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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 4, 2020 17:34:20 GMT
Glorious...fabulous flowers lugg x (I like the bee too)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 4, 2020 17:56:31 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jun 4, 2020 18:35:10 GMT
You're ahead of me, Cheery. I have blooming penstemons, but neither my dahlias nor my lavender are blooming yet, despite the heat we had lately.
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Post by lugg on Jun 4, 2020 20:18:58 GMT
But the other thing I found was this comment from you, which you might enjoy seeing four years on ~ Thank you Bixa -
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Post by lugg on Jun 4, 2020 20:23:18 GMT
Gorgeous blooms Cheery - Like Bjd my dahlia and lavender are not blooming yet either. Sambucus is a stunning plant but needs an awful lot of space. - It is planted in the spot where the mature Silver birch was, so has space enough, at least I hope so , as long as I keep on top of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 4, 2020 20:37:32 GMT
Gorgeous garden tour, Cheery! Everything is so healthy, too!
What is the sort of bottle-brush looking plant in front of the ?yarrow in the next-to-the-last picture and also in the upper left corner of the last picture?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 5, 2020 12:30:53 GMT
First Dahlia of the year
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 5, 2020 17:54:11 GMT
Gorgeous garden tour, Cheery! Everything is so healthy, too! What is the sort of bottle-brush looking plant in front of the ?yarrow in the next-to-the-last picture and also in the upper left corner of the last picture? That's a sanguisorba. Hardy perennial. One of my favourite plants in early summer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2020 18:27:52 GMT
Thanks, Cheery! I think I remember seeing it in plant catalogs, but never in real life.
That's an outstanding dahlia, Mick!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2020 4:54:12 GMT
I'm starting to get some of the white climbing roses ~
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Post by tod2 on Jun 10, 2020 8:20:02 GMT
That is a real beauty Bixa. Ludwig, from Ludwig's Roses here in Johannesburg said in one of his videos on cultivating roses the way to tell if a rose is half decent count the petals. It should have 30 plus. That white one of yours looks like it has many more than that.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 18, 2020 6:57:17 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jun 18, 2020 14:36:06 GMT
Holy crud! That fantastic shots. What water lily is magnificent. Not hat the others were any less gorgeous but I liked that one best.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2020 15:59:54 GMT
Absolutely beautiful! I love the soft lighting in the water lily picture. What is that striking flower in the middle picture? Is the first one Lantana?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 18, 2020 16:10:00 GMT
I almost never know what any of this stuff is. Others do, however. A quick Google confirms that it is not lantana -- take a look at the pollinators thread to get a better view of the plant.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 18, 2020 16:40:28 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jun 18, 2020 18:18:50 GMT
Not lantana although I don't know what it is. The second of Kerouac's photos is weigelia.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2020 20:55:46 GMT
Thanks, Bjd. I followed Kerouac's advice about checking out his Pollinators picture and now know that the first picture in #2772 is Buddleia.
Beautiful lilies, Mick. What's the skinny-leaved plant in front of them?
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Post by bjd on Jun 19, 2020 6:12:57 GMT
I was about to post that the purple plant is a buddleia but see you beat me to it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 19, 2020 9:17:56 GMT
Well, it is very popular with bees for those of you who want to attract bees.
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Post by bjd on Jun 19, 2020 11:12:12 GMT
It's particularly known for attracting butterflies.
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Post by casimira on Jun 19, 2020 12:07:19 GMT
I was about to post that the purple plant is a buddleia but see you beat me to it. Me too!! That Bixa she's quick! It does attract butterflies, some of the different colored ones moreso than others I have found over the years. 'Black Knight' is a super magnet for them. (I have a white nearby the aforementioned purple cultivar and one can visibly notice more butterflies nectaring on 'Black Knight'. Odd I know but, it is really noticeable). Great pics Kerouac. Where did you take them?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 19, 2020 12:24:11 GMT
That was in the Martin Luther King park in Paris.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 19, 2020 15:12:15 GMT
One of the few surviving irises I transplanted from our old neighborhood when we moved in here 34 years ago.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2020 15:42:29 GMT
Wow! Really beautiful classic iris, Kimby, and a gorgeous photo to boot.
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Post by casimira on Jun 19, 2020 23:43:14 GMT
I meant to remark on your beautiful white rose Bixa! Do you know it's name?
Truly gorgeous.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 20, 2020 0:37:45 GMT
Casimira, I don't. Almost any climbing rose here that is vaguely in the seven-sisters class is called a rosa de castilla. The white one is the first one I got, then planted the pink one next to it. The pink one was given to me because I was assured it was the real rosa de castilla. Whatever ~ the two are similar in growth habit, very tall, robust, and thorny. Both are beautifully scented, the pink slightly more so -- even its fallen petals retain their scent. The rose looks big in the picture, but they're really only @2" wide or so.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 20, 2020 8:59:46 GMT
Thanks, Bjd. I followed Kerouac's advice about checking out his Pollinators picture and now know that the first picture in #2772 is Buddleia. Beautiful lilies, Mick. What's the skinny-leaved plant in front of them? Brachychiton populneus. It’s a succulent. A huge tree in Oz but I grow it as a sort of bonsai.
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Post by casimira on Jun 20, 2020 11:35:41 GMT
Any white climber gets high points in my book.
I tore out the ancient 'Old Blush' in my front on the wrought iron fence. She had done her time and performed well for many years but, after the last couple of years, some neglect in keeping her properly pruned, I tired along with her so, we mutually parted ways. I reckon she was easily 25 years old and her canes were so tangled, her old wood in evidence, out she came which was no easy task. I replaced her with an old species 'Peggy Martin' after seeing her perform in some local gardens.(I don't trust the testimonials in the catalogues) No blooms yet but she seems to like it there and I'm keeping a keen eye on her in the training phase. I likely won't see blooms until autumn if there haven't been any yet.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 2, 2020 11:07:38 GMT
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