{"id":4413,"date":"2018-05-27T04:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T04:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2018-05-27T04:35:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T04:35:58","slug":"the-best-the-garden-has-ever-looked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/the-best-the-garden-has-ever-looked\/","title":{"rendered":"The best the garden has ever looked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mona and Bodhi got their\u00a0summer trims.\u00a0 They are loving the outside time that comes with warmer weather.<\/p>\n

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I was happy to see that one of the seedling\u00a0Abutilon shrubs has white flowers.\u00a0 They are smaller than the lavender ones, but still great.<\/p>\n

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Another view.<\/p>\n

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More photos of the giant Coelogyne cristata blooming in the GH.\u00a0 I was ready to sell this plant because it had so few flowers, but look at it this year!<\/p>\n

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Another view.<\/p>\n

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This Rhipsalis is a fairly new acquisition.\u00a0 Leon grabbed some cuttings from a friend.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t expect it to really grow, and especially not to bloom, but the cuttings rooted quickly and are apparently very happy.\u00a0 The flowers are showier than I would have thought.<\/p>\n

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Another shot of the flowers from below.<\/p>\n

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The peas in the raised beds are soaring up Leon\u2019s trellis.\u00a0 They are nearing 5\u2032 high and just started blooming.<\/p>\n

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The flowers are almost as showy as sweet peas.<\/p>\n

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Blue-eyed grass \u201cDevon Skies\u201d blooming in the Armando garden.\u00a0 This little plant is a delight.<\/p>\n

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Here is the habit.<\/p>\n

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Centaurea blooming in the Doug fir bed.<\/p>\n

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Brunnera and Hesperis in the Doug fir bed.<\/p>\n

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All of the Hesperis started out as white, but the lavender ones are creeping in more and more.\u00a0 Luckily, they look great together!<\/p>\n

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This Rhody came with the house and has been disappointing in years past, but this year it is magnificent!<\/p>\n

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May is the best month for the foundation planting.<\/p>\n

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Lathyrus niger blooming near the driveway.\u00a0 This hardy perennial is close to 20 years old.\u00a0 It gets loads of amazing black seed pods.<\/p>\n

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The iris are blooming madly near the driveway\u2013more flowers than ever before.<\/p>\n

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Despite there once being ten different cultivars in the iris bed, the only one blooming this year is this old fashioned one.\u00a0 It smells good, too.<\/p>\n

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This poppy is 20+ years old.\u00a0 It is one of the Pizzicato series grown from seed when we first moved in.<\/p>\n

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Poppy with iris behind.<\/p>\n

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The real poppy show is being provided by Papaver bracteatum in the front bed near the raspberries.<\/p>\n

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This is a peek a boo shot through the berries from the orchard garden.<\/p>\n

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This Rhody belongs to the neighbors\u00a0but several flowering branches grace the edges of the orchard garden.<\/p>\n

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Polemonium blooming in the orchard garden.\u00a0 Despite a short season, these cheerful flowers are<\/p>\n

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This Abutilon in the orchard garden is full of flowers.\u00a0 Sadly, it is leaning over so much, it is tough to see.\u00a0 I will prune and stake these plants next spring to avoid this problem.<\/p>\n

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One of the David Austen roses in the orchard garden.\u00a0 This is Olivia.<\/p>\n

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I am extremely pleased with this seedling Iris sibirica.\u00a0 I planted the seeds for this beauty four years ago and this is the first time it has bloomed.<\/p>\n

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Another view.\u00a0 I really love the color and the markings.<\/p>\n

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This photo gives an idea of the plant\u2019s habit.\u00a0 It bloomed pretty well for about two weeks.<\/p>\n

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We have two of these Rhody shrubs that are outsized foundation plants.\u00a0 The flowers are an interesting purply pink and they provide a nice frame to the living room window.<\/p>\n

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Clematis montana bloomed bright on the back patio fence and spread a sweet smell.<\/p>\n

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Another view\u2026<\/p>\n

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You can get an idea how mnay flowers tehre were here\u2013loads of them.<\/p>\n

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The flowers just photograph really well, so I can\u2019t help myself!<\/p>\n

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This is a Tillandsia in the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

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Coelogyne cristata in the greenhouse\u2013this is a massive orchid that bloomed really well this year.<\/p>\n

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A closer view of the Coelogyne flowers.\u00a0 I was trying really hard not to get water on the flowers to keep them pristine.\u00a0 In past years, they came down with brown spots that ruined them.\u00a0 They have lasted 10 days or more this year and are spot-free!\u00a0 But the plant itself and nearby plants were suffering without water, so I\u2019ve started sprinkling all the plants carefully around the orchid.<\/p>\n

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Closer view of the flowers.\u00a0 They are usually fragrant, but I can\u2019t smell them this year\u2013maybe at night?<\/p>\n

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One of the dozens of iris blooms in the driveway bed.<\/p>\n

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My favorite poppy that I\u2019ve ever grown, this is Papaver bracteatum, growing on the street side of the raspberries in the orchard bed.\u00a0 Started from seed over 20 years ago, there are several of these that have persisted all this time.\u00a0 The show they put on this year was the best ever.<\/p>\n

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Another poppy pic.\u00a0 Interestingly, a neighbor came by who didn\u2019t speak English that well.\u00a0 She appeared to be from India.\u00a0 She said that they had poppies like this growing up and they would pluck the<\/p>\n

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Another view\u2026<\/p>\n

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The petals of these flowers are natrually very satiny, which makes photography a bit of a challenge.<\/p>\n

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More poppies.<\/p>\n

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Abutilon flowers in the sun.\u00a0 I went a little photo crazy with these because I started them from seed and this is the first year they are living up to their potential.<\/p>\n

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I appear to have walked past the Siberian iris again and couldn\u2019t resist a few more pics.<\/p>\n

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Mona and Bodhi got their\u00a0summer trims.\u00a0 They are loving the outside time that comes with warmer weather. I was happy to see that one of the seedling\u00a0Abutilon shrubs has white flowers.\u00a0 They are smaller than the lavender ones, but still great. Another view. More photos of the giant Coelogyne cristata blooming in the GH.\u00a0 I … Continue reading The best the garden has ever looked!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}