Gardening Flowers & Foliage

Miz Carol's beauty spot had a couple calla lilies come up and bloom this year.

 

One of the Rootbeer iris opened up yesterday. The Japanese maple looked stunning in the afternoon lighting and the peonies are starting to set buds.

 

Beautiful

 

Our son's first garden at his new place. Ground is sandy, but hopefully we can start adding improvements.
He has yellow squash, corn, watermelon, cucumber, peppers and tomatoes. Deer ate the tops from the cucumbers, so we helped him put up the electric fence Tuesday.

 

Another walk around the yard.

Mock orange




Speedwell




Siberian irises at their max



Mapleleaf Viburnum

 

Beautiful yard, Mike

 

I think this is called a circus rose...
The bi-color shows up well when they're small the gardenia is perfuming the yard now
My mama gave it to us years ago, it n sat there for 2-3 years, just surviving, then one day, it remembered it was supposed to grow. An idea of how big it is, next to our car shelter...
We have a few of the purple plums left on the tree.

 

Thanks, Jeff!

I forgot the rhododendron

 

Accumulated pollen after yesterday's rains. Eastern White Pines are the likely culprits. That pollen sticks to everything.

 

Yep, reminds me of the yellow clouds we have from the SYP down here, we pray for rain to wash it away...

 

The mountain laurel seems to have a lot more pink in it in certain places this year. Most places are bright white though.

 

Our lantanas are beginning to bloom. They will have flowers for most of the summer.

 

I'm always impressed by everyone's flower gardens on here. Late last summer I made a small dedicated native wildflower bed in my backyard, and I'm patiently waiting to post pictures if/when things bloom later this year. In the bed I sowed Joe Pye weed, goldenrod, black eyed Susan, purple coneflower, and butterfly milkweed. I saw today that in the bare dirt are a bunch of small plants coming up. Lots of undesirables mixed in I'm sure, but I'm hesitant to pull anything besides the obvious oriental bittersweet sprouts, ground ivy, and dandelions. At this stage its too hard to tell what is what. To be continued...

 

I was pulling these up, because I figured it was more invasive bs from my neighbors yard. Luckily I found out it is a native perennial by watching crime pays botany doesn’t. Hopefully the population will recover from my ignorance.

 

I have a little striped wintergreen in my side yard, coming up through my neighbor's pachysandra. I've tried in the past to dig some from the woods and transplant it in my backyard, but it doesn't seem to take despite grabbing a huge chunk of the soil along with the original root ball. It might be a soil composition thing, or it just doesn't transplant well.
Crime pays but botany doesn't is an awesome channel too!

 

Someday I’m hoping to score a Natchez big enough to split. This one is 14-16”

 

I tried growing them one year from seed. Wasn't too successful. I think they need a warmer climate.

 

Yes ma'am, they like hot weather.