tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289727424895818862024-02-07T21:14:58.013-08:00Plant Inventory at 20 Timothy Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-47501369458282277702017-01-01T08:00:00.000-08:002017-04-09T16:05:09.637-07:00Select a plant name in the list to read about it<div>
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-55394745643422642612016-05-03T14:40:00.000-07:002017-05-20T14:34:16.841-07:00Stewartia / Stewartia henryaeStewartia henryae 'Skyrocket' planted in early spring 2016, at the edge of the gravel garden.<br />
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From Broken Arrow Nursery. Supposed to be very narrow and tall, providing shade from the low afternoon western sun just where needed across the gravel sitting area.<br />
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Despite a dry summer, it looked good, and had decent fall color.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-22506983629897814692016-04-12T13:12:00.001-07:002017-04-09T12:42:30.812-07:00Hedera helix / Adult IvyPlanted 2 'Arborea' adult ivies in spring 2016 flanking the metal trellis in front of the garage wall.<br />
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This is a fascinating plant. I got a pair of 2-gallon plants at Broken Arrow Nursery. They should form big rounded mounds of glossy green foliage along the front walk.<br />
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Adult ivy is exactly what it sounds like -- the mature version of regular old English ivy.<br />
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When ivy reaches the top of whatever it is climbing and has nowhere further to go, it matures. The adult ivy changes genetically. The leaves lose their lobed points and become rounded. The vine stops being a vine and the topmost part of the plant becomes shrubby and dense.<br />
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If you take a cutting from the shrubby mature part of the ivy, it will keep its altered genetic characteristics -- you get another mature shrub form of the plant.<br />
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But if you plant the seeds from the mature flowering ivy, you get an immature vine, and you are back to having rampant vining English ivy with its distinctive three-lobed leaves.<br />
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-78676453431823488152016-02-10T06:37:00.005-08:002017-04-09T12:44:43.785-07:00Cephalotaxus / Plum YewPlanted Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Korean Gold' in 2015 along the east wall of the house. It's from Forestfarm.<br />
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This plum yew will make a dense, upright evergreen form along the flat wall. It's perfect for tight spaces, and its bright color is eye catching. It forms an inverted pyramid, narrower at the base.<br />
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Here's an example of a larger, fuller one -- at maturity it will be 6 feet tall or more, but it's a real slow grower and will take some time to get there.<br />
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Louis the Plant Geek has some <b><a href="http://www.louistheplantgeek.com/a-gardening-journal/169-cephalotaxus-harringtonia-korean-gold-021414">great culture information here</a></b> on growing 'Korean Gold' plum yew.<br />
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-79797169101082594472016-01-15T16:01:00.003-08:002017-04-09T12:47:00.746-07:00Acer palmatum / Japanese maple 'Seiryu'Planted in summer 2015, from Lowe's.<br />
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'Seiryu' is the only green dissected upright Japanese maple (not a weeper). It is planted in front of the dry creek bed, near the bridge. Should become a small upright tree.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-15978335015130481452015-02-14T05:16:00.000-08:002017-04-09T12:48:50.788-07:00Ornithogalum / Star of Bethlehem<div style="text-align: left;">
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Star of Bethlehem<br />
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In 2014 I planted 50 Ornithogalum magnum bulbs to spread around all of the gardens for early summer white frilliness. They are from John Scheepers.<br />
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They can be invasive, but based on my experience with equally rampant spreaders like evening primrose, I am skeptical that these will get out of control.<br />
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They add a bright white vertical in the somewhat chaotic early summer garden. Kind of like white candelabras!<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-58656386329781251062015-02-09T18:16:00.002-08:002017-04-09T12:51:07.909-07:00Spigelia / Indian Pink<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Spigelia marilandica</span><br />
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Over the years I have tried to grow Indian pinks without success. I saw such a pretty stand at Garden in the Woods in Massachusetts, and big groups of them at Chanticleer.<br />
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A few were planted on 2015 at the front of the garden under the master bedroom window, but it's been hard to keep them going.<br />
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They need shade and moisture.<br />
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There is good <a href="http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/30527008/list/great-design-plant-spigelia-marilandica">profile of Spigelia marilandica here.</a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Ageratina altissima</span><br />
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This used to be called Chocolate Joe Pye Weed and was in the Eupatorium class, but it is now Ageratina, white snakeroot.<br />
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It has deep colored foliage and very pretty white flowers in September. The foliage is darkest early in the season and then turns greener in late summer.<br />
