Hello again... I received the following as part of a comment by VW garden regarding my daylily post... "Actually my favorite photos on your blog are always the ones that show the maturity of your garden." I'd have to say that I very much agree with that sentiment and that's what I enjoy the most in many of your blogs as well... the 'long view' as it were. With that in mind, I've decided to put in the odd post that is nothing more than views of the gardens with the only commentary being descriptive of what's in the photos.
As you may have noticed, I've gotten rid of the archives. In their place, I am compiling posts about specific plants here at Oak Lawn. The two most recent are long and can be reached at the right by clicking on 'Magnolias at Oak Lawn' and 'Hemerocallis at Oak Lawn' The magnolia post has a lot of specific info regarding the sixty-one magnolias here and the hemerocallis post is mostly photos of the many daylilies I grow, including my own hybridization efforts. These longer posts will be added from time to time and won't stay on the main page for long, but can be reached from the list on the right side of my blog. I will label posts with descriptive pictures of the gardens (versus close-ups) as 'Long view' with a post number. These will also show up on the right once they leave the main page.
I hope this makes sense... Larry
Young hosta plants grow beneath a 38+ year old Pinus strobus that I dug out of a woods.The hyper-tuffa containers have a variety of non-hardy succulents, cacti, and crown of thorn plants.The fence was built in place by cutting back pyramidal arborvitaes that had formed a hedge here and is supported by the roots of those plants. To the rear is a Picea abies 'Pendula' or weeping norway maple, and to its left is a large goatsbeard plant. White bleeding hearts grow rampantly in my gardens and seem to do better and spread better than the red flowered dicentras. In the back is Aesculus carnea 'Briottii' which always blooms well for me. It has been prone to frost cracks but they haven't slowed down its performance at all, although I do occasionally lose a branch.
This photo was taken earlier in the season just as the hostas were starting to fill out and magnolia 'Daybreak' was finishing its bloom period. To the front of the fence (nicknamed the xylophone) are a great many plants of Astilbe 'Spright' in a variety of colors... this is a fairly dwarf variety.
In the final photo from this area, one can see the path that leads to the large leaf rhododendron area. The hostas on the left are backed with a wonderful old fashioned variety of heuchera that blooms all summer, larger astilbes also inhabit this area, and farther along are drifts of hellebores. Sweet woodruff can be seen to the right of the hostas.
I'll close today with a totally different area of the gardens where Montgomery spruces, pagoda dogwoods, katsura trees, and flowering crabs predominate.
Take care, Larry
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