Bogturtle's Garden- June 1-10, 2023

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 Date is off by at least 2 days, and surely the time is totally off.  I think it was the night of 5/30, but it is progress, in that the other camera out by the little pool did not take night photos, and I have always assumed all the animals visiting the leftovers from supper, out by the barn, are likely to walk across the yard and get a drink. 



About 5 white Fox Glove plants were put just in front of the vine covered fence that hides the sides of the pool from where we park. This one has done the best. 5 feet tall. Roots in the shade and head in the Sun. Taken with my phone, so not a perfect photo. Digitalis is, thankfully, totally left alone by Deer, Rabbits and Woodchucks. This is D. purpurea 'Alba'.  I save seed and plan to have this biennial blooming every Summer. I think cutting off the flower spikes and preventing seed might cause some of the plants to go through another winter. I have about 6 potted up, but back in the plant rehab and propagation area. Plants grow for a season, passing through Winter as symetrical low evergreen rosettes that make a pleasant addition to the garden and then they get taller and bloom as shown.


The plant in the Irish pot is the white clone of Lychnis coronaria, which may have gotten the species name of coronaria because the normal flower color is close to what is called royal purple or tyrian purple. Actually chosen for the gray foliage, which I find decorative. An addition is that the plant can make a nice grayish rosette of foliage all Winter.  
I was happy to find the white form of the 'Bloody Cranesbill' or Geranium sanguinea, which species name is related to blood. 


Another snip, since Blogspot does not allow for the too long 20 second video, from out by the barn. Leftovers from meals are thrown there, and visitors include this Gray Fox, Red Fox, Opossums, Skunks, Coyotes, Racoons and, unfortunately, Cats that belong to some neighbors unknown. A Woodchuck visited in the day, today, and I am tempted to bait a havahart trap, as I have lost vegetables, over the years. The Kale, Beans, Kohlrabi, Swiss Chard and Boc Choy are all in a fence, but the Summer Squash and Spaghetti Squash plants were eaten last Summer, being unfenced. Trying to keep them sprayed with repellent, which does work if applied after each rain. 


All over the property. I think this Chipmunk has stuffed cheek pouches, but the bird feeder, with spilled seed, is a few feet away.




Many square yards of the forest floor are covered with Partridge Berry, or Michellia repens, I believe. Usually in pairs. The forest floor gets buried in leaves but the plant works its way up, somehow, in time to bloom. 


Unfortunately blurry, and with the bloom finishing, I am unsure I will get a clear photo. A hybrid Jasmine vine called Gelsemium stephanense, I think. I read that it is a fragrant flower.


Rather drastically cut down to within a foot of the ground, the double Red Knockout Roses look like they are going to bloom themselves to death. Hopefully not. 


The Blushing Knockout Roses are reacting the same. Pruned and now looking beautiful. A doe came by, today, and after she took one swipe at these, I sprayed them with repellent. 


The Double Red Knockout Roses bloom just outside the bank of windows of the addition.


Lonicera periclymenum, again, on the end post of the lattice fence around the pool deck.


The dwarf Blue Spruce 'Thume' and probably at its brightest blue.


At opposite sides of the colorwheel, the violet of the Peach Leaved Bellflower and the yellow of the Evening Primrose, O. tetragona look good together


Easy from seed and now in two places on the property, Oenothera missouriensis, if I have that right, the Missouri Primrose has really big flowers for the size of the plant. And a yellow I like. 

 
Lychnis chalcodonica, I think. The Maltese Cross.
Apparently only this single plant, this year. There were about 5, but they were crowded out, I suppose. So easy from seed that I hate to see people spend for plants. To the right of the little rock garden. Declared to be one of the truest red perennials. Seems a good deal like the red in our flag. I will try to save the seed and increase the number of plants, here. 
Found another one in bloom. The foliage is in no way unique, so the plants, without flowers, are not that easy to notice.


Comments

  1. SallysmomJune 6, 2023 at 8:14 AM

    Looks like you still have a lot blooming. It is very hot & dry here so if we want anything to bloom, we have to water a lot.

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    1. BogturtleJune 7, 2023 at 11:29 AM

      We have had extended lack of rain, also. So I am watering, also.

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