I’ll keep right on eating.
Daylilies, Shasta Daisies, Wild Thyme down the driveway, and the American Chestnut just past bloom.
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Go ahead, take my picture Wednesday, Jul 15 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos daylilies, photography 22:43
Just busy Friday, Jul 3 2015
gardening and Landscapes gardening, photography 19:37
I know, it has been awhile.
Finally got the clematis and grapes on the pergola under control today, much less sprangly. It is always remarkable how one or two pruning cuts and a few piece of twine can improve things. Definitely summer here, hot weather and hot colors: white, orange, neon purple or pink, hot orange-reds. Some nice cool pinks, purples, and blues in the shade though.
Since, however, I haven’t taken photos of any of that yet, you will get some random Connecticut scenery for a change of pace:
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Roses Saturday, Jun 27 2015
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, roses 19:42
David Austin’s ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in its first year! It seems to be standing up to this rain rather well too. Furthermore, it was slid into its spot right next to the short/shrub clematis that is also blooming on that pillar. I am rather pleased with that planting job, since the clematis was already there, and both plants needed to be close to the pillar’s south side.
I honestly don’t know the identity of the clematis….
Clearing Skies Tuesday, Jun 23 2015
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, photography 19:16
Looking up through the Kousa Dogwood
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White Rose Tuesday, Jun 16 2015
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, roses 20:32
I am waiting to see if the named white rose ‘alba maxima’ planted this year is the same, if so I will be quite happy.
In any case, what I believe to be ‘alba maxima’ blooming. This seems to be the survivor of all survivors, lurking in the underbrush until just enough sunlight was given to it when the hedgerow across the way was cut down about 8 years ago. It had to have been planted at the driveway’s entrance, a good two generations ago, and then shaded out, forgotten entirely. It is back now, and blooms faithfully. A tall lanky bush with lovely (if brief flowers) and beautiful rose hips.
Poppies! Friday, Jun 12 2015
gardening and Landscapes gardening, iris, poppies 21:40
and iris, and salvia, and just in the background the Tulip tree doing its thing, which wasn’t very obvious this year: too hot I think.
Poppies: ‘Beauty of Livermore’
Iris: ‘Breakers’ (blue) and unknown yellow
Salvia: ‘Mainacht’
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Multiflora Rose Wednesday, Jun 10 2015
gardening gardening, roses 21:29
I should hate it. When it takes over a field or hedgerow it is a nightmare, an appalling example of an invasive plant taking over all in its path.
Keeping it trimmed as a bush takes effort, the thorns rip through jeans and skin with ease. The ticks like it (though not nearly as much as barberry)….but so do the birds.
BUT…on a warm, June morning with the sun shining, the world green gleaming with last night’s rain…. And all, all through the air is the heavy, sweet scent of roses. Wild roses. Multiflora roses in truth. The fragrance of a cultivated rose has nothing on the multiflora and rugosas.
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Passion Flower Friday, Jun 5 2015
gardening and Modern Photos container plants, passionflower 21:17
It took a few years, but it bloomed a few times last summer and this year it looks like it will bloom all summer. It is quite happy in a pot and is happiest when it is not forced into dormancy. Instead it overwinters in a sunny corner of the basement as it wouldn’t survive the winter here. It is not, however, a plant that you want to let loose if you live farther south, at least not without thinking about it. Now to get the new red one growing.
But you have to admit, it is rather over the top in its structure!!
Passiflora caerulea
Green Maple Tuesday, Jun 2 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, japanese maples, photography 22:23
I know, Japanese Maples are supposed to be red. But, some of our seedlings are green, and a lovely green it is. Besides they go flame orange in the fall. And yes, the trunk is green.
Now if only I could a)find and b)get to grow a cut leaf seedling. I had one, that one in a million (quite literally, anyone need a Japanese Maple seedling?), but it died.
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Experimenting Again Monday, Jun 1 2015
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, iris, photography 13:44
Fiddling with file sizes here, is this acceptable to my one or two loyal readers?
Further comparison:
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