Erythrone gardens

[Drorchid]

Amazing pictures! I am impressed with the variety of plants that you have in your garden! I like it that you have a lot of "unusual" plants, plants that you don't see to often in peoples yards. Roughly how many hours a week do you spend working on your gardens (weeding, deadheading etc), or do you have a crew of people helping you. Either way I am pretty envious, keep the pictures coming!

Robert

 

[Hera]

I can't get enough of your pictures. Keep them coming 'cause autumn should be spectacular.

 

[Erythrone]

Amazing pictures! I am impressed with the variety of plants that you have in your garden! I like it that you have a lot of "unusual" plants, plants that you don't see to often in peoples yards. Roughly how many hours a week do you spend working on your gardens (weeding, deadheading etc), or do you have a crew of people helping you. Either way I am pretty envious, keep the pictures coming!

Robert

Thank you Robert. This garden is quite big (2 to 3 acres) and when I am not in vacation I spend 15 hours a week taking car of the plants. But when I am in vacation, 30 hours a week. My boyfriend does the big job (creating the beds and adding compost). I do all the other tasks (weeding, deadheading, staking, dividing, shrubs pruning, battle with deers...). The garden is never perfect since I am alone to do all those things. This year, I decided not to stake many delphiniums... nor my 96 peonies (I didn't know I had so much varieties... I just took a look at my database). But all the peonies were great this year.... Unfortunatly many Delphiniums were on the ground after the first rain.


I must say that I don't clean the beds in fall or spring (except for the 95 peonies... and this year I think I will remove the foliage of the Japanese Irises grown in pot) because I believe leaves and stems are helpfull for protection.

 

[Erythrone]

I can't get enough of your pictures. Keep them coming 'cause autumn should be spectacular.

thank you Hero!! You are right. Autumn is really spectacular in our regions.

 

[biothanasis]

Fantastic pictures and great colours!!!!

 

[Erythrone]

Thank you Biothanasis!


Hemerocallis Rose Knockout

Hemeroracllis Rose Knockout_zeb par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Dipsacus_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Echinacea Solar Flare 2_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Echinacea Solar Flare 1_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Echinacea Tomato Soup_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Echinacea Double Decker_web_modifié-1 par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Echinacea Solar Flare_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

 

[SlipperFan]

How do you keep your coneflowers so perfect. Mine are all bedraggled and chewed up by insects!

 

[Erythrone]

I do nothing, Dot... We just don't have problem with insects that love coneflowers here.

 

[SlipperFan]

I do nothing, Dot... We just don't have problem with insects that love coneflowers here.

Not only do insects love them, the deer eat them down to nubbins!

 

[biothanasis]

Lovely!!!

 

[Erythrone]

Not only do insects love them, the deer eat them down to nubbins!

The deers eat coneflowers???? OMG!!! I think it is one on the few plants they didn't try to eat here yet.... There must be a lot of bambis around your garden...

I just put 10 Scare Crows int the garden today, because deers began to eat a lot of plants.

 

[Erythrone]

Lovely!!!

thank you!

 

[Erythrone]

Viburnum lantana_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Vanessa cardui

Vanessa cardui_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Vanessa cardui 2_web_2 par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Danaus plexippus

Danaus plexippus_web_modifié-1 par Erythrone, sur Flickr

 

[SlipperFan]

The deers eat coneflowers???? OMG!!! I think it is one on the few plants they didn't try to eat here yet.... There must be a lot of bambis around your garden...
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We do have a lot of deer here. Lots of woods all around, and a river going through our back yard. One year, I photographed 14 deer lined up along our pond.

 

[Ruth]

Love the butterflies, the Danaus plexippus is my favorite photo!!!!

 

[Erythrone]

Thank you Ruth!

 

[Erythrone]

Dryopteris tokyoensis. A very stong fern, more than 60 cm tall this year.

Dryopteris tokyoensis_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Adenophora taquetii. Small alpine plant. It is on the bottom of a rock wall, on a gravelly soil.

Adenophora taquetii_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Dryopteris polylepis. One of my favorite ferns

Dryopteris polylepis_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Carlina acaulis. Although we often read that it is a short lived plant, this plant can easily live more than 10 years here.

Carlina acaulis 1_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr


Carlina acaullis_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Rosa Carefree Beauty. A very tough shrub. Flowers have very nice shape for a hardy rose.

Rosa Carefree Beauty_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Chelonopsis yagiharana. A plant I bought this year. An Asiatic beauty

Chelonopsis yagiharana_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

An indoor plant I grow since many years and that decided to bloom this year : Tillandsia sp. (any idea about the ID ?)

tillandsia_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

 

[Kevin]

An indoor plant I grow since many years and that decided to bloom this year : Tillandsia sp. (any idea about the ID ?)

tillandsia_web par Erythrone, sur Flickr

Looks like the flowers are about to come out of the centre. Take more photos as it progresses, and there is more chance of identifying. Can you get more of a whole plant shot?

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

You've posted some really marvelous close ups these last couple of days! Awesome! :clap:

 

[Hera]

Wonderful shots! Thanks for the butterfly pics.