The Garden of Bogturtle

Taken about 8/15 so I need to work on the date on the trail camera. Curious what caused this Deer to run. I may have been coming out the door, and the camera is a ways down the drive from the house.   Our native Passionfruit but not to NJ, to my knowledge, and the rarer white flowered clone. Passiflora incarnata 'Joan Elliot', I think. Definitely an invasive, as it pops up all Summer in places far from where it was originally planted. I just pull almost all up, while the plant simply endures and sends up more. Several are allowed to climb the wire fence around the vegetable plot, to the West or South, where I know they will give no shade to the vegetables. By the time the Sun gets there, trees are already giving real shade. The fruit is rather tasteless and completely seeds, with little pulp. So the unusual flowers are its only redeeming feature.  Stokesia laevis 'Divinity' bloomed as a new plant, this Spring, and now has many seeds I could plant. And the plant is putti

  A different sort of plant, here for many years. 'Nekked Ladies' or Lycoris squamigira starts as a lush green bunch of leaves, each Spring. They die down and, here, by August 1, some were already in bloom on leafless stems. The clump of leaves is, perhaps almost 24", and the flowers, a month or so later, go up to about 30".  The old sort of Hydrangea known as the 'Pee Gee Hydrangea' grows quite differently in Maine, apparently. The flower clusters are much bigger, there.  But after years, this one is trained into a little tree. I repeat myself, but I recall paying $2.50 for the little start at a big local nursery. The boss there said she was willing to make a dollar here and a dollar there, uncomplimentary to a competitor down the road. They are out of business, while the woman's children are running the place where I got the little Pee Gee. And I have said I admired one, trained into a tree, about an hour from here, and set out to do the same.  How disco