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There's much to enjoy (and learn) from reviewing garden photos. Here are a few of my favorites from 2011 that I love for the colors. Some photos were taken near while others far away. Click the photos to view in a slideshow lightbox.
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| Hemaris thysbe (hummingbird moth) visits the liatris ligulistylus in my meadow garden. |
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| Zinnias in my cottage garden. |
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| Fiery colors at Dole® Plantation in Hawaii. |
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| Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, France. |
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| Leopard's Bane in a garden in Paris, France. |
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| Pink prevails in my deer resistant meadow garden in June. |
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| Rich red monarda 'Jacob Cline' in my east garden. |
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| Blue nigella and pink autumn sage in my cottage garden. |
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| Battery Park in New York City. |
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| In a North Carolina public garden. |
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| Bright colors in my meadow garden. |
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| Stipa (grass) and spirea (shrubs) in my front deer resistant garden. |
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| Ring around my sundial in my cottage garden. |
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| Agastache, flax and salvaia in my deer resistant meadow garden. |
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| Larkspur and rose campion in my cottage garden. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
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Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) is a short-lived perennial for zones 3-9 but may behave like a biennial or an annual—depending upon your gardening zone. One way to make sure that you never run out of Rose Campion is to collect seeds or allow her to self-sow.
If you heavily mulch and compost your garden in autumn, then you are likely to cover over seeds that disperse naturally from the pods. I find Rose Campion seedlings growing next to the base of other plants, in gravel and in my dry stream, so it doesn't take much soil for the seeds to germinate. In other words, this is an easy plant to grow from seeds. My garden is filled with Rose Campion because I gently scrape up the shallow-rooted seedlings and transplant them to better locations in my garden.
I rely upon self-sowing and have never started the seeds indoors nor had to sow later in the fall, so here are planting instructions from three other sources (I have no affiliation):
Diane's Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Botanical Interests
Rose Campion is a wonderful and easy plant to grow. If you have too many, the extras are easy to remove from the garden. No pests, no deer, no rabbits, no voles have ever disturbed the Rose Campion in my garden. About the only thing that seems to damage the plant is too much water on the leaves. This is a drought-tolerant plant for full sun to part shade that requires little care other than cutting off the spent stems after the bloom.
It may take two years for your young seedlings to bloom, but the results are worth the wait!
If you heavily mulch and compost your garden in autumn, then you are likely to cover over seeds that disperse naturally from the pods. I find Rose Campion seedlings growing next to the base of other plants, in gravel and in my dry stream, so it doesn't take much soil for the seeds to germinate. In other words, this is an easy plant to grow from seeds. My garden is filled with Rose Campion because I gently scrape up the shallow-rooted seedlings and transplant them to better locations in my garden.
I rely upon self-sowing and have never started the seeds indoors nor had to sow later in the fall, so here are planting instructions from three other sources (I have no affiliation):
Diane's Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Botanical Interests
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| Rose Campion has long, silver stems. This variety has magenta blooms, but there are also white and pink/white colors available from suppliers. |
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| Seed pods are dry, shriveled and ready to harvest. To collect the seeds to save, cut off the pods and place them in a paper envelope. Cut the stems and discard. |
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| Cut the stems at the base, just above the rosette foliage. |
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| These cut stems, with pods, are discarded in the garden so that no seeds are released into the wild. Next spring, there will probably be seedlings around this bundle. |
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| Some seeds have already fallen out of the pods inside the envelope. These seeds have been drying for a week or two. |
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| I use a small Phillips screwdriver to easily open the pods. I hold the pod over the envelope to catch the seeds. You may want to wear thin plastic gloves when handling seeds as some varieties can irritate sensitive skin. Always wash your hands thoroughly after handling. |
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| With seeds emptied into the envelope, and pods discarded, pour the seeds into a small packet. (I had to hold the camera with one hand. I use two hands to do this!) |
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| I don't worry about a little of the chaff mixed in with the seeds. Commercial growers will remove the chaff. |
Rose Campion is a wonderful and easy plant to grow. If you have too many, the extras are easy to remove from the garden. No pests, no deer, no rabbits, no voles have ever disturbed the Rose Campion in my garden. About the only thing that seems to damage the plant is too much water on the leaves. This is a drought-tolerant plant for full sun to part shade that requires little care other than cutting off the spent stems after the bloom.
