Wallet posted:

Van Engelen (https://www.vanengelen.com/).

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

smax posted:

They planted bamboo and wandering Jew all over the place. All up and down the fences. My biggest fear is that the neighbors’ yard will be a constant reservoir for the bamboo- I have no problem digging up my beds to yank it out, but it’ll get old if it keeps coming back under the fences. Luckily the neighbors on both sides don’t have any obvious bamboo (they probably just mow whatever pops up).

smax posted:

Bonus tree pic:

https://i.imgur.com/ctJjjdw.jpg

Like a 2-3’ split down the middle of the trunk. Half is obviously dying, the other half will be so unbalanced it’ll probably fall into my neighbor’s yard. It’s coming down this weekend, probably.

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

You're playing Banished! in real life, lol. Get European walnuts if they'll grow in your area. Black walnuts are tasty but a pain in the rear end to get much meat out of.

Dunno much about your climate/soil but blueberries are long-lived, reliable producers too, though water requirements are likely higher.

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Window shelves are my favorite variation on wall shelf indoor gardens because they are in a sunny location. Your plants can soak up that Vitamin D to grow big and strong!

Wallet posted:

I don't think you have a huge variety of options except glassed in stuff. I have seen quite a few glassed in terrarium type things with hinged lids floating around local nurseries, e.g. this type of thing.

Wallet posted:

Every cat I've ever owned would just jump on top of it if it was hanging from the wall and big enough they thought they could stand on it.

Organza Quiz posted:

I'm lucky not to have particularly adventurous/determined cats.

Wallet posted:

I don't really gently caress with orchids but I will probably check it out when I head down that way in the spring to visit Logee's.

Lakitu7 posted:

Since I moved to MN I've never been able to find even regular boring lemon-scented geraniums.

Wallet posted:

I also have white ones I put common names on in the herb garden for certain people who might live here who are otherwise confused .

Wallet posted:

I hate this poo poo at local nurseries. 'Succulent' is not a sufficient plant label, thank you.

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I keep the dates I planted stuff and where I got them from in a spreadsheet (organized by plant type and what bed they're in) which is how I know I got the Scilla from Van Engelen (well, that and they're the only Scilla I have planted). My format for the tags is basically just the way you'd format the scientific name normally if you were writing it by hand.

Solkanar512 posted:

Yeah, I love seeing "Japanese Maple". Acer Palmatium? A. Shirasawanum? Japanicum? A fancy Circinatum? Who knows?

i am harry posted:

Can anyone help me identify this? Looks sort of like elm leaves

i am harry posted:

they seem perfectly round. i'll ask next door if they know...but i think we're all in agreement that it's a tree? I should dig it up before it tries to dig up the side of my house right? there are 4 other branches coming up out of the ground a couple feet from each other along the side where the main growth is. There are a few about 4 ft apart along a fence that lines a sidewalk further down, sprouting new leaves from the base of old thicker dead trunks bent through the fence like they were bushes at some point.

Tremors posted:

If you have a lowes/meijer/walmart/anywhere near, they carry Costa Farms/Exotic Angel plants and that's a pretty common one I see when browsing.

Wallet posted:

Well it's been 3 weeks with no response from Van Engelen so that's not entirely impressive. At least the muscari are the right color.

Wallet posted:

I sent them another email ("Are you guys alive over there?") since that seems like a long time, and they said that my report had been forwarded to their owner for review and they have not received it back yet but will let me know when they do. I have no idea what that means, but I guess it's a response?

Meaty Ore posted:

I don't think I amended the soil very much at all, IIRC. Basically dug out an appropriate-sized hole, got the rhodo out of the pot, tried to break up the existing root ball a bit per the planting instructions (it was pretty difficult to do, and may also have been a contributing factor), and filled in around the root ball with topsoil. I'll probably alter the soil in that bed before trying to plant anything there. The clay horizon starts something like like two inches below the surface and continues down more than a foot.

FWIW, my mother who lives nearby has said she hasn't had much luck with rhododendrons, either, and she is much better at gardening than I am.

Eeyo posted:

I sowed a few zinnias. Any idea why the seeds appear to be coated yellow?

OSU_Matthew posted:

This is probably more of a landscaping question, but I've been redoing the front of the house and there's a big blank section of dirt about 3.5-4' wide and ~5' long I'd really like to plant an ornamental tree in:



I'm looking at Eastern Redbud or Kwanzan Cherry trees. I went to a local garden center and they have both in stock. This particular spot gets morning shade and afternoon sun.

