Thursday, March 27, 2008

Purchases!

I am so tardy on posting my purchases. With it being spring I am a little busy and tired from both my own yard and work....PLUS, the purchases this time of year can be a little difficult to confess right here in front of everyone...lol.

Here are some from the past few weeks:

Tomatoes!! I am going to try and control myself this year! So far: Aunt Rubys German Green, Green Grape, German Striped, Black Krim, Giuseppes Bigga Boy, Caspian Pink, Brandywine, Sungold, Mortgage Lifter, and one mystery....must...control...myself.........
This Armeria.....I love it because it is large enough to hold is own place in the flower bed.

The Oxalis on the left I actually bought in the fall but I bought the golden feverfew a couple of weeks ago and I love the way the two look together.
This is a variegated Photinia. I never thought much of this shrub but I like not only this variety but the dwarf "Fireball" very much too.
A couple of Salvias for the front yard. A peachy Greggii named "caviar" and then a tutti fruiti sage (S. dorisiana), love the way the leaves smell, similar to pineapple sage but leave are much larger and flower is hot pink.
Euphorbia "Jessie".
Euphorbia "Excalibur".
A bunch of succulents form various places. Most from the nursery, some purchases and some that needed some TLC.

Today I went out to DJs Growing Place here in Napa. Its not a competitor really because it is a different type of nursery. They propagate most of their stuff themselves and its fun to search the place for treasures, which they do have...like these 3 succulents above! They have good prices too. I remember when they started...gosh about 20years ago. DJ was their son who they lost to a childhood illness.

We have had this one at the nursery before, it is a Salvia with odd orange-brown flowers. I have seen this before in books and always thought I should try it because my oldest son is Russell....this is Russelia. I have a plant for almost every kid now....even got a David Austin rose named for my son, Braeden (different spelling).
Ok, here is a 1 gallon climbing rose named "Lavender Falls". I am a sucker for climbing roses, and this is just my size (price). Havent found anything on the internet about it yet. To the right is a climbing Hops vine. We had these but these soldbefore I could get one and the price was great. In the back is Campanula punctata "Wedding Bells" I just ordered some seeds for the pink ones.
Here is one I have never seen or heard of, but did find it online after I bought it. Devils Tobacco. Lobelia tupa. 6ft tall, full sun, red flowers. Looks cool!
And finally a Iochroma cyaneum "salmon". They start out kinda orangey but the blossoms fade to a very nice peachy-salmon.

So there you have it, confessions are out. I also pickedup 3 climbing roses just before bareroot was over: Colette, Night Owl and Red Eden. Also bought some more seeds: mainly red and yellow alpine strawberries. And a few little odds and ends...6 pack of pink forget me nots, a gold marjoram...dont jusdge me harshly! Its hard to work in a nursery this time a yea when hundreds of plants are ariving...heck thousands...daily!
Next I hope to update my growing challenge!

3 comments:

ferne said...

oooo!!!! We have some similar tastes in plants! I just got that tutti fruit sage too. I have the feverfew also, but it does throw seeds...love it anyway! I grew the Wedding Bells campanula last year and much to my surprise it seems to have thrown a lot of seeds also. I am leaving a bunch of them to grow so I can see what they will look like en masse. I do tend to get invasive plants, they look helpless at first. My worst one was Monarda. I loved it the first year and hated it for the next 3.

Have fun planting!

If you read our latest post please note that it is written by Michael and not me...he is sweet and very sarcastic at times, but voices his opinion!

Tina said...

Oh Ferne! I have to slow down...now that I have been working so hard on the yard and have so many bare places ready to plant....well lets just say it is really hard. I think we must hae gotten 20-25 trucks this week...9 on Thursday alone. Every time a cstomer jokes about how hard it is not to buy too much when they come to visit I say "try working here!".
Headed to the Goldmith Seed trials tomorrow in Gilroy, promise to take (and post) lots of pictures.

Aunt Debbi/kurts mom said...

I have a lemon tree called a Logan's hardy lemon. I only bought because I have a son named Logan.

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