Erythrone gardens

[Erythrone]

Wow, I didn't realize your zone is so low. Inspiring for me, for sure, as ours is Zone 3...

How old is your Cyp. Phillip? What sort of soil is it growing in? Do you do any amendments to the soil for your cyps?

Beautiful photos of your garden as usual. Love the peonies, especially that red Alexander Woollcott. Scrumptious! :drool:

Actually we are in a 4a canadian zone and a USDA 3 zone.

I bought the Cyp. Phillip in 2010. It was a blooming size plant from Fraser's Thimble Farms. The plant is grown in a ....acidic loam with a lot of compost. There is a mulch of dead leaves on top of the soil. So, there is nothing special in the soil. I bought 3 other Cyps the same years and they are near Philipp. Every plant are vigourous and bloomed this year (Aki Light, Aki Paster, Michael). I didn't want to grow them in special mix like a lot of growers do.

 

[Erythrone]

You do a fantastic job! Everything looks so healthy and happy, and you also take lovely photo's!!!

Merci Ruth!

 

[Erythrone]

Heucherella Chocolate Lace

Heuchera Monet

Hcuchera Snow Angel

Heuchera Blackout

Heuchera Chocolate Ruffles

Heuchera Dolce Blackcurrent

Paeonia Fancy Nancy

Salvia Madeline

Paeonia Myrtle Thischer

Dactylorhiza maculata

 

[Erythrone]

Hosta Paradise Joyce

Papaver orientale Raspberry Queen

Meconopsis x seldonii Tromso

Paeonia Julia Rose

Paeonia Sesquestered Sunshine

Hosta Love Pat

Heuchera Pink Lipstick

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Again, lovely, lovely, lovely!

Do you find your heucheras to be pretty hardy? I seem to have mixed luck with them; some last much longer than others, some seem to be very tender.

 

[Erythrone]

Thank you Joanne!

About the heucheras: unfortunatly they are not all very easy to grow here. I grow 160 cultivars. Last winter was very tough for many of them, althought I only lost a few plants. The most vigourous are the very dark ones (Velvet Night, Guardian Angel, Dolce Black Current, Cathedral Window, Obsidian, etc.). I lost many reddish ones, like Peach Flambe, Autumn Leaves and Ginger Peach. I still have a vigourous Peach Flambe.

About the fall tones, Caramel, Big Top GoldKassandra and Dolce Creme Brulee were a mess this year... Southern Confort seems to be the hardiest. Midas Touch could be very good too. Marmelade was badly damaged by winter but is now recovering.

Fore variegation, Monet and Snow Angel are very good but I get them only 2 years ago. I tried Hercules many times but it was always a disaster!

Plum Pudding seems to be another very good one for cold climate. Did you try this one?

 

[SlipperFan]

How do you keep your flowers and leaves so bug-free???

 

[Erythrone]

Well... I don't know. I think there is a natural balance here. I live in nature and I work with nature... The only pesticide I used this year was an eco friendly slugs baits.

Of course there are diseases the garden. I have a John Cabot Rose that is awfull. There was botrytis on some peony buds, etc.

I had many lilies a few years ago but I had problem with the red beetle... (we call it criocère in French... How do you call it?). It was a mess. I now grow only a few lilies but I didn't see that pest this year. And there are no Japanese beetles in our region... Not yet.

 

[Erythrone]

Iris sibirica Super Ego

Paeonia Lotus Queen

Hosta Stiptease, Aruncus dioicus

Paeonia Etched Salmon

Paeonia Bowl of Beauty (not a typical flower)
fleur anormale)

Paeonia Snow Swan

Paeonia White Cap

Phyteuma scheuchzeri

Paeonia Raspberry Charm

Galega

Nectaroscordum bulgaricum

Papaver orientale

 

[SlipperFan]

Well... I don't know. I think there is a natural balance here. I live in nature and I work with nature... The only pesticide I used this year was an eco friendly slugs baits.

Of course there are diseases the garden. I have a John Cabot Rose that is awfull. There was botrytis on some peony buds, etc.

I had many lilies a few years ago but I had problem with the red beetle... (we call it criocère in French... How do you call it?). It was a mess. I now grow only a few lilies but I didn't see that pest this year. And there are no Japanese beetles in our region... Not yet.

I don't know about the red beetle, but I hope you never have Japanese Beetles. They are voracious and decimate any plants they like, which are ones in the sun. They love hot weather and sunshine, so you can imagine what it is like around here right now!

 

[Erythrone]

Did you try Milky spore?

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

The Red Lily Beetle, also known as lilioceris lilii, scarlet lily beetle and lily leaf beetle.

They have been moving steadily West in Canada and showed up in Calgary in 2009. I haven't seen them in my garden (yet), but gardening buddies of mine have. Many of them have just completely stopped growing lilies because the beetles just devour them. They also like Fritillaria...

 

[Erythrone]

The Red Lily Beetle, also known as lilioceris lilii, scarlet lily beetle and lily leaf beetle.

They have been moving steadily West in Canada and showed up in Calgary in 2009. I haven't seen them in my garden (yet), but gardening buddies of mine have. Many of them have just completely stopped growing lilies because the beetles just devour them. They also like Fritillaria...

Thank you Joanne! Red lily beetle! It was so easy to remember...

Yes, they love Fritillaria too but they don't seem to be able to destroy them here... and unfortunately they like Cardiocrinum.

 

[Erythrone]

Paeonia Hillary

Eryngium

Paeonia Sorbet

Paeonia Port Royale

Paeonia Copper Kettle

 

[JeanLux]

your paeonias are extremely nice !!!! Jean

 

[likespaphs]

The Red Lily Beetle, also known as lilioceris lilii, scarlet lily beetle and lily leaf beetle.

They have been moving steadily West in Canada and showed up in Calgary in 2009. I haven't seen them in my garden (yet), but gardening buddies of mine have. Many of them have just completely stopped growing lilies because the beetles just devour them. They also like Fritillaria...

they were first discovered not far from here in Brookline, Massachusetts
i think the larvae make themselves unpalatable by covering themselves in their own feces

 

[Erythrone]

You are right, likespaphs... the larvae look unpalatable... They look like burd drops!


A few more pics:

Baptisia Purple Smoke

Paeonia Lavender

Heuchera Florists Choice

Paeonia Hillary

PaeoniaDancing Butterflies

Paeonia Fancy Nancy

Paeonia Julia Rose

Gentiana lutea

Paeonia Neon

Iris River Hawk

Clematis integrifolia

 

[Erythrone]

Paeonia White Cap

Rosa pimpinellifolia Double White Blanc Burnet

Hosta Guardian Angel, H. Summer Breeze, H. Salute

Hosta Guardian Angel, H. Summer Breeze

Paeonia Snow Swan

Hosta Blue Wedgewood

Papaver orientale Pattie’s Plum

Arisaema consanguineum

Lonicera Mandarin

Paeonia Raggedy Ann

 

[Dido]

your paeonie Raggedy ann is special,
nice pics again.
Do you make seed of some of your paeonie.
I have soem seed on my rockii, maybe for exchange

 

[Erythrone]

your paeonie Raggedy ann is special,
nice pics again.
Do you make seed of some of your paeonie.
I have soem seed on my rockii, maybe for exchange

Hi Dido. Not really. I don't start plant from seeds anymore... I don't have the time nor the room for it anymore... I usually discard the old flowers. But I kept pods of Paeonia Lavender. They are too cute. Maybe you will like to get seeds of this plant??