SUMMER 2013

pretty!!.. I think one of DLs you gave me is blooming.. will pull them off the camera later.. my back is screaming.. looks like it's going to pour any min.. taking a break

Noid rose
Martagon Lily 'Mrs. R.O. Backhouse'
Clematis 'Silver Moon'
Climber 'Fourth of July'
Trollius

sliver moon is awesome!

Lovely all, and you know I put Bill on a rock pedestal.

Mrs. RO Backhouse is still doing making promises at my house. Do the beetles delay or prevent the blooms? I can live with tattered foliage. With my doggie out there smelling everything I just don't want to use anything toxic to him.

Have to work very hard here against the wooly adelgid on the hemlocks, which is hard to do with rain. Fortunately they are outside the dog fence. Nursery guy promises me the tree specialists are needed only once the infestation gets up higher on the tree.

Pam, the white iris is not mine, but it's very pretty....delicate! Pixie, I'm amazed you can grow Dutch iris, they are so marginal for me.......Elegant Lady is truly that....

The garden is open but don't forget your boots. We have standing water over all the pathways, because the pond has overflowed. The Japanese irises are loving all the wet. I have never had one stand at 43 '' before. Tomorrow this noid clump of tall white ones should be stunning. Blooming now is First Act, noid, Freckled Geisha. and Frilled Enchantment. I will be dividing Frilled Enchantment if anyone would like to swap.

Following along is 1 &2 Frosted Plum, 3 & 4 Ocean Mist, 5 noid (Henry's White) with Bridal Veil astilbe.

1. More of a clump shot. You can see the standing water over the pathway. 2 & 3 noid (Darling), 4 &5 Greywoods Persian Dusk

1, 2, 3 GPD without the tag, 4 Shasta daisy Crazy Lady, and garden visitor

Just beautiful, Mittsy!

drool drool drool over the iris!!!.. very nice!!

today's pics.. if anyone can spot Memory's thornless blackberries in the middle please let me know.. before I yank them with the rest of the weeds

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looks like blackberries to me Allison, I wouldn't yank em just yet!

Mittsy the Iris are beautiful!

thanks.. I spotted 3 of them!!.. hope that is what they are

Beautiful, mittsy

Yep, Allison, those be blackberries

woo hoo!!

I have had one thornless blackberry by my compost....never had a berry on it....last year Garret 'mistakenly' hit it with Roundup! I was hoping one day it would flower :>(

Getting some berries on ours. Hopefully someone will get them before the birds. We'll be away when they ripen.

Open My Eyes DL

pretty Jen

Bill, I just showed Hank your awesome photos, and he said, "He's in the wrong business!" We think you should be in landscape design. Everything looks fantastic! I especially love all the blending of colors and textures! You couldn't possibly want anything better!

Jo, love your combos as well!

Mittsy, your skunks are very cute.....now. LOL. Your blooms are lovely!

Jen, that Open My Eyes DL is a stunner!

Celeste, I'm glad you posted pics of Niobe and Silver Moon. They are in my future! I was thinking about them, and now it's a lock!

RD, your iris's are beauties!

Great shots from everyone!

Bill, remember this shrub you gave me that you first thoight was a weigela and then changed your mind? Here are its first flowers.....what do you think it is?

I think it's upside down, and a lovely shrub.

It is pretty....also love Jen's DL.....here are 2 lilies just opened...I think the first is Ariadne, the 2nd is Angela North....both are from The Lily Garden....

Mittsy, is it upside down when you click on the thumbnail? On my ipad it opens up right side up, but I never know how ipad shots come out on 'normal' computers. LOL. at first Bill thought it was a strawberry wiegela, and that seems plausible to me now that I've seen the blooms. It is a very pretty shrub no matter what it is.

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DonnieBrook, yes, still upside down when you click on it.

Lovely photos, everyone. It has been so discouraging to have so much rain and be unable to get in the gardens. Today it stopped long enough for me to venture out, and I found this little sempervivum doing its thing perfectly; I had to take a picture. Once in awhile, things turn out just right!

The Japanese Iris was the only one at the nursery that hadn't bloomed yet, so I bought it, and today it opened. It is called "Gusto".

Last photo is the front lawn garden, which was the only one I had time to mulch and weed before all the rain started, so it is the only one ready for a photo.

louise it is Deutzia x hybrid Magican - I gave another away last week.


rosemary I would like to see that rock pedestal :)

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is NOT Gusto, Just another noid. Gusto is vibrantly blue, unmistakable.It really is this color. I purchased mine from Ensata Gardens.

Both lovely plants!

Thanks, Bill! That's it alright! The blooms are very pretty!

Lovely JI's Mittsy
Allison that hydrangea is killing me! So blue!!!!
Louise thats a beautiful shrub!
Robin I love the lilies, but you knew I would. :)
Nice DL Jen!
Wynne, what ever the name of that JI...it's stunning!!


I spent the day at Eartheart Gardens with my DD Tiffany, DGC Oryanna, Isabella and Charlie. We also met Pirl & Jack there and Frank from Maine. :)
Lovely blooms but we got rained out. :(

More......

a few more

a couple more...

last ones....

WOW

Nice Celeste!

You would of loved it Jo!!! I got 6 huge pots for $50, 2 for DD as it's her B-Day tomorrow and 4 new ones for me. :)

Thanks Ronnie, it was eye candy!!!

so gorgeous!

How did you stop at 6? Wow is right....what a place!

Celeste, someday I need to come see your irises in person, you have so many beauties and irises are my favorite flower.