My Central Asia Garden April Update
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My Central Asia Garden April Update
I have no many palms pictures to share with you just because there are no too many of them in my garden.
But many plants are blooming enjoying middle 80th temperature before a snow and frost are coming up soon...
Magnolia Susan replaced the Stellata varieties:
Primula is very bright too:
I have a couple of species of Epimedium:
One more pink stuff:
Some orchard trees blooming:
Plum tree:
Apple tree:
Pear tree:
Peony tulips:
Some flowers colored blue:
Variegated Brunera:
Evergreen plants:
Creeping Euonimus:
Two varieties of Aucuba:
The Baltica ivy was badly damaged last winter but starts regrowing slowly:
More climbers. My Kiwi plant does very well after minus 27 C in December. It has no damage:
Banana plant looks deadly dead:
A couple more pics. My birch tree var. Yonge:
And Tabularis astilboides:
Thanks for watching!
But many plants are blooming enjoying middle 80th temperature before a snow and frost are coming up soon...
Magnolia Susan replaced the Stellata varieties:
Primula is very bright too:
I have a couple of species of Epimedium:
One more pink stuff:
Some orchard trees blooming:
Plum tree:
Apple tree:
Pear tree:
Peony tulips:
Some flowers colored blue:
Variegated Brunera:
Evergreen plants:
Creeping Euonimus:
Two varieties of Aucuba:
The Baltica ivy was badly damaged last winter but starts regrowing slowly:
More climbers. My Kiwi plant does very well after minus 27 C in December. It has no damage:
Banana plant looks deadly dead:
A couple more pics. My birch tree var. Yonge:
And Tabularis astilboides:
Thanks for watching!
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Great photos, Igor! Is your kiwi the regular A. deliciosa? If so, -27 C is a very impressive temperature. I was also really surprised that both of my A. deliciosa survived -23 C this winter. The bases were mulched, but even the exposed vines look like they've survived! They're proving to be much hardier than I had previously thought.
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Wonderful photos, Igor, thank you.
Felt good just to view those
Gorgeous magnolia, what a nice vivid color.
I had to remove my ivy, was crawling up the concrete foundation, then onto the vinyl siding, leaving horrible "sucker" marks.
Ivy can damage brick so badly it eventually crumbles.
Hope yours is "safer" than that.
Hoping your cooldown won't damage fruit blossoms.
Barb
Felt good just to view those
Gorgeous magnolia, what a nice vivid color.
I had to remove my ivy, was crawling up the concrete foundation, then onto the vinyl siding, leaving horrible "sucker" marks.
Ivy can damage brick so badly it eventually crumbles.
Hope yours is "safer" than that.
Hoping your cooldown won't damage fruit blossoms.
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More nice shots Igor. Im interested to know what species of kiwi that is as well. I have both A kolkamitka and A arguta (One is issai, one is arctic beauty). THe issai here died down t the snow, but I still have a foot of vine. The Arguta looks to have suffered little die back at all. A deliciosa is hardy to about -25C, but from what ive read flower buds are killed by -8C or so. They fruit only in Zones 8a and 8b if I remember right. Weird to have such a hardy vine, yet such delicate flowers?
Ive tried Ivy and it dies here. I do plant it in full shade, which is northern exposure. Id assume they can take more sun as long as the roots are cool?
Ive tried Ivy and it dies here. I do plant it in full shade, which is northern exposure. Id assume they can take more sun as long as the roots are cool?
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Thanks Cameron, yes, this is some self-fruiting variation of Actinidia deliciosa. Last December was an extremely cold here - the mean temp minus 12C. I didn't mulch it. Hope it will be growing well in my garden.Cameron_z6a_N.S. wrote:Great photos, Igor! Is your kiwi the regular A. deliciosa? If so, -27 C is a very impressive temperature.
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Thank you, Barb! Since you and Tim made me pics-managerial person I will be posting more pics with my great pleasure!lucky1 wrote:Wonderful photos, Igor, thank you. Felt good just to view those Gorgeous magnolia, what a nice vivid color.Barb
Yes, this Magnolia variety Susan is gorgeous and it bloom sometimes in August too.
English Ivy was my first BLE plant I started growing. So let's say the Ivy is my longtime lover.
