What do you see on your garden walks? 2012

[cohan]

Lots goong on there, Lori Love the Peony! Peonies here are maybe a foot tall, still red foliage post emergence..

[Lori S.]

My supposed Penstemon pocerus seedling is blooming... I am very pleased, even though it is not procerus.

Nice one, nonetheless, Rick!  One would think it should be readily identifiable with the combination of serrated leaves and blue flowers?  I'm sure Mr. Nold would know it right off!

[Bundraba!]

I once had Penstemon nitidus with Tulip 'Little Princess'; absolutely sublime; both are now gone but the Penstemon, at least, WILL get tried again!

On June 1 I walked in the gardens of others. The first four photographs were taken at Cady's Falls Nursery: The next four at Rocky Dale Gardens; in my opinion two of the finest gardens in the region. The last two were taken from the ferry on my returning approach to Essex New York.

[deesen]

Beautiful gardens Michael, they look almost "English"

[Hoy]

Yes, very beautiful! Would love to take a walk there too

I had a little walk in my untidy garden yesterday, and here are some of the plants flowering now (actually rhododendrons still are the dominant genus).

Allium triquetrum and the native ursinum do a good show in the shady woodland. They are rather common but their white flowers light up the gloomy forest floor.

         


In a more open place the dark Phyteuma ovatum and the purpur Menziesia ciliicalyx var purpurea grow together and on a dry wall another native, Sedum reflexum, soon flower.

            

[AmyO]

I once had Penstemon nitidus with Tulip 'Little Princess'; absolutely sublime; both are now gone but the Penstemon, at least, WILL get tried again!

On June 1 I walked in the gardens of others. The first four photographs were taken at Cady's Falls Nursery: The next four at Rocky Dale Gardens; in my opinion two of the finest gardens in the region. The last two were taken from the ferry on my returning approach to Essex New York.

Hey Michael...I wish I had known you came to Rocky Dale Gardens!! I work there and would have loved to give you an official tour! The next time you make your way across Lake Champlain let me know, it would great to meet you. and I so agree the Rocky Dale and Cady's Falls are the best nurseries in the northeast!!

[cohan]

Michael- looks like a nice day for a tour of some lovely gardens!

Trond- nice things happening in your garden- love the Alliums- I've been slightly aware of some woodland Alliums, but don't have any yet- all I have is many square metres of A schoenoprasum!
Love the vignette of the Phyteuma and Menziesia too

[Tim Ingram]

Trond - great combination of phyteuma and menziesia with the fern in the background. Funny how you always wish for the plants you can't grow; I've always been fascinated by a lot of the smaller ericaceae and would love to grow, for example, Loiseluria procumbens, a great memory from visiting Iceland very many years ago. Now if somebody would write a book on these wonderful plants ...?!

[RickR]

I may have to ask for seed of A. triquetrum and ursinum, Trond.  I am not too crazy about the angular stem, but really like the triquetrum flowers.  I'll never know if they are hardy here unless I try them.  Do they go dormant in summer?

[Lori S.]

In a more open place the dark Phyteuma ovatum and the purpur Menziesia ciliicalyx var purpurea grow together...

That's a very striking picture, Trond!

[Hoy]

Thank you, folks
I'll collect seeds, Rick. They have a tendency to stay green the whole summer and are often very early with leaves in spring in mild spells.

In a more open place the dark Phyteuma ovatum and the purpur Menziesia ciliicalyx var purpurea grow together...

That's a very striking picture, Trond!

Yes, Lori, you can see all the weeds!

[Bundraba!]

A Penstemon seedling growing where a burgundy form of P. whippleanus and a pink form of P. arizonicus once grew.



A couple of afternoon's ago I walked out and saw this little spectacle and this wasn't the only Escobaria vivipara that decided it was a good day to bloom -like they all got together and discussed the best way to draw in bees.



A little bun cluster: Eriogonum flavum 'xanthum' (reclassified recently I believe), Dianthus haematocalyx subsp. pindicola, and Areneria species 'Wallowa Mountains'.



I wasn't kidding when I said I planted wheat. The blue flower is a very nice big bearded Iris. Now, as sometimes the artists critique of his own work is appreciated, notice the composition of this image -the wheat in the foreground vying with the iris in the center for attention; color, aspect and form. The whole creating an interesting vertical element in the photo. I took one with the Iris off to the side; but not as interesting. Note also the interesting rotation set up by the Penstemon in the first photo and carried through in the blue Aquilegia and other plants behind it.



It's been over a decade since I grew one of the little peas this well giving 2012 distinction as the year the little peas returned to my garden. This one normally lights up the roadside in Northwestern Wyoming and there, is probably capable of producing more than a few 'stop the car!' moments.

[Krish]

 Today I took pictures of some plants blooming  in the garden. Not as nice as Michaels.

[Krish]

more pictures

[RickR]

Today I took pictures of some plants blooming  in the garden. Not as nice as Michaels.

But they are special, just the same.  Very nice, healthy, well grown plants, Krish!