Heralyn

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Heralyn@heralyn· 9d

Lady Emma Hamilton and garden kitty! 🌱🌷

A photo of the rose Lady Emma Hamilton in bloom. She us gorgeous with deep peachy orange blooms fading to pink, and her new dark coppery foliage.

Garden kitty looking a bit grumpy to be discovered hiding out in the baptisia. This garden kitty is a black and white cow cat with mostly random markings, glaring away from the camera.

Heralyn@heralyn· 10d

And finally some hydrangeas from our Windcliff visit. No names on these sorry! 🌷🌱

A photo of a pink hydrangea bloom, this reminded me of mini mauvette, a full bloom made up of small florets.

A photo of a dichroa, a bright blue bloom made up of small star shaped flowers.

A photo of a hydrangea involucrata bloom, pale pastel double florets blooming.

A photo of a large lacecap style hydrangea blooming. Fuzzy purple small flowers surrounded by pink sterile florets.

Heralyn@heralyn· 11d

Some happy flowers from Windcliff. A tiny pineapple lily, phantom agapanthus, salvia patens, and unknown, but loved much by the bugs! 🌱🌷

A photo of a tiny pineapple lily, pink blooms clustered an a flower spike topped with a cluster of small flopping leaves give the bloom the appearance of a pineapple

A photo of agapanthus phantom. Loved this one enough to buy it! Tall flowers with white fading out to a steely pale purple/gray.

A photo of salvia patens, these salvia flowers are blue. So very blue!

An unknown flower covered in cute little beetles, this flat white flower head is some sort of umbrel.

Heralyn@heralyn· 11d

Some water features and added agapanthus bonus from Windcliff! I must have asked Robert three times if it vas okay I just over there and picked one out to buy! 🌷🌱 So many beauties!

A photo of some of the agapanthus grown at Windcliff.

A photo of the bog garden filled with flycatcher pitcher plants.

A photo of one of the pond areas at Windcliff.

Heralyn@heralyn· 11d

I know @snellis.bsky.social already shared some of our adventures, but here is my take, starting with the renaissance garden at Heronswood! 🌱🌷

A photo of a beautiful fern covered with early morning dew.

A photo of the perfect forest backdrop. Rotting log, ferns, creeping groundcovers, all perfectly executed in this planting.

A photo of a stumpery on steroids! Huge tree trunks surrounded by ferns and perennial plantings.

A photo of another great example of planting with big trees, ferns, and surrounding shrubs.

Heralyn@heralyn· 20d

Too hot to do much the past few days. Garden kitty has enjoyed rolling in the hot gravel, the front patio filled with pots, the catio bed, and pineapple lilies! Zorro got too big so I had to move some to another spot, but never fear my pineapple lily love goes on ♥️🌷🌱

A photo of garden kitty being silly rolling around on his back in a gravel bed.

A photo of the walk to the front of the house, the patio is broken up into sections, along the left side house wall full sun potted plants (although the rhododendron is blocking most of the plants!) along the wall straight back are potted camellias with some smaller friends. To the right are the larger potted plants and the summer dahlias. Please excuse any crispiness, it has been a busy spring and summer and not everything got the love it deserves!

A photo of the catio bed. This bed is filled with peonies, hydrangeas, a large lilac and some miscellaneous smaller perennials. Bonus Gary included.

A photo of two large hydrangeas, a limelight and zorro with potted pineapple lilies in front. There is actually a small hydrangea behind the pots as well!

Heralyn@heralyn· 26d

Second flush roses! The Pilgrim, Summer Song, and Munstead Wood. I am in love with Summer Song. I know she is weak and a problematic rose, but that color is so unlike any other rose I have seen! 🌱🌷

A photo of rose the pilgrim, a soft yellow bloom with many petals fading to cream on the outer petals.

A photo of rose summer song, an odd deep orange/pink color with full double petals.

A photo of rose munstead wood alongside hydrangea limelight. The rose is a deep reddish pink with full petals. The hydrangea bloom is a bright acid green and is just beginning to open.

Heralyn@heralyn· 27d

Working on my new hydrangea alley! The lay out is mostly done, still have room for a few more, I will cut these back this weekend to hopefully allow time for new growth and blooms next summer. These are all a bit scraggly and leggy from being in pots for the last few years. 🌷🌱

A view down a side yard filled with raised beds full of potted hydrangeas in dappled sunlight.

The opposite view of a side yard filled with raised beds full of potted hydrangeas in dappled sunlight.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jul 9

A few more beauties from around the garden today. Rose of Sharon White Chiffon, rose Nye Bevan, dahlia Polka, and Agapanthus Twister. 🌱🌷

A photo of rose of sharon white chiffon. A white fluffy bloom not much resembling a hibiscus due to the extra petals.

