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More Wintersowing blooms and stuff...
Category: Wintersowing and Wintersowing Blooms | Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:59 pm Poppies are out, I have a few more varieties to go.. I have like a hundred of Laurens Grap Poppies ready to burst soon as well. Kiss me over the garden gate, makes a great foiliage plant, even before it blooms its long rope like flowers... 
Below is some sort of corn poppy or shirly popply, I dont know which... It has bloomed in a greyish lavender, dark purple, and a red so far... I actually thought it was double peonies when I planted them! Oh well, sometimes when you trade seeds you get that sort of mix up. 
California Poppies with friend 
Nice Mellow orange on these... 
Spearmint, alot of poeple dont like mints, probable becuase they force them into gardens that are too small for it, I have pepermint as well, I think the combo of them together with lemon balm makes a GREAT tea! The little tag I got at a store in Limington Maine called the country collection... BTW if you want to grow mints or evening primrose or mondara, I always suggest grow them where you could care less about them, put them in crappy soil with part shade and dont overwater them. Here in the north they will spread, but it should limit it somewhat. Pluck them down in your richest amended soil next to roses you have to water every week, DUH! of course they gonna spread! 
Roccoco Pansy! Im sooo happy about these, I count like 10 flowers ready to pop out there, After 3 years of trying to wintsow pansies, these came in great! 
Geranium bohemicum Orchid Blue... I got two different packs of these... both of them germinated, whats funny is one plant looks so far ahead of the other, but the little one put a few blooms up! Dont ask me, go ask your mother... (Dr Suess refrence there) 
Last but not least is some camelot rose foxglove, have a pinker one coming as well. I also wintersowed Candy Mountain and Excelsior foxgloves this year... 
Hopefully will have some more stuff to share later.... this rain and cool weather has delayed things for a couple of weeks... Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 228 times
Pickerings Orpheline De Juliette and others...
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:26 pm Its raining.. When hasnt it! We had a very dry May here.. but are now over for the year with all this moisture the last two weeks. There is a ongoing debate as to what the rose below is.. I really do not know! The one pickering is selling at the moment, isnt nearly as dark as what others are selling. Its a medium pink gallica of some sort.. With a very nice scent I would put scent at 3 1/2 out of 5. Its hardy to the tips here with zero dieback in my zone 5b garden. For now Ill continue to call it Pickerings version until someone comes up with a better id for it... BTW all this rain plays havoc on my Macro feature for anything beside light pink or darker roses, those with a fushia / mauve base , the rain seems to set off a sort of glow.. I will try to correct in photoshop, but I cant gaurantee any success. 
Below Quadra, second year for me, it will take a couple more to get very big to make a good arbor shot.. It overwintered ok in big pots for my move, with some tip damage. Ive heard this isnt a great rose for colder regions than mine, that Henry Kelsey makes a better one. I do not find any scent on this rose most days, but for a cold hardy red climber, its either Quadra or Ramblin' Red... I liked the form of Quadra better so its what I got. It has some nasty thorns however. 
Below Quadra was my first bloom of any rose this year... This was like 2 weeks ago. 
Austins Crocus Rose! I cant say enough about this rose, but I will later, it will start to open soon. A pale creamy yellow, very hardy for zone 5! with just tip damage this year. I will not say all austins are hardy, but a few are, here is one of them! Light Tea Scent , but I get it early in the day, fades with the colour later. I will post more later! Just a very pretty bud though! 
My Albas are very close to opening, so hopefully have some more roses to weigh in on in a week or so. I lost 5-6 roses in the move and left 20 - 30 roses behind as per agreement to the sellers last year. So kind of starting over in a lot of aspects. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 202 times
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'Mme Sancy de Parabere and Rose de Rescht'
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:02 pm Ive tried labeling the rose pictures, so will see how they come out.. Mme Sancy de Parabere is a boursault rambler with delicate beauty and a moderate rose fragrance, sweet but light. Im trying it out for a couple of years in hopes that it gets fairly large for me, I know it wont be huge here in my zone, I had to prune off about 6 - 8 inches of the skinniest canes, but it still left 4-5 feet overwintered, so will give it one more year.. I hope it works. 
