I am tickled that the rambling rose Etain is blooming for the very first time, [...]
Archive for the ‘Viburnums’ Category
GARDEN TOUR part 1
Posted in Clematis, Companion Planting, Flowering Trees, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Roses, Shrubs, Small trees, Viburnums, Wildflowers, tagged Clematis Carnaby, Clematis Duchess of Edinburgh, Cornus florida, Cotinus coggygria Royal Purple, Dogwood trees, garden tour, Knockout Roses pink, Lady Bank Rose, native blue phlox, Phlox divericata, purple smoke bush, Rosa banksia, Rose Madame Alfred Carrier, Snowball Viburnum, Styrax obassia, Trellis, Viburnum Kern's Pink, Viburnum macrocephalum, Viburnum opulus on April 14, 2012 | 4 Comments »
“You should have seen it last week!” The familiar phrase heard from gardeners, when showing visitors around. Well to avoid that I’m posting a time-lapse kind of garden tour. Photos from the garden over the last two weeks. The Dogwoods in the meadow, like most other spring-flowering plants, cooked in the 80 degree temperatures. the blossoms [...]
FROM GARDEN TO VERANDA
Posted in Clematis, Companion Planting, Cutting flowers, Perennials, Roses, Viburnums, Vines, tagged bouqet of roses & clematis, clematis, companion planting, House & garden, Roses, veranda, viburnum on April 10, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Bringing bouquets from the garden onto the veranda is a nice way to connect the garden to the house. None of the big pots of hydrangeas are here yet. I wait till the 15th of April before taking them out of the Bothy. That is our last frost date. As mentioned in [...]
“THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE”
Posted in Companion Planting, Garden Design, mixed border, Shrubs, Viburnums, tagged Azaleas, Margaret Moseley, Snowball Viburnum on March 30, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Famous words from Margaret Moseley. For 44 years she has created an incredible garden. She designed and planted everything herself and has done all the maintenance, except grass cutting. (“that’s not gardening”) Only recently has she hired some help. These photos show “nothing”. Can you tell pink is her favorite colour? Can’t wait [...]
FRAGRANCE
Posted in Shrubs, Viburnums, tagged fragrance, fragrant viburnum on March 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I wish there was some way to share the fragrances that permeate the garden. Totally heaven! Fragrant Viburnum
WINTER GARDEN WALK 2
Posted in Garden Design, Viburnums, winter garden, tagged garden design, storm damage, viburnum awabuki 'chindo', wind storm, winter garden on December 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »
This time we had to see if there was any damage in the garden. We had already heard the loud thump as a huge limb fell in the drive. Our guests thought it might have hit their car, which it did not…. but not by much! This is the other side of the coin… gardening under [...]
BERRIES!!
Posted in Shrubs, Viburnums, winter garden, tagged berries, heavenly bamboo, hollies, Ilex Bufordii, Ilex Emily Bruner, viburnum, winter berries, Yellow berries on December 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Some great plants for both the landscape and holiday decorations. Hollies… you cannot beat them for their beauty this time of year. Above, Ilex x ‘Emily Bruner’ with berries that encircle the stem… The Buford Holly (Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’) exhibits a heavy fruit set in clusters, except when a late frost kills the [...]
FINALLY!… WELL,SORT OF..
Posted in Clematis, Companion Planting, Garden Design, Viburnums, tagged Clematis Elsa Spath, companion plants, garden design, viburnum Michael Dodge on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It has taken a few years but I finally have a purple Clematis blooming with the yellow berries of the Viburnum Michael Dodge…..sort of.. She is Elsa Spath and she is usually all purple. I have no idea why she presented this way but….. a gardener’s hope springs eternal… maybe next year…
FALL TOUR
Posted in Accessories, Camellias, Companion Planting, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Hydrangeas, Potager, Roses, Vegetable Garden, Viburnums, tagged cutting garden, design, garden bones, garden feature, garden Rooms, potager, Putti, veg garden, viburnum on October 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The area of the garden I’m sharing now on this Fall Tour is little seen because it’s incomplete. Not that any garden is ever ‘done’ or completed, however this part is has only ‘bones’ and is waiting for me to flesh out the details. Till now it did not seem too pressing because all the important plants were [...]
IT’S THE BERRIES!
Posted in autumn colour, Shrubs, Viburnums, tagged beautyberry, calicarpa dichotoma 'issai', orange-red berries, purple berries, red berries, Viburnum 'Michael Dodge' berries, Viburnum berries, white beautyberry, white berries, Yellow berries on September 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
There is so much colour in the garden now… it’s the berries! Viburnum dilatatum ‘Erie’ Orange red berries Viburnum dilatatum ‘Mt. Airy’ more what I call ‘Christmas Red’ Viburnum dilatatum ‘Michael Dodge’ yellow berries Purple Beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Issai’) American Beautyberry, the white form. (Callicarpa americana’Lactea‘) There is a more common [...]
ELECTRIC POKE
Posted in Clematis, Companion Planting, Viburnums, tagged companion planting, perilla, Poke weed, viburnum Michael Dodge, Yellow berries on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I love the electric poke weed! How can I cut it down? How can I leave it?! How can I cut it down?! It is brilliant with the yellow berries of Viburnum dilatatum ‘Michael Dodge’. I’ll deal with it when I deal with the Purple Perilla… Both are thugs! The No- show at this party…the [...]
