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A Visit to Cistus Nursery

I rarely go to nurseries anymore since I work part-time at one and another reason being that I don't have much room for additional plants. When a garden fanatic runs out of room, the brain goes into overdrive, dreaming up ingenious ways to incorporate more plants. And another thing happens - a burning desire to obtain rare and unique plants. I've been moving plants around, a tricky process that has a domino effect. A plant is unhappy - it is getting too much shade or perhaps too much sun. There is a plant that did not get as large as you thought it would or it is just a slow grower and now it is hopelessly hidden behind a taller plant. Sometimes a plant is just a dud for reasons unknown (Rhododendron 'Golden Gate' anyone?). I find the plant in question a better home, but it means that another plant will have to be moved. And the merry-go-round continues to turn... However, for those plants that are to be discarded, a space opens up for a new one! I decided to move a Mou...

New blooms

Some of the new plants I planted this spring are finally blooming -

Buddelia 'Miss Molly'
Buddleia 'Blue Chip'
Cestrum 'Orange Peel'

Cestrum 'Orange Peel'
 

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

Comments

  1. So nice to get some new blooms to keep the garden going late in the season.

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  2. I can not say enough nice things about my 'Orange Peel'. It began blooming in May and has not stopped yet. It even got pruned by a car, and you would not know it today.

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  3. How I wish the 'golden jasmine' would bloom in the northeast!

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  4. The blue chip buddleia is so pretty. I had that once. It didn't like it here for some reason.

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  5. Very nice. Are you going to root any of them over the winter?

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  6. My apple trees are blooming. Lovely blooms.

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  7. Don't you just love the wide variety of critters attracted by your buddleia? Mine has become quite the attraction!

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  8. Love checking out your buddleiia with such a variance in size and color.

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