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2. Things overheard on our garden tour:
1. Not all your clematis are large and showy…but are still very beautiful. People tossed about words like tiny, delicate and bell-shaped.
2. Why have I never seen these plants before?
3. You have mixed native plants with perennials and I like it!
4. What do you feed your hostas?
3. Plant names from the garden tour at our place: the top 10…of OH So many!
1. Thalictrum splendide
2. Arisaema candidissimum
3. Podophyllum Spotty Dotty
4. Katsura Red Fox
5. Clematis Florida Sieboldii
6. Gillenia trifoliata
7. Cercis Forest Pansy
8. Saint John’s Wort
9. Astrantia (pictured below with Astilbe)
10. Amsonia hubrichtii
4. Favourite plant Stories:
1.The stages of the Skeleton Plant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84YboMfyzjo)
2. How is a Florida Dogwood different from a Kousa Dogwood? (https://farmingtongardens.com/dogwoods-cornus-florida-vs-c…/)
5. Several of the visitors took photographs of our bench and potting table. I think there are carpenters in the group!
6. So glad we got you talking about plants…even in the rain!
Clematis Mrs Harvey with Blue Delphinium
Enjoy your gardens , rain or shine!
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Oh, your photos are lovely; and it sounds like the garden tour went really well. Congratulations!
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Beautiful photos. Your garden tour sounds wonderful…love the comments. Astrantia is a plant that has appeared on quite a few blogs recently and I think deservedly so as it’s a gorgeous flower. I don’t think it would survive in my hot garden, I’m afraid. St John’s Wort is a noxious weed here!
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Astrantia comes in a mix of colours…and all are fun in their own way. It tends to seed about quite a bit here, but is not difficult to remove if you need to. St John’s Wort is the same here. It came with our house and grows directly under a giant cedar in deep shade. It would require a backhoe to remove the wort! But, it bloomed the first day of the tour and many people thought it might be a solution to difficult areas. I’m not so sure!
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Beautiful garden and post…..oh, I would love to have those blue delphiniums in my garden!
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I brought the delphiniums to this garden 4 years ago when we moved from Ontario to British Columbia. I managed to keep them vertical until after the tour. We’ve had lots of rain lately which has broken several things. 😦
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The quilts are incredible too! What a lovely way to display them.
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We had six quilts on the first day, but rain on the second day – so only 2 in a protected spot. They are of course two sided, which makes them even more special!
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Congratulations! Your garden looks beautiful! I do like your blue Delphinium in this Six and the hostas taken in picture from below give them a slender shape ….
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This is Hosta Krossa Regal which we planted in an old stump and replenish with soil annually.The vase form is its habit. With its flower stems, it has quickly grown into a very tall plant.
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There have been a few clematis in sixes over the last few weeks that I’ve liked, but I have just written down the name ‘Mrs Harvey’, which is the best yet. The Delphiniums are lovely too but I cannot grow them, slug fodder.
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You may have a difficult time locating Mrs Harvey, but keep at it! She was “discovered” in Ontario near Mrs Harvey’s gardens. (http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=3338) Do you know Clematis Roguchi? It is similar, though not exactly the same. (http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=962)
For some reason I have not had much of a slug problem and my hostas have been spared.
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Why did I never think to grow astilbe w/astrantia? How gorgeous are they together? That hosta looks pretty robust, so no surprise people were impressed. And the quilt on the left is stunning. Absolutely. What a good cause. Glad you survived the tour (I hate hosting open gardens).
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I have hosted tours in the past, but this was the first 2 day event for me…and quite exhausting! The people were very sweet and interesting. We were celebrated at a dinner afterwards and it was lovely!
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