Swapping Huckleberries
Himalayan Honeysuckle ( Vaccinium glauco album) Himalayan Honeysuckle ( Vaccinium glauco album) has been an attractive feature along our north-facing foundation since I planted it in 2016. You will have to take my word for it since I cannot locate a photo although I know one exists somewhere in the realm of the Internet or floating on a cloud somewhere. I did locate a photo of how it looked when it was first planted - It took a few years to fill out but it did so nicely to an attractive mound about 2 feet high by 3 feet wide. Last year, it started to look bad. I cut it back but it had not improved and this is how it looked a few weeks ago - I decided to rip it out and plant another huckleberry - this time Vaccinium ovatum , more commonly known as the "Evergreen Huckleberry". This is a plant that I've wanted for ages and kept putting off getting one because I could not find a good place for it. By most accounts, this is an amazing plant, a native one and excellent for
Now that is much appreciated. Fantastic pics and wish I had even one bloom still here. Thank you for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers and gorgeous captures, Phillip! I did see the little ladybug. The weather has been bizarre.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great surprise...especially that Campanula!
ReplyDeleteHow I wish we could grow camelias... exquisite... Larry
ReplyDeleteI need to go and check my camelias. I haven't walked around and checked thing out since knee surgery. I did go into the greenhouse to water the shrubs I bought on close out and the field mice are chewing the limbs off. I gave the something else to eat and put another one down a couple of days later as the first one was eaten. I need to get rid of them before spring. Two years ago they ate the seeds that I was starting out of the containers and I'm not having that occur again next spring.
ReplyDeleteHave a Merry Christmas Phillip and Michael.
happy Christmas Phillip and Michael, I hope the season is filled with goodness for you both, gail PS pretty flowers.
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays! Thanks for your great gardening posts, always enjoy them. Anne
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Phillip! Lovely to see your beautiful blooms! Sigh!
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Carol
Our Camellias are look good here also. I hope they don't all pop open too soon though. Merry Christmas to you both.
ReplyDeleteWishing you and Michael a "Very Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Year".
ReplyDeleteCynthia & David
Those Bellflowers are exquisite. Exquisite image of the pink camellia too. Just lovely.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
So lucky! I would do anything to be able to grow Camellia here! When i lived in ATL we had so many. Nothing in Nashville winter blooms!
ReplyDeleteGreat photos as usual!
Beautiful blossoms still! Merry Christmas to you and your family, Phillip. May 2012 be kind to us all and bring continued well-being.
ReplyDeleteFlowers on the first day of winter. What a wonderful find!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Phillip.
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