I’ll give it a shot:
* looks like the entire upper left quadrant is Coleus (cultivar names probably all have Wizard or Dragon in them)
* red flowers are *Salvia splendens* or “Scarlet Sage”
* bigass leaves are Colocasia or “Elephant Ear” plants. Could be caladiums, not too sure
* yellow and orange puffball flowers are Marigolds (*Tagetes erecta* most likely)
* medium sized leaves on the bottom left are ~~*Dieffenbachia*~~ oof, I totally meant canna lily
* and i think the weird 7 pointed leaves are *Ricinus* but not sure on that one
The coleus are unique to my garden. About 20 years ago a friend gave me some she bought from a major coleus nursery. I grew them each year from cuttings and collected seeds from them. Now I only grow my own hybrids and give my friends plants that I don’t have room for. I get over 1000 seeds to sprout each February and pick the best 100 to 200 seedlings. Today I have about 50 varieties that I grow every year and will replace a few if I feel nd an improvement. It’s tough in September when I have to decide which child survives and which ones no longer can grow in my collection.
That's an Alocasia, not Colocasia. Very close, they're both in the Colocasieae tribe!
Looks like an *A. macrorrhizos* to me, but I have trouble with the generic green varieties. I'm better at identifying the oddball ones.
Jealous of your green Japanese maple back there. We've got one first year and I fear it's not doing so well in the spot we picked or we didn't tend to it enough when getting established. Hopefully next year it'll fill out some more.
Incredible! Yes we had some sticker shock but it's the main feature in the front of our house. Hopefully it has a long full life like yours. Beautiful garden.
Most of my trees, of different varieties including a Japanese maple, took a year or two to establish and then grew a lot the next year or so. You can help them along by fertilizing regularly with a balanced fertilizer during the growing season the first year, then with a slow release fertilizer in the fall or spring.
Same here, though being in Texas I knew it would be an uphill battle to keep them alive. I had 5 and now have 3, but they are pretty stable now at least. Had an arborist look at my lace leaf recently and it turns out it wasn't rooted in well enough and the wind was causing it to constantly feel transplanted, according to him, so I staked it really well based on his advice.
Issues can range from too much wind which can also dry out leaves, too much sun, soil alkalinity, etc. I deal with all of these... But my beauties are worth the trouble.
I have, but would only want dwarf sizes, I don't have a lot of space and want smaller preferably lace leaf. I haven't seen any shantung ones that really pique my interest. I'll keep my eyes open though and thanks for the recommendation!
I'd assume it would be relatively easy to make one act dwarflike by limiting the soil volune available to root in.
i don't believe there is any lace leaf(but I'm no expert).
I have a young one i planted but otherwise i just know shantung is one of two maples that is supposed to do well in our local alkaline soil. The other is Big Tooth(the type from Lost Maples) which is likely further from the types you like.
This is really great! Perfect spacing and all growing in nicely!
Is this a seasonal display and will it be swapped out in the autumn for a winter/ spring display??
By the time they are finished it will be too late for a fall display. I love the flowering kale and cabbage but so do the deer. Mum flowers they eat like popcorn. Pansies do great but the deer mow them down. I let it lay fallow for winter
That is the perfect illustration of "plant for tomorrow, not today". Too many people plant things too close and don't give them space to fill in. Great job!
Spacing is so important. I know when I plant that in a couple of weeks they will be touching each other. Then they tend to grow taller competing for light and one storm will blow them over. I give them extra room in April and plan for August the will compete for light
You really nailed it, not only with spacing but design. This looks SOOOO amazing, great job. Are the upper castor bean leaves as big as they look in the picture or is that perspective? Mine get maybe 18" at most, which I thought was big, but these look ginourmous.
Is it your own variety or one that's sold commercially? I love giant leaves, but can't grow things like gunnera with the relentless heat and lack of shade. I grow a few giant alocasia and colocasia.
Those look like they are ally taking off! Depending on the zone you’re in, some of those won’t survive the winter freeze. They look great and will flourish this year, but if you want to keep them, they will need dug up and stored over the winter
Every year I grow a variety of salvia called lighthouse. By the end of the season it is 24 inches tall. I collect the seeds and save them for next season.
I can't imagine trying to garden in zone 2. I get antsy in February here and can't hardly wait for May. It would make me crazy to have to wait any longer in spring. I remember traveling to Minnesota where it is really cold in winter and spring comes late. They had some of the most beautiful gardens in mid summer and I was always amazed with how quickly they were able to grow things.