A photo of Rose Nye Bevan, a creamy fully double bloom with cupped petals.

A photo of dahlia polka blooming. This bloom is an anemone type, with pink striped white petals surrounding tightly packed smaller yellow petals.

A photo of agapanthus twister in bloom. This agapanthus has flowers with purple bases fading out to white.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jul 8

As @snellis.bsky.social says, merry christmas! An amaryllis in bloom in July! I buy two or three of these every holiday season and after they bloom pot them up. So they bloom at odd times based on how old they are. This might be one of my favorites with the white edges on the petals.

A photo of an amaryllis in bloom. A large red bloom with white edging and lined centers.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jul 8

Rose The Lark Ascending showing off, same flowers in shade (showing more peach) and sun (glowing golden). My favorite rose for beauty, and one I will always recommend! 🌱🌷

A photo of the rose the lark ascending in bloom. A cluster of blooms appear peach with gently glowing orange centers.

A photo of the rose the lark ascending blooming. A cluster of flowers glowing brightly in the sun with colors of orange, gold, peach, and yellow.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jul 8

The day lilies are taking over the gravel garden. I'm thrilled to see them settling in so well. 🌱🌷

A photo of a bright orange day lily blooming. This one has three front petals and three back petals which curl away from the bloom.

A photo of a peach colored day lily with a dark purple center blooming. The front petals are edged in dark purple, and the whole flower seems to give off drama.

A photo of a small deep red day lily in bloom. This plant makes small flowers that seem to bloom it tight bunches. This one was here when we moved here and it mas dug up and stored for two years in a pot before this new garden was made.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jul 5

My favorite kind of fireworks! A new to me toad lily, hydrangeas Fuji Waterfall, Pistachio, and Miss Saori, all looking lovely today. 🌷🌱

A photo of a yellow toad lily in bloom. These small flowers resemble orchids, with six yellow petals freckled with red.

A photo of hydrangea Fuji Waterfall. This one makes white star shaped sepals that appear like shooting stars in the cluster of flowers.

A photo of hydrangea Pistachio, a mophead style full bloom, with green and pink streaked sepals.

A photo of hydrangea Miss Saori in bloom. This is a mophead style hydrangea, with full blooms of pale pink sepals edged in a darker pink. The sepals are also frilly, adding to the fullness.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jul 2

Today is Gary's three year adoptiversary! He celebrated with some outside time and tuna for all! Here's to many more years with this sweet boy! ♥️♥️♥️

A photo of a tuxedo tabby from behind sniffing upwards at a large hydrangea bush.

A photo of a tuxedo tabby in a flowering clover patch.

A photo of a tuxedo tabby "helping" build a table with his very own tiny screwdriver.

A photo of a tuxedo tabby curled up in a cat condo with his feet hanging out facing the camera.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 22

Taking a break from hydrangeas (yes, I still have more to post!) here are some other flowers from the garden! First up miniature rose Green Ice, achillea Double Diamond, crocosmia Lucifer, and gillenia trifoliata, which I just saw at Dancing Oaks and wish I would have bought like three more! 🌱🌷

A photo of a cluster of blooms from rose Green Ice. This is a miniature rose which makes these small clusters of full double blooms starting out white and fading to green.

A photo of achillea double diamond. I grew these little white puffs of bloom from seed many years ago and they are dotted throughout the garden. Unlike normal achillea which make large flat head of flowers these are more like very small clusters of carnation style blooms. They fully open allowing access to the stamens and bugs love them! They also add a bit of height to the border.

A photo of a crocosmia lucifer bloom. Deep red trumpet style flowers make up two double rows of this flower head. We moved these last year and I am really looking for ard to seeing them against the goldenrod which is just starting to push flower buds!

A photo of a gillenia trifoliata, with small white flowers of elongated petals of five. This plant is stunning, I want more of them! They are great in shade and are airy.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 22

Hydrangeas and friends today! Hydrangea platyarguta, deinanthe caerulea, hydrangea Snow Queen, and a hydrangea x dichroa hybrid. 🌱🌷

A photo of a hydrangea platyarguta bloom. These small white blooms have four pointed petals and a center filled with bright yellow stamens. These small blooms are nodding on the plant, so it forces you to stop and take your time appreciating its beauty.

A photo of a deinanthe caerulea, or false hydrangea bloom. These nodding blooms have the most tropical looking little purple flowers with white stamens. The large, split, fuzzy leaves are the real star of this planto but these fabulous little flowers are an incredible bonus.

A photo of hydrangea Snow Queen, showing five large blooms. This is an oak leaf hydrangea which makes panicle style blooms of white.

