Rose 'Silas Marner', a 2024 bit of retail plant therapy
Some retail recreation this past weekend at a favorite garden center. Beloved enjoyed taking some photos while I perused the goods.
Garden center photos by Beloved.
Passiflora vitifolia:
Phlomis fruticosa:
A pure, simple Hemerocallis:Yellow Anagozantos, intense!Tanacetum camphoratum:The Tanacetum is native to several locations in coastal Central and Northern California.
Lots of roses. 'Iceberg', of course:
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Quite a lot of the "house" plants caught Beloved's eye.
An array of Tillandsias: Gloxinia? Just a guess:Phaelenopsis:More Phaelenopsis:Back outdoors. Tibouchina:Various Cacti and other xeric plants, nicely displayed: Cussonia paniculata, very nice!
Decidedly non-xeric, the store's Koi pond. Koi that look happy and healthy. Unlike my pond that's gone green-watered lately, you can actually see the fish. Green, pH stable, heavily filtered and aerated water is not unhealthy water, but you can't see the fish, grrr. Hydrangea paniculata 'Phantom':
Beloved kindly took photos of the plant labels, too, besides all the beautiful photos.
Meantime, I gawked, studied, debated, decided.
Here I am studying a specimen Operculicarya decaryi
Operculicarya decaryi in all its caudiciformic glory:I was hoping to add a few plants to provide some summer interest in case the zinnias and cosmos sown recently do not succeed. What we came home with:
Clockwise from top left:
Dicliptera squarrosa, for the hummers.
Gomphrena 'Truffula Pink'
Verbena bonariensis
Silene uniflora 'Druitts Variegated'
Strobelanthes dyeranus
When I got home I realized the Gaillardias were actually Gazanias. Winter daisies, not summer. Oops.
I'm counting on you, Zinnias!
They've got their first true leaves:
Dicliptera for the east side slope, where it will feed hummers and not get eaten by rabbits (I read rabbits don't like the fuzzy foliage).
The Verbena and Gomphrena to fill empty spots by the gully gate:
Strobilanthes for a splash of purple under the Acer while the Alstroemerias take a summer snooze:
A lovely summer morning of plant therapy. Thumbs up!
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