tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39449374323454279962024-03-13T04:17:11.384-04:00sweetbaysweetbayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06248743114944736346noreply@blogger.comBlogger465125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944937432345427996.post-85807040835167353742021-01-10T17:00:00.000-05:002021-01-10T17:42:41.634-05:00Calendar for 2021<font size=4><div style="line-height: 1.5">
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Each year I make a calendar for G. to hang in the rooms in the office he works in. I have found making calendars to be a little harder than I first expected. Sometimes the printing doesn't pick up well on the light and shade, and sometimes the pictures just don't translate well to a calendar page. I've learned to buy a trial calendar to check it before ordering the rest. I use Shutterfly since they seem to have the best picture quality of the companies I've used. The other companies I've tried are Cafepress, Zazzle and Mixbook.
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<center><b>January</b></center>
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We haven't had much snow for several years, so I thought the best way to portray snowy white was in flower form. Clockwise from top: Hymenocallis, apple tree blossoms, an Atamasco lily, and a noid white iris.
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<center><b>February</b></center>
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<center><b>March</b></center>
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<center><b>April</b></center>
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<center><b>May</b></center>
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<center><b>June</b></center>
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<center><b>July</b></center>
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<center><b>August</b></center>
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<center><b>September</b></center>
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<center><b>December</b></center>
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There isn't much going on in the garden right now, but there is a lot to do. The caveat to this simple and slightly ominous statement is that it's wet. So very, very wet. We got an additional 2 1/2 inches over the long weekend which we did not need. The water table is very high, making heavily trafficked areas a muddy mess. This fall we got a load of screenings (grit) which G. used to raise up the entrance to and floor of the stalls, but we still need more. That will have to wait until summer. He used our new tractor with a front loader (inherited), which has been worth its weight in gold.
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During a wet winter like this taking care of the horses takes about 2 1/2-3 hours a day. That sounds incredible, but that's how long it takes. Currently we're having to hang all of their hay in nets at night as it gets spoiled by putting it on the wet ground. Dealing with farm work in the mud for so long every day is not making me want to deal with my least favorite garden chore, which is clearing vines, blackberries and briars.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 1.5;"> So there is a smaller chore in the garden that I've been working on instead. There are two beds north of the well that are filled mostly with rugosa roses. I didn't plan it that way, I just had a ton of rugosa roses I'd grown from seed that I had to plant somewhere.
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<center>Below are a few pictures documenting the beds' early years.</center>
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In the fall the rugosas have nice color and some have extremely nice color. I've noticed the rugosas with the single fuchsia flowers turn the most vibrant hues in autumn.
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Over time the rugosas have gotten a little scraggly, and a few have died out. The only pruning they've received is removal of dead wood. But after 10 years I felt they needed a little rejuvenation, so I cut the top third of the rugosas in the western bed. I may do the same in the eastern bed, or I may leave that one alone to compare. I don't really see how pruning can hurt them, as they still have plenty of cane left and bloom on new wood, but who knows. Certainly not me. I don't know what I am doing. I have always been afraid to prune roses, afraid of opening them up to disease by cutting them. But rugosas are tough and there's starting to be a bit more deadwood than is easy to deal with.
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This fall I dug up two Japanese beautyberries I'd planted along with the rugosas, along with approximately two dozen beautyberry seedlings. To fill the void left by the mature beautyberries, I planted a swamp rose. I planted two other swamp roses on the far edge of the western bed to help round it out and give the 3 other swamp roses there more company.
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Besides these changes, I want to add more variety to these beds as they are just largely rugosas, but I haven't figured out what I want to do yet. I might even eventually turn one or both of the beds into goldenroad and aster beds, since goldenrod is making itself at home already.
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1) The <a href="https://sweetbay103.blogspot.com/search?q=sisters+garden" target="_blank">sisters' garden in Chapel Hill</a> is the quintessential Southern Garden with dogwoods and lots of azaleas, along with hundreds of tulips and many other flowers. It's locally famous and hundreds of people visit every Easter.
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2) Blogger<a href="https://warrengrovegarden.blogspot.com/search?q=garden" target="_blank"> Carolyn Aiken's garden</a> on beautiful Prince Edward Island. It's the ultimate romantic style garden.
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3) The <a href="https://sweetbay103.blogspot.com/search?q=coker+arboretum" target="_blank">Coker Arboretum </a> on the UNC Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill. It's a scenic and peaceful oasis in the middle of a beautiful campus. Originally it was a swampy area where the faculty grazed their cattle (I've actually seen pictures in the alumni magazine of this) but the swampy areas have been turned into a stream and the area into a lovely garden with many interesting plants.
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4) The <a href="https://sweetbay103.blogspot.com/search?q=nc+botanical+garden" target="_blank">NC Botanical Garden</a> in Chapel Hill, set in the piedmont of NC. There are display gardens featuring mountain and coastal plain plants by the older buildings, as well as a medicinal garden with some non-native plants, and more display gardens by the newer buildings. They have a seed distribution program for members (non-members can also buy the seeds for a small price) and it's just a great place for learning about native plants. There are also hilly trails that are great for bird watching and even seeing flying squirrels.
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<font size="4"><div style="line-height: 1.5;">5) My own, because I made it and I love seeing all of the wildlife thriving in it.
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OK, in case 5 is against the rules, I'd pick somewhere that isn't really a garden but looks like one on a grand scale: Enlow Fork, Pennsylvania. Large glades full of blue-eyed Mary under an open canopy along a river, with Virginia bluebells, several species of trillium, Mayapple, violets, and wild native geraniums.
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Picking one book is difficult. Very difficult. But in the end I would choose <b>A Southern Garden </b>by Elizabeth Lawrence, and the item a shovel. If I got off the island I'd want to visit Longwood Gardens because Dirr mentions them often in his <b>Manuel of Woody Landscape Plants</b>.
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The last year or two I have decided to revamp the garden, as it dawned on me that ten years ago there were aspects of the garden I liked better then than the current one. In the bed east of the house ten years ago there was bearded iris and marsh phlox,
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<center> 'Clotilde Soupert',</center>
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<center> columbine ('Clotilde Soupert' turns pink as the blossoms age),</center>
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<center>beardtongue and foxglove,</center>
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<center>spiderwort,</center>
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<center>the hybrid tea climber 'Aloha',</center>
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<center>'Hansa',</center>
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<center>'Crepuscule',</center>
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<center>and a found rose named Delia's Purple. </center>
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<center>Most of these were swallowed by the rugosa hybrid 'Sir Thomas Lipton'</center>
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and a mockorange, eaten by voles or faded away. I wasn't expecting 'Sir Thomas Lipton' or mockorange to get as big as they did. Delia's Purple did not die, however, and I was able to pot up several runners for transplant and put them where the Japanese beautyberries used to be. I removed them last year after realizing that they didn't belong there. I don't even think they have good garden value in the Southeast, as they sulk and droop in hot dry weather and they are invasive, seeding in everywhere. Their one moment of glory was the time that <a href="https://sweetbay103.blogspot.com/2010/02/bluebirds.html " target="_blank">the bluebirds went after the fruits during a snowstorm</a>. I kept them for years after that based on that one incident. </font><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">Delia's Purple is a mounding shrub that blooms once a year, grows well in this location when it's not being crowded out by a monster shrub, and has wonderful purple flowers, a nice counterpoint to all of the white of 'Sir Thomas Lipton' and mockorange.
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<center>The flowers open magenta and turn bluer with age.</center>
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I have added back more foxglove in the drier areas and smooth and Gulf Coast penstemon elsewhere.
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The voles go to town on spiderworts near the house, so I just grow them in the big perennial bed. I think I will try marsh phlox down there too, as it just can't compete with the daylilies.
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'Clotilde Soupert' is in a pot and I am hoping it will thrive there. At the North Carolina Botanical Garden there was a CS that was grown in a pot until it got to a good size. I have two 'Hansa' on order with Witherspoon that will be delivered in the spring and planted in the driest places east of the house that I can find. I would love to have bearded iris again but they'd have to be grown in pots with wire mesh at top soil level to keep the voles away, the same with columbine.
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'Crepuscule' has been replaced by "Cl. Caldwell Pink', which as it turns out needs a pergola or fence, not an arbor. It is HUGE. Gene gamely replaced the old arbor with a larger, sturdier one but even so, not only is Caldwell Pink huge, the mockorange is hulking on the other side.
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The plants in cages are Delia's Purple that were still so little that the rabbits were eating the tender shoots, so I gave them some protection until they got more mature. We have so many rabbits here, but luckily they usually stick to eating the grass and clover. I've even seen does nursing their young on 3 occasions.
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To clarify, Caldwell Pink <i>is </i> huge, but not all of that is Cl. Caldwell Pink. There's a shrub form to the right of the arbor. They all just kind of blend together.
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While Cl. Caldwell Pink is a once bloomer (with deep red fall color), Caldwell Pink blooms all season. The flowers lack fragrance but the full lilac pink flowers are so beautiful and the plant so reliable I don't even care. The foliage is relatively clean and the rose is a real workhorse. Easy to grow from cuttings too. I've propagated it to grow in some other parts of the garden. </font></div><div><br /></div><div><font size="4">
There have been sudden recent changes to the garden as well. The 12 inches of rain that we got from tropical storm Matthew in 2016 killed off the oakleaf hydrangea 'Dayspring' on the east side of the house and half of 'Pee Wee' on the northern side of the house.
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<font size="4"><div style="line-height: 1.5;"> More diversity in the beds at the front of the house would never be a bad thing, but I'm not sure what to put there. I've added some mapleleaf viburnum, but it's quite a slight plant and you can see directly under the house. We've never put skirting under the porches. I'd consider it if the Carolina wrens could get through the openings, as they have always nested under the porches, although in recent years they've used the front and back porches too.
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On the back porch the wrens go in and out under the door. lol It always makes me laugh to see them. They are such cute little birds, always checking things out, always finding routes other birds don't, and they are almost always talking to each other. I used to think they were getting stuck on the porch until I realized a female was nesting there! We were just surprising them checking out the porch as we went in and out the back door.
