Hallson Gardens

Yellow Goat's-Beard. :o Found it on the last page of "yellow" at my favorite wildflower/weed site: http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/tragopogondubi.html Your one picture matches identically. I think I had these in a garden where I grew up. The seed heads are amazing. Mom used to spray th...

Very nice, Liselotte. We've been wanting a p. obovata, but it is very expensive! How long did that take to bloom from seed?

Oh, did a little more googling and discovered that what Mt. Cuba labeled a tiarella is apparently mitella diphylla . http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/mitelladiph.html How taxonomists tell these things apart... There may be some confusion in saxifragaceae . I wonder if mitella would make...

Arisaema dracontium
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/gal ... adrac.html

Much rarer than the usual native jack-in-the-pulpit. One has to wonder why.

Bought the new Heuchera/Heucherella book last night, after DH had just planted 5 Strawberry Candys and 6 Petite Marbled Burgundys (or was it 6 and 5?) off the patio. Should make the hummers happy! One annoyance with the book: why couldn't they include at least some discussion of the genus tiarella ?...

Nice one. I (ahem) "rescued" one of these from where I used to work (flood plain in a shale-laden creek valley). I honestly don't remember it setting seed at my place. Always a nail-biter to see if it's going to return in the spring. But this year, whaddya know but I find two of the little guys, one...

Well, we opted for coreopsis lanceolata: some Sunray and some Tequila Sunrise. We had killed TS in that bed before, but they went in late in the drought year that killed about everything. I wanted to go with verbena Taylortown red in front of those (questionable hardiness even here) but they only ha...

Well, sounds like we either think of these as 2-year perennials (as with Goldsturm) or come up with an alternative. If I could just get them to self-seed in the meadow... I know DH likes sedum Autumn Joy, and we have some Matrona and/or Vera Jameson around... might could go for that. Also have a num...

We have a big swath of space to fill in on our (mostly) sunny berm. We've used rudbeckia before, but they seem short-lived and seeded all over the place. Way too much work to weed and mulch around. (This is right next to our meadow, so drifting weed seeds are a real problem.) We're considering some ...

Nice. Looks pretty hefty for a volunteer. Let's hope for pretty blooms!

Here's a pic after the front bed re-do.

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I'll try to make a 2006 update post soon. I see my list above is a little out of date.

What a great spring-time plant. We paid umpteen dollars for this from Barry Yinger a few years back, but haven't regretted it since. Just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

The seed pods open late in summer to reveal hot pink seeds!

David

You lucky so-and-so!

I imagine that's cyprepedium calceolus. Here's a pic from U Mo.

Michael Dirr (author of new hydrangea book, among others) spoke about this one's history in a talk I heard recently. Seems he was visiting a nursery way up north somewhere, and saw a row of hydrangeas blooming their heads off—in late September! He casually asked the nursery owner about them, and was...

Welcome and hello, BillyB. Gotta love a guy who can say "a collection of Chamaecyparis" with a straight face Gardeners rule!

Thanks, Debbie. The blues there are two different ones: Hadspen Blue and another one that was sold to us as Blue Moon. Certain authorities insist that this plant is growing far to well to be the "true" Blue Moon (and Eric Smith was know to be a bit casual with his plant naming and hand-outs), so we ...

Used to have an a. sikokianum... great plant. Lost it in the drought, I guess, or the acer japonicum strangled it.

Saw some at a local nursery on Sunday. Nice plants, but $50 each!

Still waiting for my green dragon to reappear in the woods. It always makes me nervous.

Heucheras self-seed happily in our beds, and many of the chilluns are as pretty as their promiscuous parents. I have to work hard to keep track of the named plants vs. the volunteers. With the new plants (see the other post) adding to the genetic soup, who knows what might show up! (do you know, phy...

Paid a lot of money this weekend (hey, it was charity, and there was wine) for 3 pots of Lime Rickey and 3 pots of Hollywood. Turns out the 3 pots of Hollywood, on closer inspection, each contained 3 TC liners (barely more). The Lime Rickeys were fuller, and nicer looking than ones I saw the next da...

I was stunned to see virused Striptease at a very reputable local nursery yesterday. I made them put the obviously infected plants under the bench for the manager to see today, but now will call and urge him/her to destroy the whole lot.

Let's hope the Sultana I bought was clean...

David