Bogturtle's Garden- April 1-14, 2024

-

 


Clematis armandi, again, and while I usually object to vines endless wandering, I appreciate that this vine, put with those that hide the side of the above ground pool from our parking, has wandered high up on the right. Using the zoom lens made for that unclear photo.

Always questions. Seems an ideal spot, with light shade, for this evergreen that I think is Skimmia japonica, yet the leaves are showing yellow. Not the finest choice for Skimmia, but this male is needed to get the brilliant red berries on the female.  Yet female has, apparently, died, so little show at all. 

The Pieris 'cavantine' is really at its best, and may not get any whiter. The Edgeworthia is faded and its leaf buds are opening. 



Camellia japonica 'Red Jade' is close to its best. And the Corylopsis next to it is shedding blooms like it is snowing. 

The main perennial bed is full of emerging greenery, and not too many items in bloom. But the screen that hides the pool sides from where we park is really looking good. More sorts of vines will be in bloom soon.

High in the woods, often un-noticed by drivers leaving our parking, Magnolia kobus 'Wildcat' blooms. Days of heavy rain have affected many a delicate bloom here.


Epimedium sulfureum has always been string trimmed to the ground just before the blooms show up.  Not this year. 

Just going on and on, the Helleborus are extremely successful and seeding about.


Chrysogonum virginianum 'Green and Gold' has started to bloom against the house, just below th kitchen window. An underused evergreen, extremely low growing native. Perhaps not to NJ.  The blooming does not continue into the Summer but is certainly welcome now.


Not much bloom in the little rock garden and the tall Daffodils, doing splendedly, towards the lower margin should certainly be moved. But, once again, I show the curse of the Japanese Gardener, with, rather than just appreciating the beauty, I see what could be an improvement. 


Two large clumps of Epimedium sufureum grow in front of the house. They show, splendedly, how that plant can claim territory from the Periwinkle, that I would call a thug.

This particular Daffodil can bloom with two or three blooms together. 'Triandrus Alba' is my guess as to variety. 


Kerria japonica 'Alba' is not really white but beautiful. Like single butter colored Roses. 


One plant you will have forever, is you introduce it, the little Violet called Viola sororia 'Freckles'. Not really a bad thing at all. This blooms in the rock garden. 


Kerria japonica 'Plena'.  


The tub over by the little pool features the Japanese  Maple 'Bijou', with its spectacular yellow orange bark. But last summer I planted the seed for a species of Forget-Me-Not. Coming into bloom, now, and one of the truly blue flowers available.







 Anemone nemorosa 'Robinsoniana'. The normal species is white flowered. A colony is slowly increasing in front of the screen that blocks the potting bench view from where I eat dinner, across the yard. Took more than one effort to get it introduced, but it seems to like where it is. Interesting that some describe the species as invasive.


Strolling across the entry drive just about every night and caught by the trail camera there. A good thing to have to show who comes and goes, but never have I seem so many deer in one video from there. Actually 7 showed up, but the video is too big to post here.
















Comments

  1. SallysmomApril 14, 2024 at 4:52 AM

    I love forget me nots. I have planted seed several times but never got them to germinate.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bogturtles Garden- October 2023

-
Image
Always the classic Morning Glory, and dependably late in showing up, here. Perhaps earlier blooming strains exist. But here we have the typically late show from 'Heavenly Blue'. And, as I have said many times, the other sorts here form seed for me. Never this sort.   Colchicum 'Waterlily' was growing at the front of the house until a new water line had to be installed. It was lost, somehow, then. Efforts being made to re-establish it have not worked, while the plant is perfectly hardy in this zone. Here we try again. Three bulbs were potted up in this pot, and the more expensive and rarer white flowered sort was put in another pot. Two of these have bloomed and the white sort totally failed. I informed the supplier, and expect no response, not having reciepts to show. And the bulbs are hard to find on the market. After blooming, these two will be moved where they might grow.  In the shade of the Holly tree, as we leave the house for the vehicles, this Aster is blooming ...
Read more

Bogturtle's Garden- February 2024

-
Image
 Traditionally, I have used February to post the assortment of evergreen plants on the property.  Same old, but I hate to post old pictures from other years. And the same colorful plants, with flowers now, or colored bark, will be included, as if I did not show them recently. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the wildlife, here, is usually recorded on videos between 10 and 20 seconds long. To my knowledge, I still cannot post such long videos on this site.  Taken through a window on 2/1 and a sunny day, which have not come often, recently. Most notable are the green stems of the Kerria japonica 'plena' and the berries on the American Holly.  Annoyingly, the camera had to be set on red emphasizing 'sunset' mode, to show off the berries better, and then the green of the Kerria stems is harder to see. We have seen the waves of Robins that always Winter here, and the berries on the Winterberry bushes are already gone, but most of the American Holly berries are still here. ...
Read more

Bogturtle's Garden- March 2024

-
Image
Sold everywhere, this time of year, and one pot was planted at the base of the Sourgum Tree by the front walk. Just keeps getting better and better. The dwarf called 'Tete a Tete'.                                                                                                            Half inch wide flowers on what is often called the 'white forsythia'. Abeliophylum distichum, a Korean native, but reported to be rare, there. At any rate, my bush is sparse, getting quite a bit of shade, and tinted pink, which frequently happens with cooler weather. In fact, a pink form does exist. I suppose this is the typical 'Lenten Rose'. Some sort of Helleborus hybrid, likely. If I had my druthers, I'd appreciate the flowers facing o...
Read more