Tuesday, April 21, 2015

My Hortlandia 2015 Haul...

This is actually my fourth "haul" of the season. The first came back when we bloggers visited Little Prince of Oregon, the second on our weekend away to Corvallis and the third just last Thursday when my friends and I took a day long annual nursery tour (sorry no photos, I just haven't been in the mood - but I got great things!). So this is my haul from the 2015 Hardy Plant Society of Oregon plant sale...

I've already written about the mislabeled Acacia, so moving on from there...I wanted more Eucomis and this is a new-to-me variety...

And at only $4 each I should have grabbed more than just three...

Another hardy Begonia. Looking at this one I would have sworn it was different than the one I purchased at Dancing Oaks. Nope. Oh well...

Love the leaves...

And they're so tall!

As I may have mentioned I'm on a bit of a Passion Flower kick. There was this one, not hardy, but cheap. Yay!

Pretty telling that in the hour, hour and a half, it spent in the same flat as my other purchases it had managed to wrap it's tendrils around another plant.

Great foliage too!

I had no intention of buying another Abutilon...

But 'Red' was actually orange and had dark stems and calyx...

Pretty fabulous...

I'd been toying with the idea of another Rodgersia, but it had to be 'Bronze Peacock' - they hold their dark color all season long.

I found one!

And yes, I have one of these...

But I thought I needed another...

Finally one of those plants I've been hunting for...

"dry climate" doesn't really describe my garden but I've got an idea where it can go that will be a little on the dry side.

Fingers crossed...

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49 comments:

  1. One box? You were so good!

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  2. Wow, girl. What a beautiful haul. I didn't know Acanthus s. had a central leader and grew tall. I love that foliage. I also would have gotten those Eucomis. Wow! And I'm still waiting for my 'Bronze Peacock' to do more than just tease me. So disappointing. I love that foliage. And I had to laugh out loud over the Passiflora grabbing on to another plant. That is hilarious. Don't you just love plants?

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    1. How is your 'Bronze Peacock' teasing you? It just won't grow? That Acanthus is crazy cool, but those leaves are VERY spiky...

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  3. Great choices!! I wish I could find all those plants here in Spain. There are Marrubium plants in nature where I live :)

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  4. Love the Rodgersia and Marrubium! I've been negligent in posting about my recent hauls too... I'd rather do the hauling than write about them to be honest... :)

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    1. I do enjoy being able to look back at my various purchases, especially to see how small they were when I bought them! Thus I try to write about them...

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  5. Fun haul! You can never have too many of that Acanthus, what a charmer! I'm a bit disgusted with myself right now as I've brought home far to many plants that I can't live without over the last couple of months, the usual pot ghettos are full, and now potted plants are covering the tables, benches and chairs in my garden. It looks a bit like a nursery right now with all of those pots.

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    1. Perhaps you need to have a plant sale?

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  6. Cool plants indeed! That Marrubium rotundifolium might do well in my backyard where we have a lot of dry shade. Love the rodgersia and passiflora but they need more water that I could give them. I'll admire them in your garden!

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    1. I thought the Marrubium rotundifolium needed lots of sun? Or maybe you're figuring your sun is too much sun?

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  7. Great haul! I am a sucker for abutilons, too, and that one is so unusual and pretty!

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    1. There was a bloom open on it when I bought it, which helped me to fall for it! It seemed to have fallen off at some point in the shuffle...

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  8. A good day gathering! I have been thinking about pineapple lilies. The Rodgersia is stunning. Will be fun to see how they all do...and none of them look dangerous : ) well maybe the acanthus. Fun stuff!

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    1. That acanthus is very dangerous. The leaves are deceptively sharp, I've picked them up with my bare hands one too many times...

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  9. That marrubium looks so cute and tactile! Looking forward to seeing how you get on with it. And love the way they described the passiflora, how could anyone who reads it resist? :)

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    1. It is so so so soft! And right? A good plant description is like poetry.

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  10. What a great haul! But especially that Acanthus. I am digging holes and popping plants in as fast as I can. I need to stop buying plants.

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    1. Do you have that Acanthus? You need one! And yes there does come a time when it's all a bit overwhelming...

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  11. Excellent Loree. I've gazed at that horehound more than once. It's so damn cute. As for your Passiflora..you should see what that dude does along the Mendocino coast ! Your winters are a benefit to be able to grow it safely. That's what I'm hoping with the P. caerulea I bought this weekend at Annies.

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    1. I can only imagine how out of hand a passionflower could get in the right setting. Watching how my orange one took off last season was quite the education!

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  12. Such wonderful plants. I love that Rodgersia but, of course, it's not something I can consider growing. I'm flirting with the thought to growing passion flower again, though, even if it is a water hog and the Gulf Fritillary are likely to consume it. Gotta support the butterflies...

