Friday, November 19, 2010

Some Fall Pictures from Tiger Gardens

From In the Garden
I thought I'd share a few fall pictures from Tiger Gardens with you today. I have cut back on posting a bit but that so doesn't mean I'm not still getting out and enjoying (and working) in my garden. Today we'll look at a few random scenes that caught my eye this very week. First but not least is an unknown Japanese maple seedling-just splendid! I have five unknown type Japanese maples out front and this one is the only one that is orange. Seedlings are quite variable I tell you. Three of the others are red, and one is a plain old green for fall. I think I'm liking the orange best.

From In the Garden
Here is a long shot of it. This J. maple seedling grows in my Walled Garden. The last time I posted on my Walled Garden was when I first planted it back in 2007! This vantage point shows both the Crabapple Garden (in the foreground with the Crabapple Tree) and the Roadside Shrub Border (in the background just in front of the green split rail fence-the other side of the split rail is a state highway). The orange just glows!

From In the Garden
Here is another vantage point looking north toward the Northside Shrub Border. You can also see a 'Nova Zembla' rhododendron in the foreground. This rhododendron is part of the walled garden as well as several PG hydrangeas, azaleas, mums, Solomon's seal and other plants including a 'Forest Pansy' redbud. This garden gets pretty much full shade. The seedling was planted in 20o7 when I planted the entire garden. The seedling is finally getting a bit of height on it-if I can just watch out for those voles I'll be golden with this small tree.

From In the Garden
Here is Christine's Japanese maple (really 'Sango Kaku' but I call it her tree). It colors up completely different from the red leaved Japanese maple. This tree turns a pure golden yellow in my garden. It is magnificent backlit! See the red veining? A nice feature. You can just make out one of the fall blooming camellias in the background.

From In the Garden
And here it is! It is an unknown camellia along the northern side of the deck. It is slowly gaining more girth than height-kind of like me I guess; which is not good for me but great for the plant. Eventually it will grow to above the deck rail so that we can enjoy the blooms at eye level when we are on the deck.

From In the Garden
'Jean May' has no problem gaining height as this shrub is more of a tree than shrub. It has one main trunk and has grown phenomenally in the 8 or 9 years it has been growing in Tiger Gardens. I have posted on how I grow camellias here if you are interested in learning how I do it (besides good luck:). Be sure to click on 'camellias' on my sidebar label section for more informative posts on growing camellias from all of here at In the Garden. I'll tell you regular readers and bloggers, if you do not have a label link on your sidebar you are missing a ton of traffic. The labels are used quite often on this blog and I'm glad I have kept them up-many that there are though. I know when I visit blogs it is one feature I sure appreciate-more than any other feature on a blog.

From In the Garden
Here we are looking west along the Northside Shrub Border. The blueberries in the foreground have colored up beautifully and my yellow button mums are blooming in mass quantities. The color combo is nice and I sure appreciate these late blooming mums.

From In the Garden
More of the yellow button mums in the corner of the Northside Shrub Garden. I mainly show you this picture of the Amsonia hubrectii a favorite perennial for my garden. It is very drought and shade tolerant. The blooms come in the spring and are not so much to look at but the foliage is great! It has taken several years for it to reach this size but I think that is good since the root system has plenty of time to develop nicely. This plant is extremely drought tolerant. I have several smaller seedlings scattered around and I am so enamoured of this plant that I've begun spreading it around the rest of Tiger Gardens.

From In the Garden
Another shot of my 'Jean May' camellia. As I was peeking around the shrub looking for a good vantage point a few song sparrows were most worried about my presence so I decided to investigate further. I'm sure this nest is not used for eggs but more for roosting. The evergreen leaves of the camellias and other multiple shrubs in my garden provide a fantastic hiding and warming place for birds to roost during the long winter nights-and even during the day. I can usually find the birds in this tree since it is so close to my house and I can tell you all types of songbirds including cardinals have nested and lived in this tree. It is a wonderful habitat tree for a wildlife garden. If you do not have a lot of evergreens like camellias, arborvitae, viburnums, eleangnus, hollies, boxwoods, yews, and multiple other types-plant some now to provide shelter for birds....