A photo of a hydrangea x dichroa hybrid bloom. This little guy is so cute! It makes these little clusters of very vivid pink and purple blooms. These seem to be showing up more and more and I am always glad to see them!

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 20

More hydrangeas waking up! Golden Crane, Maculata, Painter's Pallet, and a very small bloom of O Amacha Nishiki. 🌱🌷

A photo of a bloom from a Golden Crane hydrangea, chartreuse-gold and white lace-cap flowers with serrated petals. I bought this one from Sebright, but it is a Hinkley introduction.

A photo of a hydrangea Maculata bloom just getting ready to open. This is another lace cap, petals open white and fade to pink or blue based on PH. But the real draw on this one is the heavily variegated leaves, every leaf has whites and grays mixed with various shades of green.

A photo of a petite bloom of hydrangea Painter's Pallet. The petals, or florets on this one change colors with pinks, purples, greens, and whites never making the same bloom twice!

A small half bloom of O Amacha Nishiki. The foliage just peeking in on the left, is heavily dusted gold with red stems. The lacecap flowers begin white and turn pink or blue depending on PH.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 17

Hydrangeas today! Lanarth White, Miss Saori, Zorro, and Ayesha getting started! 🌷🌱

A photo of hydrangea lanarth white just beginning to bloom.

A photo of hydrangea miss saori just beginning to bloom.

A photo of hydrangea zorro just beginning to bloom.

A photo of hydrangea ayesha just beginning to bloom.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 17

Garden today! More roses and checkermallow, yucca in bloom, first sweet pea harvest, and the back corner filling in a bit. 🌱🌷

A photo of the rose, The Lady of Shallot blooming alongside pink checkermallow, with a serrata hydrangea just starting to bloom behind.

A photo of a yucca in bloom. Tall spire of white elongated bell shaped flowers.

A photo of a vase filled with cut sweet pea flowers. The smell is amazing, happy to have these beauties back in the garden!

A photo of the back corner of the shade border. We removed a forsythia last fall and put in two hydrangeas and a camellia, to go along with the large hostas and hellebores. The dark red hydrangea should get between 6-8 feet, so should fill in well here. Golden Crane hydrangea should also be a bit big once it has grown in!

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 15

My summer song is finally blooming! And of course it is during a heatwave and so the blooms are terrible. But I love her and can't wait for her to grow and grow! It is really interesting to me how much red is reflecting back on my hand in these photos, shows just how strong the coloration is! 🌷🌱

A photo of the rose summer song in bloom. This rose has a unique deep orangey pink color. It is jam packed full of petals making a strong cupped form.

Another photo of the rose summer song in bloom. This rose has a unique deep orangey pink color. It is jam packed full of petals making a strong cupped form.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 14

Some of my current favorite combos happening in the garden! 🌷🌱 Hydrangea and spirea, rose, clematis, and checkermallow, alstroemerias and carpinteria elizabeth, and rose and pine tree!

A photo of the hydrangea zebra blooming alongside of a pink spirea with just a hint of orange geum.

The Lady of Shallot rose blooming with a deep purple clematis, and a bright pink checkermallow.

A photo of a red alstroemeria blooming with the white, fried egg flowers of California Carpinteria Elizabeth.

A photo off something I would love more of, the rose Jude the Obscure blooming along side a pine tree with another conifer and plants. There is also someone peeking out of the window!

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 14

Hydrangeas today, and bonus wannabe garden kitty!

A photo of hydrangea queen of pearls in bloom. This is a mophead and the florets are a creamy white just brushed with green. This hydrangea makes the most beautiful deep green, glossy leaves.

A photo of a green hydrangea that I have forgotten the name of! This beauty has frilled petals in tones of green.

A photo of hydrangea zebra in bloom. This is a mophead hydrangea that makes fluffy white blooms due to serrated edges on the petals. This also has black stems so it is very dramatic!

The wannabe garden kitty rolling around in the dirt. Why is he the wannabe you ask? Because he wants to be outside all the time, but he is not prepared to be outside on his own! While the garden kitty himself is very well behaved, this one wants to chase birds and squirrels, and has no ideas of the dangers (cars) outside. He is very much the ADD kitty and does not enjoy sitting still, and is very easily distracted. So, he is only allowed out in his harness or supervised!

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 6

Okay one more post for tonight! Shade garden love. 🌱🌷

A photo of some shade plants, we have a camellia, a fern, a few hellebores, some epimediums, and a peek a boo shot of a sad hydrangea in the back right corner. We figured out our soaker hose broke and was not watering the back corner!

A photo of some shade plants, we have a viburnum peeking in at the left, a couple of hydrangeas showing off two very different looks, an acanthus that is gloriously in bloom, a couple of camellias peeking through and some other small goodies.

