Stonecrop

Name: Stonecrop
Variety: Sedum telephium munstead dark red
Type:  Perennial
Light:  Full Sun
Size:  14" high
Bloom time:  Summer
Flower color:  Dark Red
Fragrance: None
Plant location: Back Yard in perennial garden by vegetable garden


This has a long bloom season, which adds a really nice touch of color to the perennial garden that is quite drab this time of year.

New In Bloom

The daisies in the front yard have never looked better.  These generic lilies are also in bloom just behind them.

Garden Report

Front Yard:  The spirea are now in bloom but not as spectacular as in years past.  The hot summer and hard winter too a toll on these plants. The stella odoro day lilies are in bloom, there is one over achiever campanula that is in full bloom.  I think we should move that to the waterfall.

Back yard:  There are still a few blossoms on the dogwood tree, in bloom on the hillside:  JFK rose, lupine, red carnation, coreopsis, day lily.  Roses in bloom: wild blue yonder, QE2, Julia Child, Livin Easy.   Perennial garden: coreopsis.  Both purple clematis and the polish spirit clematis are in bloom although the purple are fading and the other has not been a spectacular bloom.

News in the Garden

The honeysuckle are in full bloom.  We sat on the deck and enjoyed the wonderful fragrance of the flowers.  They are spectacular this year.

Peonies in Bloom

The peonies on the north side of the arbor finally bloomed really spectacularly.  They have struggled for several years to get established and finally they are blooming well.   Last fall we got three more tubers from Bowling Green kids to add to the group on the south side, but they are just starting to grow this year.

However, Wednesday night a storm came through and pelted them hard.  It knocked over all the blossoms and the biggest blooms had broken stems so they all had to be cut off and brought into the house.  The red is an especially spectacular variety.   The white ones were brought from Saline, the pink from Duane Laws' garden and the red we purchased a couple of years ago.

Red Peony

Name: Peony
Variety: Paeonia Lactiflora"red charm"
Color: Ruby Red
Type: Perennial
Height: 3'
Light:  Full Sun
Fragrance:   Strong 
Bloom Time: Late May Early June
Location:   North east side of gated arbor

I purchased these a couple of years ago and they have not done well--really struggled.  However, this year they bloomed really well.   I don't know if this is the exact variety because I didn't write it down and there are hundreds of peony red varieties.  However, i think this is closest to color, shape and size.

Garden Report

Front:  the spirea are now in bloom
South:  the cat mint is in bloom
Back:   along the water fall there are  roses, carnations, dogwood, lupine, summer snow flake; by arbor there are honey suckle vines, wild blue yonder roses; under deck there are clematis in bloom.

Star Performers

The pinks this year are spectacular.  I have never seen them so gorgeous.  This is the plant by the vegetable garden.  The pinks on the water fall hill are not quite as gorgeous, but really nice.

The purple Marie Louise clematis are also incredible this year.  They are pictured at the top of the page.

Garden Report

I have been gone for a week and things have really started happening around the yard.

Front:   wiegela is still in bloom
South:  cat mint is in bloom
Back:   pinks by the garden and on the waterfall are in bloom;  chives are in bloom;  purple clematis are spectacular this year; new red carnation is still in bloom; lupine is in bloom although not as showy as last year;  summer snowflake viburnum is in bloom;  scabiosa is in bloom; the dogwood tree has lots of blossoms but they are very small.

I missed the columbine and the lily of the valley.  

Snow Mound Spirea

Name:   Snow Mound Spirea
Variety: Spirea japonica "snow mound"
Type: Shrub
Height: 5' x 5'
Light: Full sun
Flower Color: white
Location:  north side back yard by fence
Bloom Time:June

We bought two plants at Plymouth nursery in 2010.  They have not done well and it seems that there parts that are dead each year.  They have been there for two years and have not grown well.  This year they have finally bloomed better.

Annual Flower and Vegetable Purchases

2 spikes
12 burgundy petunias
8 yellow marigolds
8 white vinca
12 dusty miller
6 dalhias
6 ??
4 red verbena
4 blue verbena
4 white verbena
1 new guinea impatient
1 martha washington
8 white begonias
4 purple petunias
4 white petunias
4 gazania

8 peppers
12 beans
10 tomatoes
4 cucs
4 zuchini
2 cherry tomatoes
red onions