</div></font></font></div><div><br /></div><div><font size="4"><font size="4"><div style="line-height: 1.5;">Mapleleaf viburnum is known for its fall color. Michael Dirr finds "the range of fall colors (creamy pink, rose, red to grape juice purple) intriguing". I can vouch that the leaves actually turn those colors in my FIL's yard. So far I've gotten one pink leaf for my pains. I'd kind of like to get another Florida azalea to go on the far left side (northeast corner), but knowing how big those get, that's probably not practical. The same with sweetshrub. I'd have to prune them to keep them down to size.
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<div style="line-height: 1.5;">I tried an Alabama azalea there three years ago but it wasn't happy so I moved it to the eastern side of the house. Coast azalea wouldn't work because they seem to like more sun - they always leaned out when they were planted north of the house in its original location, even when the Florida azaleas were small. Now the house faces true north, rather than slightly northwest, so the this bed has more shade than the original one. A dwarf form of sweet pepperbush might work. I don't want Virginia sweetspire or dog hobble there because I think they'd look too informal. I wonder how bottlebrush buckeye would look there. Too coarse? Any suggestions?</div></div></font></font></div><div><br /></div><div><font size="4"><font size="4"><div style="line-height: 1.5;">
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Late December is a time for looking back and assessing the year past, so here is a roundup of the natives blooming in my garden throughout the year.
The earliest of the natives may be the blue violet simply because she seems to bloom, at least a little bit, almost every month of the year.
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<center>Redbuds are one of our earliest blooming trees, often blooming in March,</center>
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but late enough and warm enough for the bees to literally swarm all over the redbuds. They absolutely love the flowers on this tree.
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Toothwort, whose rhizomes the voles luckily don't seem to care much for. This is an especially robust and floriferous form from Niche Gardens, now sadly closed.
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The lovely and very sweetly fragrant woodland phlox. Rather picky about consistent moisture levels though, and while evergreen, only seems to grow just before it blooms in my garden.
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Bluestar (<i>Amsonia tabernaemontana</i>?), found growing wild on the farm. I transplanted some of it into the garden.
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A wild geranium found beside one of the pastures. It's been divided endless times for the garden now.
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A native crabapple (<i>Malus angustifolia</i>), one of three growing in the floodway field and near the creek. I have tried without success to grow it from the fruit. I don't think I was patient enough. not only are the flowers beautiful, they are sweetly fragrant like those of its relative the apple tree.
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<center>Piedmont azalea</center>
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<center>with a pink one in the background</center>
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<center>A passalong spiderwort </center>
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<center>Baptisia, a plant that brings out giant bumblebees that I rarely see at other times of the year. </center>
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<center>Eastern gray beardtongue</center>
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If you have a wet sunny corner, I would recommend planting American Snowbell. For fragrance I think the only tree that rivals it is Japanese flowering apricot. To me the scent reminds of our white mystery iris, Hubrecht's amsonia, and the rose Veilchenblau. I cannot tell you if it is like violets because everything that is supposed to smell like a violet (including <i>Viola odorata</i>) has no fragrance to me, and I can't remember exactly what lily of the valley smells like.
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<center>Louisiana iris</center>
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<center>Blue flag, <i>Iris virginica</i></center>
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<center>Carolina Bush Pea</center>
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<center>Hymenocallis</center>
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<center>Butterfly weed always seems to attract more bees than butterflies. </center>
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<center>Monarda 'Raspberry Wine'</center>
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Hoary mountain mint attracts a lot of pollinators. I bought it after reading about how much pollinators love mints in a seed catalog from the NC Botanical Garden and Niche Gardens. From the Niche Gardens catalog: "<i>Foliage reaches about 3' in height by midsummer, with upper leaves starting to take on a cool and silvery appearance. Flowers follow in multi-layered tiers of silvery white blooms. Bees, butterflies and some pollinators you"ve never laid eyes on come to sip the minty nectar: Mountain Mint attracts an incredible assortment of insects.</i>"
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<i>Hibiscus moscheutos</i>, a plant that the Japanese beetles love as much as I do but it's still showy anyway. A version with smaller flowers grows next to the creek and in the sloughs on our farm.
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Sweet pepperbush grows wild here all over the farm, and prominently around the old house site and near the big perennial bed. It is a wetland plant that somehow seems impervious to drought and when it blooms in July attracts every pollinator around, the sweet perfume wafting a long distance.
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The ultimate butterfly magnet alongside butterfly bush and our native cup plant, Joe Pye Weed. This grows wild on our farm, sometimes in standing (but not stagnant) water, and I have transplanted some into the garden and it has volunteered next to the horses' stalls.
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Seashore mallow is kind of a picky plant to grow. Lots of moisture but not too wet, and a lot of food. If it gets too dry it never fully recovers. I grow it anyway because it's incredibly beautiful when it's happy, especially first thing in the morning, it's something brand new near the end of summer, and it's immensely popular with swallowtail butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.
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As always Bidens is the star of September. It already grew wild here and I was familiar with it before from seeing it in fields and ditches when we drove to Jordan Lake and when I drove to my job at Duke University. It forms spectacular masses of blooms that are always abuzz with pollinators.
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<center>October is the time for swamp sunflower and asters.
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This unknown aster (lavender frost aster, early willowleaf aster?) popped up in my garden.
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Aster 'Miss Bessie' rounds out the aster season, often not blooming until after Halloween and sometimes continuing until December. Pollinators of every sort flock to this plant as this and groundsel trees are the only things consistently in bloom that time of year.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPI-XSEJrgiS8_Nc-DzheZBj-RITOol4jtU0w3GYygv2KR7F9Ah49wgBpTp1qaxqXZvDz-rfhLoaf0rk9h10u7KXY80OCb57Gw7gcPe17lj2TxQkqru_Ynd5Rqqt9yoVSaAzjFZiadplc/s2048/IMGP5475.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPI-XSEJrgiS8_Nc-DzheZBj-RITOol4jtU0w3GYygv2KR7F9Ah49wgBpTp1qaxqXZvDz-rfhLoaf0rk9h10u7KXY80OCb57Gw7gcPe17lj2TxQkqru_Ynd5Rqqt9yoVSaAzjFZiadplc/s600/IMGP5475.JPG" width="600" /></a></div>
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Winter is the season of mud here. It's also a season of golden light, which lights up the world and transforms bare branches into intricate patterns of beauty. If I try to take a picture the branches just look like a pile of sticks, but in person it's a dance of light and shadows.
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next to the driveway. It's a thorny BEAST and absolutely gigantic. Not only that, there's more than one of them and they can spread to a length of 50'. I never thought something with prairie in the name would do so well here, but it has. I grew 2 of them from seed acquired in a trade. On the plus side, they form a wall of pink flowers in June,
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the hips provide food for birds in the fall, and the leaves turn a bright pumpkin orange late in the year.
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During the summer I'm not so fond of the tall goldenrod that grows rampant here, but it provides for bees and other pollinators in the fall, provides good cover for the birds in winter, and the seedheads are beautiful lit up by the late afternoon sun.
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The rugosas are turning now, and look like they've been dipped in sugar when encrusted with ice crystals.
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<center>Scarlet leaves still remain at the top of Fothergilla 'Mt. Airy'</center>
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Last year a black cat started showing up on the farm, a feral tom. He was very thin so I started feeding him and now he's far less feral, although the best I can do is pet him a little bit while he's eating. Any name suggestions?
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He rolls around vigorously on the ground, trying to get me to play with him as he would another cat.
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<center> He has a baby voice. </center>
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He looks like a black panther in the above picture but he doesn't cat very well, or he wouldn't have been struggling so much in the middle of summer. I want to get him to the vet to get neutered, vaccinated, etc, but am worried the experience will be very traumatizing for him. He'll have to be trapped since I can't pick him up and put him in a carrier. He will go eventually (I had an appointment for him earlier this month but backed out). I plan on keeping him on the back porch for a few days afterward. If he runs away he likely won't have a good outcome.
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There's a gate across the drive outside the pasture, and a line of fence that runs from there to the edge of the woods. The gate and the fence are to keep the horses from running up the driveway if they were to somehow get out of the pasture. "The rose fence" is a place for roses that are much too large to grow on a standard trellis. In the beginning, 'Mermaid' was the only rose on the fence. It grew in the part shade of a pine tree and I quite liked the butter yellow flowers in spite of the incredibly vicious thorns. Then the pine tree started to list dangerously to one side, undermined by the fast-moving water in the ditch that runs between the gate and the fence. Now in the full sun, the flowers faded to buttermilk white, which I didn't like as much. Then the rose contracted rose rosette disease and had to be removed. The rose was so large I enlisted DH's help to get rid of it. <br />
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Then I acquired what was supposed to be 'Seven Sisters' in a trade, but which turned out to be what I think is 'Dorothy Perkins'. DP looks much better growing on a fence rather than on the ground (where it grows wild along the roadsides here), as it doesn't contract fungus there.
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<font size=3><center>'Dorothy Perkins'</center></font>
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<font size=3><center> Swamp rose and 'Dorothy Perkins'</center></font>
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I grew a rose from cuttings that grew behind the Glen Lennox shopping center in Chapel Hill and had admired for years, ever since I saw it there when I was in college. (The drive through for the bank there is at the back of the shopping center.) That rose turned out to be 'Alberic Barbier', IDed by another blogger when I posted about it.
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This area is a mess right now, as I haven't gotten in there and cut down the woody plants and blackberries that inevitably grow up around the roses for at least a couple of years. Things like Chinese privet, sweetgums and red maples grow <i>fast</i>. I'm going to need to get in there and clear out the briars and saplings so G. can finish cleaning up with the chainsaw.
