Some of my spring pretty's

[Tamianth]

Well, here's a couple of shots of some of my foundlings I have transplanted to a pot. Found these growing on the bank last year and thought they would look lovely around the pond, meanwhile, they reside in a pot out front!

I found some more last summer out back that I will transplant too. They sure are pretty in bloom! They seem to be some kind of Lily...

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[Jackie Ramo]

You've dug up our provincial Flower best known as Trillium, common name Wake Robin. Takes 7 years from seed to flower and if you break them below the 3 leaves they don't flower again for several years. Pesky things. They stink as well but are pretty and a joy in the garden, not in the pond itself although they will grow in boggy conditions the die back completely as many spring flower do as soon as it gets hot.

I have to move mine this spring once they come up so I can find them

[Tamianth]

Oh wow.... I sure wasn't sure what they where. I had never noted them before, but we have been cleaning up the bank little by little and suddenly there's all these strange things popping up here and there.....
Last year I moved some yellow lily's that showed up there, spent three day's moving roots along the creek of just those. I was careful moving them. They do seem healthier then they where last year...... not so spindly or tall!

I think they grow pretty wild here too, I saw more stalks out gathering rocks last year. :grin: Couldn't hurt to through a bit of the native shrubery into good use though..... :lol:

[Jackie Ramo]

I agree. No garden should be without native plants. There's one for every space. So many of the earliest spring flowers are natives. I'm trying to grow a native orchid this year, and the blue poppy but don't really expect better luck than in the past, which is zilch... lots of expensive dead plants :lol:

[Busy B]

Those are pretty Kathy!

Free flowers...who could ask for more? :grin:

[Jojopotato]

Hi everyone....

Very pretty flowers...

[Tamianth]

Thank you Busy and Jo Jo! :)

Jackie,
Yes, I spotted some more out back last summer I think I will move also this year. They sure do bloom pretty! :smile: While we where out last summer hunting rocks I found some very different lily's, Turks Cap? Sound right? Very tiny spotted tiger lily like. And what we call Santiam lily's... I'll have to post a pic of those, they are just gorgouse...... But I also find lots of different cactus/succulents that I got starts for to add to the show around here.

Oh, I was wondering, I have a Aster that was given me, and its just taken off, is it possible to split the root to get another plant or would I just be killing it all? :?:

[Jackie Ramo]

No split the aster, you can't kill them, be sure to pinch it back as it grows, more flowers less height.

Turks caps are really nice.

[Tamianth]

Thanks Jackie! :D

I was hopeing I could do that! Its tripled in size and I want some on both sides of the waterfall. :-) Such a pretty blue that one!

I got a couple of starts for Choco-Mint, a herb...... a herb plant, pretty leaves and smells deliciouse to boot. Might make a fair tea.. LOL!

Think I'll get a couple of nice pots for that though....... Wish I had a hot house here,lol!

[Jackie Ramo]

I'd keep any mint in a pot... a rule of thumb is any plant with a square stem is related to mint and will run wild in the garden given half a chance. There may be exceptions as there are to all rules but something to keep in mind when buying plants.

[Tamianth]

That was suggested on the stake, and I think since its a trailing type, it might just be beter, looks like it roots easy, but I'll have to bring pots inside in winter too. Pretty leaves though....... :smile:

I'm itching to get outside and get to planting things..... if only the weather would co-operate now... %(

[Jackie Ramo]

I was out digging the weeds yesterday. Lots of stuff coming up but the things looked for are not up yet. Oddly enough some things I dug out last year are back again... one would think they were weeds :lol:

[marla]

Beautiful trilliums, they are different then the ones I have. Very dark leaf, large white bloom. You'd be in trouble here if you were caught digging up wild trilliums anywhere. Never heard of choco-mint but it sounds yummy.......

[Tamianth]

They are in my yard Marla, which I'm cleaning up and landscaping to some extent. The land behind me is private property and the hubby worked for the owner for 35+ years and Jimmy doesn't have a problem if I want some of his seed/bulbs or whatevers as they have logged it off to some extent either.

:smile: They are pretty though. I've seen some white ones out there too I just havn't moved them.

[Jackie Ramo]

Trillims are not rare here, although their habitat can be easily damaged. All of mine have been gathered from friends and families properties. I wish I could see them coming up.... should be showing signs by now... Also they are being grown for the nursery market here now. I'd not buy anything harvested from the wild.

[Tamianth]

Apparently as near as we can tell, the bank was planted with stuff at one time, there's oodles of Daffy dils every year. The more I clean up, the more seems to sprout up there. Eventually there's a few tree's, leaners, that have to come down, so moving the flowering items is a priority to me, I don't want them destroyed by a falling tree. Once a clean up is done, then it will behoove me to replant things there. I'm going to leave the ferns, they are hearty and grow abundantly.

[Busy B]

I haven't seen the choco mint but I bought a varigated one..I have a fetish for varigated foilage :grin:

Years ago I started in the biz with a guy who went all over the state collecting native seeds...He had an ancient printer and sold little seed packets of wildflowers. His brain is a walking encyclopedia...so much knowledge for our local fauna..He was the only one who could collect Portage Poppy's...a tiny pink poppy. Couldn't put them close to Iceland or they would cross..I used to grow the natives but for some they took years to mature.

[Jackie Ramo]

Some natives can take forever and other pop up whether wanted or not. No sign of the orchd yet but I'm hoping it survived... no sign of the blue poppie either...

[Tamianth]

Some things are just starting to come up, others have been up and getting ready to bloom here..... I lost my canna's though, the hubby didn't get the covers made soon enough and all the mulch I heaped on them didn't protect them! *sigh* :(

I had the hubby make insulated canopy's to cover them too! Oh well, I'll see to getting some new ones and a variety!

