What do you see on your garden walks?

[cohan]

Today I didn't walk in the garden but chopped a yew to firewood. A foggy but not cold day +7C now.
Rick, did you say you were fan of brown?
Here are some browny colors

Nice views! I don't like overcast days, usually, but I do like fog! What is the large broadleaf evergreen?

[Hoy]

Today I didn't walk in the garden but chopped a yew to firewood. A foggy but not cold day +7C now.
Rick, did you say you were fan of brown?
Here are some browny colors

Nice views! I don't like overcast days, usually, but I do like fog! What is the large broadleaf evergreen?

Thanks! Fog has it's charm but not if it is foggy too often >
The broadleaf evergreen is a Hedera, probably H hibernica, climbing in a common birch.

[RickR]

Rick, did you say you were fan of brown?

You got it!

Is that a Pinus parviflora in the first pic?
I sure wish I could grow true cedars, ANY true cedars.
And what is the broadleaf evergreen tree?

[Hoy]

Rick, did you say you were fan of brown?

You got it!

Is that a Pinus parviflora in the first pic?
I sure wish I could grow true cedars, ANY true cedars.
And what is the broadleaf evergreen tree?

Right on spot! Pinus parviflora. The other pine there to the right is an American species, P contorta. Between them is a Thuja, maybe T plicata.
When you say true cedars, do you mean Cedrus? -I grow three species: C deodara, libanotica and atlantica. They are  nice trees. You can get a glimpse of C atlantica 'Glauca' in the top left corner of the 3rd picture, the other green stuff in the left is Sciadopitus verticillata.

The broadleaf evergreen tree is not a tree but Hedera hibernica climbing in a common birch.

[RickR]

Right on spot! Pinus parviflora. The other pine there to the right is an American species, P contorta. Between them is a Thuja, maybe T plicata.
When you say true cedars, do you mean Cedrus? -I grow three species: C deodara, libanotica and atlantica. They are  nice trees. You can get a glimpse of C atlantica 'Glauca' in the top left corner of the 3rd picture, the other green stuff in the left is Sciadopitus verticillata.

The broadleaf evergreen tree is not a tree but Hedera hibernica climbing in a common birch.

Yes, I was alluding to the Cedrus atlantica (which has had a name change, I believe).  I did guess the Pinus contorta, but I never would have thought that tree (below) was a Sciadopitys.  I would have thought it would have much longer pseudo-needles in your climate.   Unless, is it growing in clay based soil?

The Hedera hiberica is impressive, at least to me.  We are very lucky to even get Hedera helix (or closely related) to even survive on the ground, let alone climb.

[Hoy]

The Sciadopitys really has very large needles, the picture lies When I come home next week I'll show you! No clay here - all soil is peat-based (naturally) except some sandy soil at the lowest-lying part.

[Fermi]

The "sedums" are doing really well this year after all that summer rain we got! This is one of the Hylotelephiums, possibly "Autumn Joy"


Clematis "Golden Tiara" is also still looking good with new flowers adorning the silky seed heads,


A native "Bluebell", Wahlenbergia stricta is liking conditions in a sand-bed


A rather pale cutie is this Linum tenuifolium grown from Seedex 2010(?)

which I'm hoping will re-seed.

cheers
fermi

[Lori S.]

Beautiful, Fermi - how nice to be reminded of summer turning to fall!  I've been intrigued for some time by Wahlenbergia (being kind of a campanula nut) but I suspect they'd only act as annuals here. 

I like the Linum tenuifolium too.  I have found growing Linum from seed surprisingly difficult (well, surprising especially given that one sees entire blue fields of flax in these parts!)   

[Todd Boland]

Trond, I live in the land of fog and it can get darn depressing day after day.  having said that, I could use some now as fog is great at melting snow...and we still have scads of that!  It has been sunny and 8 C this past 2 days so the snow is settling but there is just so much on the ground...still about 3-4 feet over most of my back yard.  I actually dug out my crevice garden as I am desperate to see some soil!

[cohan]

Trond, I live in the land of fog and it can get darn depressing day after day.  having said that, I could use some now as fog is great at melting snow...and we still have scads of that!  It has been sunny and 8 C this past 2 days so the snow is settling but there is just so much on the ground...still about 3-4 feet over most of my back yard.  I actually dug out my crevice garden as I am desperate to see some soil!

Daytime fog is not at all common here, its usually a nighttime (or at least morning.evening) phenomenon, though at this elevation we are sometimes in the bottom of the clouds

3-4 feet is a lot of snow--we have that much around paths and drives where its been piled up from shovelling, otherwise probably more like 13-18inches in most places, tending to less around spruce and in mixed woods (except north side of woods in the low areas where willows grow, which always has the most snow).. no doubt it will stay here much longer than in Newfoundland, though anything can happen this time of year--Wed +2C, Fri -8C with possible snow (they downgraded periods of snow to 60%chance of flurries, yay!)