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<font size=3><center>I ordered 'Rambling Rector' after seeing it on Phillip's blog <a href="https://phillipoliver.blogspot.com/search?q=rambling+rector"target="_blank"> Dirt Therapy</a>when he lived in Alabama.</center></font>
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There are reasons for this neglect. Three years ago we had to start soaking the horses' hay because the pony has insulin resistence. Too much sugar in insulin resistent horses results in inflammation in the soft tissues of the foot, a condition known as laminitis. No one knows why the feet are affected but it's a serious and painful condition. If there's too much damage to the soft tissues (called laminae) that attach to the hoof capsule, the laminae can start to die and the hoof capsule separate from it. Typically this first part to detach is the toe, causing the hoof and bone to rotate downwards, a condition known as founder. In catastrophic cases the entire hoof capsule separates from the laminae, which is called sinking and is very difficult to recover from. Soaking the hay for half an hour reduces the sugars. This process adds about an hour to taking care of the horses each day, so that cuts into my gardening time, but the pony is more than worth it. We've had her 20 years and she's a very sweet pony. She has overall been doing well and is sound.
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Gene's responsibilities at work have increased. He used to take care of the horses Friday night but I need to do it now because he's too busy.
The third reason is fibro, which is always worse in winter. However, I've been able to make changes that have made the condition much better and I hope that continues into the cold wet weather season.
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<font size=3><center>Unknown wildflower at base of roses - some sort of campion?</center></font>
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I spend all winter trying to clean up messes that have grown up over the summer as best I can. I don't want to clear places where birds are nesting and they always build nests along the rose fence, as there is excellent cover there (especially these past couple of summers lol). So winter is the time to work on stuff like this. Plus layers help prevent scratches from thorns - thorns from blackberries and the roses.
On Saturday I worked clearing briars for nearly 2 hours, to be rewarded with the site of a lot of deadwood. The roses are not dead, because 'Alberic Barbier' is still throwing canes everywhere, but it might mean more cleanup after clearing all of the blackberries, saplings and trumpet vine. This is going to take some time.
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The past few years my role in the vegetable garden has consisted of watering the plants and tending to the ornamentals around the edge of the garden. It's a role I am getting a little tired of to be honest. I feel like I'm watering more failures than successes. I think we should give up trying to grow any tomatoes, for instance. We have some sort of rampant mutant wilt here that takes down every tomato except for Matt's Wild Cherry, and even that refuses to grow in the vegetable garden. We can't seem to grow any other tomatoes very well here, no matter where we plant them. In the ground, in pots with brand new medium, it doesn't matter.
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I used to start the plants from seed but Gene took that over. He wanted to start them inside early. I don't think there's any advantage to doing that, as I used to do it and found the plants were better if I started them outside in pots on the front porch after the last frost. But he wanted to do it. If I start them this year (likely basil, eggplants, and peppers), I'll just start them outside on the front porch in small pots.
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There are too many plants in pots in the garden itself. I want to grow Kentucky Wonder pole beans on the back trellis, no pots. G. put them in pots and I just could not water them enough to keep them happy. We have plenty of chicken wire to keep the rabbits from eating the stems. Sweet peas before that posssibly. No lima beans. They have never produced here. It's a picky crop, often sensitive to moisture levels. The variety we had this year just grew and grew and grew and only produced tiny little pods that never matured.
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I want to try corn again, although somehow that's only been successful once. How hard can corn be to grow? I don't know but this is one past failure I want to try one more time.
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<center><font size=3>In 2011 we grew corn</font></center>
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The front trellis needs to go or at least the pole needs to be shored up or replaced, one of them is listing markedly. It can only be used for early sweet peas, otherwise it shades too many other things out.
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Peppers probably don't need to be grown in pots because they are water hogs. Basil and eggplants do well in pots, and we have to grow sweet potatoes in pots due to the voles.
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This year I really want to make notes on my calendar to start fall crops from seed or buy them to get them established before cold weather arrives. Broccoli from the garden is often better than broccoli from the grocery store, and Buttercrunch lettuce is amazing mixed with romaine in a big salad.
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Asparagus has done well but Gene has never harvested any of it. It might have been overgrown by seashore mallow by now. Seashore mallow has a way of taking over areas but is easily dug if we need more room.
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Gene grows squash and okra on the compost pile since they get so big. That worked out well this year since we had frequent rain.
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">OTOH, Veilenchbleu and swamp rose has done well at the edge of the vegetable garden. I've always thought that growing flowers was easier than fruit and vegetables. Everyone wants to eat crops and they've been bred more for productivity than disease resistance. Still, I think there's more we can do to figure out what consistently does well here and stick more to that. I don't even know the particulars of what each crop needs, and and if I knew that would probably/possibly help. G. wants a vegetable garden but is too busy to concentrate on it much.
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In 2009, one year after we moved the house, the area next to the vegetable garden was so open, and the swamp rose planted there was so small. There was a lot of Gulf Coast Penstemon, a short-lived wetland perennial perfect for that place since it gets wet from all of the water running down the driveway.
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<center>Now the swamp rose is full size, at least 7' in height. </center>
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<center>Then two Veilchenblau were planted and they've gotten pretty big too. </center>
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Next to where we park the cars are <i>Verbena bonariensis</i> and small beardtongue (sent from Gail of clay and limestone)
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and (not pictured) daylilies that form large vigorous clumps like 'Hyperion' and 'Blackjack Cherry'. Between the parking area and the vegetable garden are (also not pictured) cup plants. I wanted some of these after seeing them covered in butterflies at the NC Botanical Garden. This past year the swallowtails hatched out too late for the flowers, but the year before that the cup plant and summer phlox were absolutely covered in butterflies. A plumber came out to fix the leaky hose bib on the well and he and his daughter were impressed by all of the butterflies. I grew some parsley and bronze fennel for the black swallowtails and had to go and buy more as the caterpillars just devoured the plants.
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Between the driveway and vegetable garden there's bee balm, a hibiscus, crinum
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and iris. I've got a few Louisiana iris and blue flag there
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<center><font size=3>'Sinfonietta'</font></center>
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but I'd like to get a colony going, as well as more Gulf Coast Penstemon again. I've got more around that I can grow from seed.
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Even when the big trees disappoint, when the leaves are ripped off by wind or rain as happened this year, there are always late pops of color, whether it be from adult trees inside the woodland edge, young trees that are likewise sheltered from the wind (and are more likely to turn brilliant shades of red compared to their older counterparts), shrubs like blueberries, and even the fall color of some perennials. That combined with the green gold shaded landscape of November and December always makes for a beautiful fall, especially when it's lit up with the golden light of early morning or late afternoon.
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I wanted to join<a href="http://www.clayandlimestone.com/"target="_blank"> Wildflower Wednesday</a> even though the only things in bloom in my garden currently are a couple of Camellia sasanqua and a few very late swamp sunflowers, so I'm opting to show the last of the fall foliage instead. As Albert Camus famously said "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
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Most of the highly colorful trees here are red maples. They turn any color from yellow to orange to red, and can even sometimes rival sugar maples.
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<center>The golden leaves of a sweetbay magnolia.</center>
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<center>The swamp cyrilla seemed to have turned red and orange <br>
overnight. The most reliable small tree for fall color here. </center>
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My St. John's Wort is actually coloring up this year! I've always looked at the spectacularly colorful ones at <a href="https://www.clayandlimestone.com/2015/12/lets-all-give-shout-out-for-hypericums.html"target="_blank">clay and limestone</a> with envy.
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If you look closely you can see that there are two blueberries. The one in back is a wild volunteer at the edge of the woods near our mailbox, the one in front I grew from a cutting. The blueberry in front has done spectacularly well. Most of the blueberries I grew from cuttings and put in a garden setting are half the size, if that. Most of the blueberries on the farm and indeed the area (according to the NC Botanical Garden) are Southern black blueberries, although we have a lone highbush blueberry too.
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Fothergilla 'Mt. Airy with 'Sunshine Blue' in the background and a blackgum in the far background.
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Like the blueberries, Fothergilla x intermedia 'Legend of the fall' starts out dark burgundy and turns bright red.
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Thanks to Gail at clay and limestone for hosting <a href="http://www.clayandlimestone.com/"target="_blank">Wildflower Wednesday</a>.
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<font size=4>It's always nice to look back at the spring season and look forward to planning for the next spring. These pictures are from the JC Raulston Arboretum taken in a previous year, before it was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For over ten years I have forgotten to plant pansies in the fall so that they can get a foothold for a good display in the spring.
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Purple foliage looks so beautiful when it unfurls in the spring but tends to revert to green or look muddy when exposed to our heat during the summer.
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I love to look at plantings of iris because what I can grow in my garden seems to be somewhat limited. They need to be very vigorous and not prone to melting down. I have found a ridge next to our neighbor's pasture that they like, but voles are an issue too. I have planted all of my iris over wire mesh in the hope that if the voles can't get to the rhizomes they will leave the roots alone.
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An Arilbred iris probably wouldn't be a good candidate in my garden unless it was in a raised sandy bed, but it certainly is beautiful to look at. I first read about Arilbreds in Scott Odgen's book <b>Garden Bulbs for the South.</b> Arilbreds are crosses between German bearded iris and the mourning iris (<i>I. susiana</i>), a desert species from the Middle East grows where summers have little to no rain. Ogden writes that "Its globular blooms bear heavily veined and stippled patterns. The background color of the rounded falls is a light cream, but the markings themselves are a dark brownish purple. The beard and standards verge on black."
Here's a <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/1589411" target="_blank">link</a></a> if you want to see it. Arilbreds are characterized by a dark thumbprint at the top of the falls and/or extensive veining.
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I have grown Camassia in the past, but one by one the bulbs disappeared. If I can find some mesh that's large enough for the stems to get out of the ground but not big enough for the voles to get through, or put them in tall pots. It'd be worth it because the flowers are lovely and unique in the spring landscape.
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The Arboretum has a scree garden on a bridge over part of the garden. I think that's our native prickly pear that grows all over the Sandhills area, along with a tall beautiful dianthus.
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Prunus 'Ukon', green flowering cherry, is a large tree, on par with a weeping cherry. The flowers are pale green when they open and change to cream tinged with pink and green.
