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<\/a><\/p>\nThe clematis on my Jeff Tangen arbor is blooming beautifully. \u00a0This photo was with a flash.<\/p>\n
We had quite a bit of rain the last few days, and you can see raindrops on these clematis flowers.<\/p>\n More raindrops on clematis.<\/p>\n Here is the arboretum rose, blooming up a storm. \u00a0The fragrance was a little subdued today because of the cold\/rain, but I could still smell it enough to make me smile.<\/p>\n The clematis and the rose are covering the Tangen arbor. \u00a0This rose opens a light apricot yellow and fades to creamy white.<\/p>\n \u00a0 I don\u2019t recall Europeana having this many flowers at once before. \u00a0The new growth and flowers have kept ahead of the ugly black spot that you can see just starting on the leaves.<\/p>\n Such a bright spot in the garden, this rose has won me over this year (after 20 years of allowing it to exist in the garden!)<\/p>\n Here is Malva \u201cMystic Merlin,\u201d a volunteer near the house in a gravel bed. \u00a0I cut it back because it had pretty bad rust, but it came back and bloomed with these showy flowers.<\/p>\n The blooms are so exotic, they look almost like Salpiglossis, so rich and velvety.<\/p>\n The David Austin rose\u2013Lady of Shalott. \u00a0I already love this new addition, although the rain has kept the big flowers from looking their best.<\/p>\n Another view. \u00a0All of the Austin roses are blooming, which is great. \u00a0They are a bit floppy\u2013I need to tie them up tomorrow.<\/p>\n Another sumptuous Austin rose.<\/p>\n A different bud from the same shrub. \u00a0The flowers have a nice orangey tint before they turn soft pink.<\/p>\n I suspect this will be Olivia Austin, once it gets to open. \u00a0Hopefully, the weather will allow it to bloom all the way.<\/p>\n Goumis looking like little jewels in the orchard bed. \u00a0I have eaten bowls of these already this year and there are lots more left to pick.<\/p>\n Goumis at various stages of ripeness. \u00a0I can understand why these haven\u2019t caught on commercially. \u00a0They do not keep well (maybe a day or two after picking), they have large pits, and there is probably no way to commercially harvest them except by hand. \u00a0They also come off with stems and the old dry flowers clinging to them. \u00a0But I love them. \u00a0They are easy to grow, flavorful and nutritious.<\/p>\n Just love these berries!<\/p>\n Here are the aronia berries, still green, but plumping\u2026I can\u2019t wait to plop some of these soon-to-be-ripe berries into smoothies.<\/p>\n Tayberries ripening in the orchard garden. \u00a0I\u2019ve plucked over a hundred of these berries already and there still are more coming! \u00a0They are delicious! \u00a0They turn a matte mauve color when ripe, the same color as their parent, the red raspberry.<\/p>\n A near-ripe Tayberry.<\/p>\n Berries are a passion for me. \u00a0I love to eat them and I think the plants are great and the flowers lovely.<\/p>\n Here is a tayberry in front of the mass of blackberries (Apache, I think).<\/p>\n Here are some berries on my \u201cWild Treasure\u201d blackberry. \u00a0I\u2019ve picked a few ripe-ish ones already, but should have waited another day or two for them to get sweet! \u00a0It is so tough to wait!!!<\/p>\n One of the cottage garden verbascums that I grew from seed last year. \u00a0The flowers are HUGE for a mullein\u2013two inches across or more. \u00a0The color is pure. \u00a0I\u2019m pretty happy with these\u2013there are about three of this type, along with a standard taller one and others that haven\u2019t opened yet.<\/p>\n One of the butterfly bushes has a couple of flowers on it. \u00a0I pruned the heck out of these in the spring, and they are coming back with a little more restraint.\u00a0 A volunteer white foxglove among the raspberries.<\/p>\n The standard Digitalis purpurea. \u00a0Another volunteer, and an old friend.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know which salvia this is. \u00a0It was given to me years ago by a gardening friend and it has insinuated itself throughout the garden. \u00a0It has a nice combination of showy, big leaves and pretty blue flowers. \u00a0Weedy, yes, but worth some space, nonetheless.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Blurry pic trying to capture the flower detail. \u00a0I\u2019ll have to try for a better picture tomorrow.<\/p>\n This daylily is a bit sad at the end of the driveway. \u00a0It has been run over multiple times, but it keeps on keeping on. \u00a0This year, it is floppy, but the flowers are still graceful and bright.<\/p>\n Acanthus spinosus blooming in the Doug fir bed.<\/p>\n These flowers are pretty amazing\u2026great color and shape.<\/p>\n Cheddar pinks next to a mint. \u00a0These provide a excellent cheer on the wall of the Doug fir bed. \u00a0I\u2019m pretty happy that I have color in the garden from February through June, at least. \u00a0We\u2019ll see how July looks!<\/p>\n The spicy clove scent of these flowers brings back childhood memories\u2013we had a neighbor woman who grew similar dianthus.<\/p>\n One of the cymbidiums along the Doug fir bed wall is still blooming.<\/p>\n And this one, too.<\/p>\n Oddly, the big story in the veggie bed is the volunteers that have come up there. \u00a0Here is a poppy that popped up.<\/p>\n This gorgeous clary sage came up in the veggie bed, too. \u00a0I had grown these several years ago, but rooted them out before they set seeds, since they are considered invasive. \u00a0I\u2019m not sure how this one survived and came up nowhere near where the others had been growing! \u00a0I really love this plant, though, and it was one that Christopher Lloyd \u00a0used to great effect, as well.<\/p>\n Here is Royal Bonica blooming mixed with the echinops in front of the greenhouse. \u00a0This rose is super happy there, having been moved after 20 years where the Asian pear espalier is now in the orchard garden. \u00a0It has several big sprays of blooms this year. \u00a0I like it, but it doesn\u2019t have any fragrance to speak of.<\/p>\n Another cheerful spray.<\/p>\n The Echinops ritro that I grew from seed years ago is budding up. \u00a0This perennial has the presence of a shrub in the garden\u2013it approaches five feet tall and is probably four feet around.<\/p>\n I always pull up matricaria volunteers and move them to places in the garden. \u00a0Here are a couple of them blooming nicely in front of the greenhouse.<\/p>\n I was disappointed with these Myosotis last year when I grew them from seed, but now they have popped up in pots all over the seedling nursery shelves outside the greenhouse, and somehow they seem cuter now. \u00a0I had expected larger plants\/flowers last year, but had no expectations this year, so I can appreciate them for what they are\u2013tiny, dainty wildflowers.<\/p>\n \n<\/p> <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found some time today to do a few chores in the garden. \u00a0The main big job was to prune the rambling rose and the forsythia which are on either side of the driveway. \u00a0The rose gets an annual pruning\u2013back to about 4 feet. \u00a0There really is never a good time for pruning this shrub, … Continue reading Thunderstorms and Pruning<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Crocosmia \u201cLucifer\u201d is budding up. \u00a0I need to tie these up, too.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n