From commentor Pekoepet:
Need suggestions from the hive mind on what this plant is. Taken at Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls MA.
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And some more from intrepid photographer Ema Ema:
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Just picked our first ripe tomatoes of the year (courtesy of buying mail-order plants) — two undersized Chocolate Amazons and a Madame Marmande. Weather here has swung from a record high of 100 degrees last Wednesday, to a record low of 60 degrees on Saturday, with clouds & intermittent rain for the last three days predicted to continue well into next week. But compared to what so many areas are suffering, we can’t complain!
What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
sab
I could only recognize the lilacs.
Jeffery
Helleborus viridis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helleborus_viridis
I used an app call LeafSnap. There free version. The pro version is a subscription rather than buying it out right.
OzarkHillbilly
#1: IdaKnow
#2,3,4: Magnolia
#5 Hibiscus
#6, 7: Lilacs
#8: IdaNoe
The first 2 weeks of June were dry as a bone. The following 2 weeks, it rained almost every damned day (welcome to the rain forest) giving us between 8-12″. So the weeds have been having the time of their lives. You can guess what’s going on in my garden.
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
Pekoepet: That is a Syneilesis species probably S. palmata but it might be a hybrid with S. aconitifolia. The leaves look too wide to be pure S. aconitifolia. Common name; Shredded Umbrella Plant.
It a perennial in the Aster/Daisy (Asteraceae) and is native to the Himalayan region. The flowers aren’t showy at all sort of like a dull-colored boneset so I cut most of the flower stalks off ours before they bloom as I think they spoil the nice effect of the leaves.
satby
1no idea
2.Magnolia tree in bloom
3.closer look at fallen magnolia bloom
4 more magnolias?
5 azelea
6&7 lilacs
8 ? viburnam?
some asshole was still blowing off M80s at 5 am across the river this morning. I hate the 4th.
OzarkHillbilly
Yeah, I think your right on the azalea. My bad. Our 4th has been quiet so far. I expect it to continue thusly.
eclare
@satby: Not as bad as your situation, but fireworks here started Friday night. I’m just glad we got some rain on Thursday. Put me down as also hating the fourth.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: @eclare: my poor not feral* kitty buddy was AWOL from the evening feeding time, but the local fireworks were already going off intermittently since morning. It’s so stressful for animals, especially the ones who have no fixed shelter to rely on.
*turns out, according to neighborhood kids, he might be a cat left behind by his owners when they moved two years ago. He’s now snoozing on my porch after his morning meal. I’m pretty close to being able to catch him and get him on my rescue’s regular Wednesday spay and neuter run.
eclare
@satby: Good news! I haven’t seen my feral for a few weeks now, hate that.
satby
Ok, viburnam berries are farther apart on longer stems. So I don’t know what 8 is.
We’re going into another round of hot and humid days for the next three. I have to plant three new daylillies I bought and the last of the tiny echinacias before it gets stifling. The daylillies were pretty sad looking when they arrived, shipped from the hell zone out west and all the packing meant to keep them moist was completely dry.
satby
@eclare: ?? But you suspected it might have another safe place too, so let’s hope!
MagdaInBlack
My morning report is that the peanut plant ( courtesy Pearl the Squirrel burying her stash) has lil yellow blossoms, the ants who were collecting peanut chips and storing them under the japanese lantern are now farming fungus, and a spider has taken up residence in the giant aloe plant. I see her sunning herself on her porch today. Also Rosa the giant geranium has 6 blossoms, and Rosita, who grew from Rosa clippings, has 6 as well. Gordita is sprawled in the doorway watching birds. It’s a nice weekend at the “penthouse.” ?
ETA: We have a blue jay and her immature offspring visiting. They’re a wee bit vocal about the cat in the doorway.
satby
@MagdaInBlack: Sounds like a lovely, peaceful start to the holiday morning!
JR
@Jeffery: Confirmed on Hellebore, I have it growing out front.
Kristine
@satby:
It’s my birthday and I don’t like it. I spent most of yesterday evening trying not too successfully to settle Gaby—the pup pheromone spray works better with thunderstorms than it does with firecrackers. Today it’s the trazodone for her. And if past history repeats, scattered booms for the next couple of weeks as the jackasses work through their stashes.
satby
@Jeffery: @JR: which picture?
satby
@Kristine: Aw, Happy Birthday! My own cats are indoor only and they don’t seem bothered, but the dogs are already freaked out. It’s mostly quiet right now (8am-ish) so the drunks must have finally gone to bed. Tonight the two dogs will probably refuse to go out at all; when they’re about to burst, they’ll go barely three feet from the door, pee, and run back inside to the basement. And we’ll repeat again tomorrow.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: Poor puppers. It’s all quiet on the southwestern front, but we live far from town. Fireworks have been banned due to extreme drought, although that doesn’t seem to stop the morans who need things that go boom.
