The Back 40

[KyushuCalanthe]

Square meters, that is, not acres.

Spring has come to southern Japan. Here's a peek at what's going on in the garden.

First, a couple views of growing areas. The back porch - mish-mash of stuff - terrestrial orchids, seedlings of all kinds woody plants, bog gardens and so on. The Araucaria goes inside for the winter and is my Christmas tree.

The front porch. Here is home to the fuukiran collection and also where I summer the Paphs.

Now, out into the garden!

Osmunda japonica - fertile fronds and Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty'

A couple garden views - cut leaf maple/Crytomium fortunei/hybrid azaleas and rosemary/Selaginella involvens/azalea

Platycerium bifurcatum - new fronds and Selaginella tamariscina/Farfugium japonicum

And some flowers - Azalea/Tillandsia usneoides and a hybrid Clematis

Finally, one orchid, a hybrid Dendrobium with obvious influence from D. speciosum, but just bought it as "kingianum" - maybe a hybrid of the two? Large flowers. This plant is rock solid in this climate having endured -3 C or lower.

 

[Hera]

Beautiful, thanks for the views!

 

[SlipperFan]

So neat and organized. Wonderful details. You have an excellent eye, Tom.

 

[Rick]

That's so cool Tom:drool:

Remind us what you do in your "spare time" when you are not tending your gardens.oke:oke:

 

[SlipperKing]

Great stuff Tom!

 

[JeanLux]

very nice show Tom, I esp. like the azaleas and the clematis!!! All those neos :drool:!! Is that bonsai on the left a maple? Jean

 

[paphjoint]

Nice ! thanks for showing

 

[Dido]

Really nice few and so exactly.
Not in my garden.

Keep on posting from your yard.

Do you have paeonies?

 

[Lanmark]

Fantastic! You are fortunate to have such a nice outdoor space you can use, and you use it very well. Now show us closeups of every single Neo in your collection... :drool:

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone. I've been working with this yard for over 5 years now and it has grown a lot - both in actual biomass and in diversity. It takes a lot of work, especially in the spring.

That's so cool Tom:drool:

Remind us what you do in your "spare time" when you are not tending your gardens.oke:oke:

Rick, I'm a flower bum and a surveyor of woodlands; a waterfall tester and thumb twiddler. Somebody's got to tend to these things, so it might as well be me. My perfect day is to not have any schedule, not really go anywhere, meditate, listen to the radio, weed the garden, pot up some plants, meditate again, eat some more. When the sun goes down I get ready for bed. In the end I may be penniless, but I'll have a smile on my face.

very nice show Tom, I esp. like the azaleas and the clematis!!! All those neos :drool:!! Is that bonsai on the left a maple? Jean

Yes Jean, that is a pot of maple saplings. They are in a "forest grouping". Actually I just bought them as a sort of faux bonsai, but after years of growth they are beginning to look like something. Very pretty in the fall when they change color. That stick of neos is what I call my "bank"...you figure it out!

Do you have paeonies?

Dido, I LOVE tree peonies, but don't have enough sun or room to grow any. I have one large herbaceous peony plus another woodland native species. That's all unfortunately.

Fantastic! You are fortunate to have such a nice outdoor space you can use, and you use it very well. Now show us closeups of every single Neo in your collection... :drool:

Mark, yes, I am indeed very lucky. I purposely found a house on the outskirts of the city near the mountains so that I could have a garden and also an in house school. I have both. It is far from perfect, but I really can't complain! I'll start another thread on the neos soon.

I'll post more shots as things evolve. I really ought to just get off my duff and start a blog. I've got ten zillion photos of plants, shrines, and wild places to show.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Beautiful photos! I love all the different textures of foliage; the rich color of that clematis is stunning too. I see the makings of a photography book...

 

[NYEric]

Thanx for posting and the info about the kingianum hybrid. Mine are just sitting and sometimes putting out new growths but not flowering. Next winter into the garden they go!

 

[biothanasis]

Excellent work!!! Well done Tom!!!