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
All of your Rhodies are spectacular. Even the one with just one bloom. Does that blue Corydalis spread like the native yellow one? That would be fun if it did. I will have to try it. I hope you are well soon. Happy GBBD.
ReplyDeleteLisa, it has not spread in my garden.
DeleteSo gorgeous, gorgeous. My eyes thank you for the candy! The color of the Rhodies, yes, delicious! Your Camellia 'Bella Rossa', sigh. Perfection. Mine died (sob, tears).
ReplyDeleteI wonder if your area is cool-summer enough to grow Stachyrus chinensis? Now that is a stunner of a spring-show shrub.
Had a thought about retaining wall drapers from your comment on my post--what about Geranium either 'Rozanne' or 'Ann Folkard'?
I will look up that shrub. I grow 'Rozanne' geranium in other parts of the garden. I had not thought about it as a cascading plant but I bet it would.
DeleteOh, my. You have fabulous things! I've never seen a rhododendron that blue! The fancy orange flowering quince! That amazing flowering current! I want them all! And I will be researching them today.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lisa!
DeleteBeautiful blooms, every one of them!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have seen a double Flowering Quince before.
Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
Thanks Lea!
Deleteyour Epimedium versicolor 'Sulfureum' may be Epimedium p. ssp. colchicum. Lamium 'Herman's Pride' is the lamium i needed because i kept it alive. My skimmia is a sad little thing in too much shade and redwood tree root competition. It's mate died so now i will never get berries. So excited about Illicium this season. Hoping i really will manage to get 'scarlet skirts' from Xera. Illicium anisatum 'variegata' baby blooming in my garden now. Beautiful plants and photos, as usual.
ReplyDeletePossibly, I have a few other epimedium and wasn't exactly sure if I was identifying the right one. I don't see that name listed however.
DeleteHi Phillip, greetings from Alabama! You have some amazing spring blooms. That blue rhododendron took my breath away. My Rhodies haven't bloomed much, but I am ever hopeful. I planted one many years ago, and the foliage is lovely, which is why I keep it. Every year it puts out one spectacular bloom. I have 3 others, supposedly bred for the South, and after 3 years they are yet to bloom. But at least they are alive, and the foliage, like the other one, is very nice. I had to research my euphorbia too. Says I should cut it back after it flowers. I have grown euphorbias only a couple of years, and I am falling in love with them.
ReplyDeleteHello Deb, it is great to hear from you. Have you tried 'English Roseum'? It was one of the few rhododendrons that I was able to grow in Alabama. It did really well underneath a dogwood tree with dappled shade most of the day.
DeleteHow bountiful blooms of Rhododendrone at your place,even camelias are astounding too.
ReplyDeleteI envy your collection of them since we cant sustain them here in scorching summer days .
Have a great week ahead.