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Thanks Jesse! As I confirmed earlier this kiwi plant is a self-fertile A.deliciosa var. Jenny. I had been growing A.kolomikta many years ago but quit since it was the male plant. My A.arguta Issai was frozen down to a snow level last winter but fruited though. After last winter it does not show any cold damage. Hope to get more fruits in October!canadianplant wrote: Ive tried Ivy and it dies here. I do plant it in full shade, which is northern exposure. Id assume they can take more sun as long as the roots are cool?
I grow several Ivies. English ivy with a few varieties. The most cold hardy "Baltica" doesn't do well (you saw a pic). But it grows creeping on the south faced wall. A variety "California" does much better: . The Irish Ivy (H.hibernica) is grown as a ground cover in my garden. I have three varieties of H.colhica and H.canariensis Gloire de Marengo (ground cover).
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great photos/plants Igor!! It's nice to see some growth and color this time of year.
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Thanks, Tim! I know what you mean... And Jesse, oh, boy, I feel your pain since you got something like minus 12C and a lot of snow? Some spring colours for you, buddy!
Abies koreana:
Abies koreana:
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Igor, is that one Trachy looking better now?
(the one that was nearest the wall)
Yup, glad you've gotten the hang of posting photos...you have such great pics!
Barb
(the one that was nearest the wall)
Yup, glad you've gotten the hang of posting photos...you have such great pics!
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Thanks, Barb, perhaps it's not me but my old Nikon
That one Trachy looks awful! All leaves and spears except of two leaves pulled. I didn't cut a stem yet 'cos a rainy forecast...
That one Trachy looks awful! All leaves and spears except of two leaves pulled. I didn't cut a stem yet 'cos a rainy forecast...
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Hope you have the spear covered.'cos a rainy forecast
Fingers crossed.
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More spring pictures to share:
My palms, Waggy looks OK but Trachy...
BLE plants are doing good. Fatsia plants grow pretty fast:
Aucuba blooms:
Pachysandra terminalis:
BLE and Acer palmatum:
Photinia Fraser grows in a pot:
Ornamental leaves plants:
Astilboides and Epimedium:
Fern:
Black tulip and a tree peony:
Epimedium pictus:
Pulmonaria:
Akebia vine:
Piece of my garden:
Bergenia and forget-me-not:
Lilac:
My small pond:
Thanks for watching!!!
My palms, Waggy looks OK but Trachy...
BLE plants are doing good. Fatsia plants grow pretty fast:
Aucuba blooms:
Pachysandra terminalis:
BLE and Acer palmatum:
Photinia Fraser grows in a pot:
Ornamental leaves plants:
Astilboides and Epimedium:
Fern:
Black tulip and a tree peony:
Epimedium pictus:
Pulmonaria:
Akebia vine:
Piece of my garden:
Bergenia and forget-me-not:
Lilac:
My small pond:
Thanks for watching!!!
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Wow Igor you have a bit of everything dont you
Looks like I may be catching up to everyone else in a week or 2.....
Looks like I may be catching up to everyone else in a week or 2.....
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Yeah, Jesse, i have some... Wish you enjoy your Spring soon!
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Igor, truly lovely, and all those colors! wow.
No lilac in bloom here yet.
I'm stunned your Waggie did better than the Trachy over winter.
Hope it recovers this summer.
Thanks for the nice photos.
Barb
No lilac in bloom here yet.
I'm stunned your Waggie did better than the Trachy over winter.
Hope it recovers this summer.
Thanks for the nice photos.
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Thanks, Barb! I love a rainy weather when a camera is able catching the true colours. And no shades!!!
No worries about lilac bloom my garden is located 7 degrees south off yours. It makes difference!
No worries about lilac bloom my garden is located 7 degrees south off yours. It makes difference!
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You'd think I would remember that every year.7 degrees south
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Everything looks amazing, Igor! So astonishing how nature has a way of doing what it does in such extremes!
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Arent Lilac native to your area Igor?
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Hey, Mike! I have no reason complaining about my climate. It's true a winter is a kind of harsh but cold is steady without winter rains and gusting winds. Actually there are no winds in my area. And a sum of summer temperatures is enough helping the plants to be ready for any cold winter.
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No they are not, Jesse. We have no many endemic trees here except of apple and apricot trees.canadianplant wrote:Arent Lilac native to your area Igor?
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great plants Igor! Keep the photos coming. PS, your Fatsia is really nice for your climate!!
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How do you overwinter your Fatsia?TimMAz6 wrote:great plants Igor! Keep the photos coming. PS, your Fatsia is really nice for your climate!!
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Tim, Mike, it's not a nice climate but a wheat straw protection during the winter. Anyway I like they grow!
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