It may take two years for your young seedlings to bloom, but the results are worth the wait!
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| Rose Campion provides silver foliage and magenta blooms in the pink to purple color scheme of my deer resistant meadow garden. Companions include agastache, monarda, cleome, echinacea and liatris. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
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| Keep the bees alive. Don't use insecticide. |
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| Let's give 'em something to buzz about. A variety of flowers attracts pollinators. Agastache, butterfly bush, cleome,liatris, rose campion, coneflowers, Russian sage and bee balm in bloom. June 2011. |
Pollinating is not just for bees. Ants, birds, butterflies, moths, wasps—and even wind and water are pollinators. Keeping chemicals out of the garden not only helps the insects but helps prevent pollution of our natural water sources and the air we breathe.
Everyone loves hummingbirds and growing monarda (bee balm) and salvia is a great way to attract the little sippers to your garden. Other hummingbird favorites include rose campion, cleome, agastache and zinnias.
The clearwing hummingbird moth (click link for my best picture) is one of the most fascinating pollinators to me. In the evenings, these moths are easily spotted in my garden.
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| A hummingbird and monarda (bee balm) 'Jacob Cline'. The oakleaf hollies in the background are covered by honeybees during early spring bloom. |
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| A clearwing hummingbird moth returns for an encore performance. Butterfly bushes are great food sources for all flying pollinators. Hemaris thysbe on a buddleia. June 2011. |
Of course, everyone loves to watch beautiful butterflies and I grow Three Wonderful Weeds to attract, feed and host butterflies in my garden. What Butterflies Want is Joe Pye Weed, so I added more of that favorite to my garden this year.
Gardeners—spread the word! Tell non-gardening friends, family and neighbors about the importance of pollinators.
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| Butterflies want Joe Pye Weed! Summer 2010. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel.All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
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| Rose Campion poses in front of tall, dark and purple larkspur. |
Why is Rose Campion so alluring? Rose is such a simple garden flower, but she's so enormously popular that readers overwhelm my blog in their search for candid photos and juicy details. Could it be her scandalous reputation has leaked to the media?
Rose Campion is not as virtuous as she seems. She reproduces prolifically throughout the garden. But, the offspring are so identical, adorable, lovable and deserving of support. That said, if she continues at this rate of reproduction, I may have to ask some of you to adopt seeds to raise the young in your gardens.
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| Rose Campion and her children attempt to blend in with the garden crowd of cleome and larkspur. |
Rose has no pesky enemies, loves the sun, but has a fear of too much water.
My blog is not a tabloid, but I suppose I can give Rose Campion a dedicated keyword to make your search easier. I know you want to see her in person, but all of you celebrity flower stalkers cannot trample my garden in your rush to take her photos, caress her blooms and stroke her luxurious, soft foliage.
My blog is not a tabloid, but I suppose I can give Rose Campion a dedicated keyword to make your search easier. I know you want to see her in person, but all of you celebrity flower stalkers cannot trample my garden in your rush to take her photos, caress her blooms and stroke her luxurious, soft foliage.
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| Rose Campion takes center stage. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
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Rose campion must have a fan club! Each week, my blog receives multiple searches for this self-sowing garden plant. To please her many admirers, rose campion has returned for an encore performance.Rose campion, also known as lychnis coronaria in certain garden circles, joined my zone 7 garden in 2007. The original mother plants have returned and are now about one foot in width. The kids are randomly sprinkled along the garden slopes below the mothers.
The slender silver foliage of rose provides a nice contrast with the foliage colors and shapes of neighboring plants. In one location, rose campion has taken up residence beside autumn sage (with a similar bloom color) and lamb's ear (with silver foliage). This accidental trio gives rose campion an interesting camouflage cover—making her look like stalks of blooms on the lamb's ear.
Rose campion is a short-lived perennial for zones 3-9, but with the self-sowing tendencies, she seems to be an easy plant to keep around for years. The seedlings may not bloom the first year. I have moved a few of the young around the garden as they are very shallow rooted and easy to transplant. These drought-tolerant plants thrive in dry conditions and aren't bothered by any four-legged critters nor pests. Too much water or too much humidity may turn the foliage to a bit of mush, but cutting them back to the basal foliage in midsummer will help. (If you want the plants to self-sow, leave a few of the flowers.)
Rose campion is such an easy, pleasing plant—go ahead and try a few in your garden, too!
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. . |
