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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on May 1, 2025, 9:55 pm The LIVERLEAF, Hepatica nobilis, a BLUE-FLOWERED spring woodland ephemeral, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/QSM2DfKVvsUUqTCY6 WHITE HEPATICA, Hepatica nobilis var. japonica, is also blooming. I got this plant several years from an Ebay seller, in Europe. Somehow, it made it through customs, and wasn't destroyed... https://photos.app.goo.gl/byzerkEzWvbcLQbR8 The RED-FLOWERING QUINCE, Chaenomeles speciosa, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/1LMa6DCgECiHqkbp7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/dqFSZySsVKsmrNcp8 A few days ago, I posted a pic of my Chinese Holly. Here is another holly that is borderline hardy, in my zone. This is an ENGLISH HOLLY, Ilex aquifolium. Its cultivar is 'Argentea Marginata'. It has been growing in my garden for two seasons. This is another BLE... https://photos.app.goo.gl/iHL3maj4SDht6Jtc7 Here is another type of daffodil. This one has a yellow periamth, and a deep orange CUP (shorter than on a trumpet)... https://photos.app.goo.gl/gVvHCW9nE4KeZfwW9 Jason, if you see this post, I am starting a few COTTON, Gossypium hirsitum, plants. Here they are... https://photos.app.goo.gl/TWeaCU6QViCexpUZ9 Another of my CLIVIA plants is blooming. This one is of the Salomone cultivar... https://photos.app.goo.gl/9jhui3UEtA11JTxn8 Here is another daffodil form, that is blooming. This one is a solid yellow, but its trumpet end is FRILLY ! https://photos.app.goo.gl/tc982aQkF8GH83dr6 - NEW PLANT - Here is a plant I got from Nearly Native Nursery, outside of Atlanta, Georgia. It is an ALABAMA CROTON, Croton alabamense. It is native to Alabama, like my Alabama Snow Wreath. Believe it or not, both are hardy in z6, even though I am just trying the Alabama Croton, in my garden. Anybody else growing this southern, somewhat rare, native, in their garden? https://photos.app.goo.gl/n5UrteX9pBhvKcYP6

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on May 2, 2025, 5:26 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Those woodland Hepaticas are quite nice in a more shaded area? I do like the intense hot orange of the cup on the daffodil. Another season with no flowers on my Clivia! I like English holly. I see it here. My mother had flowering quince when I was growing up. I have not noticed Alabama Croton here. I wouldn’t recognize it if I saw it . I know you must have a new surprise in bloom about every day in you little botanical paradise there in Michigan. I have visited Michigan only once but barely . I was up as far as cemetery in Flat Rock at my uncles funeral. We stayed in Monroe and toured little and quaint Luna Pier. It was beautiful on the lake. I know Michigan must be a beautiful place .

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 2, 2025, 10:33 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. Yep, Hepatica loves growing as an understory plant. The leaves you see, fell from surrounding trees and shrubs, and stays on the ground, until it decomposes, naturally, adding organic matter to the soil. Makes woodland plants feel as if they are out in the woods, somewhere. So, it does appreciate dappled to mostly shade. Does your Clivia spend the warmer months outdoors? They prefer part shade. My plants are receiving water for the first time, since late October. I have another flowering quince, with double flowers. It is of the newer Double Take Series. The Nearly Native rep I spoke with on the phone, when I placed my order described the plant as kinda rare, and alot of folks don't request it, or other natives very much, from them. I added that Alabama Croton is hard to find, and alot of folks are attracted to plants with flashy blooms, which Alabama lacks, in addition to it being semi to deciduous, and not evergreen. Yes, Michigan being surrounded by water, has alot of scenic coastline, on both peninsulas. The state is a great place to vacation, too, in the warmer months. Alot of people travel north, to get away from sweltering heat, in the South, in summer. We have some hot weather, in summer, but never continuous for weeks on end.

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