What's looking good in July 2024

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  1. Pacnorwest

    Pacnorwest Hardy Maple

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    Front and center plant ID in this little vignette. The “clapper “ at work to keep critters out like squirrels & pesky raccoons.
    Focal point in this pic -Variegated boganvillia in pot, variegated pineapple in pot on table - started from store bought pineapple, varigata ornamental fatsia, Camellia japonica 'Lady Vansittart, red flower osteospermum hybrid , calla lily, & scotch moss . IMG_1973.jpeg

    Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bodensee'
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    Hydrangea Involucrata
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    Colorful Forest Pansy tree leafs looking up from below the canopy. Cercis candensis . Started from a seedling.
    My little baby ! Watch her sing…
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    Front pic of small Forest Pansy tree . Beautiful burgundy color - heart shaped leaves. 8’ tall. 15 years growth from tiny seedling. They grow to 15’- 20’ when fully mature. Then again this is Oregon who know’s how big in this zone. IMG_1992.jpeg

    Hellebore flower gone to seed.
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    This bug Google-eyed , mustached beauty , tiny gnat. Definitely looks like it’s posing for this pic. A bit blurry but worth the shot.
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    Verbena’s poppin up everywhere.
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    Passifloraceae ‘Blue Crown Passion Flower’
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    @Melody Mc. we cross posted. Just saw your gorgeous iris. So happy to see pics from your garden. You always have beautiful surprising plants and flowers. Iris is a fav of mine. I still have iris descendants in my garden from my great great grandfather who brought iris from Ireland to the US and started an iris farm. They were handed down to my great uncle who carried on the tradition until his death in the 1970’s. They are all fragrant and I have no clue what they are.

    Flanders poppy’s have a lot of history. At the second battle of Ypres in 1915, when in charge of a small first-aid post, Colonel McCrae wrote a poem that has come to be known as 'In Flanders Fields'. The poem described the poppies that marked the graves of soldiers killed fighting for their country.

    Also WWl a history of remembrance. Red paper poppy’s were made .
    https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-poppy-remembrance-symbol-veterans-day
     
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    Lovely irises Mel. Thank you for your nice words. Whoopee, I shall go to bed happy this evening.
     
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    Pac, those pics are showing some really lovely plants. Your Hydrangeas are to die for and how nice are those garden sculptures. You’ve got talent.
     
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    Sjoerd thanx so much. Hearing from like minded folks expressing what they see in the pics of my garden by complementary observations always makes my day. :setf_016:
     
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    PAC - I really love your Pansy Tree. I've never heard of that before. I've gone back and looked a few times. I'd definitely love to sit under that and look up. Can I ask about your pineapple plant? How old is it? Does it winter in your house? I'm very curious about it.

    And can't believe how many varieties of Hydrangias you have. You're very lucky to be able to grow so many of those beauties. They never get old. So lovely!
     
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    About the variegated Pinapple growing. I got the pineapple last November. Cut the top off removed the dead leaves off the stalk and placed the clean cut end on top of damp sand. In a few weeks it had rooted enough to place in soil in a small pot. That’s about 8 months growth you see in the picture. It’s getting a bit spindly not sure whats next if I keep it or toss it. I’ve never grown a pineapple before . I hope it stays warm enough to set fruit. Time will tell.

    Thank you for such nice complements on the Forest Pansy tree. It’s a small tree and requires less water once established . It also has pretty pink flowers in spring before leaves appear. It was only 10” high when I planted it.

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    Lovely blooms. We know this as a shrub here and call it a judasboom, or judas tree. It is great colour in the late spring.
     
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    I found this cloud formation so unusual.
     
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    You have a Judas tree very similar . How very interesting.thanx…got my curiosity up, now need to look up.
    They are nice to have in the garden , have great color and blooms leaf shape will transform any garden.
    Cercis siliquastrum
    • Judus Tree
    • Mediterranean Redbud
    • Love Tree
    Cercis canadensis'Forest Pansy'
    • Forest Pansy Redbud or western redbud.
    I had to look them up. They are in the same genus - different species. And look alike. Learned something new from you today. That goes to show your never to old to learn new things!

    ie: cloud formation .beautiful.
     
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    But my dear, you are not at all old.
    No but, you are right, it is interesting. They are lovely.
     
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    What’s poppin today..

    Hibiscus bud

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    A hybrid hydrangea that can’t make up its mind what color to be - maybe it’s a ‘Rainbow’ hydrangea .

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    Up close and personal pic of Mimosa tree plumes and buds and leaves.

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    Rain lilies poppin up everywhere.

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    Ornamental grasses are filling out.

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    Four O'clocks are beginning to bloom.

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    Pac— the hydrangeas are so special, the ornamental grasses look really nice there…and of course, the mimosa blooms. They are so exotic-looking. Do you get hummingbirds in them?

    Good to see those Mirabilis blooms, Daniël. I so like their fragrance. Mine did not come up this year. I may have to go back to lifting the tubers each winter again. We are always so wet here.
     
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    Lot’s of hummers like the mimosa blooms.
     
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