Re: Emailing: 8-21-09 004

Hi, Gene!
 
Sounds like you garden has been productive this year...are you planning any 
 more additions? Did you have tremendous rain this summer? Or was it cooler 
than  usual? Any problems? We seem to now have a quorum on the Perennial  
List:-)
 
I have a question for everyone: I wrote that my 3 Baptisia australis now  
have wonderful and huge black seed pods but I never saw any blooms on the  
plants...is this possible or do I need stronger glasses? 
 
Joanie Anderson
35 mi. n. of Chicago
 
 
In a message dated 8/26/2009 5:00:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
genebush@netsurfusa.net writes:

Must be  Old Friends Week...
Here we are. Hello Chris, Nancy and  Joanie
Watching my Leucoseptrum, both species and gold variegated begin bud  so it
will not be long before I see blooms... probably mid-September. I  enjoy
these for the foliage as much as the blooms. Looks much like  hydrangea
foliage. I have also been caught up in Deinanthe past couple of  years. 
Turtle head in bloom. Fall blooming anemone, several  names forms in
color now. Lobelia in blue and red scattered about the  garden. Daphne is
coming back into scattered fall bloom.
Got bitten by the native azalea bug a few years back and I have  been
working on another large raised bed for those beauties. Talk  about
addictions... sigh.


Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery &  Gardens,LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Garden Writer - Photographer -   Lecturer




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From:  owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
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Of  Jeaa0088@aol.com

Subject: Re: Emailing: 8-21-09 004

Hi, Chris,  Nancy and gang:

I'm north of Chicago about 35 miles and we've had a lot  of rain and not a  
lot of sustained hot weather this summer so the  garden looks like it did in

June...except for some areas of fungus  (daylily 'Happy Returns' had to be 
cut to  the ground a month ago).  

Hosta went berserk this summer with 'Gold Standard' leading the way  and  
even 'Fire and Ice' doing a respectable job; variegated Liriope  muscari is 
 
looking its smartest; Brunnera 'Jack Frost' has had no  signs of late summer

browning or speckling; Epidemiums are super happy  (Gene Bush's babies!);  
Geranium 'Rozanne' is still going strong  (also Gene's); all lilies did very

well; variegated Hemerocallis  'Golden Zebra' put on good growth and still 
is

in  bloom; newer  lilacs suffered mightily (our heavy clay held onto all 
that

rain)   and '08 transplanted Buddleias died but baby Macleaya held on and, 
oddly,  the  Baptisia did not bloom but have magnificent seed pods.

The  Japanese beetles were here in smaller numbers from mid-July to   
mid-August and did their usual to the roses (but 'Jacqueline du Pre's'  
aroma
was  
outstanding!) and Weigela but the tomatoes are  spectacular if late. 

All in all, a pretty satisfying year and the  garden still looks fresh and  
lovely. Mother Nature's rain cannot  be
duplicated with a garden hose. 

How did everyone else's garden  fare?

Joanie Anderson
35 mi. north of Chicago  










In a message dated 8/26/2009  12:40:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
lindsey@mallorn.com  writes:

>  Sorry about the attachment.  I finally thought  of the name.....Arundo  
donax 
> var. versicolor.  I like  it in the meadow because it gets  me height out 
> there.   Great place for the critters to hide from  predators.  It also 
in  
> great in large flower  designs.

Well, that settles  that!  A short thread, but I'm glad to  see traffic on 
the  list.  :)

How is everyone doing out  there?  What can I  do to get people talking 
again?

Here in Urbana,  IL it feels  like fall already.  Asters aren't quite 
blooming
yet, but   the temperatures are low, that fall smell is starting to appear,
and  the  crickets are chirping away!

Some of my new favorite plants  are getting  ready to bloom, too.  Allium
thunbergii 'Ozawa' is  an *awesome* plant  and I keep trying to get more.
Although Kalimeris  integrifolia and  Kalimeris incisa 'Blue Star' have
already been  blooming for a few weeks,  Kalimeris yomena 'Shogun' still
hasn't  opened (but it's close!)  The  asters (like 'Raydon's  Favorite')
are also starting to swell, but there's  no color  yet!  I saw that the
various turtleheads (Chelone) are also  open  now.

Chris

http://www.hort.net/gallery/     4383 online plant photos and   growing!
http://www.hort.net/gallery/date/2009-08-10/      The latest   additions

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