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When it is even slightly dry or in the heat of afternoon it wilts, but immediately perks up with some water.<br />
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It is supposed to be sturdy and compact, and the deep dark foliage color really stands out. It's nice upright shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">June 16, 2012 A nice foliage contrast</td></tr>
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In 2012 I don't remember the pretty white flowers late in the season. This plant may have been eaten or struggled in the hot dry summer; in any event, it was not visible in the garden after late June.<br />
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Once again, in 2013 this white snakeroot did nothing. Its dark foliage peeked up in spring, but then it just disappeared in summer, and there were no white flowers like I had seen in 2011.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">June 1, 2013. Barely there next to the blue flowering amsonia</td></tr>
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In 2014 I never saw 'Chocolate'.<br />
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Chicago Botanic Garden has <a href="https://www.chicagobotanic.org/downloads/planteval_notes/no37_joepyeweed.pdf">a great comparison here</a> of Joe Pye Weeds, including 'Chocolate', now classified as Ageratina. They state that the Ageratina altissima plants in general succumbed over several winters, but that 'Chocolate' was a great performer. They do mention the tendency to wilt in summer and that they did not do as well in hot dry locations.<br />
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Is my 'Chocolate' too dry competing with the maple roots?Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-53942994664751839112015-01-24T06:07:00.000-08:002017-04-09T16:01:21.570-07:00Betula lenta / Sweet BirchI have tried for years to get sweet birch to grow on the back hill in the area I am reforesting. I got several small container saplings from Forestfarm in 2007 but none of them made it.<br />
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I tried again in 2013 with three little saplings from Forestfarm. Two survived the first year, but in 2014 I had to move one from a shady location under the maples on the hill out into the sunnier meadow.</div>
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It is open and slender from being in too much shade. It seemed to like its new space better and got a little leafier by the end of summer.</div>
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The other one is at the base of the hill, near the sassafras saplings. It too is slender and twiggy so far.<br />
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Sweet birch has shiny bark with horizontal lenticels that make it look like a cherry tree. Sometimes this is called cherry birch.</div>
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The inner bark of twigs is supposed to taste of wintergreen. And birch beer is made from the sap of tapped sweet birches in spring.</div>
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2015: continuing to have trouble getting sweet birch to grow for me. The one twiggy sapling that is at the edge of the back hill is doing okay.<br />
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But the little twig in the meadow gave up.<br />
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I may never get to see a large, mature sweet birch.<br />
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<a href="http://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/black_birch_betula_lenta">Here's little more on sweet birch.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.floragloria.com/?p=5778">And here's a little more.</a><br />
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-87176150245055903712015-01-22T08:15:00.005-08:002016-01-29T13:56:51.817-08:00Illicium parviflorum / Anise Tree<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OD5l0DHom5s/VMEdvkBz8SI/AAAAAAAAkVo/GeIq7y3T19A/s1600/11872_20111130T034814_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OD5l0DHom5s/VMEdvkBz8SI/AAAAAAAAkVo/GeIq7y3T19A/s1600/11872_20111130T034814_0.jpg" width="265" /></a>I had such hopes -- but <span style="color: purple;"><b>this is an Ex-Plant now</b></span>. It did not survive winter in its container on the porch. Here's my brief experience:<br />
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I got a 'Florida Sunshine' anise plant from Wayside Gardens in 2014.<br />
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The foliage is supposed to smell like anise when crushed.<br />
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It is a bright chartreuse yellow leaved cultivar that remains evergreen, so it makes a lovely cheerful sight in the winter garden.<br />
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In full sun (with moisture) it will be yellower and fuller, and in shade looser and darker green.<br />
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Debs Garden has <a href="http://debsgarden.squarespace.com/journal/2014/2/28/anise-florida-sunshine-for-the-woodland-garden.html">a nice profile</a> of this plant.<br />
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The problem is that it is not hardy here. It is a southern plant, really zone 7, and the only way it works for me is in a pot.<br />
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So I have it in a container, and it is on the porch, protected. That doesn't fulfill its purpose to brighten the winter garden with lovely broadleaf evergreen foliage.<br />
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But I could not resist the allure of anise scent. "<i>Illicium</i>" means allurement in Latin -- really!<br />
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It wants moist shade. The best I can do is put the pot out in summer under the maple tree in Meadow's Edge, where in summertime it can brighten the dark recesses of that garden.<br />
