It's that time again, when Carol, of May Dreams Gardens, hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. (Thanks, Carol!) I'm experimenting with smaller photos in the hope that this will load faster. I'm a bit behind on getting this together, what with technical difficulties with copying photos and helping VIS take apart a couple of our lousy Boxelder Trees that broke in the early Friday morning storms and fell into the neighbors' yard.
Yes, that's the fence we're going to replace this year. Sometimes procrastination pays off.Even though it has finished blooming, I had to include a photo of the plant formerly known as Smilacina racemosa (Maiathemum racemosa), because it bloomed after May Bloom Day.
This is one of my favorite native wildflowers. It's not done for the season, however, as it develops red berries where the "plume" was, and the foliage turns yellow in the fall.Say goodbye to Orville Fay,
he's nearly done blooming. Last year he didn't bloom at all, so I was very pleased that he put on such a good show this year. He's a tetraploid Siberian Iris, so the flowers are larger and the foliage more upright than my other Siberian Iris, which missed both Bloom Days.Also on its way out are the blooms of Calycanthus 'Athens.'
This one still smells fruitylicious. Nearly done also is Thalictrum 'Thundercloud.'
I love the color.The Campanulas are in full bloom, C. garganica 'Dickson's Gold,'
C. perscifolia 'Alba' and 'Telham Blue,'
and 'Sarastro,' looking better than ever.
It's planted with Heuchera 'Raspberry Ice.' H. 'Hollywood' is living up to its billing.
When the sun hits it, it is visible across the yard. The flowers of H. 'Lime Rickey' aren't as flashy, but they look good with those of Alchemilla mollis, which is also in full bloom.
Looking dazzling for such a baby, my Cornus kousa 'Beni fuji' is loaded with large flowers.
All the Columbines are still blooming. Here's a 'Leprechaun Gold' seedling blooming with one of four groups of Solomon's Seal (Polyganatum camutatum/biflorum).
It's a native. Although not actually blooming, the native Prairie Smoke is grown for it's showy seedheads. Right now, it's smokin'.
Another native that blooms in June is the plant called 'Bowman's Root' (I have no clue why) (Gillenia trifoliata), seen here with Aquilegia 'Woodside Blue.'
The Clematis parade continues with the divided and transplanted 'Henryi.'
He outgrew his space, so I've moved him to the back of the garden. In his place is my only double Clematis, blooming for the first time, 'Vyvyan Pennell.'
Also blooming for the first time is 'Betty Corning.'
I think I'm really going to like this one. I posted a closeup of 'Silver Moon' already, so here's the plant on its new trellis.
It is loaded with buds. 'Crystal Palace' is now Crystal Puffs.
Just this morning 'Venosa Violacea' opened for the first time.
It got chomped on by Earwigs before it opened. I'd appreciate any suggestions for dealing with Earwigs. I'm trying overturned pots filled with shredded newspaper in a couple of areas, but that doesn't seem to be working yet.The Astrantias are just coming into bloom. My current favorite in the garden is 'Claret,' shown here with Dicentra 'King of Hearts' blooming in the background.
Very soon, Hydrangea macrophylla 'Penny Mac' will start blooming.
It has this large bud and two smaller buds, while poor 'Endless Summer' has just one, much smaller bud. Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snow Queen' is also just starting to bloom.
It's going to be great this year.Things still blooming from last month:
Tiarella 'Iron Butterfly'
Thalictrum/Anemonella thalictroides, white, pink and double forms
Heucherella 'Burnished Bronze' and 'Sunspot'
Lamium maculatums
Stylophorum diphyllum
Phlox divaricata
Jack in the Pulpit
Dicentra 'Zestful'
Dicentra 'Candy Hearts'
Corydalis 'Blackberry Wine'
Brunnera 'Jack Frost'
Geranium macrorrhizum
seedling pink Aquilegia vulgaris
New this month:
Penstemon 'Husker's Red'
Phlox pilosa 'Eco Happy Traveler'
a creeping yellow flowered Sedum
Clematis 'Natascha'
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Monlo' (Diablo)
Heuchera 'Smoky Rose'
Cotinus 'Nordine'
Cotinus 'Ancot' (Golden Spirit)
Geranium 'Rozanne'
Geranium nodosum 'Svelte Lilac'
Campanula 'Samantha'
mystery Peony
Astrantia 'Primadonna'Things in bud:
'Black Dragon' strain Trumpet Lilies
Astilbe 'Veronica Klose'?