From In the Garden

One last shot (fittingly it is an orange one like the opener) of one of the three crabapples in my garden. This tree was planted as a twig seven years ago and it has really taken off. The 'apples' are a light orange and provide some great color in the garden-not to mention the birds love these little apples. Crabapples-any kind of fruit tree actually-are also excellent habitat trees for wildlife....

in the garden....

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27 comments:

  1. I would have a hard time gardening without my sasanquas.

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  2. Tina, your garden looks great no matter what time of year it is. And your sense of humor certainly doesn't suffer from the drop in temps:) You're right about the labels helping visitors as well as the blogger. It's a great filing system. One thing I've noticed though, is that the "cloud" tends to slow down the site's loading time as well as my ability to scroll down through the post. I tried it for a while on my blog and then went back to the list. It's not as neat looking, but everything is faster since I restored it.

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  3. Les, Aren't they wonderful? I always wonder why the experts say japonicas are the most popular camellias. I love those sasanquas way more.

    W2W, Thank you very much. I work pretty hard on the garden and it is a constant battle to keep it looking nice. Just being truthful on the girth for sure much to my chagrin it is a fact for me. A little humor never hurts though:) Some readers have commented the blog sometimes does not work for them and I'm at a loss as to why so I might make the label change to see if that helps. This tech stuff is frustrating to me but I did back up the blog at least (I think).

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  4. Tina --great fall colors. I like the orange maple too, it pops. I look forward to my Coralbark to look great in the fall. This year it is still trying to get established.
    Those crabapples are pretty cool. Bet the birds love those!

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  5. I love all of your autumn colors, and your camellias, sure wish I could grow them down here.

    How do you make the linkable labels in your sidebar? As if I don't already have enough stuff to keep up with. :-)

    Have a great weekend, and a wonderful Thanksgiving.

    FlowerLady

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  6. Janet, The birds here are ever so happy with those crabapples for sure.

    Flowerlady, It is a tool in the DESIGN feature from the dashboard. Go to ADD A GADGET, look for LABELS then add them in. It is an excellent tool and is used a lot on this blog by visitors. You don't need to keep up with it as the blog does it automatically. Good luck!

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  7. Your fall garden is lovely! I love the camellias. Aren't they just the best plants to have? Carla

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  8. You managed to make this florida gardener jealous of the fully temperate climes, and that's not an easy thing to do! The Japanese maple looks stunning and the crabapples look simply magical on the leafless stems.

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  9. Good Morning everyone! It is amazing how much color you can get in the fall time of year. Then all go to sleep, sigh....

    Yep, still problems with the blog loading. I do think it is the gadgets portion as I see that loading on the bottom of my screen. Also takes a long time to get a link from the blog to load then again (time consuming) to get back to the blog in which you linked from... Wonder what is up with this??? Wish I could help you but as you know, I dont touch any of that stuff, sorry.... Good luck...

    Everyone have a great weekend!

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  10. That orange maple is stunning! As is your camellia, i don't often come across winter flowering camellias around here. Wonder why? I also love your crabapple. Mine has red fruit, and they all dropped off long since. I meant to try to gather them to make jelly, but the rot got to them first...

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  11. Are those 'the' mums? I love all of these vibrant fall colors and the yellow with the red veins is stunning!

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  12. Carla, Oh yes, the camellias are so lovely-all year long.

    RFGardener, It's not a bad thing to love climes other than our own-I have serious clime envy when I'm freezing here and Florida is bathing in sunshine.

    Skeeter, I read your comment wrong thinking you said it was not the gadget portion-now back to the drawing board. Maybe it is the labels like W2W said? I'll keep playing with it.