A random image from warmer days, an Achillea millefolium growing just up the road--the first time I have seen pink in the wild populations! The close-up may or may not make it look pinker than in real life--it was pale but noticeable as I rode past on my bike....
And one of its basically white cousins with a pollinator...

[Hoy]

Trond, I live in the land of fog and it can get darn depressing day after day.  having said that, I could use some now as fog is great at melting snow...and we still have scads of that!  It has been sunny and 8 C this past 2 days so the snow is settling but there is just so much on the ground...still about 3-4 feet over most of my back yard.  I actually dug out my crevice garden as I am desperate to see some soil!

Todd, fog is not uncommon in spring when the air warms and the sea still is cold but fortunately we are spared the worst as it tends to be more foggy at the other side of the fjord and nearer the coast (the fjord runs south - north here and I live at the east side).

Cohan, is yarrow a native plant at your place? Here pink (light pink, not dark) yarrows are not uncommon, especially at our cabin in the mountain where I am now. Not much snow here - 3/4m I think. Haven't had time skiing though, the sewage is frozen further down the valley and all the neighbors "spent food" has found it's way up through our toilet -  the floors of the bathroom, toilet and entrance flooded with..... Have done the worst cleaning job ever!

And I can't comment on Fermi's pictures, I can't see them!
(Trond, Fermi's photos have been fixed - Mark McD.)

[McDonough]

I know the snowdrops I show here are very common, but they are the harbinger of spring in my garden, followed closely by Crocus vitellinus, and this year Colchicum kesselringii that a friend sent last fall, is blooming now too.  The yard and gardens are still covered with an 18" glacial layer of hard-pack ice, but in a couple spots, such as the warm sunny south side of the house, snow receded and a few bare bits of ground can be seen, and much to my surprise, there were snowdrops!  Nice

[cohan]

Trond, I live in the land of fog and it can get darn depressing day after day.  having said that, I could use some now as fog is great at melting snow...and we still have scads of that!  It has been sunny and 8 C this past 2 days so the snow is settling but there is just so much on the ground...still about 3-4 feet over most of my back yard.  I actually dug out my crevice garden as I am desperate to see some soil!

Todd, fog is not uncommon in spring when the air warms and the sea still is cold but fortunately we are spared the worst as it tends to be more foggy at the other side of the fjord and nearer the coast (the fjord runs south - north here and I live at the east side).

Cohan, is yarrow a native plant at your place? Here pink (light pink, not dark) yarrows are not uncommon, especially at our cabin in the mountain where I am now. Not much snow here - 3/4m I think. Haven't had time skiing though, the sewage is frozen further down the valley and all the neighbors "spent food" has found it's way up through our toilet -  the floors of the bathroom, toilet and entrance flooded with..... Have done the worst cleaning job ever!

And I can't comment on Fermi's pictures, I can't see them!
(Trond, Fermi's photos have been fixed - Mark McD.)

I have to apologise for my brain apparently not functioning this morning, I somehow thought I was posting to image of the day, earlier...lol Oh well, I suppose it was only somewhat off topic   
Trond: yes yarrow- Achillea millefolium - is a very very common native here, but nearly all white--till now! I was also pleased to find A sibirica the last two summers--just an occasional plant--maybe only in one spot, and last year I got some seed, I really like the form/foliage of sibirica: taller, straighter and neater..
 I'd be interested in seeing your pink yarrows; I may yet break down and get some seed of hybrids, I really do like some of the colours, and want some other species--rock garden and larger--I want one of the 'white' leafed yellow flowered tall ones..; I have seedlings from last year (hopefully alive under the snow) from Gardens North of ACHILLEA sibirica var. camtschatica--which has pink flowers, very different foliage from the regular form too, it seems, but haven't seen mature foliage yet..

[Hoy]

Cohan, I'll show you pictures of the yarrows - but you have to wait some months I haven't pictured yarrows, they are ubiquitous!

Nice to see snowdrop, Mark. I'll take a look at mine when I've time and it is sun!

[cohan]

Cohan, I'll show you pictures of the yarrows - but you have to wait some months I haven't pictured yarrows, they are ubiquitous!

Nice to see snowdrop, Mark. I'll take a look at mine when I've time and it is sun!

I know what you mean, Trond; I try to photograph every flowering species, especially when they first start.. after they are going for a long time, I tend to taper off..lol--stilll, the summer is so short, there are very few flowers I get tired of (apart from the cursed foreign buttercup, and slightly less, clover and dandelions!)