The Garden of Bogturtle

  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...

  Growing on the Red Cedar Tree that is where we park, Lonicera 'Mandarin' looks better and better each year. Geranium sanguinium 'Alba' is shown again below.  I found out this Streptocarpus is named, for some strange reason, 'Siberia'. But the flowers do look just like the dark violet velvet. Here for many years, with no real increase, the unusual blue-green clone of the Southern native, Zenobia pulverulenta, is showing its little urn shaped flowers. Showing they are part of the Heath family. Oenothera tetragona, I think. And Evening Primrose that shows 4 parts in the middle of the flower. You are likely to always have this fine plant, if you plant it. I have to thin it, to control it.  Geranium sanguineum 'Alba', shown again. Looking wonderful. Red Knockout Roses were cut to about a foot from the ground, and are coming back wonderfully.  Not problem free, apparently, the one to the far end is beset with thrips, that hide under the leaves and eat, leavi...