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Gravel Landscape in Dorset

Summertime inspiration for a sizable contemporary gravel backyard landscaping that is tolerant of drought.

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Featured Photo: Flower of the Day – The Caradonna Wood Sage Mainacht

Featured Photo: Flower of the Day – The Caradonna Wood Sage Mainacht

Today’s Featured Flower Photo of the Day: Caradonna Wood Sage Mainacht Here is today’s featured photo flower presentation. To let this year shine bright, I am featuring fine photos of flowers, continuing to honor the brighter side of life again this year. Today’s Flower of the day is the Caradonna Wood Sage Mainacht. The Caradonna Wood Mainacht, or the Salvia Nemorosa x Sylvestris ‘Caradonna’ in…

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#Flowers #Nature #Photography #Spring

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my daffodils are suffering in this cold. It’s spring now, let’s cut this shit already, huh?

I don’t have structured plans for my garden per se, I just want to plant pretty flowers that look nice. It doesn’t even matter if they’re annual or perennial, New York winters are liable to kill anything that isn’t a woody shrub anyway so it’s not a meaningful distinction. Looking at Home Depot’s website led me to Agapanthus which I think I like, I’ll have to keep an eye open for that. It would also be nice to get Salvia “Mainacht” and foxglove again this year. And then there’s the question of food plants. My Carolina reaper is hanging on by the skin of its teeth, my strawberry seems to be growing into its new pot, and mom is trying to grow tomatoes from seeds. But is there anything else I might be interested in like cucumbers or eggplant? And will I need to rely on online shopping for all this?

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salvia x sylvestris 'mainacht'

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flower combinations

Plants tagged in this photo:

Rose (Rosa 'Julia Child')

Rose (Rosa 'Easy Does It')

Rose (Rosa 'Gizmo')

Rose (Rosa 'Just Joey')

Rose (Rosa 'Opening Night')

Rose (Rosa 'Fourth of July')

Clematis 'Miss Bateman'

Tickseed (Coreopsis 'Jethro Tull')

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Chicago Apache')

Cutleaf Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Orangeola')

Coneflower (Echinacea 'Raspberry Truffle')

Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Ruby Giant')

Hosta 'June'

Mexican False Heather (Cuphea hyssopifolia)

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Dracula')

Rose (Rosa 'Pope John Paul II')

Mountain Bluet (Centaurea montana 'Amethyst in Snow')

Trailing Lantana (Lantana montevidensis 'Trailing Lavender')

Bigflower Coreopsis (Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise')

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Oktoberfest')

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Sanford Toad Hall')

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Texas Beautiful Bouquet')

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Solar Music')

Sage (Salvia nemorosa 'Mainacht')

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium 'Red Velvet')

Dianthus (Dianthus acantholimonoides)

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'James Clark')

Littleleaf Boxwood (Buxus microphylla var. japonica)

Clematis Filigree™

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Madame Pele')

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Joshua J. Cullins')

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Gartenrand von Hydrangea Annabelle, Agapanthus, Salvia Mainacht und Echinops € ...

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Award Winning Aromatic Plants

Award Winning Aromatic Plants I recently was involved in the exhibition of a show garden at the 2006 "Garden Heaven" exhibition. I worked along with Terra Garden Ireland based in Claregalway on the bronze medal winning Malaysian themed garden "Neo Nusantara". The garden combined wood, stone, earth and planting with two unique water features. The design aimed to appease and rejuvenate the five senses. Sight, touch, sound, smell and taste. Beautiful dark woods and running water used in the construction were a delight to the senses of sight, touch and sound. I used carefully selected planting to arouse the sense of smell. Here are two of the plants I used to add scent to the garden. Use them to add scent to your garden as well. * Sage, for scent and flower Salvia x sylvestris "Mainacht" commonly known as May night sage is a hardy perennial native to Western Asia and Europe. This sage is a colourful plant with indigo-blue flower spikes throughout June and July. In order to achieve this prolonged flowering you must remove the flower spikes as soon they start to fade. The striking flowers are held above the plants wrinkled and aromatic grey-green leaves. As well as exciting the gardener's sense of smell, this plant will also excite and attract plenty of butterflies and bees. These visitors will add an extra and welcome visual element to your garden. You need not worry that Salvia x sylvestris "Mainacht" is going to engulf or overpower you planting areas. It only grows at a moderate pace to height of 60cm (2ft), with a similar spread. Position this reliable perennial in the front or middle of a well-drained border. It does really well in sun or dappled shade where the bright blue flowers will add a colour boost to green leaved plants. * English lavender for scent and butterflies The second scented plant is Lavandula angustifolia "Hidcote" commonly known as English lavender. This small evergreen shrub (some people say herb) originated in Europe and Asia and grows to a height of 0.6 metres (2ft); with a similar spread. Growing in many gardens throughout the country, its long stalked deep purple flower spikes wave gently above narrow grey-green aromatic leaves. These blooms will last for many weeks to come whilst on the plant, when cut for indoor display these flowers will last up to 10 days. I suggest you cut back the flower stalks after flowering to maintain the plant's compact shape. Care must be taken not to cut into old wood as this can cause large areas of the plant to die back. The oil of lavender extracted from this frost hardy shrub is used to this day in the production of soaps, scented candles, perfumes and making potpourri. Lavender copes well with free draining or sandy soils and is an ideal container plant in full sun due to its drought resistance. I would recommend this scented plant for edging walkways or simply if you want to attract some butterflies into your garden space. Another great lavender for this purpose is Lavandula angustifolia "Munstead" http://fighteraccess.com

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So I decided to be a naughty boy and see if a different Home Depot had more herbs/vegetables. And the one I went to actually allows you to enter the garden section directly, so....great. They definitely had more of a selection compared to my “usual” place, but they were still out of cucumbers and eggplant and a lot of cultivars of pepper. But I got bell peppers and dragon cayenne which are fun and you can eat them as snacks. I also bought a pot of Senetti which I was unfamiliar with but couldn’t resist their almost supernatural color. Evidently, it’s a manmade hybrid between different families which is frustrating to someone who tries to be marginally familiar with the taxonomy of his plants. It’s technically a perennial but cannot tolerate frost so it’s effectively an annual in my USDA zone. There were other things of interest, but I think I’ll hold off on getting Salvia “Mainacht” until I get the “Marcus” I ordered online.

I have to admit that I’m losing faith in my Carolina Reaper plant, so I’m buying seedlings on Etsy.

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In retrospect I could have just bought this insect house at ACE, but I just needed to save $10 at the cost of waiting until June and risking shipping damage

ACE also had ghost peppers which is real funny considering how frenzied I got when Home Depot ran out of them. Incidentally, there’s now like a whole shelf of them there.

A hanging basket of Blue Fan. I’m still mulling over if I should add anything else to my garden since atm it’s really just utilitarian things to repel mosquitoes and ants with the Salvia ‘Mainacht’ doing double duty as something I think is pretty. The Ajuga reptans I planted may potentially be taking after all, it’s just a matter of this being the end of their flowering season. The point of all this in the first place was to let these perennials get a foothold in my yard...and possibly also use fresh rosemary in my cooking.

#garden

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