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The wonderful wood hydrangea Annabelle.
Huge flowers. Easy to grow...flowers every year. Grows in partial
shade or sun. Every garden needs one
25th July 2003
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If you are looking for a top ten daylily
look no further than Siloam Merle Kent. It produces a huge number of
flower buds. Twice as much as a typical daylily.
25th July 2003
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Combination of Jackman's Clematis and a New
dawn climbing Rose. Each year the display gets better and better.
7th July 2003
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One of the lovely larger flowering
clematis. They like their feet in the shade and head in the sun.
23rd June 2003
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The lychnis "jenny" and
tremendous flowering machine.
23rd June 2003
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Our climbing hydrangeas look great this
year. All of our display ones are in flower. One of the great vines
for our areas.
23rd June 2003
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After a hard day's work! Here I created a
dry stone retaining wall at home. We have used lots of shade loving
plants to fill in and cascade over the wall.
June 15th 2003
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A little used plant' The Amsonia
salicifolia is a easy to use perennial . It produces light blue
flowers in early spring and a wonderful bright yellow leaf color in
the fall.
June 15th 2003
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The native yellow flag iris spreads and
seed itself every where. It's great in all kinds of wet areas.
June 15th 2003
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Here is a the wonderful Nepeta
"Walkers Low" It really is one of the best performing plants
for our gardens. great color and the ability to flower all summer
long. It is deer proof as well.
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It's peony time here at Greystone. As usuau
we have a great selection of varieties for your garden. I would be
keen to push the single varieties. They stand up better to the rain!
June 15th 2003
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On the set of the Victory garden. We have
already shot 12 segments for series 28 of the award winning series.
June 2003
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At home the
double flowering japanese wisteria has been amazing. I am pruning it
on a regular basis now. The results are truly remarkable.
9th June 2003
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One of my favorite little shrubs are the
potentillas. This is the white one Abbotswood. Easy to grow and they
flower all summer long.
9th June 2003
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The
wonderfully fragrant Carol Mackey Daphne. Not east to get hold of
but a real garden gem. It sometimes flowers later.
15th May 2003
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One of the losers from this years winter.
It's a green lane euonymus. The stems have been severely wind burned.
It is starting to re shoot and hopefully, it will be back to its full
glory in a few weeks.
15th May 2003
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A very
colorful display. Here my Texas scarlet quince is creating a red
splash. 15th May 2003
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We have a record number of varieties this
year. all kinds of desirable plants, shrubs and trees for your garden.
15th May 2003
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A new variety
of blue corydalis. I hope it last longer than the previous
varieties. It's in great soil with partial shade.
15th May 2003
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An ageing statue of Pan. Statues like this
can really add something special. If they are well designed they can
stay outside indefinitely.
15th May 2003
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My double
flowering Bloodroot is in full flower. Seven blooms this year and a
little side shoot!
1st May 2003
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The first "sunny" flower of
spring, the Leopard's Bane. This variety has done much better than the
usual one.
28th April 2003
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Our rock garden emerges from the harsh
winter weather virtually unscathed.
28th April 2003
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A new variety of primula. A lovely blue
with purple veination.
28th April 2003
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It's mulch time. The only chance we got was
last week. The whole bank has been weeded and covered with a fresh
layer of bark mulch.
28th April 2003
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The variegated brunnera is a real spring
winner. The leaves just radiate light.
28th April 2003
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The star magnolia on our bank is having a
great spring. Late frosts can sometimes damage and brown the petals.
But not this year!
28th April 2003
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One of the antique shade of pansy. Very
delicate pastel colors. These plants are able to take colder temps and
can be planted now.
28th April 2003
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It's been outside all winter and looks
great. This topiaried Alberta Spruce has tremendously hardy roots and
can withstand anything our cold winters throw at it. One of the few
plants to be able to survive in containers through the winter outside.
28th April 2003
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| The wonderful
exfoliating bark of the Heritage birch. It looks great even at the
beginning of spring. Its warm salmon color adds a great deal to the
landscape.
25th April 2003
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Winter
survivors? We are not sure yet. Each year we try a range of plants
to see who can survive in a container. This winter was particularly
harsh on the boxwoods.
25th April 2003
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busy building nest. It a bird need a clean site then you should have
cleaned out any old nests. We have 10 duck eggs at the garden
center.
25th April 2003
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This splendid
display of Arabis is growing on pure gravel. Drainage is the key to
alpine plants and this proves the point.
25th April 2003
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spring view. Snow Fountains Cheery in the foreground and the Scarlet
curls willow in the background.
25th April 2003
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These peony
hoops are 12 years old. They are great at supporting the massive
flowers and preventing storm damage. I leave them out all year to
save time and effort.
April 14th
2003
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snows of the winter have had a toll on some evergreens. Here my sky
rocket juniper is taking a 45 degree dive to the right! I have to
stake it for a while.
April 14th
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April 14th
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White Forsythia in full flower. It's
very fragrant too!
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The regular forsythia has come into
full flower. Don't forget to prune them back after they
flower. If you prune later you might lose lots of next year's
flowers. Watch out for suckers...the plants starts spreading
everywhere. If you need a smaller beast there lots of more compact
one available at our garden center.
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The daffodils
have come into full flower but very late compared to last year.
April 14th
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arriving at Greystone Gardens. As usual we an excellent collection.
All kinds of rare and very useful plants for your garden.
April 14th
2003
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Spring tidy
has commenced here at Greystone. Winter came in so quickly that a
lot of our fall chores have had to wait till spring. Well
spring is now here and we are busy cleaning up leaves and debris
from our perennial beds.
April 3rd 2003
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grasses can be cleaned up by burning. Be very careful you can damage
all kinds of things. Check your township regulations!
April 3rd 2003
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One of the
best willows for wet locations are the golden Curls variety. These
little $30 trees soon grow into a beautiful specimen that looks
great all years.
April 3rd 2003
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ahead. Our display pond at the garden center needs to be cleaned
out. It's been 10 years. The plant material has become so overgrown.
Guess whose job it is to go in? Still we will have lots of lilies to
sell.
April 3rd 2003
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This winter
saw a lot of wind burn. Look at the right hand side of this Alberta
Spruce. The bright sun, reflecting snow, wind and frozen ground all
have added to this year's toll. The little spruce should bounce back
when growth starts; just as long as the buds haven't been damaged.
April 3rd 2003
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The furry pussy willows always greet
springs arrival. I took this picture of our weeping variety. Both are
great for forcing. They will grow in wet soils easily and need a
little trimming to keep them tidy!
April 3rd 2003
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It's funny how crocus keep popping up
everywhere. Every time we transplant something we seem to take a few
crocus with it.
After years of doing this they start to
appear in all kinds of places. I took this picture close to a spirea
on our sunny bank.
April 3rd 2003
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Clumps of snowdrop growing in our woodland
garden. The white line are the remains of last years Sweet Woodruff
foliage...It adds a kind of abstract touch!
April 3rd 2003
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