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    1. Would it be easier for you to keep hydrated (and controlled) in a container?

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  13. Cut the flowers off of the Marrubium when they come. They turn the plant tatty, fast.

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  14. That abutilon is gorgeous! Maybe since it's a megapotamicum it's actually hardy. I was surprised to see my sorry little start made it through winter. Still, I think I'd rather start again with a healthy one instead of a bit of barely living twig. I need an Acanthus sennii.

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    1. Kate (you met her last week) gave me a few starts from her hardy red (really red) megapotamicum a couple weeks back. All the leaves wilted in the time it took me to get them home and planted but it looks like they're rebounding. What one? (although it is just a twig). And yes, you need that Acanthus, my first one came from Cistus so perhaps they have more?

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  15. The silver edged horehound is lovely, and that is pretty incredible that it only took an hour and a half for the passiflora to latch on! Bold little thing.

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    1. Indeed, I'm kind of excited to see how fast it takes off in the ground!

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  16. I like that Acanthus Senii. I find it hard to stay focused at the HSPO sale. I ended up with a lot of random plants...I want a do-over shopping trip! I Look forward to seeing these thrive in your yard.

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    1. My selection was also pretty random, don't you think? I tend to grab things thinking "just in case" and then thin them out at pick up. There wasn't anything I was willing to thin out this year!

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  17. You can never have too many begonias!

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  18. Your cautionary note on the passionflower is well timed. Next week I'll be welcoming a white version of Passiflora incarnata, the first passionflower I've ever grown, and I'll be taking it right from the box to its own hardening-off space away from the other arrivals before starting it up the pergola (with netting).

    Horehound is excellent even in its un-variegated form. It works in the rockier parts of our county, but the fundamentally clay soil here takes a lot of added poultry starter grit and other drainage enhancers to make it hospitable. Even then it's only marginally hardy. But worth the trouble, especially for your lovely and hard-to-come-by variegated version.

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    1. I guess I need to go look up the variegated version! Where I'm planting to plant the horehound is pretty rocky and dry, fairly well draining...we shall see! Good luck with your passion flower.

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  19. I wheedled R into going to the sale with me...not great plant-buying strategy. We talked each other out of several flirtations and came away empty-handed. I had just been to PDX Nursery to splurge with my Christmas gift card and we went on Sunday when it wasn't so crowded (with people or, alas, with fab plants) so I'm really not complaining.

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    1. I learned a few years back that this sale is best done on my own, I can focus without distractions. Glad you don't appear to feel short changed.

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  20. Cool plants. I especially like--well, all of them.

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  21. Oh yes, that is quite a haul. My favorite among the ones you show is that incredibly deep magenta Rodgersia. I want one! Oh, and I see it's hardy to zone 5! Perfect!

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    1. The thing about that Rodgersia is how well it holds it's dark color. Way better than any of the others. I hope you find it!

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  22. Hi DangerGarden! Did you go on Saturday? I kept an eye out for you on Sunday, but didn't see you. Anyway, good haul! I tried to focus on ''NW Natives'' at the Hardy Plant sale, keeping in mind this patch in the backyard that I'm trying to make more friendly to habitat. My problem with that is every ''Native'' plant I see tends to be very fine and delicate and gets lost in the landscape. Do you know of any Native plants that have a bit more, uh...."ooomph"? Thanks for your posts!

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    1. Ya, I was there on Saturday. NW Natives aren't really my specialty (as you realize I'm sure). The only big-leaf natives that come to mind right away are Veratrum, some of the Verbascum. I'm sure there are others. Oh and of course their leaves aren't big but the manzanitas bring plenty of "ooomph" with their great bark. Anybody care to chime in with others?

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    2. Oooh, I like the Veratrum! I wish this was Australia because all the Natives there have charisma and glamor and tons of OOOMPH!

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  23. Horehound! My grandfather always had hard candy Horehound and Lemon Drops. Guess I never thought about its source.

    Nicely curated haul, Ms. Danger.

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    1. Thank you ma'm...and what did you get?

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  24. I picked up that exact passiflora as well. I was at that booth about 10 minutes after the sale began, and there were only a few to begin with. I'm sure 'Coral Seas' will be a winner! I'm excited to see how it grows compared to some of my other reddish/orange colored passiflora. I do have to say though, when a passiflora is just hardy enough to survive, that means it is just hardy enough to take over. There is no middle ground, I think. Passiflora 'Clear Skies' has done that in my garden. Good? Bad? I'm not sure.

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    1. You make a good point, I was just thinking the same thing (hardy enough to survive, that means it is just hardy enough to take over). I doubt I picked up that plant until the sale had been open for almost an hour. Glad one stayed behind for me!

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