Thursday, September 20, 2018

New plants! (I really didn't intend to buy anything)

To refresh your memory last weekend was rather planty (read all about it here). I knew I'd be exposed to lots of plant purchasing opportunities but didn't figure I'd end up with much. Ya, you all know me better than that, right?

Starting at the beginning (because that's generally best), before we even left the house on Friday I was the proud owner of several new plants, thanks to Gerhard's generosity. He'd recently been to Annie's Annuals and bought me a pair of Bukiniczia cabulica (aka cloudy cabbages, as named by TVojt). I ordered a trio of these back in August, when I saw they were available, but was THRILLED to have another couple to play with. I am rich!

Gerhard also knows of my love for silver Lupine and brought me a Lupinus sericatus, how beautiful is this? Wish me luck keeping it alive, I've lost more than one in the past.
And this! Gerhard recently purchased a 5-Gallon Agave salmiana var. ferox 'Mediopicta' from San Marcos Growers (revealed here) and brought me a pup. San Marcos says it's hardy to 10F, perhaps I'll plant it out in the spring?

Schizostylis coccinea is a plant I've meant to buy for years now. The stars finally aligned and I purchased a pair of  'Oregon Sunset' at Portland Nursery. Ya, that's them nestled into my holding tank (aka the cutting garden tank in the drive, once I cut the Moluccella laevis.

Here's my haul from Cistus. On the left Juniperus communis v saxatilis, and on the right Choisya dumosa. Looking up the Choisya in the nursery I found reference to it being rather compact, that's what sealed the deal...

The Juniper was one Gerhard and I spotted in the the hoop-houses (not retail). It's a low-grower and absolutely perfect for an area where I needed a groundcover to knit things together.

This HOT Sarracenia purpurea was a purchase at the HPSO PlantFest plant sale, from Carni Flora PDX.
Also from the HPSO sale a Begonia pedatifida, from the Far Reaches booth.

My friend Linda Callahan is the source for this spiky beauty. See that lime streak on the upper leaf? She's got an Agave gentryi that's got the same interesting (totally random) variegation and it's throwing out pups that continue the trend.
She brought a pair to the HPSO event, but I gifted one on to Gerhard. I hope you won't mind Linda? I look forward to seeing what both of our plants grow into.

Our stop at Tamara's netted me a couple of Verbascum blattaria...

I fell hard for the foliage and these fabulous seed balls back when I visited her garden in August. She dug a couple of plants for me this weekend which are already planted out in my garden.

Tamara also told us about what a great plant source her local Ace Hardware store is, of course we (Gerhard, Kathy and I) stopped there on our way out of town. Funny thing though, they were having a half-off sale! I bought a little Passiflora insurance (winter) for only $8...

And two pots of Yucca aloifolia 'Purpurea' aka Yucca desmetiana 'Blue Boy' (both with two plants per pot) for only $6.79 total. WOW!

My final plant acquisition of the weekend happened at Garden Fever, where I bought three of this Calluna vulgaris 'Stockholm'. I remember first seeing them at Farwest back in 2014, I'm happy to finally have them here in my garden. Isn't it the cutest?

Now where am I going to plant all these things...???

Weather Diary, Sept 19: Hi 72 Low 48/ Precip 0

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32 comments:

  1. A planty weekend indeed! I think the plants in this post are a pretty good representation of your garden at large :-)

    That ACE Hardware sale was ace! I wish we'd been there a week earlier when their inventory was better. Still, all of us found something good!

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    1. That's a good point about my garden and these plants...a little of this, a little of that...

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  2. I need to remember to check out that ACE Hardware one of these days! For that matter, I keep forgetting the Wilco Hardware in Kelso has a pretty decent plant selection in spring, too. I don't think I realized that Bukiniczia got that big. I might have to try one, after all. Anything too tiny gets lost around here, but I might be able to keep track of that.

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    1. You'll be able to see the Bukiniczia in person this weekend. I say just try to resist the allure...

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  3. Great haul; a perfect way to remember your planty weekend with friends!

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  4. How do passion flowers do in Portland? I'd love to try one if it's workable.

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    1. I've lost a few I tried to grow in containers, this will be the fist winter for the two zone 7/8 ones that I planted in the ground. We shall see. I hear winter wet is the problem and with my clay soil...

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  5. It boggles the mind to imagine what might have happened if you had ventured forth with plant buying on your agenda.
    rickii

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  6. Ha! You shop for plants the way I do, grabbing what appeals to you and figuring out where to put them later. I love those "cloudy cabbages" but they're so far outside my zonal range I'm afraid ordering one is tantamount to handing it a death sentence.

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    1. That's how my whole garden is put together Kris, buy now, figure it out later...

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  7. Oh what fun to have a load of plants to place. I really like that Calluna vulgaris 'Stockholm'. Wish I could grow it. I love the texture and deep green.

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  8. TVojt introduced the beauty that Bukiniczia cabulica is to me a few years ago and I was immediately smitten. Not sure what makes me so happy looking at that plant, but it does! I'm now thinking that Calluna vulgaris 'Stockholm' might come in 2nd. All that gorgeousness in a 4" (?) pot? I'm not moving again to be able to grow these beauties, but if can live to 100 I just might!

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    1. Ya I doubt wither one would be particularly happy in Tucson. But just think of the Agaves!

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  9. Sweet! You acquired some choice plants, Loree. That Juniper is especially drool-worthy.

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    1. Ya the color on it is pretty amazing. Thanks again for the Verbascum!

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  10. If you gave no sense of scale for that Calluna vulgaris it would look a loooot bigger than it actually is. I like it!
    PS: every new post of yours is more disappointing than the last...because then I have to wait a whoooole day for the next post! :D

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    1. Sorry, and then there's the weekend... ;)

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  11. If passiflora overwintering has you worried, let me know and I'll hook you up. The P. involucrata will easily survive your winters, even in a container I bet (if you want to keep it from spreading).

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    1. You kindly sent me a P. involucrata a few years back. It died that winter, in a container. (big sad face)

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  12. Nice new additions, so many with delectable foliage. Good luck planting!

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  13. Goodness gracious. I clearly don't shop enough. But then our nurseries have nothing as exciting as these plants. I have a blue boy that looks nothing like yours.

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    1. The leaves on these Blue Boys are quite narrow. I've got several and they're all a little different. What does yours look like?

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  14. What a great group of plants any way you look at them. Love that Verbascum but am guessing it is not hardy here or I would have seen it before.

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    1. I'm sure it must be hardy in your area, I think you just don't see it for sale because it's considered a weed!
      https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/moth-mullein
      http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/moth_mullein.htm

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  15. I'm jealous - I want a plant buying weekend with friends too.

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  16. I think you need to venture out to that ACE next spring.Just in case you run out of plants-it could happen, right ? I'm feeling pretty jealous about your white passion vine, that was a great score. It's probably just as well I didn't nursery hop with you guys--I bought more plants than I have room for as it is.I need to leave room for next years purchases.

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    1. My run out of plants, well....

      Did I steal the passion flower from you? I would have shared had I known, since I already have one!!!

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