My Dark Desire is blooming! (So many joke possibilities in that one, lol) this is a less well-know hybrid tea from Kordes a few years back. But Oh! Super healthy, disease-free for me, without any spraying, and the blooms really this good. The real color is even richer than my camera can capture. Moderately fragrant. That is coral honesuckle underneath.
Didn't know honeysuckle came in coral . Used to find it in the woods near home in both white and gold , but no coral .
The American native stuff is all coral, with a golden varient that might have been bred. Coral honeysuckle has no fragrance but is very important for native ecology, because of the bugs and birds it supports. The Asian/Japanese stuff everyone is familiar with, as wonderful as it smells, is unfortunately highly invasive, crowds out native plants, and does not support the native food web. We could say ditto to all these points re. Asian wisteria vs native wisteria.
Stunning rose! You have a knack for them.
Thanks! I think the knack might come from 40+ years of trial and error and reading everything I found on the subject.
@MikeInBatonRouge Well, you obviously absorbed all you learned. Really beautiful roses.
A lovely color! I have several Cordes roses. Bought them at Aldi's years ago.
Kordes is great! I forget often which of mine are theirs, but off the top of my head, Buxom Beauty, Winter Sun, Kardinal '85, Sunny Sky, oh and Wedding Bells are some...all with great disease resistance, caveat to my Kardinal, which is very new for me and so far blackspotting quite a bit.
Posted by FernappleThe little woodland garden, is a symphony of blue, purple and white now. Hyacinth, Honesty, and Ornithogalum.
Posted by KateOahuThis morning I went to a class for making a terrarium with native plants at the Waikiki Community Center, which is about three blocks from where I live.
Posted by FrostyJimToo cold to plant outside for another month here in Wasilla Alaska.
Posted by FrostyJimToo cold to plant outside for another month here in Wasilla Alaska.
Posted by JolantaUnusual fungi.
Posted by FernappleI am trying to grow some extra salad crops this year in the new greenhouse.
Posted by JolantaBugg life.
Posted by glennlab My first flowers of this spring. Lotus and blue bells
Posted by glennlab My first flowers of this spring. Lotus and blue bells
Posted by FrostyJimSeedlings ..
Posted by FernappleIts Hellebore season now.
Posted by FernappleIts Hellebore season now.
Posted by FernappleIts Hellebore season now.
Posted by FrostyJim...don't be silly!
Posted by KateOahuI saw some pretty flowers on a walk today. I’d never seen a white Hibiscus before. And I do not know what the pink flowers are.
Posted by KateOahuI saw some pretty flowers on a walk today. I’d never seen a white Hibiscus before. And I do not know what the pink flowers are.