[Tamianth]

Oh Busy,
The Chocolate mint looks very pretty, deep green leaves with a hint of chocolate color and smells the same. My daughter tasted one of the leaves and said they are pretty spicy but she could detect the chocolate. I'll get a photo and post it up. Looks to be a easy rooter and a good trailer.

OH my, I had a sprig that broke off we dropped in a cup with water, it took right off...... its tripled in size and heaps of roots...... :grin: Ready to pot up already!

[marla]

I'm going to need to find me some of this. :smile:

[Tamianth]

:lol: It does appear to be prolific at this point, if it grows good, and you can't find any, give me a shout. It will need to be brought inside for winter though..... or in a hot house.

[Busy B]

Now you've got me on the search for more mint :grin:

[Tamianth]

:lol: Yes, I've been eyeballing the pond mint...... I like the smell of mint anyway! It rained today or I would have went out and taken a picture of it.
Yesterday I was gone all day shopping....

[Jackie Ramo]

Having spent the last few years battling different mints there is no way one is making it into my garden again. Mint will jump a pot in a heart beat.

[Busy B]

One of those plants to keep an eye on but the more, off the wall variety than the common, will die out here..so I took cuttings of the varigated just so I can have a few :grin:

[Jackie Ramo]

Yeah, folks told me curly mint would die out as well... maybe this is the year :-P

[Tamianth]

There was some mint outside when we moved in, so far I've managed to kill it.. All I did was move it I swear.....

It can only happen to me ya know! :lol:

[Jackie Ramo]

Its probably just sleeping :lol: Mint and that horrid Bishops Weed or sometimes sold as Gout Weed.... lovely innocent looking little variegated plant... impossible to kill. Beleive me I've tried. There was one small 12" clumbp when I moved here. I dug it up and like a fool put it in the composter... I now have it everywhere.

[Tamianth]

Honestly Jackie, I killed it! I have not seen a stalk come up in 3 years..

I actually like the bishops weed, my patch is across the creek though, but I noted it keeps the marsh marigolds killed back. I consider the marigold worde as it just takes off and takes over everything. I've had a time keeping it out of spots I don't want it, that and those horstail that run rampant.. :(

I"m going to be out for a good week trying to get that stuff under control again, it and the Oregon Grape. Paintbrush, blackberry killer and a knife again..... :( I slit the root and paint the poison in the cut. No spraying here!

[Jackie Ramo]

Truly proves different gardens grow differently I have a hard time keeping the Marsh Marigold growing never mind spreading and even spraying the bishops weed has failed to slow it down. Now white mustard and wild mint and raspberries... all weeds for me. Never should have let those 3 or 4 raspberry bushes alone for a season...

[Tamianth]

Jackie you would most likely flip out over this house we know of down the hill. Must be about a acre of blackberry's there, covers at least the one side of the house and its been this way for years......... :eek: Downright scary!

Hubby swears the darn things have to be growing through the walls into the inside and it just amazes us that anyone would let it go like that! !wow!

!rofl And I have a few of those berry bushes here.... Darn things are the pits to kill back. Got some skunk cabbage that grows along the creek too, tried to dig it up one year as the dogs invaribly get around it. phew! They don't call it skunk cabbage for nothin.......

They do have cool flowers though,lol!

[Jackie Ramo]

Kathy Skunk Cabage is one of hubby's favourite flowers... I don't think he has ever smelled one, just sees them in the woods from the car and says how come we don't have those in the garden.....


Maybe Sleeping Beuaty is in that house. Wasn't her palace surrounded by briars !rofl

[Tamianth]

!rofl Ok, he can all of mine he wants, he has to come dig it up though...
:lol:

Here's a pic of the mint and one of my newest little garden area, you can see the creek running past behind it somewhat. Of course its not finished, I want to get one more layer of rock around that I think and have hubby hollow out the center of the stump and plant something in it I think.....

The daiseys are growing though, along with bleeding heart etc. :)

[Jackie Ramo]

I'd be worried he'd ruin that lovely moss hollowing it out. A bigger pot would work.

I admit the choclate mint looks good

[Tamianth]

!rofl That moss grows all over everything here... the one thing that truly grows well here.. through the lawn even in the sun! Yeah, I thought a big pot there would also be nice. Maybe I can put one of those big spike palms there, lol! !bonk

[Jackie Ramo]

If you do, spare me the picture... :lol: Got a couple of hanging baskets and one planter done today. A bit of room left in them for the plants that are not yet available. Some plants overwinter quite well and some... well not so good.

[Tamianth]

!rofl Tryin ta break my camera?

I'm going to have a time of it figuring out just where to put those.....

I think I know where one can go since I have a lot of cactus/succulent items in that area...

I think some hefty pots are in order though first..... :lol:

Yes, the choc mints foliage is rather apealing for color, so more pots....

Sounds like a shopping trip to me..... :lol:

[Jackie Ramo]

Yes, more plant shopping. :lol: Hubby says first I have to plant the ones I've bought... spoil sport!

[Busy B]

I like the backdrop for the new bed..

Lucky dog you..a creek running on your property?

[Tamianth]

Yes, it comes through the yard from about oh 40 feet back from that little garden spot to the left. The pond is actually to the left of that pic and back a bit. And it runs up and turns across the full front dropping down to the river. We've been rocking the banks in to keep the high winter run off from taking out any more bank. The creek is my water source for fresh water in the pond, and also the city water. Water plant sits up the hill from us.

We get a few small brooke trout & baby's in the creek every spring, so I feed them also from time to time. They just love it when I net out the small fir needles and bugs from the pond and will hang in the hole right there while I toss them the bugs,lol!

There's one thats about 6 inch's the minute I tap the net on a rock, its right up in the hole waiting. :lol: