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White Coneflower
2007-07-23 16:16:00 Gardenmob readers have come to expect a certain amount of love passed from me to coneflowers, especially pale coneflower. There is one notable exception in this lovefest - the Big Sky coneflowers. [tag]White coneflower[/tag] is one of my favorites. Not as robust in growth as purple coneflower, but ... More About: Lowe , Flow
Coreopsis Zagreb
2007-06-23 09:26:00 Coreopsis verticillata Zagreb , along with Coreopsis verticillata Moonbeam, was one of the first Coreopsis to find its way into my garden. Whereas Moonbeam Coreopsis (and both Zagreb and Moonbeam are also known properly as Threadleaf Coreopsis or [tag]Tickseed[/tag]) has flowers of buttery cool pale yellow, [tag]Zagreb Coreopsis[/tag] is a warmer ... More About: Oreo
Blackberry Lily - Belamcanda chinensis
2007-06-21 14:18:00 Hmmm....I wonder where the perennial blackberry lily gets its name. Perhaps blackberry lily blooms at the same time that blackberries set fruit (which does seem to be true in my neck of the woods). Sounds good, but common wisdom is that blackberry lily gets its moniker because the clusters ... More About: Blackberry , Lily , Lack , Canda
Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle
2007-06-20 14:51:00 Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle offers an opportunity for those cold climate gardeners that fancy a hydrangea or three. [tag]Hydrangea[/tag] Annabelle has huge moppy white flowers to ten inches or so, and offers much better winter hardiness than [tag]Hydrangea macrophylla[/tag] (the big blue and [tag]pink Hydrangeas[/tag]). Reliablely hardy in Zones ... More About: Range , Abel
Rose Paul Neyron
2007-06-19 13:53:00 The most noteworthy feature of rose Paul Neyron is the size of the roses, which are considered to be (perhaps) the largest found on any garden rose; immense blossoms of cerise pink may be as much as seven inches wide. Paul Neyron is sometimes referred to as a [tag]cabbage rose[/tag] ... More About: Rose
Prickly Pear Cactus
2007-06-19 07:51:00 I wandered past prickly pear cactus for years, somewhat mystified as to why anyone in the humid hot magnolia-laden South would grow a cactus native to the Southwest and Mexico. Wrongly, I abscribed certain oafish qualities to those [tag]hillbillies[/tag] that would grow prickly pear cacti among azaleas...that is until one ... More About: Pear , Cactus , Prick
Gardenmob visits the Atlanta Botanical Garden
2007-06-18 17:26:00 Any botanical garden worth a nickle handles the standard variety of perennials, roses, and shrubs well, and the Atlanta Botanical Garden is no different. Thus, our visit reportage focuses on those qualities that elevate the Atlanta Botanical Garden. If you're in Atlanta and manage to survive the interstates, ... More About: Visi , Visit , The A
Butterfly Weed
2007-06-18 13:38:00 Butterfly Weed , [tag]Asclepias[/tag] tuberosa, is a spectacular and undemanding native plant, and similar to Queen Anne's Lace, most beautiful along roadsides. Coinciding with the ripening of the blackberries in the mountains, [tag]Butterfly Weed[/tag] is a tremendous plant for those gardeners that value [tag]native plants[/tag] and/or who hope to attract ... More About: Butterfly , Butter , Butt
Hybrid Tea Rose Chicago Peace
2007-06-15 18:27:00 Welcome guest author Charles Waco Bankston, who writes about Hybrid Tea Rose Chica go Peace : Although my time on this Earth began in 1976, much occurred before and much will occur after?I?m certain of it. The 1960's were anything but uneventful. As a matter of fact, several important ...
Hybrid Tea Rose Chicago Peace
2007-06-15 18:27:00 Welcome guest author Charles Waco Bankston, who writes about Hybrid Tea Rose Chica go Peace : Although my time on this Earth began in 1976, much occurred before and much will occur after?I?m certain of it. The 1960's were anything but uneventful. As a matter of fact, several important ...
