Bogturtle's Garden - August 16 to end, 2022

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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 putting out a few new blooms. The photo, once again, does not show the palest violet tinge. Have not had the energy to clear away the weeds from the main perennial bed, and the heat makes the job doubly difficult,  while young perennials are thriving in pots in the rehab and propagation area behind the pool. A dozen young Stokesia, some Digitalis or Foxglove, and Pardancanthus, which I think is the name of the iris relative called the 'Leopard Lily'. 
Stokesia l. 'Divinity' and S. l. 'Mary Gregory', which blooms straw colored, have a good deal of seed I could start. The color of resultant blooms would be a surprise, but I could expect the same normal blue-violet of the wild type or white or yellow. 


Everyone's favorite, and while perfectly blue in the photo, the bloom on this 'Heavenly Blue' Morning Glory had some violet in it. A mystery. And they always bloom really late for me. Also they never bear seed I can save. Always grown, and in many places on the property over the years. 


I recall, as a boy, Portulaca or Moss Rose only came in singles, but the ones in the pot here are doubled. A hardy annual, new ones just grow in the same pot in Spring.  The Cleome seed is collected, and I have not needed to buy seed for several years. Enough to seed an acre of land easily gathered. 


Euonymus alata 'Compacta' if I have that spelled correctly. The more dwarf form of the 'Burning Bush'. Taking on some pleasant color already, but never, at this house, the spectacular typical red. 


I suppose these are also called Surprise Lilies, but I was that they had not bloomed near the front porch, while I saw many others around. And here they are, days later than the others.  Lycoris squamigera, or Nekked Ladies.



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