Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2010

Pennisetum glaucum 'Jade Princess' mid-July 2010

We’ve finally gotten some rain here in southeastern Pennsylvania, along with a brief respite from temperatures in the 90s and 100s, so the plants have perked up just in time for a quick Bloom Day photo shoot. I could easily fill a whole post with pictures of my new favorite plant: ‘Jade Princess’ millet (Pennisetum glaucum). I love the form, and the flower and foliage colors too. I’d like to see it with a little more height – maybe to 24 to 30 inches, instead of the 18 it has reached so far – but otherwise, it’s just lovely.

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Published in: on July 15, 2010 at 4:15 am  Comments (18)  
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It Started with a Cow

Happy the Cow

And it’s all Mom’s fault. She has a knack for finding quirky things that she knows I’ll like, and that’s how I ended up getting a cow for Christmas. Not just any cow: a 2-foot-tall recycled metal cow with kind of odd ears and a paint job guaranteed to catch the eye.

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Published in: on June 30, 2010 at 4:15 am  Comments (15)  
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2010

Planter by barn

Hooray for Bloom Day! There’s finally enough going on in the garden that I can participate again. So now, a selection of mid-June flowers, fruits, and foliage from here at Hayefield in southeastern Pennsylvania, starting with a new container planting out by the barn: ‘Sweet Georgia Light Green’ sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas), ‘Infinity Crimson’ New Guinea impatiens, ‘Athena Red’ shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeana), bloodleaf (Iresine herbstii), chicken gizzard plant (Iresine herbstii ‘Aureoreticulata’), black-leaved cotton (Gossypium herbaceum ‘Nigrum’), and ‘Lucky Sunrise Rose’ lantana.

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Published in: on June 15, 2010 at 4:15 am  Comments (14)  
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Looking Forward

Polemonium Veronicastrum Erica Baptisia Screaming Yellow May 23 10

This has been the best gardening spring ever in my world. Sure, we’ve had some weird weather – a hot week in early April, and a late freeze in mid-May– but overall, it’s been perfect working weather. And that’s a very good thing, because I mostly neglected my own garden while caring for another over the past two years, and I had a whole lot of work to do here.

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Published in: on May 29, 2010 at 11:06 pm  Comments (17)  
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Three Neat Plants

Barbarea vulgaris 'Winter Cream' ('Variegata') May 9 10

I enjoy watching early wildflowers emerge and seeing beautiful displays of bulbs in other people’s gardens, but I seldom bother with planting anything for spring interest in my own garden. Still, in the process of collecting cool foliage and experimenting with unusual species, I’ve ended up with several intriguing early bloomers over the years. So, here are few for a special spring edition of Three Neat Plants.

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Published in: on May 12, 2010 at 5:54 pm  Comments (5)  
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