SUMMER REVISITED
..The sea tomatoes are ripening on the hedgerow of sand roses (rosa rugosa).
After a dry, hot summer and the record amount of rain in August, it’s as if the garden has been busy catching up with the regular routines in the wonderful warmth of September. It feels like an extra summer month with all the qualities of summer except for the shortening of the days. The sun sets around seven already.
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..Blooming bluebeard bush (Caryopteris) in front of a row of cinquefoils (Potentilla).
The cinquefoil hedgerow is covered in flowers for the first time this season. Their glowing buttercup yellow almost takes the breath away from the blooming rose bed and the summer flowerbed—both coming around vigorously for the second time—while it presents a fine match for the powdery blue flowers of the bluebeards.
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BUSH CINQUEFOIL (POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA)
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The cinquefoil is a beautiful and durable plant that flowers throughout summer into fall and maintains a very usable size in the garden. One of its ancestors is the tundra rose. It was once far more popular but fell from grace as plants left unpruned become shabby. It should be cut back to half its size between late fall and early spring every year. Any large, old canes should be removed as close to the ground as possible, which will stimulate new sprouts to develop below the cuts. This way it will retain its fine shape and bloom profusely for many years.
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BLUEBEARD (CARYOPTERIS)
The bluebeard or the blue mist is a low-mounded, deciduous shrub with aromatic (when stroken) grey-green foliage and late summer flowers, which resemble clouds of blue smoke or mist and are highly attractive to bees and butterflies. Clandonensis hybrids typically produce about half a metre (one and a half feet) of growth per year, so the shrub height (usually up to one metre) depends in large part on the extent of winter dieback and the spring pruning. Although it’s technically a low growing shrub, Caryopteris can be treated as a perennial. It blooms on new wood and should be cut back (as much as you like) in late winter.
Though not well known, the bluebeard is one of the finest blue flowering plants of the late season. It grows best in full sun and well-drained soil with moderate amounts of water. If you push the lowest branches into the surrounding soil, it will spread quite easily.
..The sea tomatoes are ripening on the hedgerow of sand roses (rosa rugosa).
After a dry, hot summer and the record amount of rain in August, it’s as if the garden has been busy catching up with the regular routines in the wonderful warmth of September. It feels like an extra summer month with all the qualities of summer except for the shortening of the days. The sun sets around seven already.
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..Blooming bluebeard bush (Caryopteris) in front of a row of cinquefoils (Potentilla).
The cinquefoil hedgerow is covered in flowers for the first time this season. Their glowing buttercup yellow almost takes the breath away from the blooming rose bed and the summer flowerbed—both coming around vigorously for the second time—while it presents a fine match for the powdery blue flowers of the bluebeards.
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BUSH CINQUEFOIL (POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA)
KB+51.jpg)
The cinquefoil is a beautiful and durable plant that flowers throughout summer into fall and maintains a very usable size in the garden. One of its ancestors is the tundra rose. It was once far more popular but fell from grace as plants left unpruned become shabby. It should be cut back to half its size between late fall and early spring every year. Any large, old canes should be removed as close to the ground as possible, which will stimulate new sprouts to develop below the cuts. This way it will retain its fine shape and bloom profusely for many years.
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BLUEBEARD (CARYOPTERIS)
The bluebeard or the blue mist is a low-mounded, deciduous shrub with aromatic (when stroken) grey-green foliage and late summer flowers, which resemble clouds of blue smoke or mist and are highly attractive to bees and butterflies. Clandonensis hybrids typically produce about half a metre (one and a half feet) of growth per year, so the shrub height (usually up to one metre) depends in large part on the extent of winter dieback and the spring pruning. Although it’s technically a low growing shrub, Caryopteris can be treated as a perennial. It blooms on new wood and should be cut back (as much as you like) in late winter.
Though not well known, the bluebeard is one of the finest blue flowering plants of the late season. It grows best in full sun and well-drained soil with moderate amounts of water. If you push the lowest branches into the surrounding soil, it will spread quite easily.
posted by Country Dweller at 2:16 pm
1 Comments:
Thank you so much for sharing your photographs and plant information. So very much appreciated. I just purchased and planted a Bluebeard/Blue Mist in my front landscaping and the honey bees are loving it! I love your companion choices..... that's exactly what I'm researching for options. Love the yellow and blue combo, except my vinyl is sand {appears light yellow} but perhaps, mixed in with some green/variety of foilage, I may be able to pull it off. TFS! :)
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