Monday, 4 July 2016
We spent the day planting most of our new acquisitions from shopping at the Hardy Plant Study Weekend. Sources: Windcliff (Dan Hinkley), Dancing Oaks, Sebright Gardens, Gossler Farms, Secret Garden Growers.
finally, time to plant
more
still more
Here are the two about which Dan Hinkley his ownself said I had a good eye. 😀
First, the exhausting five gallon Acer compestre ‘Carnival’.
Sanguisorba ‘Lilac Squirrel’
A pause to admire my Mermaid rose. She does get a little blackspot.
Dicentra spectabilis ‘Valentine’ has been on my must have list for awhile.
Dicentra ‘Fire Island’
Hakanechloa macra ‘Fubuki’. Not very saveable to have the label on the pot.
Potentilla ‘William Rollson’ (in front of a euphorbia)
Eryngium zabellii ‘Neptune’s Gold’, very exciting to me as this is my favourite perennial and I love gold foliage.
about as tiny as the hazelnut mulch, Eryngium giganteum (camera being annoying)
At Dancing Oaks: Miss Wilmott’s Ghost, named because she supposedly scattered the seeds of it in all her friends’ gardens.
Arundo donax var. versicolor
Calandrinia spectabilis
Calandrinia spectabilis
must go in greenhouse in winter
Eryngium carlinae
Stachyurus praecox ‘Oriental Sun’
from Dan Hinkley
Saxifraga stolonifera ‘Maroon Beauty’
Begonia sutherlandii
Titanotrichum oldhamii
Hacquetia epipactus ‘Thor’
irresistable Hinkley prose
Begonia aff. hemsleyana ‘Chandler’s Hardy’
Angelica ‘Ebony’
getting punchy from planting…no doubt too close to Lilac Squirrel…will move the latter later on. To the right is the Angelica gigas that I bought from Annie’s Annuals earlier this year.
Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Big Girl Pink’
in a pot for now because am afraid snails will get it in the garden
Ruellia elegans ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ …in the same pot…
I clearly need two BIG pots not one medium pot.
I was shocked at this tag as I had thought for sure I had picked up ‘Hewitt’s Double’. Must have grabbed the one next to it. Phooey, already have this one!
Asphodelus ramosus, in a pot.
trying this because I love Asphodeline ‘lutea’
Asphodel liburnica, also in a pot. Above it: Mentha x villosa (Mojito mint), also new.
That is all I could bear to plant, along with some scented geraniums acquired at the Basket Case end of season sale.
in the garden
The tiny plant in my hand is also a gunnera!
Gunnera monoica! I planted some in my little frog bowl and some in an old watering can.
Far Reaches Farm, from whom I bought it, says, “Very cute little groundcover Gunnera literally overshadowed by its more familiar larger kin. This avoids the inevitable comparison by growing in New Zealand rather than South America where the big ones hold court. Loves a rich moist soil where it will carpet freely with dense overlapping rounded lightly coppery leaves. Little flower spikes with white fruit. This species and other Gunnera species have been shown to have a nitrogen fixing blue-green algae living inside them which provides the Gunnera with an in-house source of fertilizer. Protect if very cold.”
If i could ever manage to get more salmonberry out of the bogsy wood, I’d have room for more shade plants.
semi shade bed that is slow to fill in
My dierama reminds me I failed to acquire Dierama ‘Merlin’, the new dark one.
The tallest lilies are coming out.
Meanwhile, Allan planted and photographed:
part of Allan’s garden
after planting, including a dormant Trillium kurabayashii; we got one for Melissa at her request and one for us, from Dancing Oaks.
Watering the front garden
I gave Allan my new vine because I could not figure out where to plant it. Schisandra arisanensis.
Afraid it would get lost near the bogsy wood.
Friday, 8 July 2016
After our work week (next post), I had time to plant the rest of my new plants.
Actaea rubra f. neglecta
used to have this in my old garden, glad to have again
Hydrangea macrophylla quadricolor (center)
another plant I bought, forgetting I already one a big patch of it.
I took a break to pull lots of bindweed from this area.
Deinanthe bifida ‘Pink Kill’ (soon to have horsetail weeded out); looks like snails like the new plant.
Kalimeris yomina ‘Shogun’
sorry so blurry
Acanthopanax sieboldii ‘Variegata’
Beesia deltophylla, which I have wanted for a long time.
Teucrium fruticans azureum
sorry…blurry…hope it does take shearing as it too close to everything else. I am out of room!
Allan got his heucheras from Dancing Oaks planted, in pots on the north wall of his shed, in a frame we got from our friend Sheila (Harley Lady). He says he shopped a long time only to come up with something ordinary. I think it looks great.
Allan’s photo
Ginger’s Garden Diaries
from my mother’s garden diaries of two decades ago
1997 (age 73):
July 8: Rain Store and errand day. Paid Quarterly Pines dues and assessments.
Spent afternoon “pruning’ African Violets. There were scads of long stems which I removed and put into water in bathroom planter—there must be over 100 stems from only two trays of plants which are now in one tray.
1998 (age 74):
July 4: 11:00 t0 5:00 cloudy and cool I checked the seedlings in shop. I moved some plants out of the greenhouse and then moved some from shop to greenhouse and then moved more plants from house to shop. I think next week I’ll spend time fixing color bowls. Picked berries. Had enough to freeze 3 pkgs. There were quite a few BIG raspberries.
I checked back to 1997 and read that I set out tomato plants on 6/28 so I’m only about a week later this year. I also planted some tomatoes on June 6 and 13 last year. Also I read of large berry pickings. I don’t think I’m getting as many berries this year.
July 8 (Wednesday): Picked berries. A large amount of raspberries. Continued the work I was doing Monday. In the evening I took Tabby out. She seemed to enjoy it until Alan came over. She was scared of him so we went in.
Enjoying all these garden tours and plant shopping expeditions. So many beautiful specimens and ideas.
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A feast of flowers.
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