News flashes

Flash!!

• Tropical storm Beryl drops three inches of precious rain on the garden
• Alfalfa tea lavishly ladled this weekend - one barrel leaks itself empty
• Black Hen sprinkled all over garden before rain hits
• Sunn Hemp seeds sown in empty garden spaces, promises nitrogen fixing, nematode deterrance

Flash!! Flash!!

• Canon EOS Rebel T1i DSLR camera purchased on Ebay
• Stay tuned for the photos

• ‘Mrs. B. R. Cant’ blooms in dead shade, never touched by sun

• Fears of bloomless summer unwarranted

• ‘Venosa Violacea’ declares May 29th Purple Day

• ‘Blush Noisette’ buds bode big bloom

• Baby ‘Bermuda’s Anna Olivier’ bears first bud

• First bud opens

• Clematis ‘Jackmanii’ surprises all with appearance

• ‘Modern Marvel’ marvelous when wet

• Amber alert! Daylily missing name

• ‘Mary Guthrie’ joins in bud uprising

• ‘Quietness’ makes noise

• Caladiums voice support for shady roses: ‘Etoile de Mai’ & ‘Bow Bells’

• ‘Bow Bells’ sprouts on pegged canes after 16 days

• ‘Madame Lombard’ up in arms

• Clematis ‘Henryi’ takes first step to top

• ‘Clotilde Soupert’ beats gardener to punch, sprouts before Saturday’s deadheading

• ‘White Pet’ refuses not to bloom

• ‘Le Vesuve’ drenched, unbowed

• ‘Maggie’ voted Most Powerful Woman in garden

• Promises more, more, more

• ‘Full Moon Rising’ feeling fine after transplant

• Manifests multiple blooming laterals along horizontal cane
  
  

• Declares victory over verticality

• ‘Fred Ham’ announces campaign slogan “Go Yellow!”

• Echinacea named Flower of the Century

• ‘Duquesa’ rejoices after rain

 

• ‘Francois Juranville’ lets hair down, soon to be coifed

On a much more serious subject I’m asking for the prayers of the faithful for my newest, sweet daughter-in-law, Missy, who received word today that she has Stage-2 breast cancer and will have a mastectomy by Monday, and for dear son, Mark, who loves her so much. She’s in God’s gracious, loving, almighty hands…as are we all. From the day we first met, Missy has made Tom and me feel truly loved.

All my children

…and can I remember all their names?

'Absolute Treasure'

'Marietta Dreamer'

'Crimson Pirate' - Not positive since I didn't save the name on the Sam's box but pretty sure of the ID

'Elizabeth Ferguson' - very large flower and tall

'Mary Guthrie'

'Quietness'

'Sherry Lane Carr'

'White Pet'

'White Pet'

I have no clue.

'Byzantine Emperor'

Dahlia 'Lucca Johanna' - Walmart came through beautifully on this one.

'Madame Abel Chatenay'

'Madame Abel Chatenay'

'Chrysler Imperial'

'Chrysler Imperial'

'All American Magic'

Clematis 'Princess Diana' unless I have them mixed up and it's 'Duchess of Albany'.

'Souvenir de la Malmaison'

'Sherry Lane Carr'

'Anda'

Salvia farinacea

'White Pet' - one huge cluster

''Faces Of A Clown' - first flowers often aren't perfect, missing a sepal.

'Lucca Johanna'

'Madame Abel Chatenay' - Her fading flowers remind me of a Victorian lady's flouncy dressing gown. What else would an 1894 rose look like?

'Madame Abel Chatenay'

Coreopsis

'Hermosa'

Echinacea aka Purple Coneflower

'Souvenir de la Malmaison'

'Quietness'

'Caribbean Perfection Plus' described as canary yellow. Glow-in-the-dark yellow is more like it. More glowing than this photo.

The rose fairy came today. A baby 'Rosette Delizy' was delivered in person by the lovely Cydney Wade of Rose Petals Nursery. I'm very excited to have the beautiful 'Rosette Delizy' back in my garden. She'll go into a 2-gallon pot and be planted next spring. Many, many cuttings of 'Mme Abel Chatenay' and 'Capitaine Dyel de Graville' were taken back to the nursery. Wait for them.

'Gruss an Teplitz' in a 3-gallon pot also arrived today with 3 buds. Can't wait to see and smell them.

I'll break the bad news first. 'Bermuda's Anna Olivier' didn't make it. She probably would have though had it not been for the murderous squirrels. Unbelievably, the day after my post about her all of the tiny new upper growth was gone, and the three basal breaks were chewed off. As more new canes sprouted, they were chewed off to nothing. I finally gave up hope and pulled her out. I could not bear to see her tortured. She had a handful of short roots and without the squirrels perhaps she could have made it. The good news is that this little baby is 'Bermuda's Anna Olivier'. She'll also be potted on to a 2-gallon pot for planting next spring. In the meantime Salvia farinacea fills the void.

Clematis 'Venosa Violacea', a viticella

The back garden just before dusk.

'Absolute Treasure' in the evening light looking unlike herself in the first photo above but still beautiful.