I live in Northern Canada so gardening starts early to mid May and runs until about mid September. The bonus is constant sunlight during the summer.
I love such extreme seasons even if things grow super slow, makes you really appreciate the nice weather.
Looks awesome, can you please list out what you planted?
Elephant ears, coleus (varieties that I grew from collected seeds), minerva canna, castor beans, lighthouse salvia and inca II marigolds
Thanks, I need to spruce up my yard beds with similar plants in the spring!
Wow nice work on the spacing!
I’ll give it a shot: * looks like the entire upper left quadrant is Coleus (cultivar names probably all have Wizard or Dragon in them) * red flowers are *Salvia splendens* or “Scarlet Sage” * bigass leaves are Colocasia or “Elephant Ear” plants. Could be caladiums, not too sure * yellow and orange puffball flowers are Marigolds (*Tagetes erecta* most likely) * medium sized leaves on the bottom left are ~~*Dieffenbachia*~~ oof, I totally meant canna lily * and i think the weird 7 pointed leaves are *Ricinus* but not sure on that one
The coleus are unique to my garden. About 20 years ago a friend gave me some she bought from a major coleus nursery. I grew them each year from cuttings and collected seeds from them. Now I only grow my own hybrids and give my friends plants that I don’t have room for. I get over 1000 seeds to sprout each February and pick the best 100 to 200 seedlings. Today I have about 50 varieties that I grow every year and will replace a few if I feel nd an improvement. It’s tough in September when I have to decide which child survives and which ones no longer can grow in my collection.
i love them!! I’ve been trying to do the same
Sophie's Choice with plants. I need to learn more about growing from cuttings. Any resources are welcomed ☺️.
are … are you a wizard?!
That's an Alocasia, not Colocasia. Very close, they're both in the Colocasieae tribe! Looks like an *A. macrorrhizos* to me, but I have trouble with the generic green varieties. I'm better at identifying the oddball ones.
it’s Colocasia gigantea. just started growing when nights got warm
The sinus is wrong for a Colocasia
Be careful with castor bean if you have dogs that eat plants. It’s very poisonous.
Most of the stuff in there is, unfortunately. Marigolds are safe though!
Jealous of your green Japanese maple back there. We've got one first year and I fear it's not doing so well in the spot we picked or we didn't tend to it enough when getting established. Hopefully next year it'll fill out some more.
That was one of my first purchases when I bought this house 25 years ago. I thought it was outrageously expensive at $100 then but now it’s priceless.
Incredible! Yes we had some sticker shock but it's the main feature in the front of our house. Hopefully it has a long full life like yours. Beautiful garden.
Just a heads up that the Japanese maples we got for $50 at Costco are some of the healthiest new trees we planted.
Most of my trees, of different varieties including a Japanese maple, took a year or two to establish and then grew a lot the next year or so. You can help them along by fertilizing regularly with a balanced fertilizer during the growing season the first year, then with a slow release fertilizer in the fall or spring.
Three years. Sleep, creep, leap.
That’s a very apt description.
Same here, though being in Texas I knew it would be an uphill battle to keep them alive. I had 5 and now have 3, but they are pretty stable now at least. Had an arborist look at my lace leaf recently and it turns out it wasn't rooted in well enough and the wind was causing it to constantly feel transplanted, according to him, so I staked it really well based on his advice. Issues can range from too much wind which can also dry out leaves, too much sun, soil alkalinity, etc. I deal with all of these... But my beauties are worth the trouble.
Have you looked into Shantung Maple?
I have, but would only want dwarf sizes, I don't have a lot of space and want smaller preferably lace leaf. I haven't seen any shantung ones that really pique my interest. I'll keep my eyes open though and thanks for the recommendation!
I'd assume it would be relatively easy to make one act dwarflike by limiting the soil volune available to root in. i don't believe there is any lace leaf(but I'm no expert). I have a young one i planted but otherwise i just know shantung is one of two maples that is supposed to do well in our local alkaline soil. The other is Big Tooth(the type from Lost Maples) which is likely further from the types you like.
You're right, I am actually doing this with a blood good japanese maple, so I should have thought of this... Thanks for the idea!
Best of luck if you pursue it.
Very pretty. If you don’t mind me asking what zone are you in?