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The White Garden, not green but white in April, is the sight of many photo shoots and weddings.
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You can see why this Japanese maple cultivar is called 'Dissectum'. Our plants professor told us that this tree was donated as a mature tree but managed to survive the move and thrive. Staff likely used a giant spade to move the tree; the prof also told us that a giant spade is used to move plants from the campus to the Arborbetum and vice versa.
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I googled Rosa 'Hermone' and didn't come up with anything, so I take it this is a found rose, a tea is my guess.
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I don't have any Heucherellas in my garden but I do have a Heuchera which I enjoy for the foliage. I should probably amend that. The purple silvery foliage is so beautiful and unique. I also appreciate the delicious sounding names of the Heucherellas: Sugar Plum, Pumpkin Spice, Sweet Tea, Mint Julep, Birthday Cake, Chocolate Lace, Caramel, Berry Smoothie.
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Still here and still gardening. Part of the reason I stopped blogging is that my camera started acting up way back in 2015. The exposures were getting all wonky unless the light was just right.
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We didn't get much fall color this year. We haven't in several years, actually. Last year the color was great in Wake County, one county north and west of us, but this year tropical storm Zeta ripped all of the leaves all in the western half of the state. We were starting to get some color, but then the 6 and a half inches of rain from tropical storm Eta finished off the ones here as well. We've been hit by rain from every single hurricane/tropical storm but one.
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Fothergilla 'Mt Airy' might still color up fully, although it has never turned the fire engine red I've seen elsewhere.
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The willowleaf spicebushes were beautiful, a glowing golden orange tinted with red. They never disappoint. Neither do the swamp cyrillas. The spicebushes are done and the brown leaves will remain until the new leaves push them out. The cyrillas have just started to turn yellow. They often have pumpkin orange and scarlet color well into December. I got over half a dozen seedlings going this year and will plant them next to to the old yard site once they're big enough.
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I finally found the perfect spot for the hardy ginger. It's one of those plants that spreads all over but won't bloom and looks miserable in a hot dry year. So I planted some in front of where the buckets are dumped after soaking hay and it loves in there. It started blooming in August and will continue until a hard freeze cuts it down. They have a sweet fragrance that's like a cross between Japanese honeysuckle and coconut.
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I have not, however, found the perfect spot for Camellia 'Yume'.
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I planted Yume at the back of the big perennial bed, where rabbits or deer promptly ate it to the ground. So I put wire mesh around it and it just sat there. In spite of feeding, in spite of this being a wet year, it didn't grow an inch. Couldn't compete with the 2 loblolly pines in back of the bed I guess. Other people can grow camellias on high ground under pines but it didn't work for me. It wasnt even that close to the pine trees, but pine tree roots go everywhere.
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'Mine-No-Yuki' has found a semi permanent place on the porch next to the bird feeders, where it has espaliered itself rather elegantly against the porch railing. The chickadees especially like to use its branches as a perch, both for waiting for an opening at the feeder and as a place to crack open sunflower seeds.
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The happiest camellia is one I grew from seed from a white Camellia sasanqua, in a very wet place next to the stalls where the water table bubbles up out of the ground.
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The rugosas haven't even begun to turn, but like cyrillas they are late turners. Since there is little fall color going on now here is the garden covered in ice crystals from yesterday's frost.
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We lost Prissy on the 13th. She had just turned 20 years old and she went as peacefully as possible. It's very painful anyway. We still have her brother Tommy and he looks bright and purrs all the time, but he has cardiovascular problems and arthritis. <br />
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I don't feel up to looking through her pictures, but I wanted to mention her because she was such a big part of my life and often kept me company while I worked in the garden and always cuddled with me on the couch. I love her and miss her so much.<br />
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For a brief moment I thought I had a name for Eva's daffodils when a commenter posted that they look like 'Sir Watkin' (which they do), and then I looked at the height listed for SW. It's over 2 feet tall. Not surprisingly it is also known as the giant daffodil. I'm having trouble even imagining a daffodil that tall. lol It would be nice to have a name, but so many daffodils have been introduced over the years that I don't even know where to start. <br />
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<font size=3><i>2/28/18</i></font></div><br />
Eva herself may not have known the name of these daffodils because most of her plants were passalongs. <br />
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Spring looked as though it was going to arrive really early this year after some really warm weather in February, then temperatures cooled off again and the rate of spring moderated to something more reasonable. Still, I doubt I will get the garden cleaned up in time and that's OK. The garden will have shortcomings that I touched on in the last two posts and I have work to do to get the garden where I want it.<br />
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I may replace the Japanese beautyberries in these pictures. They look nice in the fall, but they don't fit in with the rest of the bed. They're still leafless while everyone else is going full whack. <a href="http://sweetbay103.blogspot.com/2010/02/bluebirds.html"target="_blank"> One winter the bluebirds went crazy </a> over the fruit but that was 9 years ago. I think because there are so many fruiting shrubs in my garden they just don't seem to be interested in them anymore. <br />
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Eva's daffodils finished up about three weeks ago after blooming a month early but the other daffodils - 'Quail', 'Trevithivan', 'Sweet Love' and 'Thalia' started at the usual time and are in full bloom now. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I always wanted blue violets in my garden. I had to introduce them as they do not grow wild here. <br />
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Three other species of violets grow wild on the farm: marsh violets, early blue violets (which are not at all early), and a tiny white violet that's either white bog violet or primrose leaves violet. I've tried the first two in the garden and I couldn't make them happy. Marsh violets demand constant moisture. Early blue violets, like their cousins birdsfoot violets, need open space. I transplanted a single bunch of the white violets into the front garden so I'll see this year how they do. Blue violets, on the other hand, can form a carpet when they're happy, although the numbers I get can vary a lot from year to year. They've been blooming for over a month now.<br />
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It seems that this redbud and red maple have been blooming forever too, and the orchid purple and soft orange make a striking combination. In fact the red maple is blooming it's heart out so much that I'm wondering if this is its last hurrah. As you can see it's splitting down the middle. Funny enough there is one redbud up top that's blooming at the same time as this one, while two others on either side are just starting to open now. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The American holly by one of the horse pastures had a lot of fruit this year. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYy5ZqmgQJUV0x4wxDHkPLyPfmaOOYHzShmakLcWO5CR0DYRLb7weKHqwaaxS-Z19FgGqgrUeE4djThmIIhRt9wDaDv6ldwO9RBxrn7CGSdcxjM3V_K6UjtZDyMpCFP6tYdH6tmzGTSY/s1600/IMGP1150p.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYy5ZqmgQJUV0x4wxDHkPLyPfmaOOYHzShmakLcWO5CR0DYRLb7weKHqwaaxS-Z19FgGqgrUeE4djThmIIhRt9wDaDv6ldwO9RBxrn7CGSdcxjM3V_K6UjtZDyMpCFP6tYdH6tmzGTSY/s640/IMGP1150p.JPG" width="640" height="485" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1212" /></a></div>It grows by a big ditch that originates south of the big bed, runs by the old house site, then turns and runs parallel to the horse pasture before continuing on to the neighbor's farm. There's a whole maze of these mini waterways going to the creek that borders our property. The holly's roots were undermined by all of the rain we got with Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and it fell over. But it survived, and several leaders have grown up. It was much more beautiful as a conical tree with a single leader but in a year with decent rainfall it fruits as heavily as ever. Most years in late winter flocks of robins and cedar waxwings descend upon it and strip its fruit. I happened to be down there cleaning up the bed by the gate when a flock of cedar waxwings were feeding. They were being a bit skittish but I got a few pictures.<br />
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<font size=3><i>Showing the red wingtips for which they are named.</i></font><br />
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Of course, mockingbirds love the fruit too, and one of the resident mockingbirds spends most of the winter lording over it.<br />
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I finally got a couple of pictures of a pileated woodpecker! I see them often, as they like to feed in the tulip poplar stand above the house (where these pictures were taken), and in summer I frequently see them flying back and forth across their large territories.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can just barely make out the red "moustache", indicating this is a male.<br />
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He felt comfortable enough to do a bit of preening. The horses were probably still in the paddock behind the house. Wildlife isn't nearly as alarmed if I am near the horses.<br />
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I know a lot of birds will be happy if I am slow to get the garden cleared up. There are throngs of song sparrows and white-throated sparrows here each winter and they love the cover.<br />
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<font size=3><i>Song sparrow. He or she looks adorable.</i></font><br />
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The red-shouldered hawks are nesting near the house again. This past week one of them surprised me the other day by landing on something (cotton rat?) about 15 feet away from me while I was working in the garden. The hawk looked a little surprised too. I think he or she was so focused on the prey that they didn't notice me. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Spring arrived here over a week ago. I'm not ready, but Mother Nature<br />
doesn't care! The first set of daffodils (early mid season) are in full bloom.<br />
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I spent a lot of time the last 2 springs dividing daffodil bulbs after they finished blooming. I knew that afterward the bulbs would take a few years to increase back up to big blooming clumps, but I wanted to spread the bulbs from Gene's grandmother's garden all over the big perennial bed and around the house. (Her name was Eva and I have many no ID plants from her garden named after her now.) I can't buy more because I don't know what they are. They are strong bloomers, increase well, and are very reliable. They are those early spring yellow daffodils that are my absolute favorite kind.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A wild serviceberry in the background.<br />
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There's still a lot of room for more daffodils around the house, so I added around 300 daffodil bulbs over the last couple of weeks. I wait until the foliage from the daffodils in the ground comes up in January and February before adding more. <br />
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<li>50 'Carlton', a yellow large cup variety that was introduced in 1927. Brent and Becky's Bulbs writes in their catalog that it is "one of the best perennializers especially in the South" and has a "vanilla like fragrance".</li><br />
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<li>100 'Sweet Love', an ivory jonquil with butter yellow cups, "incredibly, sweetly fragrant" according to Brent and Becky, developed by B and B, "very vigorous with multiple bloomstalks with multiple flowers; mid-spring".</li><br />