Clematis 'Evipo 023' (Cezanne)
Clematis 'Viola'
45 comments:
MMD - everything looks beautiful!
I love the wild beauty of your garden - it feels so natural. It's been a while since I visited and so much has changed. How nice to catch up!
I love looking at your flowers--some of which are familiar to me through books and many I've never heard of.
I love your clematis especially--I know some kinds grow down here so maybe I can do more than dream about them.
I'd much rather be there than here right now.
Pretty, pretty, pretty.
Such an aray of flowers! I love those clematis. I can't decide if I have a favorite or not. Your natural areas are beautiful. So sorry about your tree and fence. We missed those storms, thank goodness. Great bloom day post!
Wow, you do have a lot of clematis! Maybe you could do a post sometime just on clematis? I'm asking for selfish reasons, of course: I just have one which is doing well through sheer dumb luck on my part.
So sorry about your trees. I think the storms in the Midwest lately have been trying for all gardeners.
I love the clematis. I have several in my garden now and they are my new favorite flower. Your garden is so full of blooms. I'm fairly new to the blogging world. I did a post for bloom day too.
All very beautiful. I am a big fan of Heuchera and Clematis. Thanks for sharing your blooms with us.
Lookin sweet. I just picked up 2 more prairie smoke, and have 4. Aren't they the neatest? Yes. They are. :)
What a wonderful array of blooms. There are so many that I enjoy that it is hard to pick a favorite - I think the cornus "beni fuji" is great.
Regards
Karen
wonderful blooms MMD. You have so much variety. Love the clematis, love all the natives.
Wow, you've a lot of lovely flowers. Summer in New York is almost enough to make up for winter...
almost.
I'm sorry about your tree. Will your homeowner's policy help you rebuild the fence?
Fantastic display of flowers! I wish I had more shade, those are the flowers I want the most right now. (Of course, if I had mostly shade, I'd want all sun-loving flowers).
Thanks for joining in for bloom day!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
Hi, all, thanks for looking at my June bloomers. Don't worry about the trees, those were weedy things I wanted to get rid of anyway & they didn't damage anything in the garden. The fence was old & rotten & needed to be replaced, so That's not a problem either.
Sarah Lawrence - welcome back. Catching up is always good.
MSS - I've seen photos of the fabulous Clematis that can be grown in Texas. Go for it.
Rose - I am so not a Clematis expert, as my interest in them has just peaked last year, when I planted 6. Maybe when the rest bloom I'll devote a post to them.
Perennial Gardener - thanks for visiting. I like your thumbnail photo. I'll have to pop over to your blog when my eyelids aren't so droopy.
Cathy - Heuchera & Clematis go well together too.
Benjamin Vogt - I started out with 3 Prairie Smoke & now have a nice sized bunch of them. I love how the foliage turns such a bright red in fall.
Karen - 'Beni' is such a stunner already, I can't even imagine how great it will look as a mature tree.
Carol - thanks for hosting! You want more shade? Just wait - when your new trees mature, you'll probably have more than you want.
You have a really pretty woodland garden. Keep showing everyone with shade what you can grow, and you'll make us all long for tree cover.
I particularly love all those greenish flowers - very elegant and restrained - and very in keeping with what we saw at Chelsea Flower show this year.
I wanted to tell you - what you need to do to make your weblink clickable (you mentioned over on May Dreams!)
first of all put the letter "a" in triangular brackets (the ones which appear when you press SHIFT with the comma and full stop on your keyboard).
I can't actually write the code here or it will hide it "behind the scenes".
Then put your weblink. Then put the symbol "/a" in another set of triangular brackets. This will highlight your link in the comment, and make it clickable back to your webpage!
All the best
Emma
I enjoyed touring your garden. You have a lovely one. Sorry about your trees, that looks like a big mess that will take away from other gardening time.
