June 2014 (first half)

Breadloaf Westport Chairs from Jardinique

Ian and Sandy delivered (from Ontario) and assembled their chairs for us! Great people, great chairs.

David

An  old bearded iris cultivar from David's parents' garden near Millbrook. David grew it for years on his Philadelphia roof deck. We don't have a name for the iris, but are happy to have it again, sent from Tom Gartside in Philadelphia.

Up the new garden steps. An innocently creeping little hawkweed, Hieracium tarda, with Hypoxis hirstuta, Euphorbia seguieriana var. niciciana, and Iris pallida dalmatica.

Two Benches. View from outside the screened porch, across the big island bed, up to the new stone bench at the edge of the woods. Roses (R. 'Doorenbos Selection' and Sweet Rocket in the island bed.

 

A self-sowing double-flowered perennial poppy of impeccable provenance (seed from Graham Stuart Thomas by way of Charles Cresson), but uncertain nomenclature. GST called it Papaver atlanticum 'Flore Pleno'. Few of us would argue.

Iris 'Over the River', backed by Spiraaea 'Golden Elf'

Shady nook by the front steps, with Foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia 'Running Tapestry'; Sweet Rocket and Euphorbia polychroma.

Under the fenced garden bench, Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears', Thalictrum kiusianum, Viola odorata alba and Sedum reflexum

A sea of partly self-sown Allium christophii in the fenced garden, with purple foliage from foliage from Penstemon 'Dark Towers' (and Heuchera villosa atropurpurea) and foreground blue from Nepeta 'Purssian Blue'

 

Iris laevigata 'Variegata' in the pool, Sweet Rocket behind the wall

Clematis 'Chinook', a non-clinging clematis in an upside down tomato cage for support. The clematis was planted last fall; in a year or two it should fill the cage and spill out. Geum 'Totally Tangerine' and red Shirley Poppies behind.

Iris 'Mr. Peacock, Paeonia 'Alabaster Pearl', Rosa Corylus, R. 'Louis Riel', Phudd Hill behind.

Spring 2014

This spring Terry Degayter and Dan replaced many of our old locust log steps with stone; and we acquired two beautiful Breadloaf chairs, a variation the Westport chair, from Sandy and Ian at Jardinique.

Every spring means daffodils to us. We grow over a hundred twenty kinds, so really, this is not so many photographs. Beware, though-- more may come.

New stone bench

Terry and Dan installing stone garden steps on the east side of the house

Window view down to the pool terrace and new garden steps

Cornus 'Midwinter Fire'

Galanthus 'S. Arnott'

Galanthus 'Atkinsii' behind the new stone driveway edging. Cornus 'Midwinter Fire' and Salix 'Flame' behind.

  

Last year's divisions of Galanthus 'S. Arnott' below Cornus 'Midwinter Fire'

Galanthus plicatus

Galanthus 'S. Arnott' with Cornus 'Midwinter Fire'

Galanthus woronowii, our latest-flowering snowdrop

Unknown miniature trumpet daffodil. We never planted this-- it came along as a rogue with some other bulb planting.

Narcissus 'Monal' with Chionodoxa luciliae

Narcissus 'Golden Echo', a jonquil hybrid. Probably our longest lasting, sometimes our favorite, daffodil

Narcissus 'Golden Echo'

Narcissus 'Red Lips' in the meadow at the foot of the new garden steps

Narcissus 'Red Lips' close

Narcissus 'Red Lips' in the meadow

An unnamed seedling daffodil that volunteered in the fenced garden.

Narcissus 'Lilac Charm', an intermediate-sized daffodil in the Cyclamineus group. The color here is in the young flowers. Later they develop a little more of the would-be lilac tones (if you look very hard with the right frame of mind). Whatever the color, another of our favorite daffodils.

Narcissus 'Lemon Honey' with the bright yellow young foliage of Tanacetum 'Isla Gold'. Again, these are young flowers. Later they develop more white in the cup, along with tones of honey or buff in the yellow.

Narcissus 'Ethereal Beauty'

Narcissus 'Fragrant Rose' in the Fenced Garden

 

Narcissus 'Parterre' under winterberry hollies, Thalictrum thalictroides in front, an amelanchier (native to the site) in bloom behind

Narciissus 'Fellows Favorite' in the meadow

Narcissus 'Olive Branch'

Camassia 'Electra' and Camaissia leichtlinii

Camassia 'Electra'

Camassia 'Electra' and Aquilegia canadensis, both hummingbird flowers