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<li>50 'Avalanche' sweetly fragrant tazetta, snow white petals with a lemon yellow cup; many flowers (another name for it is 'Seventeen Sisters'), registered in 1955. Bloomslooms early-mid spring</li><br />
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<li>50 'Silver Chimes' a white Triandrus with tazetta ancestry, a strong grower and late bloomer. According to Scott Ogden, author of <b>Garden Bulbs for the South</b>, it's "one of the best daffodils for heavy clay soils, one of the tried-and-true Southern daffodils". Sweetly fragrant with white petals and a pale yellow cup. </li><br />
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<li>25 'Petrel', a white Triandrus that B and B describes has having "exceptional fragrance; wins lots of ribbons in shows", and a mid-late spring bloom time.</li><br />
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<li>5 'Bridal Crown', a double, described by B and B as white and saffron, with a heavenly fragrance, 3-6 flowers per stem, early-mid spring.</li><br />
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<li>5 'Erlicheer', a double, yellow and white, sweet fragrance, several flowers per stem, early-mid spring.</li><br />
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<li>5 'Ginter's Gem' a glowing yellow Triandrus developed by B and B, very floriferous, increases well.</li><br />
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It always amazes me how many daffodils I'm going to need. Those 300 bulbs were just enough to fill in next to the front sidewalk and the bed along the east side of the house. I ordered 'Avalanche', 'Silver Chimes' and 'Sweet Love' from <a href="https://www.vanengelen.com/"target="_blank"> Van Engelen</a>, because the quality and prices are outstanding. The rest came from<a href="https://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/"target="_blank"> Bent and Becky's Bulbs </a>. They have a great selection and have developed several daffodils themselves. I first read about them in <b>Passalong Plants</b>.<br />
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I planted some hyacinth bulbs as well. Gene's grandmother grew some old blue Roman hyacinths, which unfortunately were lost when the voles in my garden ate them. This fall I'm going to order some from Old House Gardens. I went ahead and got 'Pink Festival' and Blue Festival' from Brent and Becky's, which they describe as the next best thing to the old Roman hyacinths. I put them in bottomless pots with gravel on top. If that doesn't keep the voles out (and it very well may not), I'll just put the Roman hyacinths in pots.<br />
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Planting the bulbs went very quickly (made especially easy in the sandy soil near the house), so I think I will order twice as many bulbs over the next couple of years, and that might be enough to fill in the beds around the house. I want a mass of yellow daffodils just when things are just starting up in the spring. So I plan to order more 'Carlton', as well as 'Saint Keverne' and 'Delibes'. All are large cup daffodils and bloom early. B & B describe 'Saint Keverne' as a great perennial daffodil everwyhere, even in the South. It's a yellow self. They describe 'Delibes' as "<i>a terrific perennializer and an old standby</i>". It has bright yellow petals and a yellow orange cup with a vivid orange rim. For the wetter parts of the garden I plan to plant early jonquils. Jonquils are fine in soggy conditions. I read that in <b>Garden Bulbs for the South</b> by Scott Ogden. I'm annoyed that I have not been able to find a match for the beautiful delightfully fragrant jonquil that we found growing in a field at <a href="http://www.johnstoncc.edu/howellwoods/"target="_blank"> Howell Woods </a>. I have tried Campernelles, but have found them to put out a lot more foliage than flowers, and I don't think the fragrance is as good as the Howell Woods jonquil. So I'd like to try 'Derringer', an early mid season lemon yellow jonquil with a golden orange cup. <br />
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Once I have enough early mid season daffs for a good display I will likely still order some more, as there are so many I want to try to grow. Just in the jonquil class alone there are several I want to try, and there is still loads of room in the big perennial bed below the house for daffodils. Extra early daffs like ‘Rijnveld’s Early Sensation’ would be nice.<br />
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Narcissus pseudonarcissus, also known as Lent lilies. The earliest daffodil I currently have. <br />
Very graceful and beautiful but not quite as long lasting or resilient to heat as the ones from <br />
Eva's garden.My double Lent lilies (also from Eva's garden) bloom later and are quite sturdy.<br />
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Like a lot of gardeners I imagine I am obsessed with daffodils for a couple of months each spring. How about you (if you can grow daffodil where you live)?<br />
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In 2016 the baptisias put on the best show they ever had. Gene remarked that at last they looked as good as the ones as the NC Botanical Garden and the UNC Arboretum. They were big and full and really beautiful. Unfortunately, I also had the most losses, by far. I grow them in bottomless pots mulched on top with sharp gravel, and for years that setup was sufficient to keep the voles at bay, but not anymore. I added more gravel, but to no avail. These supervoles didn't care and just powered right through it. The only thing that stopped them was metal mesh nailed down with landscape anchors in the fall, which has to be taken back up again in the spring. That's far too time consuming and there are too many other tasks in the garden that need to be done. I blame this image I have in my head for my bullheaded persistence in trying to grow these plants:<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Ironically the real stars of the show in the picture above are the rose and the iris.</font></font></i><br />
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I have tried to grow baptisia and iris in this bed ever since, but iris don't like the competition they get from other plants in the bed and voles ate the ones that were flourishing. As I said in an earlier post, I am experimenting with laying the rhizomes down on wire mesh. The voles can still eat the roots, but the only way they can eat the rhizomes is if they do so above ground. <br />
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Another issue at play is that even though Baptisia can sometimes form a beautiful round full shape (this varies a lot between individual plants that aren't clones) , they don't provide the sort of bones that woody plants do. There's the added problem that every few years the Genista caterpillar strips every leaf off of my Baptisias, leaving a tangled mess of stems. The leaves do not grow back and the stems die back much earlier than they normally would. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>late April, 2009</font></font><br />
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If I end up losing a bunch of them, which seems likely, it'll be a shame. I grew most from seed. They're a range of habits and colors and the closest thing to lupines that I can grow. But they're not practical to grow anymore now that the voles are so determined to get to them. <br />
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I have written before about adding more bones to the bed and am slowly working on the issue. I have added some woody plants toward the back of the bed the last 2-3 years: about half a dozen Southern black blueberries from cuttings from plants on the farm, a summer-flowering native azalea with pink flowers (swamp/Piedmont azalea cross), a St. John's wort (Sunburst'), and Rhododendron 'Snowbird' (a coast/Piedmont cross). I'd like to add more native woody plants, although in my experience it's difficult to find native shrubs for full sun that don't get very large. I'd love to add some small trees but I won't, because even more I love to have a clear sight down to the pasture. I had thought about trying to grow cuttings of the non-native roses 'Hippolyte' or 'Veilchenblau', but they are so sprawling. This summer 'Hippolyte' looked terrible. The leaves turned an ugly rusty color before falling off. It's not an issue where it is now because there's so much willowleaf aster 'Miss Bessie' that it's covered up by high summer. But I don't need another one in the center of the bed.<br />
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Natives that top off at around 6 feet, have four season interest, be happy in full or part sun, and tolerate short term flooding: this seems to be a difficult brief to fulfill. When I look around here I see sweet pepperbush, chokecherry, Virginia sweetspire, swamp azalea, American beautyberry, hearts-a-burstin, sweetbells leucothoe, Southern black blueberry, highbush blueberry, possamhaw viburnum, and blackhaw. The only ones that don't get large are swamp azalea, sweetbells leucothoe, and Virginia sweetspire. For part sun I'm considering swamp and coast azaleas, leucothoe, and sweet pepperbush 'Hummingbird' and 'Ruby Spice'. Virginia sweetspire does well in either sun or shade but doesn't seem to color well in fall unless it gets a lot of sun. For part sun to full sun, I plan on adding our native spirea and more golden St. John's Wort. <br />
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There are 2 native roses in this bed, Virginia and Carolina roses. I love them but IMO they don't have the sort of form that provides good "bones". They both have beautiful pink flowers; Carolina rose has a delightful rose and lemon fragrance while Virginia rose has dramatic red and purple fall color.<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Virginia rose left and center</i> </font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i> Carolina rose on the left</i></font></font></div><br />
If you have any other suggestions I'd be happy to hear them!<br />
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The beds around the house came together much faster than my older beds. I find this a little ironic because when the site was graded, everything was demolished and then pounded to the finish of cement in preparation for the house foundation. The ground remained so hard that a few years later Baptisia roots couldn't penetrate it; they'd go down around a foot through the compost I put down and the super acidic sandy topsoil the contractor put down, hit the hardpan and then just run parallel to it. Sounds terrible, right? Yet I got great results. I put down a thick layer of compost, put plants in, and they took off, unhindered by competition from other things like the blackberry canes, native bamboo, Chinese privet and various vines that compete with plantings in my other beds. <br />
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Some areas of the garden have gotten better and better, such as the daylilies, but the May garden I liked better a few years ago. It'd be nice if gardening was always a steady progression forward but it isn't always so. In fact in my garden that's hardly ever the case.<br />
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The area east of the house ranges from almost xeric to downright soggy. The bed next to the house is dry, while the larger beds get runoff from both the roof and areas further uphill. <br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Geranium from Powell Nursery, May 2015</font></font></div><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Geranium and foxglove, smooth beardtongue, and evening primrose. </font></font><br />
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The peonies and foxglove appreciate the sharp drainage next to the house. I should add more peonies in spite of their short bloom time. The flowers are so spectacular. Unfortunately voles have eaten the roots of almost all of the columbine the past 2 winters. I was so fond of them too, especially the purple ones.<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>The old Southern standby 'Festiva Maxima'.</font></font></div><br />
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with the rugosa cross 'Sir Thomas Lipton', a mockorange, and bee <br />
balm 'Raspberry Wine' on the other. The two halves are separated <br />
by a narrow path covered with the flowering groundcover <i>Mazus reptans</i>. <br />
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I never meant to end up with as many daylilies as I have, but daylilies are one of those plants that entice one to collect them, like roses, iris, and dahlias. Like iris they can be tricky to incorporate into a mixed planting.<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Smooth beardtongue</font></font><br />
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In the past I've had a good stand of smooth beardtongue but they have not persisted as they have in some other places in my garden. In my my azalea bed are some smooth beardtongue that's been there about 10 years now. In addition to perhaps not enjoying wet winters, they also likely suffer from competition from the daylilies. A few of them, such as 'Bleu Celeste' and citron daylily (<i>Hemerocallis citrina </i>) form quite large clumps of foliage, and even though newer cultivars have less of the strappy foliage, I have so many crammed together that the effect is the same. Still another issue is that mistflower has snuck in there and that spreads quite aggressively. I like it but it's a bit weedy, to the point of crowding the daylilies. Inevitably part of it dies from wilt too. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and Gulf Coast penstemon.<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Gulf Coast penstemon appears to just be a biennial, so I have to keep those going from seed. </div></font></font><br />
