New Rose Purchase

These were nice 5 gal containers healthy plants from Zywicki Greenhouse


Name:  Rosa
Variety Falling In Love
Type: Shrug
Height: 4'
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  like pink
Bloom Time: june
Fragrance:  yes
Location:  plant in the rose garden
Care: dead head as needed; Bayer once a month; prune to canes in fall

Name:   Rosa
Variety   Henry Fonda
Type: shrub
Height: 4'
Sun: Full sun
Flower color:  dark yellow
Bloom Time: June
Fragrance:  yes
Location:  plant in the rose garden
Care: dead head as needed; Bayer once a month; prune to canes in fall

Annuals Purchase and Ideas at Zywicki

We went to Zywicki Greenhouse (734-461-6197) and picked up two beautiful roses.  Wayne helped me pick them out so I hope they are nice.  We also got some great ideas for annuals.

Purchased:
4 cleome for under a dollar for front in front of the arborvitae.  They are supposed to grow 24x48.  We got mixed colors.

Ideas:

For the gray pot on top of the gray stool:  2-3 heliotrope
 For the light brown hanging pots on the shepherd's hook:  calibrachoa or million bells in orange and yellow (1 each for each pot)
 For the two large white hanging pots:   1 calibrachoa in red, 1-2 small white hanging flowers, 1-2 dark purple lobelia

For the large front pots for each :   found a picture that I wanted--white hanging flowers, purple and red maybe calibrachoas and helioptrope. 

New Perennial Purchase

Purchased from Sell's Greenhouse in May

Name:   Peony
Variety Felix Supreme
Type: perennial
Height: 30"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  red
Bloom Time: late May
Fragrance:  yes
Location:  planted on the back side of seated arbor on south side
Care: prune off dead flowers after bloomed; trim to ground after fall freeze


Name:   New England Aster
Variety:  Purple Dome
Type: perennial
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color: purple
Bloom Time: fall
Fragrance:  none
Location:  planted on the south side of gated arbor
Care: trim down in fall?

Name:   Bee Balm
Variety Monarda Cherry Pops
Type: perennial
Height: 20"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  cherry
Bloom Time:  mid to late summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  planted on s side of gated arbor
care:  fertilize weekly in summer with bloom booster

Name:   Bee Balm
Variety Monarda Bubblegum Blast
Type: perennial
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  bubblegum
Bloom Time:  mid to late summer
Fragrance:  none
Location:  planted on s side of gated arbor  next to cherry pops
care:  fertilize weekly in summer with bloom booster

Also picked up another Gaillardia Arizona Sun.  They will not overwinter.  I just have to treat this as an annual, but we get great flowers from them

Also Wayne purchased dipladenia at Home Depot for 4 bucks each.  Got 4 new plants.

Weekly Update

It was a very long winter and finally we got some flowers and some plants up.

In Bloom:

Front yard:  Pear trees, grape hyacinths
Everything is doing well except the new orange phlox aren't up

South Yard:   Tulips

Back yard:  fuschia moss phlox and bleeding heart

We had to transplant some white moss phlox that failed over the winter.   The garden phlox are gone.  The transplant for the roseanne geranium also failed.  Two rose bushes look dead.  Hope of humanity is doing well and there is one bud on the Sugar Moon.  We'll give the others until the end of the week.  The dianthus died so I replaced it with a new one--they don't make it through the winter.   And the Gaillardia died too.   They are also just annuals but great flowers. The Yarrow is looking sparse but could be growing.

The dipolodenia didn't make it through the winter in the basement so next year we'll leave them upstairs.

NEW Perrennials

Purchase at Meijer.



Name:   Hens and Chicks Ruby Hearts
Variety Sempervivum Ruby Hearts
Type: perennial ground cover
Height: 6"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  none
Bloom Time:
Fragrance:  none
Location:  Planted on the south side of the potentilla
Care:  None


Name:   Dianthus
Variety Tickled PInk
Type: perennial but probably annual
Height: 12"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  bright pink
Bloom Time: spring through summer
Fragrance:  carnation
Location:  planted in perennial garden in center
Care: fertilize weekly in summer

New Perrenials

I purchased these on line at Bluestone.com.  They came in a heavy duty box all divided and in biodegradable pots.  They were in excellent shape.  We planted them all in the perennial garden.  The Arizona Sun we'll move in the spring.

Name:   Lamb's Ear
Variety stachys helen von stein
Type: perennial ground cover
Height: 8"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:
Bloom Time:
Fragrance:  No
Location:  Perennial garden by the vegetable garden
Care:  Fertilize weekly with bloom booster.


Name:   Veronica Tidal Pool
Variety:  Veronica Tidal Poll
Type: perennial ground cover
Height: 6"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color: lavender
Bloom Time:
Fragrance:  No
Location:  Perennial garden by the vegetable garden
Care:  Fertilize weekly with bloom booster. 

Name:   Yarrow Angels Breath
Variety achillea angels breath
Type: perennial
Height: 24"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color: white
Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
Fragrance:  No
Location:  Perennial garden by the vegetable garden
Care:  Fertilize weekly with bloom booster.

Name:   Blanket Flower
Variety gaillardia arizona sun
Type: perennial
Height: 10"
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color: the arizona sun
Bloom Time: July
Fragrance:  No
Location:  Perennial garden by the vegetable garden (will move to under potentilla)
Care:  Do not cut back in the winter.  
Prefers gravel mulch and sandy soil.  Fertilize in fall with granulated fertilizer.

Butterfly

I saw this fluttering butterfly at the dentist office a couple of years ago.  I thought it was so wonderful and found one on the internet.  The first summer I didn't put it out much because I thought it was fragile.  But this year I discovered some fun things.  First of all it's solar powered so it only flaps when the sun is shining on the wing shaped solar panels.  It has blown off, but it's nothing more than a vinyl butter fly on a wire which is connected to a wheel.  The sun causes the wheel to spin really fast, which makes the butterfly flutter.  Pretty fun.  We've enjoyed it a lot this year.