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| Paeonia tenuifolia 'Rubra Flora Plena' |
This is the first year that Paeonia tenuifolia 'Rubra Flora Plena' has really performed well in the gardens.... I believe it has been in place for around fifteen years... 'slow to establish' takes on new meaning, or maybe it's just me... any questions why a "good" root of this peony runs on average from $45 to $65?
If you've been following my blog for awhile, you know that I like to be as close to real time with my photos as possible, i.e., if I post a pic of a flowering crab, it's probably still in bloom when the post is published. Not the case this year I'm afraid... I have taken on a massive amount of garden change and update... I can't keep up with blogging right now so much of what you see is no longer in bloom. In fact, I spent today gathering in my new conifers.... pretty much a full day's work and about 250 miles of travel. The lilacs were blooming well yesterday and some azaleas were already fading... you may get to see them in a couple of weeks! Furthermore, lets not even mention weeds... we went from a very cold spring to almost immediate summer and you can well imagine the consequences of that...
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| Spring Glory with Floribunda behind and further back Snowdrift... |
I'm happy with all the truckloads of prunings being removed from the crab apples last fall... when such major pruning is done, one can expect lots of follow-up and touchup to be necessary... new sprouts are coming on as we speak...
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| Intermediate irises are just going out of bloom while the German bearded are coming in to bloom... |
Louisa flowering crab is approaching the end of its bloom as are Orchid Lights and Candy Lights azaleas... other later plants of the series are probably open as of today... Northern Lights azaleas love full sun, but in turn, hot sun shortens their bloom period... especially if it's a warm season...
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| Flame flowering crab |
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| Another Spring Glory crab (pink) and overhanging branches of a bur oak with Flame flowering crab behind |
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| My baby 'Daybreak' magnolia... at 4 feet +, lots of huge blooms... |
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| Katherine Havemeyer lilac with Beauty of Moscow behind and several others... |
We celebrated a brand new marriage with ceremony and reception in the gardens on Saturday and spent some time in the gazebo over the weekend... by evening the fragrance from the lilacs and Snowdrift crab apple was amazing as we watched a pair of cardinals flit about and into a smaller spruce 6' from the gazebo door... life is good... |
| A clematis... most likely 'Alpina'... |
Tinka Philips at almost five feet... that's a lot of stakes but this is a heavy bloomer in more ways than one! Hybridized in the 1950's by Jess Philips six miles from here and named after his daughter. This plant was over $100 when introduced way back then with huge blooms of silvery pink and a pink picotee...
I shared some of these pictures on facebook recently and have about 1000 taken over the course of the last week and a half that I haven't had time to look through... below the azalea walk, which will become the peony walk soon (looking good this year) and finally the orienpet lily walk towards early July.... The conifer is a blue weeping Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), possibly 'Graceful Grace'..., possibly 'Graceful Grace' and one of several conifers in this Until next time, Larry
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