Goatsbeard (Aruncus).
Lysimachia.
Japanese tree lilca (Syringa reticulata)
Solos
Category: Woodies
Trees and shrubs I grow.
Backing off
Saxton Holt inspired me to move in close to subjects this spring. Now I’m slowly learning to move back as the scenery expands to vignettes and landscapes.
Colbert: Fir tree lung
Cleaning up the DVR, discovered gardening related content on Colbert that I missed last week.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Craziest F#?king Thing I’ve Ever Heard – Fir Tree Lung | ||||
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‘Surfeit of yellow’
A few years ago, I read an authoritative book on perennials published circa 1955. It panned a plant (maybe Lysimachia punctata) as merely contributing to the ‘surfeit of yellow’ that comes with spring. Like Nan over at Hayefield (Hello Yellow) the yellows and ‘ serious chartreuse’ of this time of year are warm and welcome.
Caltha palustris. Note deer that Jade did not chase away.
A patch of artemisia, the maple leafing out, the neighbor’s willow, tulips at the base of the maple, and those things that kind of look like Doronicums (Leopard’s bane) coming up in the lawn.
Close-up of the artemisia. It grows dull as the season progresses.
Daffodil open house
An annual ritual around here is the open house hosted by Nina Bassuk, woody plant specialist in the Department of Horticulture where I work, and her husband Peter Trowbridge, chair of the Landscape Architecture Department. They’ve planted something like 60,000+ daffodils over the years. And there are always some other interesting things to see at their place.
