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Re: Flowers in bloom now
Joe Pye Weed is nice, but my summer favorite is definitely the deep royal purple Ironweed, which should start blooming in the next couple of weeks around here.
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Is that variety called 'Big Nate' ? My local paper said to cut all JPW back by 1/3rd the second week in June, and another 3rd at the end of June. Is this what you do to yours also? This is my first year planting JPW, and would like to do the right thing for it next year.applestar wrote:Nice! I'm thinking of getting the blue and white MayPop pair from Logee's -- at least they are on my wishlist ....
Joe Pye Weed is in full bloom now:
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As far as I know, my JPW is just the species since I bought it at a wildflower preserve native plant sale. I don't do anything and as you can see they do flop over and need to be supported. Pruning like you describe should make them more bushy and perhaps better postured.
I usually just let the flowers die down then dead head, and they will bloom from secondary shoots.
I have a picture somewhere of something like 8-9 tiger swallowtails and 3 monarch butterflies all visiting the flowers in full bloom at the same time.
I usually just let the flowers die down then dead head, and they will bloom from secondary shoots.
I have a picture somewhere of something like 8-9 tiger swallowtails and 3 monarch butterflies all visiting the flowers in full bloom at the same time.
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Cypress Vine, another hummingbird favorite
Though related, these are not as aggressive as bindweed or morning glories and I let them self seed and put up this iron tripod trellis for them to cover.
This year, they are also creeping along this front bed on top of where I am letting some wild strawberries take over but these filigreed leaves are not substantial enough to smother the strawberries.
Though related, these are not as aggressive as bindweed or morning glories and I let them self seed and put up this iron tripod trellis for them to cover.
This year, they are also creeping along this front bed on top of where I am letting some wild strawberries take over but these filigreed leaves are not substantial enough to smother the strawberries.
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Yeah, it sure is. It is a really old bush that looks more like a tree than a bush. I propogate it. I only give the 'babies' to people who I know will love them and take good care of them. I'm sure it's a heirloom lilac. I tried to figure out the name but was unsuccessful. So I just call it my dark purple heirloom lilac.
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Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. Since I started this spring with absolutely a blank slate, there is still not very much...
Annuals: salvias, petunias, marigolds, nasturtium just opening, zinnias just opening, chamomile
Perennials: spiderwort has been blooming and blooming for six weeks already!, lavender, coreopsis, viburnum, veronica speedwell, bee balm has buds, will bloom pretty soon.
I harvested the chamomile for the third time today, picked about 250 little flowers off it.
Annuals: salvias, petunias, marigolds, nasturtium just opening, zinnias just opening, chamomile
Perennials: spiderwort has been blooming and blooming for six weeks already!, lavender, coreopsis, viburnum, veronica speedwell, bee balm has buds, will bloom pretty soon.
I harvested the chamomile for the third time today, picked about 250 little flowers off it.
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I have to say I'm a bit disappointed in my viburnum. I don't know what V. species I had in Cincinnati,* but when it bloomed it would perfume the whole yard. What I have now is V. nudum var. Winterthur. Nudum is native to the eastern and southeastern US; I got it from a local native plant nursery. But the flowers are only very lightly fragrant, only when you get close to them and the fragrance is not as sweet. The flowers aren't as pretty either, being flat topped umbrels of tiny florets.
V. nudum
*[It may have been a V. burkwoodii var. Mohawk that I got from the Wayside Garden catalog before I was as committed to native plantings]
V. nudum
*[It may have been a V. burkwoodii var. Mohawk that I got from the Wayside Garden catalog before I was as committed to native plantings]
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Whirled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata
Amsonia tabernaemontana blue star
Erigeron (fleabane?) -- I'm actually allergic to these, but DH must have thought they were pretty -- you can see he mowed all around it and left it standing in the grass near the shed He will also almost always leave flowers in the lawn unmowed, especially if there are bees working them.
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I have Sisynchium (Blue-eyed grass) that I discovered I had when I let all the lawn grasses grow out and bloom to find out what kinds of grass we had, and to see -when allowed to grow naturally- just how tall these lawn grasses grow.
When I find one growing (easily recognizable by the flat fan-like growth) it gets a free pass, so here's one forming a rather unsettlingly large clump in the Spiral Garden.
They are often described as preferring/able to grow in poor, wet soils. I'm guessing mine are S. atlanticum.
Note that they actually belong to Iris family.
The other possibility, I suppose, is that they are
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
When I find one growing (easily recognizable by the flat fan-like growth) it gets a free pass, so here's one forming a rather unsettlingly large clump in the Spiral Garden.
They are often described as preferring/able to grow in poor, wet soils. I'm guessing mine are S. atlanticum.
Note that they actually belong to Iris family.
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result ... plant=SIATSisyrinchium atlanticum (Eastern blue-eyed grass) | NPIN
Eastern blue-eyed grass
Iridaceae (Iris Family)
Synonym(s): Sisyrinchium apiculatum, Sisyrinchium mucronatum var. atlanticum
USDA Symbol: SIAT
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
A grass-like, clumped perennial, to 20 in. high, with pale-green foliage and flattened flowering stems terminating in loose clusters of pale-blue, six-petaled, yellow-centered flowers.
The other possibility, I suppose, is that they are
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
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Whorled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata
Amsonia tabernaemontana blue star
Erigeron (fleabane?) -- I'm actually allergic to these, but DH must have thought they were pretty -- you can see he mowed all around it and left it standing in the grass near the shed He will also almost always leave flowers in the lawn unmowed, especially if there are bees working them.
I thought I'd lost this plant. It hadn't shown up for the last couple of years -- well almost ...LAST year, I saw the round leaves and thought "wait a minute, could this possibly be...?" But it didn't bloom last year. NOW the three plants I planted together for this color effect are in synch.
...it's kind of funny -- in this photo, the yucca flower stalks are not up yet, right? I can't see them. But just today, looking out of the window, I saw that they are up and already about 3 feet tall -- I've no idea when they showed up.
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zinnias are blooming, bee balm and anise hyssop just starting. And I came back from being out of town between Thurs am and Sun night to find this;
it is a volunteer from the bird seed. There are more like it (one of them almost twice the size!) that will be blooming soon.
oh and the new england aster has started to boom, even though it seems very early for it. I'll get a picture some time.
it is a volunteer from the bird seed. There are more like it (one of them almost twice the size!) that will be blooming soon.
oh and the new england aster has started to boom, even though it seems very early for it. I'll get a picture some time.