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Just some pretties for Monday

9 July, 2012 By Dee Nash

by Dee Nash
9 July, 2012Filed under:
  • Color
  • Flowers
  • Landscaping
  • Summer
  • Wildflowers

Since it’s a Monday, and we’ve all gone back to work, I thought I’d show you some of my favorite flowers blooming today. Maybe you’ll get some ideas for your garden, or you can give me some ideas for mine.

‘Grandpa Otts’ morning glory climing into Whirlwind White fan flower (scaevola) with ‘Blackie’ sweet potato vine behind.

A cold front is stalled over Oklahoma, but hasn’t reached my part of the state yet. We have been very hot, and yet, some plants soldier on. We are not as hot as last year, and my heart goes out to Tennessee and other states further east who have bourn the weight of the heat dome poised over the U.S.

Some of the containers on the back deck. I’m watering all of them with a drip system.

Bill and I installed a drip irrigation system in our pots for my last Lowe’s contribution. I have twenty-two pots on drip. The only problem is when the drip emitters fall out of a container. It only takes one day to finish off the plants within. Below is a new hybrid of Oklahoma’s state wildflower, Gaillardia hyb. ‘Punch Bowl.’ Steve Owens from Bustani Plant Farm got me to try this one, and I would definitely buy it again.

Gaillardia hyb. ‘Punch Bowl’ with Pennisetum purpureum ‘Fireworks. They make such a nice couple.

Still, the perennial gardens are looking good. I can’t say enough nice things about the plants in the photo below. From left are: Rudbeckia spp. beneath a soon-to-be-pink crapemyrtle. I can’t tell you the variety of black-eyed Susan because these have reseeded all over the garden over the years. Below left is Spiraea x bumalda ‘Anthony Waterer;’ a couple of daylilies past their prime and showing heat stress, but they’ll be fine; Artemisia ludoviciana ‘Silver King;’ Blush Knockout® rose which turns white in summer; Symphyotrichum drummondii var. drummondii (Lindl.), Drummond’s aster trying to bloom too early; Leucanthemum × superbum ‘Becky’ shasta daisy; and finally, a purple dwarf crapemyrtle. I am exuberant about all of these plants. They are easy to grow and will perform if watered. If nothing else, buy ‘Becky.’ She is a workhorse and look at how her stems stand up straight and tall.

Back garden with ‘Becky’ shasta daisies and Rudbeckia beneath the crapemyrtle

A plant I’ve worked with for four years now is Tiger Eyes sumac, Rhus typhina ‘Tigereye Bailtiger.’ It has been a very slow grower in my side garden, but this year, it seems to be taking off. I am glad. The color is very pretty and with Pavonia missionum, Orange-Scarlet mallow, and Pennisetum purpureum ‘Princess Caroline’ grass behind, I think it makes a pretty picture.

Photo by Dee Nash

Pennisetum ‘Princess Caroline’, Pavonia missionum, Orange-Scarlet mallow, and Rhus typhina ‘Tigereye Bailtiger’ Tiger Eyes sumac

I’m also thrilled with the color and late bloom time of Orienpet lily ‘Black Beauty.’ The first of the Orienpet lilies, and “a possible cross between Lilium speciosum, Oriental, and Trumpet pollen, with the possible inclusion of L. henryi,” ‘Black Beauty’ is nearly indestructible according to B&D Lilies. If you’d like to read more about this lily and its wonderful history, please visit their site, but don’t blame me when you order lilies there. I have also succumbed. I bought ‘Lionheart’ Asiatic lily, ‘Flashpoint’ Orienpet, ‘Forever Susan’ Asiatic, ‘Conca d’ Or’ Orienpet, ‘Royal Sunset’ a fragrant Asiatic and ‘Scheherazade’ Orienpet. Before you spend your hard-earned money, let me just say, it’s not easy to grow lilies here, but I’m willing to give it a try. I already have the old standard, ‘Casa Blanca.’ We’ll see if it returns.

There are also a few late daylilies blooming. ‘Autumn Minaret’ towers above them all in height so I placed it at the end of the garden. ‘Memphis’ is a new one and finally bloomed the other day.

Hemerocallis ‘Memphis’ (Trimmer 2008). It will get more ruffled as it settles in. Don’t judge a daylily on its first or second year of bloom. It takes three seasons for many of them to hit their stride.

Another new one, H. ‘Apache War Dance’ bloomed heartily in the back garden in partial shade. It’s a true blue red and will become a favorite I’m sure. I think I might have enough red daylilies in my garden now. Maybe. I’m not going to tell you how many daylilies I bought this summer, but it was a lot. I’m planning to revamp the garden and pull several daylilies out of the tiered beds. I’m tired of one with weak scapes, and I’m pulling another I don’t remember the name of. I also have a bronze one I positively hate, not because it’s a bad plant, I just hate the color. Not my thing. So, come to the Central Oklahoma Hemerocallis Society’s daylily sale on Saturday, September 15, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. There will be a lot of plants, but we also sell out very quickly.