MMD: I just purchased a Gillenia which I had never seen before and here it is on your bloom day post! It is very airy. All blooms are lovely and I am so enjoying the kousa dogwood this year.
Great post, your blooms are amazing especially the clematis. How many do you have?
I love all your flowers, especially the double blooming clematis. You have a wonderful variety.
Sam
Pam - we keep being told to plant trees, so we may as well figure out what to grow underneath them. But the midsummer lull is coming. That's when I turn my attention to the sunny front garden.
Emmat - thanks for visiting & for the advice. I'll try that next time. (If I remember.) "Restrained & elegant"? My garden? Vaguely resembling Chelsea? Wow, I'm so flattered. It is only a small area that's like that, but still, thanks.
Cindy - the trees did make for a lot of work, but the weather was so perfect on Saturday, & I need the logs for edging the beds in the Woodland.
Layanee - Gillenia is a subtle, understated plant until fall, when it turns orange. You're going to love it.
Phillip - how many Clematis do I have? I just planted 2 this spring, so I think I'm up to 13. Wow, how did that happen?
Sam, welcome & thanks for visiting. My double Clematis, 'Vyvyan Pennell' is not only good looking, it also performed well in the Chicago Botanic Garden's Clematis trials.
Beautifull blooms. Someone offered me some columbine seeds, I will try them next autumn/winter/spring,( I guess if I want them to have any success here it will have to be during the cooler months)
You have so many beautiful photos.
A few of yours are on my wish list. Betty Corning, Silver Moon, the companula Dickson Gold.
June, what a month for the gardener!
Wow, things are really popping at Squirrelhaven. That clematis is such a fantastic color! And I love the combination of the heucheras with the hakonechloa. I think my favorite, though, is your black-and-blue container planting at the very top. Ow about the fence damage - but you're right, how lucky that you hadn't replaced it yet!
If you email me your name and postal address (gardenfaerie02 at yahoo dot com), I'll be happy to mail you some Baptisia seeds in the fall--nicely bypassing the deer (unless of course they also intercept mail).
~ Monica
P.S. Glad someone knew what the TARDIS is! :)
Your Cornus kousa caught my eye. How whimsically lovely the blooms are! The milky curves set against the green foliage are lovely. They're almost like fairies dancing in your garden.
Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful show, MMD! :-) Your clematis are lovely. I planted Jackmanii last year. It was doing very well...(or at least it was climbing and making me happy!) but I touched it and now it's drooping. ??? I haven't had a clematis for quite some time. I didn't remember their being sooo touchy.
Anyway, I finally posted my "Sarah Bernhardt" for you. :-)
If you hear faint cooing sounds from the direction of Austin that's me looking at the 'Silver Moon' and coveting your columbine, Solomon's Seal, campanula and Alchemilla, MMD. The 'Venosa Violacea' is beautiful but you can keep the 'Vyvyan Pennell'. I'm not a double clematis fan.
Earwigs. People will tell you they're harmless but they used to nip the delicate edges of daylily petals so the flowers were shredded. I can remember going out on summer mornings with a bucket of soapy water [my weapon of choice in TX, too], holding it under the almost open or just-done daylily flowers - tap, tap and they'd jump out to soapy death.
If you don't have daylilies yet, I wonder where they're hiding?
Will the fallen box elders change the shade patterns enough to endanger your plants?
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
MMD, what a delicious array of blooms! You have such a great woodland garden ... I wish we had that much space to work in, but ours is getting full and we're still trying to find more spots to put things in. We have given up on clematis finally, concluding they just hate us, lol. I'm surprised your Polygonatum is still blooming, as ours has been spent for a few weeks. We were given a new one from a friend ... it's a variegated variety that is very pretty ... I'm going to plant it near one of my Toad Lilies with variegated foliage where it should look quite fetching (I hope!).
RE: Earwigs ... what vile creatures! We quit planting Dahlias and Gladiolus because they positively inhabit them and they disgust us to no end (and we're not generally bug queasy, but these things...ACK!). Even shaking the cut flowers before we brought them in didn't seem to work all the time. I think Annie's idea is the best solution (at least an eco-friendly one), though we researched them and alas, they have NO natural predators... Good luck, and sorry I don't have an easy solution to them. Once in a while one manages (don't ask me how) to make it up through the drain into the shower upstairs where when found is greeted with disgust, promptly smashed and flushed away. They're just so creepy we can't stand them!!!
