POSTED BY KIM — You’ll have to humor me. It’s one of my last chances to write about hydrangeas this year, since they’re all getting ready to drop their leaves. I’m always adding new hydrangeas to my garden (and this means pulling out and pitching hydrangea “dogs.” I recently gave ‘Penny Mac’ the heave-ho because it was [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Shrubs’
October 23, 2009
Hydrangea ‘Invincibelle Spirit’ — the new pink ‘Annabelle’
POSTED BY KIM — All you hydrangea lovers have probably already heard about ‘Invincibelle Spirit,’ the world’s first pink ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea. You can’t open a magazine almost without seeing an ad for it, so we expect it to be a big big seller next year. I say “next year” because it hasn’t been released for [...]
October 22, 2009
My favorite winter shrub: Winterberry
POSTED BY KIM — When I was a “young” gardener, I didn’t care about winter interest. It was all about the flowers! I want blooms! Who cares about winter! But now that I’ve matured (no heckling, please), I think more and more about plants that are going to give me four seasons of interest. One of [...]
October 21, 2009
Update on the Kaleidoscope Abelia: Still fabulous
POSTED BY KIM — Here’s a picture I took a few days ago of one of my Kaleidoscope Abelias — the foliage is just starting to pick up its fall color. *How* *beautiful* *is* *that* *color* ?!?!
Many of us at Sugar Creek have an ongoing love affair with the Kaleidoscope because of its wonderful traits [...]
October 19, 2009
Bloomerang is still blooming
POSTED BY KIM — Here’s a picture of LILAC BUDS on the Syringa ‘Bloomerang’ that is planted in our garden here at Sugar Creek. Please note the date — Oct. 16 — and the temperature — 44 degrees! I can’t wait to see what this shrub does next year with a full growing season behind [...]
October 13, 2009
When the cat’s away, the mice will plant new gardens…
POSTED BY KIM — Oooh, the boss is out of town and Michael and I have been busy busy busy. Yesterday we planted four new trees at the nursery, and in 50 years, they’ll be spectacular! Maybe sooner than that.
We also planted along the drive (pictured above), and down by the entrance to [...]
September 15, 2009
Bloomerang Lilac: Too good to be true?!
POSTED BY KIM — We recently got in a shipment of the reblooming dwarf lilac, ‘Bloomerang.’ It was shocking to unload these lilacs off the truck in SEPTEMBER IN FULL BLOOM! They smelled heavenly. I popped one in Caleb’s garden, so we’ll see how it overwinters.
But the real test will be its reblooming powers next year. [...]
May 16, 2009
It’s Time to Twist and Shout
POSTED BY PEGGY: Hydrangea ‘Twist and Shout’ is the latest in the everblooming Endless Summer Series of Big Leaf Hydrangeas. Endless Summer Hydrangeas bloom on old wood (last year’s growth) and new wood (this year’s growth). This means if you accidently prune your Big Leaf Hydrangea or a cold winter kills last year’s growth, it will [...]
May 5, 2009
This beautiful specimen is my crape myrtle
POSTED BY KIM — Isn’t it inspiring? Don’t you just want to get out a blanket and have a picnic underneath its awesomeness? Right next to those weeds?
Seriously, this *is* my crape myrtle, and it *is* alive. This time of year, we get tons of phone calls from people concerned about their dead crape myrtles, and we [...]
May 1, 2009
My show-stopping azaleas
POSTED BY KIM — Much of my garden looks like a crazy person planted it. There are so many plants at the nursery that I just can’t resist, so I have lots of “onesies” stuck all over — I enjoy it, but it does make certain areas of my yard look a little…schizophrenic.
I did spend some [...]