Mighty Garden Blog: Mr. Brown Thumb
2007-06-14 18:30:00 Another garden blog to point you to...blog pointing not being my ordinary endeavor, but I calls 'em like I sees 'em. Mr. Brown Thumb is a tremendous photographer, on par with the mystically talented Blue Ridge Blog ger, of outhouse-lovin' fame. That's Mr. Brown's [tag]ladybug[/tag] at stage right...the only photograph ... More About: Garden , Mighty
Mighty Garden Blog: Mr. Brown Thumb
2007-06-14 18:30:00 Another garden blog to point you to...blog pointing not being my ordinary endeavor, but I calls 'em like I sees 'em. Mr. Brown Thumb is a tremendous photographer, on par with the mystically talented Blue Ridge Blog ger, of outhouse-lovin' fame. That's Mr. Brown's [tag]ladybug[/tag] at stage right...the only photograph ... More About: Garden , Mighty
The Blog of Henry David Thoreau (Who Knew?)
2007-06-14 13:56:00 I'll be damned. Henry Davi d Thor eau has a blog, called The Blog of Henry David Thoreau. I'm continually amazed at the pure genius one finds if one sits by the river long enough. More, even Walt Whitman apparently has a blog, appropriately named I, Walt Whitman, A Blogger. ...
Mighty Garden Blog: The Blog of Henry David Thoreau (Who Knew?)
2007-06-14 13:56:00 I'll be damned. Henry David Thor eau has a blog, called The Blog of Henry David Thoreau. I'm continually amazed at the pure genius one finds if one sits by the river long enough. More, even Walt Whitman apparently has a blog, appropriately named I, Walt Whitman, A Blogger. ... More About: Garden
Big Sky Coneflower Sunset, Big Sky Abomination - Never (Ever) Grow This Pla
2007-06-13 15:42:00 I was driving innocently (okay, not so innocently) down the street a year or so ago and was struck dumb(er than usual) by a purple coneflower that was...orange? Bright pastel orange. Some strange mutant coneflower plant and if there is one there are sure to be more mutants ... More About: Sunset , Lowe , Flow , Grow , Mina
Big Sky Coneflower Sunset, Big Sky Abomination - Never (Ever) Grow This Pla
2007-06-13 15:42:00 I was driving innocently (okay, not so innocently) down the street a year or so ago and was struck dumb(er than usual) by a purple coneflower that was...orange? Bright pastel orange. Some strange mutant coneflower plant and if there is one there are sure to be more mutants ... More About: Sunset , Lowe , Flow , Grow , Mina
Rose Home Run - Son of Knockout Roses
2007-06-12 12:05:00 Bred from Knock out roses, Home Run rose is extremely disease resistant and in my mind one of the best new red roses for the garden, should you be comfortable with single roses (which hopefully you will be). Knockout roses, both the original and offspring such as Pink Knockout roses, ... More About: Roses , Rose , Home Run
Mighty Garden Blog: Blue Ridge Blog - and I kid you not?an outhouse and a d
2007-06-11 22:28:00 Marie Freeman, the author of Blue Ridge Blog , wins my eternal respect just for combining the words outhouse and dream in one cohesive haikuesque moment. She says she's not that deep, which is what all southerners say to lull everyone else into a false sense of security. I am ... More About: Garden , Ouse
Red Hot Poker a.k.a. Torch Lily
2007-06-11 16:57:00 Red Hot Poke r , Kniphofia uvaria, also known as Torch Lily , is a perennial whose flowers can truly be deemed original. Red Hot Poker bears orange and yellow blooms on spikes that soar into the air to five feet...or in the case of the Red Hot Poker pictured at ...