Gintonio - oh, do try the Columbine seeds. They are such undemanding plants, yet the flowers are so charming.
Roses & Lilacs - 'Silver Moon' can be hard to find, but the others are readily available. They are all worth seeking out.
Nan Ondra - that black & blue container theme was unintentional. The Pansies were supposed to have fizzled out in the heat, to be replaced by the Callibrachoa. As the Pansies showed no sign of stopping, I just stuffed the Callibrachoa in around them.
Monica - thanks for the offer, but I don't have room for more Baptisia. I was just looking forward to the charcoal colored seedpods. And yes, I still watch Dr. Who. Tom Baker is still my favorite, but the current Dr., David Tennant.
Hi, ICQB, thanks for visiting! I love your description of the Dogwood flowers. It'll make me look at them in a new way.
Shady - I wonder if your Clematis has the dreaded wilt? It's pretty common with recently planted Clems. I'll be over to look at that Peony.
Annie - glad you liked June's flowers. I'm not a big fan of double Clematis either, but this one scored so well in the trials & the color is good & there's always the later single blooms too. I have Daylilies, they just aren't in bloom yet. Yesterday I pulled a ton of Geranium off one that I think is 'Happy Returns.' It was being swamped by the rhizomes. There's no change in the shade patterns because the trees were along the north fence line and we're mostly leaning over into the neighbor's yard anyway.
IVG - the Polyganatums started a bit late this year. They're also very tall with all this rain, so there are loads of buds & flowers. Earwigs stink!
Hiya M.MGr.D.
Thanks for stopping by on GBBD.
How do you manage to keep both your Solomon's Seal and the Campanula persifolica upright? Mine are drunk and disorderly.
As regards smaller pix: I appreciate anything that makes dial-up less of a strain.
A few queries of my own (answer to the White Horse question is on my comments page):
We spent some time in upstate NY and photographed wildflowers there. The only wild columbine we saw was a lovely orange with yellow inside. Nobody mentions or shows that as far as I have found. Do you grow those?
Earwigs are supposed to be carniverous until August, when they turn vegetarian. This year they are early and I have only found one unscathed clematis flower head. You have the upside down cups on top of stakes, right? Does work with dahlias, if you get up early enough. Then you remove the pot and they fall out on the ground, never to be see again.
Hi again, Joco - the Solomon's Seal stays upright by itself as long as the squirrels don't attack it. The Campanula persicifolia has started to need the support of its neighbors. (When I took the photos, it had just started blooming, & so was upstanding.) Where the neighbors are cold-hearted, it's already face down in the gutter. However, it appears that the younger plants stand up better than the older ones, so maybe the drunk act is a cry for help ("Please, divide me!")
I saw your White Horse answer. I learned about the White Horse through Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men books.
The wildflower Columbine is Aquilegia candensis. I've seen it growing wild around here & some people grow it in their gardens. I'll get back to you with a link to a blog post showing it. You'd think I'd grow it, but I don't have any of that yet.
So I'm supposed to put the upturned pots on stakes! Thanks, I'll have to try that. I had my pots on the ground.
Hi MMD, great group of photos again this month for bloom day, kudos. Dr. Who, huh, never watched it but at least know what you are talking about. ;-> Those prairie smokes are fascinating, I would love to have that in my garden. Do they self sow? Is that how you got so many? And the Black Dragon trumpet lilies, one of my faves, hard to find anymore. Love the yellow columbine foliage also, and everything! Now what is the secret to upright campanula pers.?
Frances at Faire Garden
I'm so amazed at how different our climates are. You are almost exactly one month behind me, but that means your August will be pretty while mine will just be hot.~~Dee
Frances - I really don't know how the Prairiesmoke has increased. I don't find seedlings around the garden, but I have more plants than I started with. I think they must increase by offsets. I wish I knew the secret to keeping C. persicifolia upright. It stands up pretty well if it can lean on Alchemilla mollis, Coneflowers or Asters.
