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Month: May 2020

Taxus baccata (cultivar unknown)

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I actually have two of these in different places in the garden; they were purchased from Heronswood in 2001 as ‘Repandens Aureomarginata’, but the leaves are always a consistent, dark green. New foliage *is* more yellow than typical ‘Repandens’, but it fades quickly.

But when that yellow does come out, it pops! I really like that flush of new growth in the spring.

I bought them both in 2″ square band pots, and they’re both big — maybe six and eight feet wide now? They’ve certainly grown well!

Last year this one acted as a support for Aristolochia clematitis; the swallowtails were thrilled!

Sorry about the irrigation pipe and marking flags in the shot. You get to see the garden, nits and all!


Convallaria majalis var. rosea

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I ordered this plant back in 2002 from Heronswood and planted it along a walkway in an unused corner of the yard.

It didn’t flower too much, but decided that it liked the walkway more than the flower bed and slowly migrated south over time. Now the whole walkway is filled with them and the flowerbed is bare.

Oh well! More room for new plants!

P.S. Apologies for the photo! It’s too dark back there for my poor cell phone.

Trillium recurvatum

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These are Trillium that were given to me about 23 years ago by someone who lived on a large farm NNE of here. She dug them up from their woods as a suprise gift and I planted them at the base of the bald cypress in a bed of wild ginger (Asarum canadense).

They’ve never really multiplied until this year; suddenly, babies are everywhere!

It could be that they’re enjoying the extra sun that comes through now that the neighbor cut down his trees. The Deinanthe bifida ‘Pink Kii’ in the neighboring bed isn’t taking the change as well, though.

Rhododendron ‘White Lights’

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Rhododendron ‘White Lights’

I bought this about twenty years ago in a small gallon pot, and about fifteen years ago it probably reached its peak but has been in steady decline since then.

At its peak it was about 10′ tall and covered in blooms, but now there’s considerable dieback and it’s starting to look spindly.