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It can grow to 10 feet or more, it grows upright and conical with little pruning. It will form a suckering colony, but in a container that won't happen, and the size will be much less. But I am hoping I get a big, full, leafy plant.<br />
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This is not star anise (Illicium verum), so it's not culinary. And it is not the stinky-flowered anise shrub (Illicium floridanum), which smells awful when blooming.Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-19378774591858313112015-01-14T05:37:00.001-08:002015-01-14T05:40:00.513-08:00Rhus typhina / Staghorn SumacStaghorn sumac grows as a weed around here, and it was one of the first to move in where the earth had been disturbed on the back hill. At first I disliked it -- it looks so primitive with its compound frond-like leaves.<br />
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But I have grown to admire it as a pretty tree and an unusual look in the woods. It does spread about, and will form large stands unless I take out seedlings. I am starting to leave some of the new saplings along the edge of the meadow -- as they lean out at the edge of the lawn they are kind of nice.<br />
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They bloom in June. Later these cones of flowers turn dark red and hang on in winter.<br />
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They have beautiful fall color and are the first to turn red, showing off among the trees that are still green in September.<br />
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The trunks are slender and the trees lean gracefully. The leaves really are incredible. Check out the Oriental bittersweet vine growing on the trunks -- it's such a jungle on the back hill.<br />
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I don't have Rhus typhina in my garden, just the wild ones in the meadow and on the back hill. There are cultivars that are garden worthy, but I don't grow those.<br />
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At Wave Hill Garden in the Bronx they had an artfully pruned Staghorn sumac in the garden, and it really showed off the interesting look of the trunks as they age.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-50477050157619242002015-01-12T07:05:00.001-08:002017-04-09T13:44:08.806-07:00Abies Koreana / Korean Fir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Planted Korean fir 'Silberlocke' in summer 2014, then moved it to the end of the gravel garden in 2016, next to a fothergilla and among a stand of pink mums.<br />
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It is a slow growing dwarf, and likely to stay mounded.<br />
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It was from Kevin's nursery before he closed. He told me he had propagated this himself, and because the parent plant was a mounder rather than a taller specimen he says my plant is likely to have a lower profile and stay rounded.<br />
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All the pictures of mature ones show very pyramidal, structural trees.<br />
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Here is an example of what a 'Silberlocke' Korean fir will look like in maturity -- but if mine is more of a mounder as Kevin predicts, it won't be this shape or height at all.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-91823844068078794022015-01-09T14:17:00.003-08:002017-04-28T15:57:13.613-07:00Ostrya virginiana / Hophornbeam<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QRwoW47OOYc/VLBUXbX6h_I/AAAAAAAAj3Y/LKHh1lP8FK4/s1600/ostrya-virginiana-3157_0.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QRwoW47OOYc/VLBUXbX6h_I/AAAAAAAAj3Y/LKHh1lP8FK4/s1600/ostrya-virginiana-3157_0.png" width="200" /></a>I got a 5 gallon American hophornbeam from Forestfarm in 2013 and planted it in the meadow behind the berm.<br />
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I had seen a mature one in 2011 in flower at the reservoir in West Hartford, and the pale tan flowers look a lot like hops.<br />
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It's a big, leafy, green forest tree, with these pretty little hop-like flowers in late June.<br />
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It will one day fill the gap between the last two spruces on the left of the berm, offering some screening from the road in back, filling the visual space between the spruces there.<br />
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In 2014 I watered it a lot during the very dry summer, and it grew well. Here's a close up of the flowers (mine is still too young to flower):<br />
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My little hophornbeam is still a stick out in the meadow, but how it lights up at times!<br />
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In early August I found a beautiful spider web hanging from the hophornbeam's little branches.<br />
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** I may have lost it in 2016 -- it declined and I had to cut it back to the ground. We'll see if anything comes up in 2017. ** note: it didn't really appear in 2017. I think it's gone.<br />
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I moved it around a couple times to find the right spot, and it finally wound up between the sweetgum and ninebark at the center of the bed along the driveway.<br />
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The leaves start to color up in mid October.<br />
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By late November this plant is the only color left in the brown, bare garden, and what an intense, rich color! Such a deep wine red. Its big leaves had been blown about by the wind, but it was one of the last to lose its foliage.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-14106937502695881672014-05-17T16:04:00.001-07:002017-04-09T16:48:02.098-07:00Carpinus caroliniana / Blue Beech<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4M3j1dxkyytHIrMTLxM5-u2oXYc0Vd3k-vZdQP_SvTWORLzG0nqKEtqJVjBln6OjBMRbWPv479Dn_17_28JFi-62JX5g6SGNfuCOqEEO8IQKx1DGQBLgsUa0CDBsP7HFFNbv5yO8nA/s1600/DSC_0070.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4M3j1dxkyytHIrMTLxM5-u2oXYc0Vd3k-vZdQP_SvTWORLzG0nqKEtqJVjBln6OjBMRbWPv479Dn_17_28JFi-62JX5g6SGNfuCOqEEO8IQKx1DGQBLgsUa0CDBsP7HFFNbv5yO8nA/s400/DSC_0070.jpg" width="285" /></a>Planted behind the Birch garden, at the end of the strip of daylilies in spring 2013 from the Northwest Conservation District sale.<br />