    Janet, I once made crabapple jelly-a bit chore but so nice. Maybe next year you'll catch them before they all fall. Not sure why you don't have the winter flowering camellias. They are sure lovely.

    Darla, Yes indeed! These mums are all started from one eeny plant in 2006. They spread but mine you see here are in the shade. They'd be more bushier in the sun. You'll love the late blooming.

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  13. Ah... such a beautiful Maple! It leaves are devastatingly beautiful.

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  14. Oooh! It's beautiful! It gets cold so fast where I am that our leaves don't really turn colors. They just freeze and fall off the trees. We're lucky if they go a little yellow.

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  15. It is lovely to see all of your colorful leaves and blooms . . . I love the Camellia! Have a good weekend Tina. ;>)

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  16. Beautiful! I'm jealous of those Japanese Maples. If I ever have a bigger yard one day I want to have one of every color :) The camellia is huge!
    Those orange crabapples are so pretty. I don't know if I've ever seen them that color before.

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  17. Awesome opener and ending but I really, really love Christy's tree and crabapple jelly is my favorite jelly. I know the birds will make good use of them this winter.

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  18. Gorgeous displays of fall color Tina. I love the Maples especially that 'Sango Kaku'! :)

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  19. All the different colored foliage on your Japanese maples is simply beautiful, Tina! These trees just draw me to them every time I see one; maybe one of these days I'll find the right place --and the right price--to plant one here. Your camellia is so gorgeous, too--I seem to be having the same problem with my "growth":)

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  20. Beautiful fall colors! Do you know..we are even having pretty colors here in Texas. Just love it!

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  21. Really like "Christine's maple"--the delicate yellow leaves with the cranberry pink stems is gorgeous!

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  22. Tina girl I am amazed at how much colour you do have down there !
    I totally love the Japanese Maples and berries that are left behind in the trees are just gorgeous : )
    Hey I have changed my blog name in case you were looking for me ? wink wink ... it is now
    http://canadiangardenjoy.blogspot.com
    just a little more of the Canuck me ?
    Joy : )

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  23. Your orange Japanese Maple seedling is outstanding! Hubrect's Amsonia are one of my favorite perennials too. Wet, dry, sun, shade, they can handle a lot. One of the best foliage plants ever, with the bonus of fragrant blue flowers in spring. And fall color too!

    Great tip about the labels in the sidebar.

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  24. Gosh! I can't wait until my crabs reach a mature point, so beautiful!
    I'm out of the hospital and we have decided to let the kids have the half a days off from school that is scheculed for today and tomorrow. (? Figure that school day plan out!)This week will be a cool and relaxing one for all of us, taking it easy, time for me to get crafts done, missing it soooo much.
    PS I like the black, time for me to change and add ads, they can do good don't ya think?

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  25. Hi Tina,
    Thanks for taking us on your yard walk. I like the orange leaves, too, but the combination of all of them are very nice.

    Those camellias sure are pretty. I don't think they grow here. I love amsonia foliage, but enjoy the blooms just as much.

    I have labels in my sidebar, but sometimes forget to label the posts I write, or don't write all the labels that pertain to the posts.

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  26. Interesting about the labels. I have zero labels on my blog but I do have a "word cloud" that can be clicked on. There is no way to monitor traffic tho so it's hard for me to tell how much it's used.

    You have some gorgeous fall color Tina. The maples really add so much to your garden. I am hoping my only one (purchased this year) survives our winter.
    That camellia is also stunning. I wouldn't care how tall it got if it were loaded with blooms as it is!!

    ps Congrats to your son and his band. I agree with you about how much harder it seems to be for teenagers today. Down right scary sometimes....

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  27. Kathleen, The word cloud is the same as the labels. Can't you install a sitemeter? It is pretty interesting and I really like it. There are other stat counters too but that one is most user friendly. I so hope your maple survives too. If it does not I have a solution. The Korean maple is pretty much the same but much hardier and a very pretty orange fall color too! Teenager-boy it is tough indeed as you know.

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