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The plant that has flourished the best is the purple geranium. Some years it blooms before the daylilies and some years with, which is very nice. All of that purple is a good complement to the daylilies. <br />
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The effect of the May garden is currently overwhelmingly white, due to the size of both the mockorange and 'Sir Thomas Lipton'. I knew that mockorange can get big, as our neighbor in Pennsylvania had several large mockorange, but I didn't know they got this huge in the South. I also didn't know that 'Sir Thomas Lipton' could get as it has big here. It's an offspring of 'Clotilde Soupert' and <i>Rosa rugosa alba</i>, and neither one of those gets above 4' in my garden.<br />
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I'm still looking for just the right spots for the 2 I have. <br />
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nicknamed 'Delia's Purple' featured prominently in the scene.<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>'Clotilde Soupert' in front, 'Hansa' on the left and 'Sir Thomas Lipton' on the right, 2010.</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>'Blush Noisette' with 'Hansa', 2010</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>'Hansa' and 'Sir Thomas Lipton', 2011.</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Delia's Purple, 2013</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>2014</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Delia's Purple with Cl Caldwell Pink </font></font><br />
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The 'Hansa's melted away after three or four years, as all of mine have, but I keep replacing them as I love the color. 'Delia's Purple' has been overwhelmed by the mockorange. I moved it into a pot for planting next year, and I hope I don't lose it this winter. I wasn't expecting a low of 5 degrees. <br />
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I still have one decently sized purple rose just across the driveway from the mockorange, but it blooms later. 'Violette' is a climber that may produce more lateral blooming canes if it had support, but for now it grows among the asters and the bee balm. <br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Best fragrance in the world though. It's absolutely divine.</font></font><br />
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So until the two newest 'Hansa's size up, I'm relying on other plants to counteract all of the white. <br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7>Mockorange with rugosa 'Foxi Pavement'</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>This really vibrant variant of rugosa rubra has very vibrant fall color too.</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Iris virginica</i></font></font><br />
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I'd really love to reintroduce more jewel tones with columbine and iris. Columbine would need to go into bottomless pots, as voles have eaten almost every columbine I had, and the way the woody plants and bee balm has grown has made finding good spots for iris a bit harder. Iris would need to be protected from voles, too. I'm experimenting with placing them atop metal mesh in other garden beds. If that works I will try iris here again.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Examples of what I'd love to grow successfully around the house (again):<br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>'Crimson King'</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Last year I set out several Siberian iris in bottomless pots. For several years I <br />
enjoyed big clumps of flowers like these, then the voles discovered and ate most of them.</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>'Theodolinda'</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Noid iris</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Seedling of Geranium 'Brookside'</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Another noid from Gene's grandmother and 'Jesse's Song'</i></font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=7A5DC7><i>Not a jewel tone, but I miss the short white accents from this iris from Gene's grandmother's garden.</i></font></font><br />
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On the 18th of January we got a real snow, the first in 2 years and I felt inspired to post some comparison shots. Such a contrast between a blanket of pure white snow and the pageantry of spring color.<br />
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There were actual flowers in the snow, too. The witch hazel (seed grown from 'Jelena') started blooming before the cold descended upon us and is still in full bloom now. Temperatures below 5F didn't affect the open flowers, a testament to their extreme cold tolerance. <br />
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Two branches in the center of the tree look they may have 'sported'. The branches are bare of leaves and the flowers look more orange than the rest of the flowers.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To compare the two:<br />
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This summer I'm going to try to root these branches. Michael Dirr says that cuttings from witch hazels are easy to root but difficult to overwinter their first year, so it sounds like it will be a challenge. <br />
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When I planted "Crepescule' next to the trellis I was warned that it might eat the trellis. Apparently there are two forms of 'Crepescule' in the trade: a rampant one and a much more demure one. I don't know if one is own root or if they are actually two different roses. My 'Crepescule' was so retiring that it retired from life. As it was dwindling I acquired the polyantha 'Cl. Caldwell Pink'. I can't remember whether I bought it or acquired it in a trade, but I already had the shrub form of 'Caldwell Pink' and really liked it, despite its lack of fragrance. Its flowers (candy pink to lilac pink, depending on the lighting) look just like miniature old fashioned roses and it's a real workhorse, producing blooms over a very long period of time. <br />
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<font size=3><font color=#7A5DC7>Cl Caldwell pink and Delia's Purple</font></font><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I planted 'Cl Caldwell Pink' next to the trellis and it seemed really happy there. <br />
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<font size=3><font color=#7A5DC7>'Cl. Caldwell Pink' on the left, the tea rose 'Aloha' in the center, and <br />
the swamp rose hybrids from Antique Roses Emporium in the background, 2014</font></font><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It grew<br />
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<font size=3><font color=#7A5DC7>2015</font></font><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and grew<br />
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<font size=3><font color=#7A5DC7>2016</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=#7A5DC7>The climbing and shrub forms of 'Caldwell Pink' and swamp roses, 2016</font></font><br />
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<font size=3><font color=#7A5DC7>2017</font></font><br />
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the shrub. 'Cl. Caldwell Pink' has gotten absolutely huge. Far too large for this flimsy trellis.<br />
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The weight of the canes has pulled the trellis sideways now. Gene tried to straighten it up but to no avail. There are a couple of options. 1) Gene cuts up the trellis with a hacksaw in order to save the canes (which I unwisely intertwined with the trellis)and builds a sturdier structure. 2) I let the rose bloom next spring (even though it looks like a mess), then cut it back and move it next to the rose fence with the other rampant climbers. My bet is on the second option but we'll see. <br />
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<font size=3>January 18, 2018</font><br />
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Moral of this story: 'Cl. Caldwell Pink' gets really, really big. Don't plant it next to an arbor from Lowe's. And if you do, don't wind the canes through it. <br />
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I am in the market for a new digital camera. My Pentax K10 is over 10 years old. It still works, but I don't think it works as well as it used to. Part of the difficulty is my eyes. I start needing readers about 5 years ago. My $200 eyeglasses (what a waste of money) don't work any better than my plastic readers off Amazon, and I have difficulty getting the focus just right. But I also wonder if something is going on with the shutter. So many of my pictures are turning out overexposed, no matter what settings I use.<br />
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So, I am looking for suggestions for a new camera, especially for someone whose eyes aren't as good as they used to be. If you have any I am all ears!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The past couple of years the only kind of "snow" we've gotten is this:<br />
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<font size=3>Dog fennel</font><br />
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As weedy as dog fennel looks in summer, when its seedheads turn white <br />
in winter it's gorgeous. It's an accent in a world of brown and taupe.</div><br />
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we got earlier this month. We got a couple of inches at least this time.<br />
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The horses were in the paddock behind the house this afternoon because Prince started pacing the <br />
fence wanting to come back up. Apparently he thought pawing for grass was too much effort. <br />
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I don't live in the North but it sure feels like I do right now. Thankfully today was the last really cold day. Last night temps dipped down below 5 degrees F. It's like living in Pennsylvania again. The power flickered on and off all morning as the grid strained to supply everyone with power. We got a little snow on Wednesday, about 1/2", although Southern Pines (about an hour south and west of here, in the Sandhills), got 6". <br />
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The cold has curtailed most garden activities, which in winter consist of cutting back the honeysuckle, jessamine, greenbriar, and grape vines that grew up in the roses over the summer and potting up 'Miss Bessie' divisions to go in the field up top. <br />
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The prairie roses in particular are a mess. There is a lot of honeysuckle, jessamine, blackberry canes and young sumac trees in the roses and a lot of deadwood under the live canes. Winter is the best time for this type of work because it's no fun doing it in short sleeves and leggings. Nevertheless, I usually have to do some cleanup before the roses bloom in June because honeysuckle grows a quite a bit even during the winter months and then of course really takes off in the spring. <br />
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After the weather warms up tomorrow I'm going to put out some poppy seeds. I forgot to order them this fall, and usually put them out at intervals over the fall and winter because you never know when conditions will be right for them to get started. I ordered a few packets of 'Angels Choir', a selection of doubles, and 'Mother of Pearl', a collection of singles and semi doubles. Both have shades of peach, soft orange, coral pink, rose pink, lavender, gray, gray pink and white with bicolors and picotees. (Picotee refers to a flower with light-colored petals edged with a darker color.) There's also a few single reds, the poppy's wild type.<br />
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After a gap of many years I've had poppies in the garden the last 2 years and thoroughly enjoyed them. These bloomed last May.<br />
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The Christmas presents are ordered and the cookies are baked, so I am taking some time to look back at last summer's garden.<br />
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<font size=3><i>'Raspberry Wine' bee balm in the big perennial bed</i>.</font><br />
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I have spread starts of 'Raspberry Wine' all around the garden. It is not appealing to deer or voles, which is a great thing. Most of the pests in my garden started being a problem once I had a lot of something, so it's nice that nothing likes to eat it. It likes a bit of food and requires water in hot dry weather or it looks miserable.<br />
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The foliage smells wonderful, especially 'Claire Grace'. Stepping on the rosettes will perfume the immediate area. The plant is called wild bermagot because the fragrance of the leaves is similar to bermagot orange, which is used to flavor Earl and Lady Gray tea and Turkish delight. <br />
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<font size=3><i>Just opening up and looking very much like a member of the mint family</i></font><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the back yard<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and east of the house.<br />
