A Japanese Garden; Can You Guess the Movie?
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| Japanese Garden Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens Pasadena, California |
The Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens is a great place to visit while in the Los Angeles area. Located in Pasadena, California, it is worth a day trip to explore the collections, indoors and out. In addition to the Japanese Garden, other themed gardens include: Australian, Camellia, Children's, Chinese, Desert, Herb, Rose, Shakespearean and the Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science. If you are fan of bonsai, there is an impressive display!
The Japanese Garden is one of the most beautiful that I've ever seen and I was there in winter. I'm sure it is even more spectacular when the apricot, cherry, peach and plum trees are in bloom.
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| Japanese Garden January 10, 2010 |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
A Delicious Crepe Myrtle
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| Crepe myrtle 'White Chocolate' in August 2010 |
I stumbled upon this unusual variety in 2006. This year, the blooms are fabulous and have been going strong for a month.
'White Chocolate' is a cultivar selected by Dr. Michael Dirr, University of Georgia, Athens. Rated for zones 7-9, this is a moderate grower to 8 feet high and wide.
Although 'White Chocolate' is a difficult crepe myrtle cultivar to find, it is listed with Monrovia. (Their website allows you to search for garden centers in your area that carry their brand.)
Once established, this tree is drought-tolerant. It is also deer resistant. Japanese Beetles will chew on any crepe myrtle, but the damage is less as the trees grow larger.
The dark burgundy foliage of 'White Chocolate' is especially beautiful when it first emerges in the spring. As the season progresses, it is more bronze-burgundy, but never fades in the strong sunlight. The autumn color is brilliant and in winter, the bark is interesting. The summer blooms are white, but the burgundy and pink tones make it a good color to use with pink or blue blooms of perennials such as agastache, nepeta, echinops and caryopteris.
I shape 'White Chocolate' like a shrub instead of a tree, but pruning must be done with careful consideration—as with all crepe myrtles, you take responsibility when you grow one of these lovely trees, so please don't commit crepe murder!
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| Crepe myrtle 'White Chocolate' behind agastache 'Salmon & Pink' |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
I'm Cute and Fearless
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| I love to eat blazing star leaves. |
I live in Cameron's deer resistant garden. I'm so cute and I hide out beneath the amsonia, monarda and agastache that is planted so thickly, Cameron can't run me out. There's always a place for me to hide.
There's another perennial that I love to eat so much. It was blooming all summer, but now, linaria 'Canon J. Went' is nothing but stubs. Those pretty little pink snapdragon-shaped blooms are all gone. I have such a voracious appetite that I finished off the entire plant in three nights!
Cameron caught me munching on a coneflower leaf. She asked me not to do that anymore or she'll spray bunny repellent on all the coneflower leaves. That stuff really tastes yucky, so I'm going to have to be really sneaky and just eat the coneflower leaves that she won't notice. She has so many rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' that I'm able to eat those leaves without making her mad.
Although I live out in the deer resistant garden where there are a lot of plants that I don't eat (agastache, salvia, milkweed, joe pye weed, ironweed, amsonia, monarda, perennial heliotrope and coreopsis—to name a few), I do sneak into the cottage garden to see if I can reach the garden phlox.
I trampled some sedum tips the other day. That didn't go over very well with the gardener. Cameron had just planted those tips and I walked all over them so that I could eat a perennial that she calls "wine cups." It had been planted in the cottage garden, right beside the path. She moved it a few weeks ago to hide it from me. I thought it was a game of hide-and-seek. I found it behind those sedum tips and I just had to eat it again. I won the game!
I would really like to be a pet. Cameron and Charm walk through the garden every morning. I try to follow along, but they pretend to chase me off. I've managed to go up and sniff Cameron's shoes, but she isn't amused by my cuteness. She says I'm a wild animal and people shouldn't touch me.
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| I'm so cute, but I've been told that people shouldn't touch me. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. |
Cat Tricks
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| A Black Swallowtail caterpillar (cat) munches on bronze fennel to prepare for the great metamorphosis. |
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| The opening act for the magic trick. Notice the attachment to the stem and the shape of the cat. |
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| Ta-da! Chrysalis (two) on clumping bamboo. |
Each photo above is of a different cat. Caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly—all stages of metamorphosis in the garden this week.
Please take a look at Randy Emmitt's website for great educational photos and identification of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly. Although I have many BST cats, I seem to always photograph the similar Pipevine, "dark form" of Eastern Tiger or the Spicebush Swallowtail Butterflies—but, I never see those cats!
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
GGW "On the Road" Photo: Monet's Garden
Deciding which photo of Monet's Garden to use for the Gardening Gone Wild Photo Contest for August 2010 was difficult. A view of Monet's house, as well as the mix of flowers, reminds me of the Impressionist's paintings.
The photo was taken on a cloudy day in May 2009 in the Clos Normand (walled garden) section of Monet's Garden in Giverny, France.
The photo was taken on a cloudy day in May 2009 in the Clos Normand (walled garden) section of Monet's Garden in Giverny, France.
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
Agastache for August Blooms
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| Agastache for August color. There are at least six varieties in this photo and multiples of those. |
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| Labeled as agastache 'Black Adder' but it looks a lot like 'Purple Haze' which I also grow. Zones 6-9. |
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| Agastache 'Heatwave' lives up to its name. (background includes purple fountain grass and foliage of perennial blue flax). Zones 5-10. |
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| Agastache 'Salmon & Pink' is my oldest variety that started out in the cottage garden in 2005. It rules the deer resistant garden. Zones 6-10. |
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| Agastache 'Blue Fortune' held on to its color better this year. Could it be that it liked the supplemental watering? Or, has it matured? Zones 5-9. |
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| Agastache 'Summer Love' plants provided by Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc. Zones 6-9. |
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| Agastache 'Cotton Candy' has been in bloom since April. Plants provided by Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc. Zones 6-9. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
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What Butterflies Want
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| Joe Pye Weed 'Little Joe' (eupatorium dubium) |
For a butterfly garden, success is guaranteed if you include agastache, cosmos, joe pye weed, milkweed, butterfly bushes, lantana, salvia and zinnias. There are many other nectar and host plants for butterflies, but these are the favorites in my garden.
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| Agastache 'Blue Fortune' is a favorite, attracting many butterflies as well as Gold Finches and bees. |
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| Agastache 'Cotton Candy' is proving to be as popular as 'Blue Fortune' with me and the butterflies! |
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| Agastache 'Heat Wave', with tubular blooms is also loved by hummingbirds. |
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| Bog sage (salvia uliginosa) is great for moist areas in the garden, but can handle drought. Another hummingbird favorite, too. |
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| Butterfly bush 'Honeycomb' (buddleia) is one of twenty in my garden. 'Adonis Blue', 'Pink Delight' and 'Royal Red' buddleia are also wonderful. |
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| Comos sulphureus, an annual grown from seeds. I also grow cosmos bipinnatus in pink, white and deep rose. |
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| Lantana, an unknown pink-yellow variety that is a perennial in my zone 7b garden. I also grow the orange-gold 'Miss Huff'. |
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| Benary's Giant Zinnia in salmon. Easy to grow from seed. I have many different colors of zinnias and the salmon looks great with lime green blooms. |
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| My bronze butterfly marks a patch of pink swamp milkweed, joe pye weed and ironweed. Milkweed is the host plant for Monarch butterflies. |
| Words and photos by Freda Cameron, Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel. Deer and rabbit resistance varies based upon the animal population and availability of food. All company or product or patented names mentioned are registered trademarks, copyrights, or patents owned by those respective companies or persons. |
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