Same back garden, but from a different view. H. ‘Apache War Dance’ mixes happily with ‘Becky’ shasta daisies and black-eyed Susans. There’s also Rosa ‘The Fairy’ (pink) and behind it, a lovely Panicum virgatum, switchgrass.

I’ll end with a rose. Rosa ‘Valentine’ is not the hardiest rose in my garden, and she gets blackspot, but she is very pretty when she blooms.

Rosa ‘Valentine’ looking very fetching. Unfortunately, for me, she is a blackspot magnet and has weak stems.

Check out the leaves munched upon by grasshoppers. I must get some Nolo bait for those freakin’ grasshoppers. It’s a biological control and doesn’t harm pollinators. At least that’s what we’re told. I should have broadcast it earlier in the season because it is hardest on young grasshoppers, but I still see some out there. I’m getting some today.

Here’s hoping you don’t have a ton of grasshoppers in your garden, and that instead, it’s filled with pollinators of all stripes and types.

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  1. Cindy, MCOK says

    11 July, 2012 at 9:11 am

    So many pretties, I can’t choose a favorite!

    • Dee Nash says

      11 July, 2012 at 11:29 am

      Me too Cindy!

  2. Rose says

    11 July, 2012 at 7:17 am

    The ‘Punch Bowl’ gaillardia is a stunner; is it as pink and red as it looks in the photo? I’ve vowed to buy no more lilies until I can make room for more garden space, but an “indestructible” Orienpet sure sounds enticing; I might break my vow after all:) I have also been singing the praises of ‘Becky’ daisies–we’re not used to the awful heat and the drought we’ve had the past few weeks, but ‘Becky’ is still going strong in my garden.

    • Dee Nash says

      11 July, 2012 at 11:30 am

      Yes, it’s exactly that color. It becomes more pink or red, I can’t remember, as the bloom ages. It’s very pretty and different. Yay, for converting more to ‘Becky.’ She’s a find shasta daisy. One of the best.

  3. Robin Ripley says

    10 July, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    I love the idea of drip irrigation for pots. But it requires clustering them. Oh well. In an effort to simplify, I have given up on the back deck window boxes the past couple of years. They required watering twice a day in the summer. How crazy is that?

  4. Janet, The Queen of Seaford says

    10 July, 2012 at 8:51 am

    I would love to have a Tiger Eye! Tried it twice, failed. Not buying another one. Your Gaillardias are a great one. I need to plant more. Have some seeds that I will sow later this summer/fall. Need more natives in the garden. 🙂

    • Dee Nash says

      10 July, 2012 at 11:05 am

      Janet, I would say Tiger Eye isn’t easy to grow. Yes to more natives in the garden. Yes. 🙂

  5. Sonia Kirk says

    10 July, 2012 at 7:09 am

    What a lovely variety of plants and flowers you have….love the fan flower..I just discovered this wonderful plant this year…so heat tolerant! Hope you got some rain..we got a nice shower here in OKC.
    Miss Bloomers

    • Dee Nash says

      10 July, 2012 at 11:06 am

      Sonia, isn’t this summer better than the last. Oh, so much better. Now, even fan flower isn’t unhappy.

  6. Stephen says

    9 July, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    OMG, Thank you Dee. Another source for lilies aa well as one for bait to kill grasshoppers. I wish I had had the latter months ago. Thanks, I love you. But, you knew that!

    • Dee Nash says

      10 July, 2012 at 11:05 am

      Stephen, let me know what you buy.

  7. Carol says

    9 July, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks for sharing your pretties with us. With the drought in Indiana, my pretties are becoming scarce in the garden.

    • Dee Nash says

      10 July, 2012 at 11:07 am

      Yeah, mine are getting smaller and smaller.

  8. Gail says

    9 July, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    I love your garden and if I had the sunny space it would be my gardening role model! Love the combination of crapemyrtle, rudbeckia and daisies….and of course the daylilies. I must get more gail-lairdia~isn’t that a fab name;) xogail

  9. Randy says

    9 July, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    Memphis is certainly a stunner! Love the ruffled edges.

    • Dee Nash says

      11 July, 2012 at 11:41 am

      Thank you Randy. Let’s see how it does next year.

  10. Lucy Corrander says

    9 July, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    I hadn’t realised grasshoppers munch – but neither had I ever stopped to wonder what they do eat!

    Your garden – such a contrast with last year! Hurray for rain.

    • Dee Nash says

      11 July, 2012 at 11:31 am

      Yeah, grasshoppers are the kinds of munching in the plains. They are the “locusts” written about in the 30s in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. Horrid creatures.

  11. Donna@Gardens Eye View says

    9 July, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Beautiful blooms…I always enjoy your daylilies especially…my main pest is the Japanese beetles…the grasshoppers are controlled by birds and wasps.

    • Dee Nash says

      11 July, 2012 at 11:32 am

      I’m sure the wasps and birds take a bite out of my grasshopper population too. However, when we have drought, they manage to reproduce very quickly. I don’t have Japanese beetles, but I hear they’re in Tulsa now. Yuck.

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