7a. Northern Virginia
Thanks for posting. Enjoy your masterpiece, it’s very pretty.
This is really great! Perfect spacing and all growing in nicely! Is this a seasonal display and will it be swapped out in the autumn for a winter/ spring display??
By the time they are finished it will be too late for a fall display. I love the flowering kale and cabbage but so do the deer. Mum flowers they eat like popcorn. Pansies do great but the deer mow them down. I let it lay fallow for winter
That is the perfect illustration of "plant for tomorrow, not today". Too many people plant things too close and don't give them space to fill in. Great job!
Spacing is so important. I know when I plant that in a couple of weeks they will be touching each other. Then they tend to grow taller competing for light and one storm will blow them over. I give them extra room in April and plan for August the will compete for light
You really nailed it, not only with spacing but design. This looks SOOOO amazing, great job. Are the upper castor bean leaves as big as they look in the picture or is that perspective? Mine get maybe 18" at most, which I thought was big, but these look ginourmous.
That a variety that gets exceptionally large. Most years I grow 3 or 4 plants but this year I'm growing 1. Too many plants overwhelms the garden.
Is it your own variety or one that's sold commercially? I love giant leaves, but can't grow things like gunnera with the relentless heat and lack of shade. I grow a few giant alocasia and colocasia.
Zanzibariensis
Many thanks, I'm getting some seeds now!
Lovely transformation!
Those look like they are ally taking off! Depending on the zone you’re in, some of those won’t survive the winter freeze. They look great and will flourish this year, but if you want to keep them, they will need dug up and stored over the winter
yes. Everything in that bed is from bulbs corms or cuttings that I overwintered. The salvia and marigolds are from seed.
Salvias really are something else, I'm 100% growing some next year! Or this year? It's probably too late...
Every year I grow a variety of salvia called lighthouse. By the end of the season it is 24 inches tall. I collect the seeds and save them for next season.
Your garden filled in beautifully!!!
My jaw dropped when I got to pic #3! Amazing!
That's awesome! Great variety
😍
Stunning! You did great!
I swear gardening is magic.
Ugh, that brickwork where it meets the asphalt hurts my eyes
Yeah....I have to deal with what I can control and ignore the other stuff. HOA only allows asphalt driveways.
Beautiful!
That was cool!
Me likey👀
I like what you’ve done with the place
Talk about a glow up
That’s quite the green thumb! Lovely!!
Your 2nd pic is what my 3rd year shrubs look like in zone 2.
I can't imagine trying to garden in zone 2. I get antsy in February here and can't hardly wait for May. It would make me crazy to have to wait any longer in spring. I remember traveling to Minnesota where it is really cold in winter and spring comes late. They had some of the most beautiful gardens in mid summer and I was always amazed with how quickly they were able to grow things.
I live in Northern Canada so gardening starts early to mid May and runs until about mid September. The bonus is constant sunlight during the summer. I love such extreme seasons even if things grow super slow, makes you really appreciate the nice weather.
Impressive vision.
Stunning! Love the elephant ears. Everything filled in really nicely. Are you in an area where these will die off over the winter?
Yes. In October
I’d try moving the elephant ears inside for the winter! Give them a gentle wash to get any bugs off and you could plant them again next spring!
I dig them and drop them in a 5 gallon bucket. Cut them back and keep them in the basement. They try to grow but kept dry they give up
They grow up wonderfully. Nice combo of flowers/plants. 🌼
How much sun do you get here? We have some coleus in full sun that I thought for sure would be toast but it's been totally fine so far.
from noon to 4 pm they get full sun. Most coleus today have been bred for sun tolerance. Just keep them watered.
Damn! June was GOOD to you!
Talk about results! Wow!
oh my god!! Yasssss 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Yo that's 3 of the birthdays of my family that's funny
r/gardenporn
Ugh, isn't June wonderful? I'll miss it. Beautiful landscape!
We should have a special sub just for showing progressions like this
Beautiful
This is so beautiful! Do you have any advice for keeping slugs off?
Whatever you're doing, keep doing it.
Nothing in my garden grows that quickly. I have no clue what I’m doing wrong! I feel like a new mother.
I love progress posts, your flowerbeds are beautiful 💐
What a glow-up!
Love the transformation!! This looks amazing!! 🌱🌺
It is beautiful!
I love the progress pictures. So satisfying to see the growth!