A photo of some shade plants, we have a camellia, a large Rhino Hide hosta, and a variegated hydrangea.

A wider photo of the previous shade plants, showing some additional hidden hostas and a but of another camellia.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 6

Looks a bit of a mess and not quite done, but hellbed 2.0 has been planted! We changed up the layout and I have lots of tall beardeds I can pull as the peonies get bigger! Still a few more plants to squeeze in and gravel to finish. 🌷🌱

A photo of a new garden bed as seen from the front with many peonies, tall bearded iris, spuria iris, day lilies, and some other perennials mixed in. It is mulched with gravel.

A photo of a new garden bed as seen from the side path with many peonies, tall bearded iris, spuria iris, day lilies, and some other perennials mixed in. It is mulched with gravel.

A photo of a new garden bed looking from back to front with many peonies, tall bearded iris, spuria iris, day lilies, and some other perennials mixed in. It is mulched with gravel.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 6

Currently putting on a show are roses Jude the Obscure and The Lady of Shallot. Getting ready for the show are hydrangeas Limelight, Zorro, Golden Needle, Zebra, and more! 🌱🌷

A photo of the rose Jude the Obscure in full first flush. This rose is taller than I am this year, topping out at about six feet, and is filled with full double apricot colored blooms.

A photo of the rose The Lady of Shallot in full first flush, filled with fully double apricotty/orange blooms.

A photo of three hydrangeas Little Lime Limelight growing tall on the left hand side, zorro taking up the whole right half of the picture, and at the bottom left a special little hydrangea I got from Dan Hinkley a few years ago. This is it's second year in the ground and I have happy to see that it survived winter and is putting on new strong growth. While all green for now this corner will be full with the lime green and white blooms of Little Lime Limelight, bright blue blooms of Zorro, and soft pink double blooms of my new little treasure!

A photo of the other hydrangea corner, this one also has a Little Lime Limelight on the right, a climbing false hydrangea just beginning to bloom its white lace cap blooms which give it its name, a very small baby Zebra hydrangea center front bottom, and on the left reaching for the sky is Golden Needle.

Heralyn@heralyn· Jun 1

Partied a bit too hard in the garden today and have once again injured my back. At least I got some nice pictures to look at! One of our last peonies, I think this is hot chocolate, garden kitty on patrol, peony Tish still putting on a show, and rose Jude the Obscure just getting started. 🌷🌱🌷🌱

A photo of a peony hot chocolate bloom. This one is a dark red, with dark red stamens, in an anemone or japanese style bloom.

A photo of a very large peony plant in full bloom. This is Tish, she makes bright fuchsia pink blooms with gold stamens in an anemone or japanese style bloom.

A photo of a large Jude the Obscure rose just beginning to bloom. This rose makes beautiful deeply cupped apricot blooms that have the most wonderful smell. If I could walk around with my nose in a rose all day this would be it!

Heralyn@heralyn· May 31

Made the journey to dancing oaks today! Saw a lot of beauties and brought too many home! 🌱🌷🌱🌷

A photo of a garden filled with plants and color.

A photo of a large specimen of euphorbia wulfenii.

A photo of a single blooming white rose just touched with pale pink at the edges. This rose was growing in shade and smelled amazing!

A photo of a white camas in bloom. This is a double blooming camas, dramatic against the dark green leaves behind.

Heralyn@heralyn· May 29

Currently reading The Devil and Mrs. Gooch by Oliver Darkshire!

A photo of the book The Devil and Mrs. Gooch by Oliver Darkshire. A black background with the title of the book in gold script, a woman with a blonde bob in a red strapless ballgown holds a leash to a black goat like creature with wings and a very suggestive tail ending with a vey familiar arrow shape

Heralyn@heralyn· May 29

Blooms today! First sweet pea (sadly with thrips), Elizabeth blooming alongside Lady of Shallot, an oriental poppy, and Wollerton Old Hall showing off after the brief rain today. 🌱🌷🌱🌷

A photo of sweet pea April in Paris in bloom. This pale, creamy, bloom is edged with pale lavender and has the most devine smell!

A photo of the rose Lady of Shallot blooming mixed in with the blooms of California Carpinteria Elizabeth.

A photo of two blooms of a bright scarlet oriental poppy. Fringed petal edges of red petals surround a dark purple/black center.

A photo of the rose Wollerton Old Hall in broom. This very pale peachy colored bloom is a full double cupped bloom.

Heralyn@heralyn· May 25

Progress was made today, but no photos were taken. Instead here are rose chocolate bubbles, and trousseau. And garden kitty enjoying his new garden. 🌱🌷🌱🌷