Photos of Plants Other Than Dahlias 2023

blown_dry · 2023-02-04T23:42:11+00:00

Continuing from https://cubits.org/Dahlias/thread/view/92058/#end_of_thread

Krista

calico20hill I hear you, I am always hoping for cheap if I’ll be honest. And now that we’re thinking about our home as a rental, I’ll need to begin filling lots of the raised beds with perennial landscaping. I’ll be lifting a couple of Itoh peonies this fall (primarily to move them) but I’m going to try to divide too. I’ve also been eyeing the new growth on the roses and wondering about taking cuttings to propogate more of them after this years foray into dahlia cuttings! I imagine it takes years until rose-cuttings become a mature plant though. I’d be happy to share some peony divisions this fall if you’d be interested!

Juliarugula

Krista I’ll be lifting a couple of Itoh peonies this fall (primarily to move them) but I’m going to try to divide too.

I did the same a couple years ago and found Itohs surprisingly easy to divide and more forgiving of being moved than the standard herbaceous. You should have good results I think!

Teddahlia

Nursery rolled out some Cyclamen plants for
$1.00 each. We bought 4 and have no idea what to do with them.

Krista

Teddahlia This is really funny because my neighbor just dug some of theirs and handed me a bucket with one over the fence. I’m also not entirely sure what to do with it, maybe a shady spot under one of the roses? Not positive the rose will like it though, and they’re more important to me than this new guy.

calico20hill

In memory of a long ago garden that I had by the back door... I planted cyclement under and around the hellebores. It was a partly shaded east facings garden and that seemed to suit them fine. Every once in a while you would see one peeking out from under the hellebore leaves. Over them were some hydrangeas and a dogwood tree.

Krista

Juliarugula Oh this is fantastic to hear! This will be my first go at lifting and dividing peonies so it’s great to hear I’ll be starting with plants that will be easier to manage. Your lungwort looks beautiful and the variegated hellebore foliage is fabulous!

Juliarugula

My shade garden is looking so pretty these days. The lungwort is really in peak form!

blown_dry

More San Francisco area succulents and oddities.

AndreaB

blown_dry pretty!

calico20hill

Help, I am out of my zone! I don't recognize those plants!

blown_dry

calico20hill The top one is a calanchoe or maybe crassula. I couldn't find the exact one. Silver leaves with a red outline. I've seen them for sale as house plants. The bottom plant is beschornia albiflora. I actually grow one of those myself a few hundred miles to the north. It's going to bloom this year and I'm excited.

KitCMC

blown_dry I love the beschorina albiflora! Is that their typical shape?!

blown_dry

KitCMC They have the rosette of sword-shaped leaves and then they make those bizarre pink Charlie Brown Christmas Tree bloom spikes.

Teddahlia

California gardens are like visiting a different planet. Love seeing the pictures.

Krista

My Chinese May Apple is blooming! I grew up in Indiana where wild May Apples would cover the valley floor along the stream bed that cut down the edge of my parents property in the summertime. Those have white flowers, so these deep purple blooms are extra pretty to me.

KitCMC

Krista love the big foliage! Is that ginger beneath?

edewitt

We've got some wild primrose popping up which hasn't appeared here the past two years since my gf bought the property. The thousands of yuccas around are in-bloom as well.

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MissyWeitzel

The last of my tulips for cuts are opening up. The fringed ones make me feel like I'm staring into the mouth of a piranha!

Krista

MissyWeitzel I touched a fringed tulip for the first time last month, while visiting the tulip festival here in Washington. I was so surprised to discover how firm the fringes are?! I expected them to be feathery and soft. Your last tulip is a pearly, beauty! The Mentons are the last to finish up in my garden. This photo is from yesterday, when I thought they looked perfect.

Juliarugula

MissyWeitzel

I love fringed tulips! Unfortunately, I haven’t found very economical sources for them so I tend to not grow them much. Here’s a photo of a particularly pretty bouquet from a few years ago…

Teddahlia

Tulips are a rip off. One flower and done.

Juliarugula

Teddahlia Tulips are a rip off. One flower and done.

I have a few varieties that reliably return for several years. Seems like the trick is to choose later blooming varieties with long stems. That way the leaves have plenty of time to absorb sun, both before and after picking.

But mostly, yes, agreed.

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