Here I am Finally!

"Pacific Frost" hellebore

Getting bigger with raindrops

White columbine

Pretty color

These are all interbred and I never know what they will be like.

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These are a cross with Nora Barlow

Same with this one.

Last one.

Pat - I love the pink you're getting in your columbine. We should really plan to have a virtual columbine competition next year and have everybody plan to document (and maybe name) their hybrids - just for fun.

I hadn't really thought about how much variety there was out there.

That would probably be fun although I'm not very imagintive. They are certainly different than they were a few years. I've had the natives and hybrids and the barlow's and they are all mixed up.

Great pics Willow, but where did you get that Hell. just love it.

Bought it somewhere local last year. OF COURSE I don't remember.

OMG Willow...I just LOVE the columbine! All of them! Once my Nora Barlows and McKanas are established, I am going to mix them up a bit and see what happens. I'll have to document each one at first then see how they mutate.

Kathy, I really like the idea of a virtual competition...could produce some very interesting results!

Sheri - guess who's blooming and who is a McKana hybrid? or mostly so. Doesn't, at any rate, show much Nora Barlow. Peach and Pink and in the form of the McKana Giant.

Sheri - do you want some mature Columbine? I can give you PLENTY. Crosses of Nora Barlow with McKanas, and some that march to a different drum... Blues, purples, plums, pink bi-color. Let me know, and i will dig up the roots for you. Sturdy puppies they are.

Kathy ~ Oooh, I'm so happy they're blooming! At my last check, 3 McKanas are blooming and several Noras as well. It's been raining here quite a bit so I haven't gone for a walk but I'll check again today. Love to see a picture of it!

Katye ~ Yes. Would LOVE some. Any of it. I love it. Thanks.

I just don't get home until 6:30 and then it's all about the dogs and cats. I charged up my camera last night and hope to get some yard and garden pictures this weekend around my folks' visit. I just hope the rain doesn't do them in before I can get a good pic.

I saw Kate's menagerie last weekend - she does have a real variety.

Good Rainy Morning to everyone. This is my dwarf varigated weigela.

This is one of the five types of Iris I now have.

Second kind

Third kind

fourth kind and five is a white with a violet fall that isn't showing this year. But I just ordered 24 new kinds on the co-op sale and I can hardly wait until next year. I will share some with the plant sale and some with my daughter.

Blue Oat grass. My favorite grass

wow, your property looks like a well-maintained city park!
How invasive is the oat grass?
Oh, and when is the plant sale?

That grass is the 12th fairway at Alderbrook golf course. It is well maintained, my yard not so much. I have never had a start off of the blue oat grass and to maintain you just lightly pull on the dead grass and it comes off. No cutting back and it never looks awful. Our plant sale is in May, it was just over for this year. Time to start for next year.

Golf course, of course. I thought you were setting a new level of pristine for us to attain to. ;)
I, for one, was just going to crawl under a rock and drown.
Oh, darn, how did I miss the plant sale?
Well, I'll just have to give them away now, because I can't keep them all.

I think I will try to start seeds of the Oat Grass and see what happens.

I would like to know how that turns out, as well. Keep us posted.

If I have any luck I will post it.

The oat grass is clump forming, right? I really like it a lot, too. I like the color and texture and it's pretty easy to take care of.

Right, my clump is about 2' around and the seeds are about 3' high

This is a nice non-spreading geranium also. With white allium moly.

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Another purple rhody, Flora Pleno

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So, Patricia, they are using blue oat grass at the library I pass every day while walking to the bus. There are taller, greener blades of grass coming up in the center and going to seed. Is that the blue oat grass or is there something else in there? I don't think I've ever seen mine do that.

Duh em, I don't know. Would need to look at it.^_^

So it sounds like yours hasn't ever done that. That's two of us, then. Maybe I'll have to dig down a little bit one day and see what's going on.

Kathy - I have loads of Blue Oatgrass, and mine stays fairly blue. But the flower stalks are a bit more green, and come from the center.

Mystery solved!! They few I have don't do that. Guessing it's because of my limited sun. Thanks, Kate. Great picture.