The Garden of Bogturtle

 The Trumpet Vine hybrid, probably Bignonia radicans, but the clone called 'Jersey Peach' is blooming beautifully on one end post of the fence around the pool deck. I had tried to eradicate it by drilling holes in the cut stump and pouring weed killer, as the plant was producing seed and spreading from underground runners. But it survived, and continues with its wonderful blooms, along with a thorny climbing red Rose called 'Winners Circle' some Virginia Creeper that came uninvited and the beautiful Honeysuckle called Lonicera Tellmanniana(if that's the correct spelling).  I have learned, the hard way, to introduce any vine with the most extreme caution, as a good many are pests. Speaking of vines, this is the rare white flowered clone of the Southern native species of Passionflower. Passaflora incarnata 'Constance Elliot' is my guess. It never seems to stay in place, from year to year. Sending up sprouts several feet from where planted, with the original go...

Crowded in among the well developed shrubs in the drive circle, near where we park the vehicles, the deciduous Azalea known as 'Weston's Lemon Drop' has been blooming.  No doubt to be shown again, as this photo is not so good. Buddlea weyeriana 'Honeycomb' is starting. Killed to the ground by our past, eratic and sometimes very cold Winter, it came back, was set back by Deer browsing, but is rather too tall for them now. And I have Crocosmia 'Lucifer' blooms in several places on the property. Slowly increasing, while I have, dependably, lost a multitude of plants that never caught on. And the deer don't seem interested at all.  Magnolia grandiflora 'Bracken's Brown Beauty' has these bowl shaped flowers. One Winter heavy snow broke out the top, so the plant is no longer a neat pyramid shape. But it carries on. The name refers to the heavy brown indumentum on the bottom surface of the leaves. Supposedly one of the hardier of the sorts available...

  Discovered the change made to blogger that makes sizing the photos simpler. Finally!  The groundhog, that had gotten in the fenced area and decimated a row of beans, a row of carrots, was discovered by me and ran between the fenced area and a pile of branches needing chipping up, right into the trap. It seemed a dark and safe area. This is the photo of the trap that worked, sorta. So it was captured. But I can see the wire did not completely engage. Wish I had noticed. When I picked up the trap, the animal's weight opened that near end and it ran off. So it is still a menace  Here is the low growing Azalea, again. Maybe called 'Orange Creeper', but who would name a plant so strangely? In many places, the wonderful native called Stokesia laevis is coming into bloom. A fine, tough evergreen, that seems quite deer resistant. I am on the outlook for the less common white clone or straw yellow one. They are here, as far as I know.  This photo, and the one below, are rev...

  The rather unimpressive blooms of the beautiful Hydrangea Vine, Shizophragmy hydragenoides 'Moonlight', I think.  Out by the mailboxes, my neighbor planted these beautiful Flander's Field sort of Poppy. I think they are Papaver rheos. I may collect the seed and strew that near the bird feeder, as that area, presently, has almost nothing but weeds, attractive and otherwise.  Hypericum kalmianum, I think. A fine, tall ground cover, and evergreen in my zone 7a. On one side of the front walk, just before the line of Azaleas begins. This is the Hydrangea vine, but the sort called 'Moonlight'. The mature leaves have a peculiar sheen to them.  IIn the pot holding the dwarf Japanese Maple 'fjelheim' is a small clump of the most amazingly tiny perennial. Originally from Japan. Lysmachia minutissima, I think. A larger clump is thriving at the edge of the little pool.  Out by the mailboxes, a pair of Wild Turkeys were strolling. I see the beard on the male Not especi...