The Garden of Bogturtle

Seemed to stress out the program, so I have to change the date and start a new group.  Really never noticed before, but the dwarf, red-barked Japanese Maple 'Fjelheim' is just about the color, now, it will turn in Fall.  Really difficult managing blogger. This Rhododendron, called  'Purple Passion' is actually a little deeper than the picture shows.  Not much to look at, but one of the first perennials I planted here. So dependable. And evergreen Geum called Geum borisi, or sometimes 'King Boris'. The Southern evergreen called a Leucothoe. A common name might be 'Dog Hobble' and any southern hunting hound would find it impossble to get through a thicket of it. Creamy white, urn shaped flowers show it is a member of the Heath family. After bloom, I will cut it to within 6 inches from the ground. I expect it to return as beautifully as it did, when I did that about 5 years ago. A heavy, wet snow, that broke so many trees, here, has it quite distorted now. ...

  Plans gone awry, and I will just go with this. I planted, years ago, along the front walk, bulbs of the Spring ephemeral Scilla hispanica, which is similar to the English Blue Bells of their woodlands. That, I think, is S. nonscripta. I planted the three common colors offered. A white, a violet blue and a kind of orchid pink blooming. Now I see only the bluish and pinkisn sort seeded and blooming among the stepping stones of the path. More and more, and while I will weed the path, I will leave these to bloom. Few are still along the left of the path. A group of blue are spreading to the right.  And here, along the front walk, are shown the two different kinds offered to me as Azalea 'Tradition'. A rather doubled. I think the lighter is the more genuine variety.  One corner of the main perennial garden, which we face, when we park, is being dominated by Epimedium colchicum. A few yellow flowers, but a solid covering of really attractive foliage.  Terribly out of foc...

  Just outside the kitchen, where the faucet for the garden hose is, a native, planted years ago, is spreading. Chrysogonum virginianum. A common name is 'Green and Gold'. Just about evergreen, here.  Really a flood of blooming coming on. Hardly able to keep track of it. I planted a form of perennial Forget Me Not in a planter by the little pool. I think they have started, but, last year, they shed seed onto the ground outside, and those hav grown an bloomed much earlier. And a few bloom white, which is fine with me. Myosotis silvatica, I think. But it does not seem a biennial at all. It returns, as far as I can tell, perennially. And at least a hundred species have been named. Kerria japonica 'Plena', with its doubled marigold like flowers is coming into bloom. A colonizing plant, spreading now into areas where it is not welcome. 'Dependable' might be the word. And around the exit drive, a growing clump of cream colored ones bloom. Not snow white. K. J. 'Al...