The garden is happy: the temperature dropped significantly last week and we got much rain. My first cocozelle zucchini is about ready to harvest (thanks for the recommendation, OH!). We might have a decent monsoon season if this keeps up. Digits crossed.
Kristine @ #15: Happy Birthday!
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
O. Felix Culpa
@rikyrah: Good morning!
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: ha! Besides Senator Preach Ozark, on of my criminal Law characters was Senator Ida Noe.
I woke up at around 4 this am. Then this garden post posted? I did get back to sleep at around 5:30….
Is this the new normal? The garden chat has been tossed again to third tier posting time? It’s just one day a week, fer crying out loud.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: hello there, rikyrah!
Immanentize
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!):
I thought that was an umbrella plant! At first I thought some version of a sedge like papyrus.
But now I see that the flower stems in the one pictured are cut too. Thank you — it’s a great plant. And I want it!
MomSense
Morning!
Immanentize
@MomSense: Happy Maine Day?
I had excellent fried clams last night — and my local has haves for 16.99/lb which is pretty good for this year.
Immanentize
This week in near-Boston garden life — it was too hot to do anything at the beginning of the week, hitting the mid nineties. Although I did some from yard trimming because I knew it would be —
Cold and rainy since Wednesday. Right now it is 60 and no rain for a while, I hope. My garden, which I got in way too late, is Ok now that I have the anti-riff raff fence all around it. No critters (read woodchucks) have breached the barrier or reached the tomatillas! Which were wiped out last year.
My cat, Toast, is in and out, and this morning the blue Jays decided to dive bomb him. Epic recreation of the battle of Midway.
Both climbing and limelight hydrangeas are just starting to flower.
JR
@satby: top one, the plant with the fronds.
Scuffletuffle
Thank you, Mike S and all!
Immanentize
@JR: I think Mike S. has it right? — or are you both just using different names for the same plant?
O. Felix Culpa
@Immanentize: I haz a jealous. The last time I had fried clams was 13 years ago on Cape Cod. Can’t remember the name of the vendor (my then-partner and I were staying in Orleans), but the clams were delicious!
scav
@Immanentize: Different plants with the latin. Staring at the leaves closely, I think they have that split halfway up the “leaf” and a closed center like the Syneilesis palmata rather than the more regular lance shape “leaves” joined more like spokes of the Helleborus viridis but I could easily be insane.
What yellow spring blooming bushes are there other than forsythia and kerria for the elusive number 8?
scav
@scav: Something like Lindera benzoin / Spice bush? Closer, but . . . . . ? At least it’s got the flowe clumos and no leaves stage . ..
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@scav: Hmmm….. # 8 with the pale yellow flowers blooming before the leaves emerge is sort of like a species of Corylopsis (a.k.a. buttercup winter hazel.) They are Witch-hazel relatives from Asia. I know it isn’t Corylopsis pauciflora though as that is the one we grow in our garden and it has dangling flower clusters. The flowers actually look more like a Mahonia (Oregon Grape Holly, but I think they are all evergreen and we should see leaves in the picture too.
TomatoQueen
# 8 looks like the variety of Clethra (summersweet) that grew in a border between my parents’ property line and the neighbors. Mom said it smelled like a funeral parlor and so the property line was a good place for it. Google showed me there are both downward- and upright-pointing cluster types.
Or maybe it’s something else.
Another Scott
When one doesn’t have an expert handy, Google Lens can work surprisingly well at identifying plants, animals, etc.
You might need several shots (berries, leaves, bark), but often it can get it in one.
https://lens.google/
Cheers,
Scott.
ThresherK
I can’t even use the word horticulture in a sentence, but it’s nice to see the Bridge of Flowers. Ages ago I dated a farmer’s daughter from the area.
Mo Salad
@ThresherK: You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think. –Dorothy Parker
J R in WV
I’ve been planting spare bits of ramps every spring for years. They are native around here, but were over harvested to extinction locally. They are still plentiful in more remote mountainous areas, where people dig them for sale from their vehicles on roadsides, which is where I’ve been buying them. Normally I’ll plant a third of what I buy each year, and they do well, so we have big ramp patches on the hillside right outside the house. SO near the house to keep neighbors from digging them up right before our eyes! People will do this especially for morel mushrooms, take them from someone else’s patch!
Now, this summer, weeks after the ramp foliage has withered away, the roots of the plants are putting up very attractive spherical blooms like onions or garlic, but smaller spheres, perhaps an inch across. Dozens of them from the older patches, very pretty. I’ll send in some pictures directly. Eventually. Some day… maybe
Jeffery
@satby: First one by the fence.
ThresherK
@Mo Salad: I appreciate someone on the internet who knows how to deliver a punchline when I play the straight man*.
(*There should be a better term than that by now.)
nalbar
#1 looks like Geranium maderense.
Spectacular flowers.