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Here's a few photos of what still needs to be planted. Some, like the cacti will need to wait another year before they are ready for garden life
The saxifragas look like they are ready but have to wait until I clear a few spots for them. They look like Sempervivums and Jovibarbas but that is as far as they go as look alikes! The blooms are suppose to be worth waiting for when they mature!
Saxafragas:
The first 4 are called Encrusted Saxifragas. Note the white spots all along the leaf edges!
The last one is suppose to be a biennual with bright red blooms!
Here's a few more perennials, some I already planted today!
1/ Chinese Mint Bush to 24 inches high, blooms late summer
2/ Polygama Polygala, short subshrub to 3 inches high, pink and yellow blooms in late spring! Evergreen foliage and forms a mat over the soil.
3/ Spanish sedum, forms a low 2 inch high mat of foliage, white blooms in late spring. It is said to be a non-aggressive sprawler, and generally stays put (we'll see next year if its true). I'll be able to start more next year from cuttings!
4/ Penstemon barbatus -short cultivar growin up to 18 inches! Clump former, love the pink color of this one!
5/ Potentilla grown just for the foliage which is a silvery gray. Looks great for the whole growing season. this one is a clump former. Flowers can be pruned out since they are not noteworthy! It is a soft and velvety perennial that will look better each year as the clump fills in!
I'll have to look up the specific species of this one!
It was such a great day I decided to create another new garden!
Antennaria alpina along the edge with 2 Draba
Platycodon 'Asta' mix
Agastache 'Purple Pigmy'
...and a Fernbush ~Chamaebatiaria millefolium~
Snapped a few shots from around the gardens:
Delasperma 'Star Dust' ~ all members in the iceplant group have very similar flowers, the foliage is very different~ this one is a sprawler and blooms from late spring until fall frost
Allium spiral~ a short perennial with interesting foliage~ pink flowers in late summer! A variable species which work well in the perennial gardens and tolereate various degrees of drought! Forms a clump over time.
Petroraghia saxifraga 'Tunic Flower' is a light airy perennial for drought conditions. Forms a long taproot in order to survive dry summer conditions. Blooms from late June until fall frost! Spreads in and around taller perennials and makes a nice colorful groundcover!
I'm becoming very fond of the saxifraga group of perennials! There are an endless number of species in this group for almost any soil and weather conditions.
Wow Ron looks really good. I am so jealous of the time you get to spend doing gardening.
The armodillas plowed up all my sprouted fall veggies. I am just going to take this fall off from gardening. I am so heart broken all that time and effort gone in one night
The only nemesis in my gardens are toads, they dig holes in my potted plants and uproot plants in the gardens!
There are hundreds of them on the property! They range in size from dime size all the way up to hand size depending on their age!
Love the stump(hen's and chick's) what a great idea! Ron, seeing your hard work in making your new gardens has given me a shot in the arm.
I lost all but a few flowers after many years of planting...I didn't know toads dug holes, I had thought that they crept into left over homes,all my thoughts from seeing holes in the gardens were focused on voles or something that possibly ate my flowers. I have many toads, and I do love them silly I know. So glad to know that they may be hibernating there.
Enjoyed the walk into your gardens, and the Chinese mint. Thank you for sharing and the up lift
Care for some Chinese Mintbush tea?
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Since they are new this year from seed I haven't tried drying the leaves and make some mint tea!
The flowers are a butterfly magnet!
I need to drill out more holes in the stump to add more sempervivums and jovibarbas! It is not looking as nice as I was hoping (in my mind, everyone else thinks it looks great just as it is!)
The Chinese mint has blooms that look the same as the liatris family, which too have that same effect on butterflies...I'll need to keep an eye out for Chinese mint in the catalogs this season of ordering. I may be more successful with those. Tea pot is cute. I've tried making tea with the bergamot monarda, I think I made it way to strong the first time. It was very strong, I thought I had made a mistake even trying the leaves as a herbal tea.
The succulents in the stump is a cleaver idea, really. I've seen them in pots, old tires,and the likes.
I'm not use to the Latin plant names, so had a good lesson just now...the sempervivum will look nice, along with the hens and chicks...found that the jovibarba have flowers also,and certain types have the red color leaves. I suppose one would need to drill more and bigger holes for a fuller look. You will have to keep us posted time from time with that task.
I too have that mind problem heheh, cause don't ya know "as gardeners we never make mistakes with our garden plans" That quote was met as a joke but could be entirely true. With a painter, mistakes can be easily remedied into a beautiful picture.
Shady
I started them from seed!
I doubt you will find anyone who sells the plants!
Check out www.GardensNorth.com she carries hard to find (as well as rare) perennial seed from around the world. She also deals with a lot of hardy native perennials, shrubs and tree seeds!
Thank you Ron for the web site, I made a book mark and will spend more time there.
It is a very nice ordering site, cant wait to look further into it. Thanks again.
11/Lychnis ackwrightii
12/Delasperma ~not sure the species, or hybrid of this iceplant!
13/Rosularia sedoides ~cute little rosette that looks like a sempervivum but it's not! It is in the saxifraga group of perennials! 14/Escobaria vivipara ~ around the size of a silver dollar! 15/Delosperma congestum ~ seed cases developing nicely! When in bloom you cannot see the foliage
Me too!
More photos from today:
1/ my native opuntia cactus
2/ Tunic Flower ~ a saxifraga ~ looks like baby's breath from a distance. Good filler perennial!
3/ Anthennaria alpina 'Alpine Pussy Toes'~ this one is a ground hugger only growing 2"s high! Flowers are not conspicuous and need to be removed when they appear! Host plant for Question Mark butterfly!
4/Unknown errect sedum ~ Was from a mixture of different sedums! Grows up to 24"s but usually less!
5/ Wine Cup~ It is an interesting perennial that grows less then 12"s high with a spread of 3ft! Very striking!
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