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A pretty tree, with smooth gray bark that is sinewy and muscular looking. It's called American hornbeam. The wood is very hard.<br />
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This tree will stay small, up to about 20 feet tall, with a globular shape. Right now as a small sapling it is shaggy looking.<br />
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A surprise was the fall color, a clear, bright red. Needs no care.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-876975235269279642014-04-23T09:46:00.001-07:002017-07-15T05:34:27.441-07:00Pycnanthemum muticum / Mountain Mint<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Pycnanthemum muticum</span><br />
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I got these at the spring North Central Conservation District sale in 2014.<br />
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Planted this at the back of the driveway garden. There had been an empty spot behind the witch hazel, and I wanted something light to break up the density of the 'Summer Wine' deep purple ninebark nearby.<br />
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They immediately started filling in and forming a small upright stand of silvery foliage. These spread! They are bee magnets in bloom.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-27565592475693871852014-02-15T14:09:00.002-08:002017-07-01T19:38:43.400-07:00Alchemilla mollis / Lady's Mantle<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><b>Alchemilla</b></span><br />
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In spring 2013 I planted several Lady's mantle plants along the west walk. They will make a nice filler at the foot of the blackhaw viburnum. I added a few to the strip in front of the back garden too.<br />
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The effect is light and yellow and it brightens this dark part of the walkway.<br />
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-83029313016423255042014-02-13T11:34:00.000-08:002017-07-04T14:35:03.644-07:00Mukdenia rossii<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Mukdenia rossi</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">'Crimson Fans'</span><br />
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These pretty plants have no common name other than mukdenia. It used to be classed as Aceriphyllum.<br />
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I put in several in fall of 2011, right at the entrance to the gavel garden from the bluestone walkway, but they were tiny and barely visible as winter arrived.<br />
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Here is a picture of the beautiful wine-tipped leaves that I saw at Cornell Plantations. The plants formed good sized low mounds and the foliage spilled over itself. The leaves are broad and glossy.<br />
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I put in six little plants to edge the gravel garden, shaded by other plants. It wants shade and moisture and may not like hot humid summers.<br />
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In early spring (April) there are tiny white starry flowers, but I haven't see those yet.<br />
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I'm trying to establish a small row spilling over the edges of the gravel garden. These are either taking their time to establish, or they don't like where I have put them.<br />
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They certainly are slow to establish.<br />
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Some sources say this is a plant hardy only to zone 7, others say zone 4. That's a wide difference.<br />
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<a href="http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/1614327/list/great-design-plant-red-leafed-mukdenia"><b>This is a plant profile</b></a> on Garden Web that shows some nice photos of mukdenia, including using it in a container.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-39013917556254999182014-01-25T13:35:00.000-08:002017-05-17T02:39:42.319-07:00Spirea japonica / Spirea GoldflameThe builder planted three 'Goldflame' spireas in 2004 by the front door, but they got too large there and I took them all out in 2009. They have chartreuse foliage and hot pink blooms.<br />
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I threw the plants out in the compost on the back hill, where they sprouted. I then replanted a sprouted twig at the back of the rear garden in 2012, behind the maple.<br />
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In June it blooms beautifully, adding some color to the back of this garden. The light catches it in the morning and it glows pink.<br />
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Later, when this part of the garden becomes dark and shady, Goldflame's over-bright pink flowers and light colored foliage are tamed, and actually offer a pop of color in what is a dark part of this garden.<br />
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This spirea gets shaded and a little crowded at the back of the garden as summer goes on. It does get some fall color, but is hidden by other plants so I don't always notice it. In spring the new leaves emerge with a reddish tint.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-38486863930717177002014-01-24T06:17:00.001-08:002017-09-27T08:32:33.461-07:00Rosa Glauca / Redleaf RosePlanted in Spring 2012 from Broken Arrow Nursery. I moved to to the dry creek bed in 2013.<br />