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<font size=3><i><-- To the left and right of the daylillies and phlox --></i></font></div><br />
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Another great plant for fragrance is sweet pepperbush. The fragrance of the flowers is very nice, a little bit like vanilla, and carries, so you don't have to stick your nose in the flowers to get the scent. All of the pepperbush I have grows wild here. There's a big bank of it west of the old house site and all along the big ditch that runs behind the big perennial bed and east of the old house site.<br />
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It also grows along waterways elsewhere on the farm.<br />
Sweet pepperbush blooms in July and insects flock to it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXoHjCcd8Mt3Pv4h5eaUZJC-Tx9vggYYw_zhxwI2LRZoZnnY3tkXHxTaONFYnn0vxuCZZLWyI0yeTKV9A1hZGZ5ZQvsssFhSB8rp7jnMTd5epxF17VfrvlxrgtMIwobiJq-pu8meT7Hw/s1600/IMGP7128p.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXoHjCcd8Mt3Pv4h5eaUZJC-Tx9vggYYw_zhxwI2LRZoZnnY3tkXHxTaONFYnn0vxuCZZLWyI0yeTKV9A1hZGZ5ZQvsssFhSB8rp7jnMTd5epxF17VfrvlxrgtMIwobiJq-pu8meT7Hw/s640/IMGP7128p.JPG" width="640" height="452" /></a><br />
<font size=3><i>Bumblebee</i>.</font><br />
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<font size=3><i>Dirt dauber</i></font><br />
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<font size=3><i>Sand wasp </i>.</font><br />
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<font size=3><i>Ailanthus webworm moth</i>.</font><br />
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Summer phlox is fragrant too, although I don't find it be very fragrant in the same way that summersweet is; in any case that's fine with me because I'm not sure I love the fragrance anyway. I've noticed that carpenter bees love this plant. I always see a lot of them feeding or just hanging out when I go in and out of the house.<br />
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Meadow beauty is another native that blooms during the heat of the summer. It blooms all summer and into fall, as a matter of fact. It's low-growing, less than 6 inches in height, but a mass of these flowers has a lot of impact. This is a group of Virginia meadow beauty that's growing behind the shavings pile. I didn't plant it there, it just appeared. Meadow beauty grows wild here everywhere, from the edge of the woods up above the house to the fields near the creek. I have transplanted a little bit of Maryland meadow beauty (thinner leaves, paler pink flowers than Va. meadow beauty) in the front of the big perennial bed but really should transplant more of both species into the garden.<br />
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This is the perfect <i>Hibiscus moscheutos</i>. I grew it from seed, so I wasn't sure what I was going to get, but it's amazing: it's big, rounded, and covered in big pink flowers in the middle of summer. It's a shame that Japanese beetles love them so much. I managed to get a picture before the buggers chewed raggedy holes into the leaves and flowers. <br />
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Purple and blue is so cooling in the heat of summer. I grew Stoke's aster from seed sent from the NC Botanical Garden and while the first batch produced flowers of a rather anemic blue, the second batch I grew has beautiful vivid flowers. I have to grow them in pots to protect them from voles. <br />
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I wanted powdery thalia after seeing it in a pond in the White Garden at the JC Raulston Arboretum. The flowers are so unique and beautiful, a rich purple with a powdery silver white finish. It's happy in the ditch that runs besides the old house site. Here it is with pickerelweed.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As long as they aren't fooled into blooming too early, we usually get a good crop of wild <br />
blueberries. We had one highbush blueberry (on the left); the rest are Southern black blueberries.<br />
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Veering from the subject of native plants, crape myrtles are a summer staple in the Southeast. They are not dependably winter hardy north of Virginia, but are they ever drought and heat tolerant. I grew a seedling of 'Pink Lace' from a cutting <br />
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<font size=3><i>'Pink Lace' seedling</i></font></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and then the rest of my crape myrtles were grown from seeds from that tree. <br />
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They are all over the map in terms of habit. One is quite tall and shaped like a columnar shrub. The seedling pictured above is an oval shrub. The seed parent (the 'Pink Lace' seedling) is an actual tree with about a dozen stems, as contradictory as that sounds. My favorite seedling is the one below, as it also has a true tree form. It's more upright in habit than its parent.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like how it looks framed by the garden below it.<br />
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Alas, only one of my crape myrtles has any fall color, the shrubby little pink one pictured below on the left. It turned bright orange but even that was fleeting. <br />
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Now I know why NC State never introduced that 'Pink Lace' seedling. (In my defense, I didn't realize when I started the cutting that neither 'Pink Lace' nor its seedling has any fall color. I didn't realize there were <i>any</i> crape myrtle cultivars with no fall color.) Now I turn a little bit green whenever I see other people's brilliant orange and red crape myrtles in the fall. I don't want to get rid of the crape myrtles I have, as they're beautiful when they're in bloom<br />
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and they bloom several times over the summer.<br />
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Insects, amphibians, ans reptiles thrive in the heat as much as crape myrtles do. While I am wilting and burning up the butterflies are fluttering around like they're at a party.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Variegated fritillary on tall verbena<br />
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Butterflies love to puddle on the minerals they find in the paddock. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Black swallowtail with tiger swallowtails<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and a cloudless sulfur in the foreground.<br />
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There are always a few sulfurs in late summer, culminating in dozens in the fall. They gather in pools of bright yellow in the paddock that shatter when the butterflies are startled. They rise and flutter, and then fall to form pools again.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Green treefrogs everywhere! They like to hunt for bugs on our living rooms at night. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Redbelly water snake<br />
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I'm always amazed by where I see birds' nests in the winter. Many times I've walked right by nests in the summer and wasn't aware of their location until the leaves have fallen. (The parents alarm calling was a sure sign there was a nest nearby <i>somewhere</i>, but I didn't know where.) OTOH, I hear the chipping sparrow babies in one of the pines at the back of the big bed every year. They're so loud it's easy to pinpoint the nest site. Every year the cardinals and mockingbirds nest in the front or side garden. Last year a blue grosbeak nested in one of the rugosas in the front garden. <br />
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<font size=3><i>Blue grosbeak fledgling</i></font><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A double rainbow over the neighbor's pasture after a late afternoon storm.<br />
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I know this post isn't very Christmas-y, and that many of us are more interested in getting wrapped up in a blanket than gardening this time of year<br />
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but I thought all of the colors might provide a cup of cheer. Here's a Christmas-colored zinnia to end this post.<br />
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Merry Christmas!<br />
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I have three camellias in the garden. All are sasanquas, because I feel like a camellia without fragrance is rather disappointing. One is 'Yuma', a single pink and white, 'Mine-No-Yuki', a double white, and the third is a single pink that I grew from seed. I purchased the cultivars from Camellia Forest Nursery a couple of years ago and they are still pretty small. I grew this camellia from seed is 10 years ago. Now it's over 8 feet tall.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I planted it too close to the stalls and now it has a rather two <br />
dimensional look. It has kind of espaliered itself against the wall.<br />
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I like that it's in tree form. I didn't limb it up. I want to grow out and cutting and see what form it takes with more room. Years ago I saw camellias in the White Garden at the JC Raulston Arboretum growing as small trees and they were lovely. They were either tea-oil (<i>Camellia oleifera</i>) or tea (<i>C. sinensis</i>) camellias that produced single fragrant white flowers in the fall.<br />
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The flowers of this camellias smell sweet, particularly after a warmup, and remain strongly fragrantly for a while even after the flowers have frozen and dried. It's prudent to check the flowers before sticking your nose in it because it's a great favorite of yellow jackets, although the more peaceable honeybees and hoverflies like them too. <br />
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Naturally I have seen camellias I covet while driving around running errands. Especially one that has small double dark pink flowers in such profusion that it looks like one of my swamp roses in bloom in the spring. I've got to find one like that.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">November is the time for aster 'Miss Bessie to shine. Hundreds of insects <br>throng to its flowers when its in bloom, like these honeybees</br>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and bumblebees.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Many different species of insects visit the asters: butterflies, moths, wasps, and even flies.<br />
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There's usually some roses until December. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Caldwell Pink' with 'Miss Bessie'<br />
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Fall has been slow to arrive here. We didn't get a hard frost until the second or third week in November. Early color was a bust, although that may have only been true for our locality. I don't know about south and east of here, but the second we drove north into Wake County on Thanksgiving Day the color was spectacular. Bright crimson dogwoods, red maples in shimmering shades ranging from golden yellow through orange to blood red, and pumpkin and scarlet oaks. <br />
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The late fall color here has been pretty good. I've noticed in other years when we didn't get much fall color early on, we still got late fall color in the latter half of November through to December. Several of the roses are good for late color. Until I started growing species roses and rugosa hybrids here I didn't know that roses could even have fall color. I have a lot of rugosas, all grown from seed except for 'Hansa', 'Foxi Pavement', and 'Sir Thomas Lipton'. They provide beautiful spots of color in the November landscape. The effect is like the golden late afternoon condensed in leaf form, with splashes of orange, red, and pink.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The leaves of prairie rose (<i>R. setigera</i>) are golden briefly before bright pumpkin orange.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Virginia rose doesn't have fragrance like Carolina rose (that one has a <br />
delicious damask rose and lemon scent), but it has better fall color. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A late turning red maple<br />
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For the first time I can remember a time when <a href="https://sweetbay103.blogspot.com/2013/12/golden-leaves.html"target="_blank"> the apricot maple </a> didn't turn, and it could very well be because it's splitting down the middle. Inconvenient to say the least. One half is leaning over the driveway below the house, and the other is leaning over the neighbor's fence. A hazard of big trees with multiple leaders.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's been a good year for oaks here. Even the willow oaks turned <br />
a golden russet orange. A beautiful oak at the local McDonald's.<br />
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blueberries, never seem to fail, and finish coloring very late.<br />
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before changing to vivid shades of scarlet and orange in December. <br />
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Blueberries and swamp cyrillas are the last colorful woody plants to <br />
