susan vine / Thunbergia alata Duranta erecta
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Post by tod2 on Jun 28, 2022 14:05:13 GMT
I would never have guessed a weed like Black-eyed-Susan could be trained to make a lovely display! We have it growing here all over our hedges and climbing trees but this has shed new light on its possibilities.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 28, 2022 15:04:52 GMT
A weed? That’s a revered climber here!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 28, 2022 20:13:29 GMT
Absolutely lovely. My sister grows black eyed Susan...I may give it a go next year
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Post by Kimby on Jun 28, 2022 21:25:02 GMT
And in my part of the world, “Black-Eyed Susan is a forb, not a vine. With a different scientific name: Rudbeckia hirta. A wildflower in Wisconsin.
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Post by bjd on Jul 1, 2022 9:41:45 GMT
My agapanthuses are all in bloom and beginning to fall over.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 1, 2022 9:57:49 GMT
Or is it Agapanthi...
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Post by bjd on Jul 1, 2022 10:55:15 GMT
I wondered, but who speaks Latin any more?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 1, 2022 15:33:23 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 3, 2022 10:24:11 GMT
This shrub is in bloom at the moment . Can anyone identify it for me please?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 3, 2022 10:59:39 GMT
Asclepias? But is it a shrub?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2022 17:20:39 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 3, 2022 18:03:20 GMT
Oh yes! Wow!
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Post by tod2 on Jul 4, 2022 11:59:44 GMT
Bixa, what sharp eyes you have! I never even noticed - even when snapping away... Mick - the shrub or bush is about 8ft tall = quite big.
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