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| Double pink oleander |
What exactly is that supposed to mean?... It means that this is a bizarre year in the gardens and it feels like forever between bloom periods. Actually when checking back in my photo libraries from last season, I find that we are only a week behind schedule and last year everything was early. So in retrospect, the only bizarre thing around here is my sense of what is happening. At any rate, I don't have a lot of new things to post on today, so I will visit newer photos of some of the same flowers that I visited last post... I will however add a few things that I haven't shared before such as the oleander above and several orchids now in full bloom.
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| Freestyle Ivy Geraniums |
I anxiously await these ivy geraniums to start falling over the edges of the pots... in reference to my last post, they are much easier to deal with than petunias in the past... I've only had to water them three times thus far this season... that is a big work saver.
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| "New Millenium" delphiniums |
As noted in the past I only need a few, perhaps eight or so delphiniums in my gardens. I use them as vertical accents along the split rail fences on either side of the arbor. In the past I've always used the Pacific Hybrids or the Magic Fountains series. They have been beautiful, but generally only last a couple to three years in the gardens and then would die out, leaving a hole in the plan for a year. I then heard from a friend, who owns a small nursery, that he has 'New Milleniums' that have lasted many years in his gardens, so last year I purchased seeds from Dowdeswell's Delphiniums LTD in New Zealand. I did not germinate many, probably through some fault of my own, but the above photo shows the results of some of the ones that did germinate. I look forward to seeing how they do down the road. While I absolutely love delphiniums, staking is something I like to keep to a minimum, so I keep myself to this small number of plants which work beautifully in this area of the gardens.
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| Odontocidium Wildcat 'Rainbow' |
We're totally enjoying the two huge spikes of bloom on this Odotocidium... each bloom stalk is just under three feet tall, and there are over 100 blooms altogether. It's definitely difficult to capture the overall effect of the plant in a photograph.
I mentioned last post that my yellow spuria iris had yet to bloom... it is now working well in conjunction with one of the two large jackmani clematis on either side of the arbor...
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| Yellow spuria iris with Jackmani clematis and New Millenium delphiniums |
A great many of my asiatics have disappeared this season and it's either because they needed division or our new garden 'friends', the voles got to their roots. I am not too concerned as I was a bit tired of many of these after having them for years. A couple that are starting in bloom are pictured below and there will be others in the next week or so...
The small Cattleya pictured below has started to fade in these photos... I was surprised that its blooms have only lasted less than three weeks and I didn't get around to taking photos while the blossoms were totally fresh. The consolation is that I'm fairly certain that this is one of the plants that blooms twice a year...
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| Laeliocattleya Acker's Spotlight 'Pink Lady' |
Following are a few phalaenopsis and variants that are new to me and a dendrobium of the phalaenopsis type...
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Phalaenopsis Brother Peoker x Brother Sara Gold
(yellow wired spots) |
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| Doritaenopsis Sun Prince x Taisuco Stripe (candy stripe) |
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Phalaenopsis Baldan's Kaliedoscope 'Golden Treasure'
(yellow wired stripes) |
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| Doritaenopsis 'Ox Queen' |
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| Dendrobium phalaenopsis type |
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| Orchids in bloom on July 2nd |
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