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Here's an example from a garden tour we took in 2011 -- here's hoping mine will look as good:<br />
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It's very hard to photograph. At times the foliage is gray, in low light it is strongly blue, and in sunshine it is a rusty color. Very odd.<br />
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It flowered nicely in 2013, although the show is brief in early June, and each flower is very small.<br />
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It needs to be tucked in with other strong shapes and forms. In fall it gets very large orange hips.</div>
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It really is a gray plant. The small pink flowers bloom only very briefly.<br />
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Summer of 2014 was very dry and I had to water it a lot. The leaves yellowed, all fell off, branches died back and by fall I had cut down most of it.<br />
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I took out what remained of it in late fall. But the good news is that it had seeded itself around in 2013 before I moved it, and two little self seeded sprouts came up. Because of the blue foliage they were very easy to spot.<br />
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I had potted up those tiny seedlings and they grew really well. When I took out the struggling rosa glauca in fall 2014, I just planted one of the now leafy seedlings in the same spot. By 2016 it looked pretty good.<br />
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In 2016 I added a couple more seedlings to the end of the spruce berm to grow next to the sweetspires there.<br />
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-32369118141340292302014-01-17T10:54:00.000-08:002017-04-26T10:19:02.007-07:00Lonicera reticulata / Grape HoneysucklePlanted in 2013<br />
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This is 'Kintzley's Ghost', a really unusual honeysuckle vine that I first saw at the Denver Botanical Garden.<br />
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Flat white discs covered a small vine, and although they appeared green tinged in the shade of the pergola, in the light the round bracts looked like a eucalyptus, very powdery silver, and arranged stiffly up and down the trailing vine stems.<br />
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I came home and did some research on this grape honeysuckle, and found<b> <a href="http://www.gardensofthewildwildwest.com/index.php/2011/05/29/kintzleys-ghost-honeysuckle-a-honey-of-a-climber/">this great write up</a></b> by the Dirt Diva, Mary Ann Newcomer at <a href="http://www.gardensofthewildwildwest.com/"><b>Gardens of the Wild Wild West</b></a>.<br />
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I got it at a nursery in Ft. Collins, CO. Greg took me there when I was out visiting him in August, 2013, and I brought the little one gallon pot back on the airplane in my carryon bag.<br />
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It was planted in late August, and did not do anything for the rest of the season. Vines sleep the first year before creeping the second year and then leaping in year three.</div>
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In 2015 it came in beautifully and climbed the trellis exactly as I wanted it to.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5/24/15</td></tr>
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It bloomed at Memorial Day -- such funny bright yellow flowers surrounded by the round bracts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5/30/15</td></tr>
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By mid summer it was growing a little wilder, and later in August it was even more rampant. This will need some pruning control throughout the season.<br />
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The bracts did not turn ghostly silver-white as I had expected. They are pretty and unusual, but stayed a glaucous green. I'll be interested to see if the silver color develops in other seasons; it was clearly a feature of the vine I saw at Denver Botanical Garden.<br />
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-43938204861257277332014-01-17T10:33:00.001-08:002016-01-31T16:50:38.440-08:00Lonicera sempervirens / Trumpet HoneysuckleWell, this was a mistake!<br />
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I ordered and paid for a Lonicera retulata 'Kintzley's Ghost' from High Country Gardens. I planted it on the garage wall in the front garden in fall of 2012. In 2013 I watched it grow and this is what developed:<br />
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By mid summer it was evident that this was actually a trumpet honeysuckle. It's nice enough, and I like it, but not in this spot. So I dug it up, but didn't know where to put it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8/4/13</td></tr>
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It wound up in a white pot by the deck stairs, next to the cedar storage shed, hopefully to climb the railing and look something like this:<br />
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inspiration from this photo at <b style="color: #6666cc;"><a href="http://www.statelykitsch.com/" style="color: #6666cc; text-decoration: none;">Stately Kitsch</a></b></div>
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I don't know what cultivar my mis-marked honeysuckle is, I'm hoping it is 'Major Wheeler', which is a common red variety and looks a lot like the blooms on mine.<br />
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In 2014 this honeysuckle did not do much in its white pot by the deck stairs. It was there, and a vining tendril grew, but no flowers, and the vine remained about two feet long. Will it always sulk being in a pot? Wrong place for it?<br />
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In 2015 I gave it to Gail and she planted it at the side of their deck and pool structure. And so far so good, it is doing well.<br />