lose their leaves. When they are bare I feel that winter has truly begun.<br />
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The oakleaf hydrangeas in front of the house seem to have been affected by the 12 inches of rain we got last October when tropical storm Matthew came through. They don't like wet roots. I know this because I lost all of my 'Snow Queen' hydrangea after Hurricane Floyd in 1999, when my yard and crawlspace was under at least 18" of water. They didn't die immediately, but by the next spring it was apparent that they were all gone. This time the hydrangea were not in a flood zone and in a raised bed to boot, yet one hydrangea is gone and another two may go as well, as they have shown some signs of wilting. The one that died is one the eastern end and I replaced it with an Alabama azalea.<br />
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<font size=3><i>Picture from 2016, when I still had four.</i></font><br />
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A few years ago I planted an Alabama azalea after seeing one at the UNC Arboretum, and then it started to decline for unknown reasons. I've been wanting to try one again. They are not only very showy, the flowers have a delicious lemon scent.<br />
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<font size=3><i>My Alabama azalea before its decline</i></font><br />
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<font size=3><i>The big beautiful Alabama azalea next to the pergola at the UNC Arboretum</i></font><br />
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If another hydrangea goes I'm not sure what to replace it with. After the first set of hydrangea died I planted Florida azaleas in front of the house and I loved them, but Florida azaleas can get really big, taller than the 8 feet to the top of the porch railing. I'd put a coast azalea there but I'm not sure they would bloom. When I had coast azaleas in front of the house they leaned forward toward the light, and the house faces more directly north than it did originally. I may replace it with <i>Hydrangea paniculata</i> 'Vanilla Stawberry' after seeing it in <a href="http://prairierosesgarden.blogspot.com/2017/08/gbbd-mid-august-doldrums.html"target="_blank"> Rose's garden</a>. In addition, a neighbor has a paniculata that blooms in the deep shade of a mimosa.<br />
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The prairie roses (<i>Rosa setigera</i>) beside the driveway keep growing, and growing, and growing. The 2 original plants that I grew from seed obtained in a Gardenweb trade take up about 50 feet along the drive. Then I took hips from those roses and grew some more. This species is fragrance free but gorgeous and the bees love it. I'm taking pictures of the flowers and I blink and there's a bee. The flowers open up bright bright pink and fade to a soft mauvey pink.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pickerelweed is a native that I planted in the ditch by the old house site. I love the purple <br />
flowers, I love how much it colonizes, and I love that the flowers are a bee magnet.<br />
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Sorrel tree blooms from a row of volunteers next to the drive between the current and old house sites. They don't have the classic Christmas tree shape and flawless crimson color for which they are known, but they still have good red fall color and are lovely trees. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Turk's cap lily, which grows wild here<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or at least it did before I transplanted them into sunken <br />
pots to protect them from voles. Haven't seen them since. :/<br />
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A purple geranium that I picked up at Powell Nursery in Selma (now closed) several years ago. Unfortunately I do not know its name. Its very vigorous and I've divided it many times and spread it all over the gardens near the house.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A volunteer seedling of 'Zwanenberg Blue'spiderwort<br />
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Zigzag iris (<i>Iris brevicaulis</i>) is usually the last iris to bloom in my garden. It's an easy to grow woodland native and its profusion of ageratum blue flowers in the heat of early summer are always pleasing to me, and a little surprising too. Its only drawbacks are that the foliage tends to pale to a yellow green when it blooms, and every few years it needs to thinned so it will keep blooming. Thinning is very easy though; all I need to do is pull up crowded fans. There's no need to dig and replant.<br />
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I moved some there since it was struggling next to the house. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With <i>Rudbeckia triloba</i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Robert Poore' and 'David'. Showy, but I have mixed feelings. It's tall and shaggy and likes to creep <br />
up to the edge of the sidewalk and flop over onto it. I would like to add more diversity in color,<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">like the phlox at the NC Botanical Garden, pictured below.<br />
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The summer phlox at the Botanical Garden has a beautiful range of colors, ranging from dark shocking pink to rose pink to soft baby pink to white, some with dark eyes.<br />
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Last fall I moved 'David's Lavender' out from under the swamp rose next to the vegetable garden but it wasn't ready to bloom this summer. Hopefully it survived the move. I also ordered four new cultivars last fall. They were tiny; I probably should have kept them potted up for the winter and then let them size up the following spring but I went ahead and planted them. I'd be surprised if they made it. <br />
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I want to put something shorter than phlox right next to the sidewalk, but it's something that needs to be able to compete with the phlox. I wish that when voles started eating all of my iris that I had planted next to the sidewalk I had thought of putting wire mesh under the rhizomes, but I didn't. That ship may have sailed, now, as the phlox would literally overshadow the iris and iris don't fare well in those conditions. I still miss having iris by he sidewalk.<br />
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foreground and 'Helen Collingwood' in background,</i> 2008.</font><br />
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(I want to bring back blue toadflax too. I haven't seen any around for a while. It's a host plant for the lovely orangetip falcate butterfly. Prairie Moon Nursery hasn't carried any seed for a couple of years so I ordered some off of Amazon.)<br />
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I could try to move some of the phlox out, but I'd have to get every bit. I have moved phlox from areas beside the house where it looked hot, dry and miserable, only to have it reappear, multiple times. It's like zombie phlox. Also, as I mentioned earlier, it likes to travel.<br />
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On the other hand, I am pleased with the phlox in the big perennial bed without any reservations. It wasn't even phased by the flooding we got below the house after a foot of rain last October, which surprised me. I'd have expected flooding to end it, and viewed phlox as a perennial there until it wasn't. It provides a bright burst of color during the summer months that is visible from the house. I have to put up a couple of motion detection sprinklers to keep the deer from eating it.<br />
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More phlox may end up down there if I can't keep my baptisia going, but that's a subject for another post! <br />
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I first saw American beautyberry 30 years ago when we visited the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo. I was floored when I first saw them. I had no idea we had a native shrub with such gorgeous royal purple berries. I don't know how common they are generally, but they appear to be common in the Neuse River basin. They not only grow in my garden, they grow wild down by the creek on our farm and they are plentiful at <a href="http://www.johnstoncc.edu/howellwoods/"target="_blank"> Howell Woods</a>, an 800 acre tract of land owned by Johnston Community College. I've even seen them beside the road on my way to the grocery store. <br />
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Every other year I whack them back to about 2 feet in height and they rebound effortlessly, growing many feet in a single year. <br />
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Some years the encore azaleas turn a rich burgundy plummy color. Last year I moved these out of the bed with the Piedmont azaleas because the deer were snacking on them in late winter and put them under the edge of the vitex tree in the front yard. This is 'Amethyst'.<br />
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These are swamp sunflowers from the NC Botanical Garden. While the flowers are stunning, in a small garden space they can be a bit of a disaster. A house nearby has them staked up tall and straight by their house and in a row in the back yard and they were beautiful, but I don't stake anything unless I absolutely have to. These pictures were taken last year and I have since moved most of them so that they form an allee beside where the lead the horses up and down to pasture.<br />
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with 'Caldwell Pink'. I love this rose despite its lack of fragrance. The pink is almost a bluish pink, the flowers are packed with petals, and the plant itself is a real workhorse, blooming repeatedly.<br />
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I kept some swamp sunflower by the front sidewalk and in the beds at the edge of the front lawn. I was afraid they wouldn't come back since the soil by the sidewalk is very loose and sandy, making it easy for the voles who love the roots, but it managed to come back anyway. <br />
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Next spring or summer I need to remember to get more Mexican bush sage because it's hardly ever winter hardy here. Years ago I grew a combination of the rose 'Duchesse de Brabant' and this sage and I still haven't managed to re-create that combination. I have 'Duchesse' but currently she's the size of a banana. What the heck? I thought tea roses were supposed to be easy to grow in the South but they hate me.<br />
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I first saw Salvia 'Phyllis Bide' at Niche Gardens in the fall standing next to one of the hoop greenhouses. I asked the owner what it was and when I saw it on the website the next spring I ordered it immediately. The effect of the flowers with the calyces is a smoky lavender that is uniquely beautiful. It's more hardy than Mexican bush sage. <br />
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with 'Amistad', which also pleasantly surprised me by returning this spring. The original plant was 5 fleet hide and wide this year and hasn't stopped blooming since June. Both 'Phyliss Bide' and 'Amistad' are very easy to grow from cuttings.<br />
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I believe this is a willowleaf aster, but it's not 'Miss Bessie'. The plant is more airy and delicate, and the flowers are paler and start about a month earlier. I don't know where it came from. Perhaps it tagged along with a trade? It just showed up in my big perennial bed one year.<br />
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A bit of white to contrast with the purple and gold. This is Anemone 'Honorine Jobert'. It didn't bloom for several years due to black blister beetles, but when the beetles disappeared the anemones came back. They are very tough.<br />
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ETA: These pictures are from October. Swamp sunflower blooms from 2-4 weeks in October while 'Miss Bessie' starts blooming in mid to late October and blooms through most of November. It's in full bloom right now.<br />
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I have finally gotten most of the small field filled in with willowleaf aster 'Miss Bessie'. It's the only thing that I tried that has thrived up there and it's great for bees, butterflies and other pollinators, especially at a time when not much else is blooming in profusion. <br />
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<font size=2>A neighbor's well cover and another neighbor's barn in the background</font><br />
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<font size=2>Looking across the field to the neighbor's horse pasture. The drive turns left to go down to the house.<br />
We've taken to parking the cars up top because of a cardinal that's been attacking the mirrors.</font><br />
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I think some years 'Miss Bessie' has a lovely grayish cast and other years it's more purple. This is a purple year.<br />
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The field sounds like a giant hive. So many bees!<br />
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Today I am joining Gail at clay and limestone for <a href="http://www.clayandlimestone.com/"target="_blank"> Wildflower Wednesday</a>. </div><br />
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