Tag: garden inventory
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Garden Inventory | Paeonia lactiflora ‘Garden Lace’
One more peony before we go back to the older stuff! This young lactiflora was planted in autumn 2022 and shot up really fast in the spring. It produced two huge buds in its first spring, which makes me hopeful for what it will do in the future. Paeonia lactiflora ‘Garden Lace’ (lactiflora = kiinanpioni)…
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Garden Inventory | Paeonia herbaceous hybrid ‘Lemon Chiffon’
I’m taking a break from cataloguing the older plants today because I wanted to share one of my favorite debuts this season. This peony was planted out late summer/early autumn of last year and you can see what it looked like in the slideshow below. All I ever saw of it were two tiny leaf…
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Garden Inventory | Paeonia lactiflora ‘Sarah Bernhardt’
You know what they say about making the most mistakes with your first child? It applies well to plants, too. I grew up in southern California, zone 10. We were at the edge of possibility for heat-tolerant roses and peonies were not even a remote possibility. So when we moved into our house (zone 5/6…
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Garden Inventory | Rosa pimpinellifolia ‘Plena’
Today we are continuing with the theme of old-fashioned garden plants that are particularly associated with Finnish midsummer! This rose is more common than the peony in my previous post and is still sold regularly in garden stores. It’s more surprising to see an established garden here without one than with. Ours came with the…
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Garden Inventory | Paeonia officinalis ‘Nordic Paradox’
Last week was Midsummer (Juhannus in Finnish) and it’s a pretty big deal out here. The entire country goes on holiday to enjoy the endless sunshine and balmy (especially this year) weather. There are a few old-fashioned garden plants that are particularly associated with midsummer here because they tend to flower around that time. Now…
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Garden Inventory | Omphalodes verna
This pretty little groundcover is one of the first things I see in the mornings upon leaving the house, since it carpets the flower bed just next to our front steps. At first, I mistook them for forget-me-nots, but closer inspection showed plenty of differences. Turns out, they are Omphalodes verna (kevätkaihonkukka), also known as…
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Garden Inventory | Anemone sylvestris
I do enjoy spring ephemerals. They’re the sort of things that we could never grow when I lived in California because the springs were never cool enough. During most summers here in Finland, they’ll stick around at least until midsummer. This is Anemone sylvestris (arovuokko), the snowdrop anemone. Not to be confused with the wood…
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Garden Inventory | Dicentra formosa
This is my first Dicentra formosa (purppurapikkusydän), the fern-leaf bleeding heart, variety ‘Luxuriant’. It came in the same order last spring as my white spectabilis and seems to be slower to start growing. However, it was also accidentally covered by garden equipment for half the season last year so didn’t have the most ideal start.…
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Garden Inventory | Dicentra spectabilis
A few days ago, I stumbled upon a much more established Finnish garden at Vanha Talo Suomi and was especially impressed with her neatly organized specimen list. At last count, I have four different spreadsheets and three apps around to keep track of things, and somehow manage to not efficiently update any of them. This…
Little Blue and White House 