SPRING 2013 #3

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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1311354/

A few of my favorite peonies. Misaka, raspberry twist, coral charm, Bride's Deam, I think, White Innocence,

Just needed to say that that Misaka is BEAUTIFUL!!

WOW! I'll say!

Why thank you! It is a renamed Chinese ITOH cultivar, distributed to nurseries by Monrovia.

Very pretty! Love Raspberry Twist as well. Pixie, I have the same noid iris...it's an old non-hybrid.

I don't know 'Platinum'. beard color? Your white does look like Immortality. yellow beards. When established well it should rebloom in the late summer or fall, even in our climate.

OOooo I love Coral Charm!

Peonies...on my want list

My Coral Charm is just opening.....here it is with iris & verbascum.....

And roses Easy Does It, Honey Perfume, Night Owl, Fourth of July, and what I believe is Morden Blush......

very colorful

Bill, the Tom Thumb is in afternoon shade. I took your warning about the sun to heart last year and used a light row cover fabric to protect it from the sun. It appeared to work as it looks very healthy this year. I'm hoping I won't need the row cover anymore now that it is established.

I am loving all the peonies!! DD just bought me one for Mother's Day and it was "CORAL" something. I'm WICKED excited now!!!!

Celeste, I also have coral magic, and pink Hawaiian coral, and coral sunset is also popular. I am most successful with the coral charm, but I'm sure you won't go wrong with any coral peony.

Robin's lovely Coral Charm is deeper colored than mine, which is much more pastel toned. The verbascum pic makes me glad I am planting some this year.

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Would you enjoy a few more pics? I am enthralled by the variety of blooms on peonies. Mrs. FDR, Roland, Lavender,Whopper, Eden's Temptation

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M. Jules Elie, Festiva Maxima, Pink, I think is Emile Debatene, Lotus Queen, Nancy Nora

Lovin the peonies and roses!!

happy for you wynne that tommy is doing well for you - maybe I will go for a third chance - I really like it - I do have two other yellow low growers similar.

rosemary your peony are beautiful! I picked a bunch here for my better half - they are a noid to me, pink with yellow center similar to clown and paula fay which we also have - I have a few of those coral (coral charm and royal Hawaiian) ones too that I got from co-ops a couple years back and they have been throwing up buds galore!

I'm sure Cindy appreciated the pretty blooms.

Loving all the peonies


First Lily!!!! Forever Susan
Trollius
Astilbe
These Sibs have been in this rubbermaid container since last fall

Lovely peonies Rosemary!
Jen I can't believe you have a lily!!! Very nice, thats one of the newer asiatics.

New for me this year are # 1 & 2

#1 'MILLENNIUM FALCON'

#2 'OASIS CATHY'

# 3 'SCREENPLAY'

#4 Azalea 'MANDRIN LIGHTS'

#5 'Sans Souci' (Van Houtte, 1854) or HONORABILE, (1840)
I've read so much literature about these 2...it's hard to tell them apart. I read that they are one in the same given 2 different names. I also read that they were crossed for genetic reasons as they are one of the oldest and hardest. I'm no expert so I really am not sure. This is approx. 18" tall and blooms after my MDB & SDB's , so my guess it's an IB? All I know is I have been caring for this plant since 1964...I was 4 when I helped Grandmother tend her gardens at camp every summer and she knew it wouldn't die so she gave me a piece. I planted it @ my parents and when I was pregnant for Josh i brought a piece out here. ^_^

'Sunsprite'
Pink Lupines
My "WEEDS" ^_^
Supertunia 'Raspberry Blast'
False Solomon's Seal

It has been classified as a MTB (miniature tall bearded iris) although the flower is a tad large for the modern ones, That can be true for many historics in the smaller classes. glad that you are enjoying it.

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MTB, thats interesting, thank you for that info. I can see where it would be, it's very slender and dainty...but extremely hardy!!

I envy your lupins. We used to see them in Maine when driving our daughter to camp. I would grit my teeth as we have had such trouble growing them here.

I wonder why? They grow on the coast here and along the roads like weeds...strange that they wouldn't like it in Mass. I've had others tell me they can't grow them either.

I'll be the next to say I cant grow them either.Cousin from Rockland sent tons of seeds.NOTHING yours are just stunninh Pixie

Lupins don't grow for me, either...have tried many times. Love that azalea.

No problem with them here

I had beautiful Lupines one year, but not since. The bunnies eat them. I have a few leaves from last years but no blooms. They are so pretty. My sister, who just started gardening last year, has beautiful ones.

I just noticed Celeste's Mandarin Lights Azalea--a stunner.

Lupines grow OK here but I am trying to replace the Russell hybrids with more native ones as soon as I can. Seeds didn't germinate for a few years, so an abandoned garden is the reason I have them.

kills me seeing the mandarin lights .. that's the one the deer keep getting on me :(

They have good taste! Tie a bar of soap on the azalea...that should keep them away....

need you to remind me when we are nuts with decorations.. to do that!!

Love the lupines, can't get them to grow here either :(

Hidden garden tour today
https://picasaweb.google.com/jerseyjenflower/AllentownGardenTour2013?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMyboef_2v2f8AE&feat=directlink

Yes #7 is missing...weird parking situation so I skipped that house

let me know if for some reason the link doesn't work

so glad the weather was good for that garden tour today, met some really nice people(of course not many gardeners I don't like) 1 lady makes fairy gardens...we talked for awhile

great fun!

What a treat to see lilies and dahlias.

Nice Jen!! I left a message under those orchids for you.