Rose de Rescht overwintered well for my move in a pot, but the actual rose flowers are the smallest Ive ever seen them, they arent huge to start with. Lovely damask tones on this one, during the cool part of the year and its first flush, very dependable, I find it to lose some of this nice damask in the hottest part of the summer on its second scattered flush. Fairly hardy in zone five with usual tip damage. 
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More work done in May...
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:50 pm Its raining (has it ever stopped =), and my camera is being borrowed, so will post some more work pictures from May time frame... Im creating 4-5 seperate garden areas, I would approximate the total size of my gardens will be around 2500 - 3000 sq feet or so.. I guess enough space for me to play around in.. IT always seems to go fast though. I keep finding more trees to cut down =). But quite honestly, the 100 or so tree's Ive removed so far is a mere pittance as to what is on the property! Anyways, this is the more the front of the house beds I have created so far... Start of Wall with some yews and winter gem boxwoods planted, I started this last fall... 
Extened wall filled in with triump carnations, daylily seedlings (I stared like 500 daylily seedlings this year!) It also now has Annuals started from either wintersowing or inside starts, Yvonnes Salvia, Yellow Hibiscus, Morning Glories to trail up the stair area and some orange Cosmos and a Nikko Blue Hydrangea shrub, I got for about 5 bucks at end of season sale, it has a suprising # of buds on it! I will probable have to cover to get any every year, will see If I bother with that ! 
Start of front and extended, I started the front last fall and finished this spring, even though it doesnt look like I mulched the whole thing, I finally have, just no new pics of the general area yet! 
extened and picking shrubs etc out.. I have some two year old daylily seedlings in there, blanket flower, dianthus siberian blues , lavender, pink pocket wiegla , korean azealas, Hansa Rose. There is now some winter sown annuals as well, picotee cosmos, calendula, dwarf garden phlox. 
Hopefully will get my camera back tommorow, have a few things out there in bloom! My dwarf azealas actually blooms quite pretty, but for some ODD reason, I never took photos of them! My wiegla didnt fare well in pot over winter, so hoping a year in the ground will make it hardier! Youve already seen a pick of Hansa... Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 196 times
David Austins Mary Rose
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:41 am First Bloom on Mary Rose, like alot of the country its been wet here this week! Im not complaining at all! I have alot of immature plants, this is great for them. I find Austins Mary Rose to be Tip Hardy here in my zone, with very little dieback. Its scent is variable but will have hints of myrhh when its available. Some poeple cant smell anything on this rose. 
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Cottage Mix Viola/Blue Woodruff
Category: Wintersowing and Wintersowing Blooms | Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:07 am Ever heard of Blue Woodruff before? Well you had one on me! This is my first time growing, wintersowed this last year, Its a very pretty foilage and color and form, its small, but neat. Ive bumped up my picture size as well, They looked to small before! 
Speaking of small, I have a dwarf cottage viola mix as well.. Its like 4 inches high max! 
With my new garden , I have a hunderd or so new wintersown plants intermixed, not everything will bloom this year however. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 564 times
Hansa Rose
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:25 pm Well , Roses are my first love of the garden... Hansa is a little scraggly , but the fragrance is to die for! Seriously! If you are in the north and want to try one rugosa based on fragrance... I would suggest this one. There are other hybrid rogosa with prettier faces and habits... BUT my word! A complex mix of Clove and Rose. I love it! 
Ill get a list of some of the plants at some point =). Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 479 times
Work in late April and May creating mixed border
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:36 pm As this is a new blog , so a little background info first. We had moved in November of last year from western Maine to Southern Maine about a 35 mile move. We had a ranch with about a acre worth of land, which was mostly cleared. The new home is a much nicer colonial, with more land, but smack dab in the middle of the woods. To create garden space, Ive had to create it out of the woods, which has been alot of back breaking work. Some pics. Front house... 
Front yard, where first mixed border garden is going into... 
Me working on front bed border... 
Well you get wood, when you cut wood.. Alot of this was burnable wood, which I passed on to friends, I dont have a wood burner here... 
Front view of new bed... 
Mulched and planted.. 
Side view... 
When creating new garden beds in the middle of the woods, you need amendments, I got two truckloads of composted horse manure and shavings... about 10 yards of loam and some compost. 
This was phase I... I have 3 or 4 phases of making mixed borders. More to come! Thanks for looking Silverkelt Last edited: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:16 pm This blog entry has been viewed 260 times
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