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<br />Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-57247069512313087842014-01-15T10:23:00.001-08:002014-12-28T09:44:03.414-08:00Chamaecyparis lawsoniana / European Cypress<b><span style="color: purple;">Now and Ex-Plant</span></b>. As of 2014 it got severely winter burned, and I never really did figure out what to do with it or where to plant it.<br />
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This came as a tiny little potted plant in a mixed arrangement from Lowe's years ago, maybe 2008. I'm not sure when I got this, or what it is. There was no tag.<br />
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I thought this was a kind of Rocky Mountain juniper, a blue variety like 'Wichita Blue', but the more I look at it, the more I think it is a false cypress, a European cypress called 'Ellwoodii', which is a common blue type sold in pots and Christmas arrangements.<br />
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For several years it stayed in the container with other plants, and did not grow. Then I took it out in 2012 and planted it by itself in a larger pot that I placed along the front walk. It started to bulk up a little.<br />
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In 2013 I moved it to the back of the Drive By Garden.<br />
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Right now it looks tiny and silly although it has grown quite a bit from its start in the crowded pot.<br />
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I moved it a couple times in this area, trying to find just the right location with the nearby ninebark and other plants that I was moving around. This poor little thing, confined to a pot for years and now moved several times in a season, has been abused.<br />
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I thought originally it was a juniper and let the soil get dry, but if it is the European cypress, it wants a lot of moisture. It can get to 20 feet, but 'Elwoodii' is a dwarf that will get to about 10 feet I think. It is strongly columnar shaped, but it is very slow growing. I like the idea of the gray-blue dense tall shape next to the wildly arching rusty brown ninebark, but I'm not sure this is what I want at the back of the Drive By garden. . . .<br />
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Well, I took it out in 2014. It got pretty sever winter burn during the harsh winter and looked pretty bad. It's gone now. Ex-Plant.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 18px;">'Orange Dream'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 18px;"> has odd green trunk bark. It gets scorch in hot summer weather, and really could use afternoon shade. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 18px;">I got this one as a 5 gal. at Bosco's and put it at the very back of the Birch Garden for some height. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 18px;">'Orange Dream's' best season is early spring when the leaves are a stunning copper. It changes to yellow-green, then has nice fall color, but early spring is the time I notice it most.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; line-height: 18px;">I'm at a loss on how to prune it. The branches have developed tight twiggy clusters at their ends that don't look right but I am not sure what to do with that.</span></span><br />
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In April when there is nothing else in the landscape, the soft orange leaves pop from a distance. </div>
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It becomes a background plant in summer as the leaves turn yellow-green. In fall, it turns a brighter yellow-gold and copper.</div>
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In 2014 it was still small and almost shrublike, but from afar it shines.<br />
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The foliage is so striking -- new leaves really are orange, then they morph to chartreuse. But the tree is in too much sun, and it has an odd habit of forming bunchy clumps of leaves at the end of branches. Then in summer the bunchy clusters brown and scorch.</div>
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It has bare twigs at the growing ends of branches. I think it is a result of the scorch problems -- this delicate tree is just in too much sun.</div>
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But it seems to be if not thriving, then at least surviving, where it is.</div>
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The tree is taking on an odder and odder shape . . . </div>
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. . . . and the deformed branching made this Japanese maple look heart shaped!</div>
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In 2016 I pruned the lower branches to open up the stems and it looked better. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6/8/16, bottom branches pruned up and the heart shape is less noticeable this year</td></tr>
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Laurriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657951570419825095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28972742489581886.post-17245919494897130402013-12-30T13:01:00.001-08:002017-04-09T13:50:44.660-07:00Acer palmatum / Japanese Maple 'Bloodgood'Planted a seedling from friends in 2015, in the corner where the low patio wall meets the higher wall.<br />
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It replaced the magnificent big one that had been there since 2008, but which had to be removed when it got a root disease and died. The new little sapling will fill the space the same way and shade the patio from the east eventually. 'Bloodgood' gets to be a big shady tree, large for a Japanese maple.<br />
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Leaves are brilliant crimson in spring and again in fall, but turn maroon in the heat of summer.<br /><br /></div>
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