Is there much of a difference in the way of hardiness between the two species?

With such a small spot, what would you think is the largest diameter transplant that would be successful there? The local garden center has everything from 1"-3" diameter trunks. I plan on having them take care of delivering and planting the tree. I also plan to dig out that crappy clay and rocks and have them put better soil in, as well as mulch.

Brawnfire posted:

Lilacs in the backyard!

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

Very interesting. Do you have more info on the “not crossing soil composition gradients”? It’s a little counterintuitive to me since roots will grow into water pipes and even out of a container provided there’s moisture to be found.

OSU_Matthew posted:

While at menards earlier, I impulse bought some blackberry, raspberry, and blueberry starts and some blocks and trellis sections. My thought was to use the blocks and build some sort of half moon raised planters for each shrub, and space each plant about 5' apart with its own trellis staked in to climb:

OSU_Matthew posted:

I'd say each half circle is about 3' wide, 1.5' deep, and the plants (blueberry and raspberry so far) are roughly 5' apart. I have no idea if those trellises will be adequate, but thought I'd start there and swap out something better down the line if need be. I'm also putting up a different trellis for the hops that are growing along the T post there. I know it's going to take two years and some pruning to bear fruit, but I figure there's no better time than the present to start!

If that's going to be a complete and total shitshow of inadequate spacing, I can redo stuff, I just relied on the googles for info. I'm half tempted to pull one of them apart here anyways because I'm fairly sure I inadvertently buried a hand trow when I filled it in

Queen Victorian posted:

Goddamn that's an amazing iris. I came to post pics of my irises, most of which have started blooming, but now I feel inadequate. Anyways:




This big red one is putting on an excellent show with three stalks of flowers all blooming at once and it's like twice as big (in terms of rhizome spread) as it was last year.

My neighbor's horde of classic purple irises are in the background. She said I could have some because they've been spreading and are starting to subsume everything around them. So I'll be dividing some of those later this summer. And the neighbor across the street has some cool ones, similar to the classic purples but with an almost antique rose sort of cast to them. I'll have to see if they'd be interested in trading with us.

One of my new acquisitions:


...Except it turned out I already had a really similar one, or the same but as if from a different dye lot or something:


My big frilly peachy one will open up any day now:


And the Siberian iris, another new acquisition. I think I'll be getting more because I love their electric indigo flowers and super thin leaves.


Still waiting on a few more varieties.



In other news, I ripped out the rabbit fence around my utter failure of a squash patch and have been working on converting the area, which is like the one sunny spot in the backyard, to an English garden style flowerbed.



I've so far got more irises (peach, white, and yellow), columbine, white bleeding heart, pansies, foxgloves, and buttercup. The classic foxgloves are from seeds I brought over from my parents' house and planted not too long after we moved in, and they're finally starting to get established.

I have more bleeding heart to plant (also got the pink variety), also Jack Frost brunnera, maidenhair ferns, other ferns, and some new hosta varieties (flowerbed transitions to partial then nearly full shade - opposite side of the yard is mature trees, dogwoods, ferns, hostas, more brunnera, and a couple other shade plants. I dug up buttercup plants from various and put them in a bunch - I'd been pulling them out as weeds previously but then I noticed that the neighbors were cultivating them and they looked really nice in bunches (as opposed to randomly popping up in my lawn). They're still kinda sad and floppy from being transplanted but since they're weeds they'll probably perk up.

Also there is a random flowering quince (I believe you guys helped me identify it). It recently produced an offspring off a root, so I think I'll transplant it to my new flowerbed corner as a backdrop plant against the fence. Also I imagine the increased amount of sun (it's in full shade right now) will help it produce more flowers.

As for achieving the English garden vibe, I honestly think my crusty old wire fence and the neighbor's birdbath kinda make it. It's probably the original fence (house built 1910), so it lends a distinct old timey vibe. Also it's a 2-in-1 fence and trellis for vines or morning glory or peas (speaking of peas, I'm going somewhere later this summer with wild peas everywhere so I might try to nab some specimens to bring back with me).

In conclusion, I've been having fun gardening and spending way too much money on flowers.

Queen Victorian posted:

So I fed the picture to Google Lens and it suggested ground elder, which I looked up and... perfect match

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegopodium_podagraria