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Trillium Highlights
Another plant genus that was loving my new border this past year was the Trilliums. I had ordered a few new ones from Kevock in 2013 and they all made it through their first winter! Trillium recurvatum was not that impressive yet and naturally Trillium rivale was quite small, as it should be. Trillium kurabayashii though, was already quite impressive! (Above) Out of my old Trilliums, the T. erectums continue to thrive. They seem to manage fine even in quite dry soil. (Above and below) Trillium grandiflorum ‘Snowbunting’ (below) had an impressive showing of two flowers [yes I’m a bit sarcastic], but it is a slow grower, as they all…
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Magnolia Gallery
The Magnolia genus is another plant family that manages to take my breath away. You can only grow a few magnolias in Southern Finland, so I treasure the ones I have very dearly. My best magnolia is Magnolia kobus var. borealis, Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’ does quite well and my mother has a ‘Merrill’ that shows potential. I have a ‘Raspberry Ice’ that struggles. Before I was forced to move ‘Sunsation’ and ‘Woodsman’ they were doing well, but the move killed them. I had a Magnolia sieboldii that was doing fairly well, but it was planted in a place that was too dry. A few summer’s ago the drought killed it.…
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Remembering Last Spring
It’s been a while since my last post. Somehow the whole gardening season went by and ending an evening in front of the computer never seemed that interesting. But now that it is the darkest of November, perhaps a look back at the spring blooms would be nice? Seen above is the dog tooth lily that I once found at the bottom of my grandmother’s garden. It is probably a white version of Erythronium dens-canis. Another novelty (with one winter behind it) was the interesting form of a wood anemone that I bought from a plant market at Annala in Helsinki. Anemone nemorosa ‘Viridiformis’, above. I was glad to see…
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2014 – It’s on!
Hamamelis ‘Aphrodite’ is the first plant to flower in my garden this year! As long as the weather continues to be mild, the snowdrops will soon follow. I’m getting excited for the gardening year!
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Border Building
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/HenrikaGardening/borderbuilding1.jpg Almost the whole border Time flies when you have a lot to do… Work, renovating more than half my home and tackling this beast of a border that I started on last fall. The border is going fairly well. I’ve improved the soil in the shade curve with lots of peat based compost and I’m doing the same with the rest of it. Last fall I bought garden soil (around 20 tonnes) and it has been good in the sense that it is weed free (not counting all the maple seeds that since landed in it and then germinated) and it seems to be nicely fertilized. What I’m not…