Thanks @Logan I recently repotted it. I have to admire it's endurance surviving in an auto parts store.
Thank you Logan, Oreti and Sjoerd. Appreciate your kind comments. This is so much fun to share and swap garden pics, styles and learn . Spotty Dotty is a nice choice in the shade garden and all the critters don’t bother it. A friend gave it to me he grew them from seed. He passed last year and every time I pass Spotty Dorty in several areas in the garden I think of what a good friend he was and miss him . Sjoerd lovely rose, beautiful color. Thalictrum Flavum is also known here as meadow rue. It’s a nice cheery bright color and very tall stately plant. Makes a great punctuation mark in the garden. They dry very nicely for dried arrangements or in a vase on their own. Clay wow ‘oldie but goodie’ … very nice x-mas cactus. Looks very happy.
Thanks for that English name. I really like them but must hold myself back from planting too many of them.
Water iris bloomin. Hostas have survived this season ..no deer. Platycodon grandiflorus Spirea and dianthus Iris . And… Russell lupines grown from seed.
Pac— this was such a good posting with some lovely plants on parade. You must be happy every day with all that botanical beauty to look at.
Awwww absolutely gorgeous @Pacnorwest !! Our Spirea is over with now , such a shame it doesn't hang around for a bit longer really. Your Platycodens are ahead of ours......and looking really good. Likewise your Hostas too ,not a Slug/ Snail nibble in sight!! Ours have be slightly 'got at' despite being on their Islands surrounded by water.
It's all very beautiful, Pac. I don't know why my irises do so poorly. They are my favorite flower. It's like they are cursed. They grow well in the summer and early spring. Then the rains come and the leaves develop spots and rot away and the plants wither, a lot of them dying. I keep the rhizomes above the soil in the sun. I keep them weed free. I don't mulch them. What does work is contrary to everything i read. The ones that I gave up on and planted in the duck yard are surrounded by weeds and got a thick layer of tree chip mulch. No disease and they bloomed beautifully. The ones in my orchard, same thing. I even had some that were discarded upside down in the compost pile and buried. They bloomed and had no leaf disease. This year, I'm moving them to a slope by a tree trunk. I will cover them with wood chips and see what happens. My theory - rain splashes bacteria or fungal spores onto the leaves, and the diseases thrive in the chilly wet weather. I don't know. At least in my yard, the recommended sun baking of rhizomes doesn't seem to help.
Daniel great you have figured out how to get iris to bloom for you. All my iris are in raised beds soft mushroom compost well draining soil. Most of the iris I have are the same and very fragrant . The original iris were brought to the US by my great, great, grand parents from Ireland. My great Uncle had a beautiful iris farm in Denver Colorado for many years til his 90’s. They have been in the family for 5 generations. I hope my children will carry on the tradition. Oreti thank you. Spirea in spring are a flash in the pan. The shrub spirea start bloomin in June and last til fall. You have a lovely garden with many varieties of shrubs with interest thru all four seasons. Did you know there is a dahlia called Oreti Adel ? I know you are fond of dahlias…they have a huge dahlia farm not to far from me . After a visit to the farm festival years ago I have been totally hooked. They don’t do much til July until the ground temps warm up to 65-70 F. When they do bloom they always bring smiles.
On a small scale, here is a grocery store mini rose that I gave TLC in March. Washed off the old soil, gave it a new, general house-plant soil, pruned and fertilized. This is the second reblooming. After blooming, I cut the flowering stems back to a few good looking nodes so it stays short and bushy. I give it a liquid general houseplant fertilizer meant for daily use. The appearance is a lot different from when I bought it. Redder flower and red-toned leaves, not as short but still very compact. The flower is a deeper red than the photo, almost maroon. It's a lot of fun, seeing what happens to a plant that was meant to be a throw-away.
Yes @Pacnorwest thank you ......that's why I chose my user name. I adore Dahlias, I think I must take after my Grandad. Dahlia farm....a day trip to heaven!! I would love that!! Ours truly kick off about July too although we have had a few blooms already....can't wait! My ideal summer's day is walking round our garden with a ' Miss Marples' type basket deadheading the Dahlias..... I don't need much to make me happy.
Daniel such a lovely rose in such a small package and brighter than the big boys. You gave it a fresh new home and it will thank you all season with blessings of red gorgeous blooms.