Brutal - Your Least Favorite Plant (at Gardening Intoxicated)
2007-06-11 14:50:00 Oh man. Elizabeth Licata at Gardening While Intoxicated posed a question in her blog asking readers to name their least favorite plant (to participate, head over to Gardening While Intoxicated and chime in...). Anyway, while I can't understand how anyone could hate purple coneflower so passionately (as Elizabeth ... More About: Plan , Cate , Favorite , Plant
Pampas Grass - Never (Ever) Grow This Plant
2007-06-11 13:45:00 The subject of our latest evisceration in the plant world, Pampas Grass , Cortaderia selloana, is, admittedly, like shooting fish in a barrel. I want to emphasize that any cowboys from Argentina (gauchos) that want to grow Pampas Grass to remind them of home are fully exempt from my comments ... More About: Plan , Plant , Grow
State Botanical Garden of Georgia
2007-06-11 12:08:00 The Stat e Botanical Garden of Georgia is located in Athens. Described as a 'living laboratory' of the University of Georgia, on whose grounds the State Botanical Garden of Georgia is located, it is a superb environment for gardeners, children, and a wide array of plant communities. What I love ...
Siberian Iris and (so much) more - A Gardening Year
2007-06-10 17:11:00 I was looking around for information about Siberian Iris and came upon A Gardening Year . Well...I (finally) learned the bloom sequence of Iris (Bearded > Japanese > Siberian), and then proceeded to take a gander around A Gardening Year. Well-written with plenty of photographs, the style gives one ... More About: Iberia , Arden
Climbing Rose Pearly Gates
2007-06-10 00:29:00 Rose Pearl y Gates is a climbing rose that is suitable for training as a pillar or on a trellis...or better yet my favorite method which is sprawling along a (preferably old) fence. By the way, with all climbing roses get those canes horizontal in order to encourage lateral buds and ... More About: Rose , Climb , Climbing
Spiderwort a.k.a Cow Slobber (Tradescantia) - Never Grow This Plant
2007-06-09 16:57:00 It may seem heartless to pick on Spiderwort, but there is an illustrative point that follows.... A Perennial's value (or any plant's value for that matter) increases exponentially if it has attractive foliage or character when not in flower (See Oakleaf Hydrangea for truly noble character). If we consider ... More About: Scan , Anti , Plan , Plant , Grow
Eureka Rose
2007-06-09 13:45:00 Rose Eureka is a butter yellow-apricot, and fairly typical of old school Floribunda roses; i.e. Eureka is a shortish bushy fellow that shoots out sprays of three to five roses in sprightly manner. Frankly, it's hard for me to get too excited about most Floribundas, as they often look like ... More About: Rose
The Latest Winner of the Snidely Whiplash Award is?me (or how I wronged the
2007-06-09 03:56:00 I know it's unseemly to go around awarding oneself your own award, but in this case, the Snidely Whiplash Award , awarded to the villains of the garden world, is just desserts. What have I done to deserve this award you may ask? (Many things, but we're not here to talk ... More About: Winner , Wrong , Late , Ward
I am?a daisy?
2007-06-08 14:22:00 I want to be a lion or a bear. Sigh. Anyways, go on over to this garden is illegal to find out what kind of flower you are (and don't come cryin' to me when you find out you're a pansy instead of some cool plant like a purple coneflower ... More About: Daisy
Hydrangea quercifolia - Oakleaf Hydrangea
2007-06-08 13:20:00 One of the all-time great shrubs, Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) is virtually faultless. Named for the shape of the leaves, [tag]Oakleaf Hydrangea[/tag] is native, easy to grow, and has four season interest. Late spring brings white blooms of egret white. In summer the blooms fade to a soft, delicate pink ... More About: Range
Iris (that?s all I got)
More articles from this author:2007-06-08 12:14:00 Well, it's an iris and I'm not sure which one. The photograph was taken in the north Georgia mountains and this stand of iris had clearly been naturalized or perhaps were native. Instinct was Blue Flag Iris , but I don't think so. Any ideas? Normally I wouldn't post such a ... More About: That 1, 2 |
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