Dee - I guess my August will be pretty & hot. The sunny garden really comes into full bloom then.
I SO envy you those thalictrum! I tried 'Hewitt's Double' last year but it didn't like me... had it done okay, I would have been emboldened to buy 'Black Stockings' as well. (Of course, then I would have had to get 'Fishnet Stockings' coleus and a 'Stiletto' hosta to plant near it, and I really don't have room for all of that, so it might have been a good thing after all! lol.
That 'Venosa Violacea' clematis has been on my list for a while now--I've had it in my shopping cart at Bluestone before, but never ended up buying it. Is it worth the purchase,and does it look good from afar?
Blackswamp Girl - I like the leg/foot fetish theme. LOL I've been eyeing 'Black Stockings' too. I'm not sure why my Thalictrum is doing well. I had tried one a long time ago & it died. I think you should try again.
As for Venosa Violacea, so far I'm very impressed. This was a Bluestone baby & it has so many buds & the flowers are a good size. The buds are neat looking too. I'm happy with it & I'd recommend it.
I'd love to stroll through your gardens in real life, to see it as a 'whole', and where everything is situated...all those clematises for instance. Silver Moon is glorious! And I love the Venosa Violacea, chomped on or not. Earwigs are a pain. If you find out how to deal with them I'd love to know.
All your plants are looking wonderful, but I especially love the clematises.
Thanks for the sympathy regarding the sciatica. Yes, it's a bear. I've had it several times before too. Walking and certain exercises help, but it usually takes a few trips to my chiro before I get some relief. He does a great job.
Hi again Mr McGregor’s Daughter, what a wonderful variety of flowers :-)
I love all your clematis! I also have silver moon in my garden too although it is still only producing buds in the cooler temps here in Scotland :-)
I also love your heucheras too. I love their names. I have ‘marmalade’ amongst others and more recently bought the deliciously deep coloured ‘liquorice’. I do like the planting combos you have with them :-D
‘Dickson’s Gold’ has also caught my eye once again. I will have to look out for that :-D
Enjoy the rest of your week :-D
Kerri - I'm going to give the soy sauce trap a try again. It's soy sauce & dishwashing liquid in a shallow container placed near the vines. Last year the raccoons spilled it all. This year I'm going to put the containers under upturned flower pots. We'll see if that deters the raccoons but lures the Earwigs.
Shirl - I don't know who had the bright idea to start nameing Heucheras after yummy things, but it definitely makes them more appealing. C. 'Dickson's Gold' is such a great little plant, after mine bloomed last year, I got three more.
Wow, you have quite a collection! I am also really impressed with your beautiful plant combinations in the photos.
You have an incredible selection of plants in bloom - I was thoroughly taken with the Meadowrue and its deeper purple colour than the usual ones I have. The clematis are something else ... just beautiful.
Earwigs ... thankfully they haven't arrived here and wouldn't survive even if they did, but I had much experience with them when I gardened in Ottawa. I tried every possible way to trap them and gave up. They still ate their way through the garden. What I started to do - and the only thing I found to be somewhat effective - was going out with a bowl of soapy water and flicking them in before they had a chance to scurry away. I became quite adept at it while my neighbours finally began asking whatever was I up to. I detest them ... more so even then slugs, which are also rare here. Just thinking about them makes me feel outraged all over again.
Rosemarie - thanks, I've finally got a couple of areas the way I want.
Kate - thanks for the Earwig advice. Maybe a combined attack would help reduce the damage. The bucket method will have to wait until the mosquito problem gets better.
I'm intrigued by the beautiful white dogwood blooms that you have labeled Cornus kousa 'Beni Fuji'.
Every thing I've read about this cultivar says Beni Fuji has the deepest pink/red bracts of any Chinese dogwood. The bracts are also supposed to be slender. Does your tree sit in a very warm microclimate that causes rapid loss of color? Or is it mislabeled? - Bill
Hi, Bill - as I note in a recent post, I believe this is another mislabeled plant. It's definitely a Cornus kousa, but I serious doubt that it is 'Beni Fuji.' I'm not going to replace it, as it is still a beautiful thing.
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