May update from Kazakhstan

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed May 08, 2013 9:57 am

I love this Season 'cos I have a chance enjoying spring plants metamorphosis every day.
There were the tree peonies and Calicanthus floridus. Enjoy you too:

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Wed May 08, 2013 12:00 pm

Nice. I don't care for 'normal' Peonies, but those shrub versions are too stunning to ignore!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed May 08, 2013 1:23 pm

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed May 08, 2013 4:56 pm

So many more flowers than I have as of yet. They look good.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu May 09, 2013 3:05 pm

Wonderful, Igor.
You're still ahead of us!

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu May 09, 2013 5:54 pm

Great pictures, Igor, With regard to the last three pictures. We have the same tree in the back yard. It smells like raspberries, what is it???? I have cut it back three times but it keeps coming back from the ground. Happy Birthday again/ Туған күнің құтты болсын!

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu May 09, 2013 6:45 pm

really nice blooms Igor!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri May 10, 2013 11:37 am

sidpook wrote:Great pictures, Igor, With regard to the last three pictures. We have the same tree in the back yard. It smells like raspberries, what is it???? I have cut it back three times but it keeps coming back from the ground.

Mike, it's called Callycanthus floridus, a native shrub from the East and South East of USA.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:15 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:really nice blooms Igor!

Tim, I have more pictures. We have a long weekend so I have a chance working through over the garden, planting, re-planting, moving the stuff around, cleaning up the fish pond, focusing my camera lens, correcting the pics in the Photoshop and posting them at the PalmsNorth. Since the state holiday and my birthday - a lot of food and alcohol.... too. Still alive and optimistic!

So a few days ago bought two mature variegated Aralia elata plants and Acer palmatum dissectum viridis plant. It cost me around 500 USD - a nice birthday present to myself.

Landscape reconstruction with newly bought plants. View from the above:

Acer palmatum dessectum viridis:

Aralia elata variegata argentea

Aralia elata variegata

Yucca gloriosa:

More Japanese acer plants:

Chocolate vine (akepia) is growing well:

Many pics from my "woodland" spots:

Astilboides and Osmunda regalis fern:

Hostas:

My fish pond:

Dwarf irises:

And geranium plants:

Gunera is my proud:

Henryana vine is a cold tender in my place but it's still here:

And Calopanax small tree:

My dwarf pine trees coning:

Thanks for watching! Enjoy the spring colours!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:19 pm

A magnificent woodland pictorial, Igor.
The exact opposite of my hot dry deserty property.

And beautiful new purchases for your birthday!

Happy Birthday!

What a great view from the second floor!
Splendid.

Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:25 pm

Oh, Barb, I know what you mean but April and May are too rainy in my area. A max summer temp in my town is 43,2C. It's not bad, isn't it?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:30 pm

my town is 43,2C

Holy toodles!

You've got the best of both worlds, then Igor, two months of lush landscape from rain, and then a heatwave to burn your socks off your feet.

Fabulous plants in great condition.
Your love of your property shows.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Fri May 10, 2013 4:28 pm

Beautiful and green, lush and verdant! Thanks Igor! And thanks for the info on the tree.

Mike

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri May 10, 2013 5:13 pm

Lovely!
But Gunnera? Really? I love them, but wonder if they can tolerate your Summer heat.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat May 11, 2013 10:48 am

Hi Igor,

GREAT garden! You'll have to start charging admission to see it!!

That Calopanex is real cool! Is that the large tree which is like zone 4 hardy?

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat May 11, 2013 4:27 pm

Truely and amazing yard Igor!.... What did it look like when you first got ther?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat May 11, 2013 6:42 pm

Looks great-

I love the layered-multicolored backdrop look and all the flowers........

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 12, 2013 8:40 am

TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Igor, GREAT garden! You'll have to start charging admission to see it!! That Calopanex is real cool! Is that the large tree which is like zone 4 hardy?

Thanks, Tim! I would start charging admission once I'll create the Western States looking landscape with all the yucca plants from those seeds I've got from you.

Yes, this is exactly that Calopanax you know as a zone 4 hardy large tree. But as I mentioned last year mine is grafted onto Aralia elata tree stock. So I won't expect having it as a large tree.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 12, 2013 8:41 am

sidpook wrote:Beautiful and green, lush and verdant! Thanks Igor! And thanks for the info on the tree. Mike

You are welcome, Mike!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 12, 2013 8:47 am

lucky1 wrote: You've got the best of both worlds, then Igor, two months of lush landscape from rain, and then a heatwave to burn your socks off your feet.
Fabulous plants in great condition. Barb

Yes, Barb. But I should make your point clearly. My place in at altitude slightly above 1000 m above sea level. And We have pretty high mountains with huge glaciers (a largest one has about 17 km a length). So the summer nights are quite cool and I haven't been giving up my warm blanket. And Ive been never thinking about the A/C installation in my house.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 12, 2013 8:53 am

TerdalFarm wrote:Lovely!But Gunnera? Really? I love them, but wonder if they can tolerate your Summer heat.

Hope I commented a summer heat situation above. Yes, we have 35-40 C hot and dry days in July and August. And September and October are the driest months here. But I have unlimited irrigation water from May until late October so I may provide my plants which love humid air with a good water mist any time they need it.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 12, 2013 9:04 am

canadianplant wrote:Truely and amazing yard Igor!.... What did it look like when you first got ther?

thanks Jesse! Honestly many years ago (1989) when my Dad god this land, we had been using it as a personal subsidiary plot. Barb knows what the communism era supermarkets have been looked like. So we have been planting potatoes, tomatoes, squash, prickles, many berry shrubs and orchards. And once a regime has been collapsed and I started travelling abroad I started bringing the ornamental plants from the States or from the EU countries back to my town. So let say I started creating my garden in 1994. All these conifers which are 5-7 meters tall now were brought in 4" pots from abroad.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 12, 2013 9:08 am

hardyjim wrote:Looks great- I love the layered-multicolored backdrop look and all the flowers........

You are right Jim. I always try combining different colour and structure layers. That is what I've learned from seeing the western world gardens. So it's not only about a free world democracy but about a Britain landscaping and ornamental gardening....

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun May 12, 2013 9:55 am

Igor for president!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sun May 12, 2013 10:11 am

Youve done an awesome job..... The more I see the more I like it..

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Sun May 12, 2013 5:51 pm

Igor Happy Birthday! Great pictures!
I am happy just about my Gunnera, just like you!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue May 14, 2013 2:57 am

Thanks Adam! May we look at your gunnera soon?

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:29 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Thanks Adam! May we look at your gunnera soon?

Hey, Hey Igor, this is a family friendly site

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:31 am

I know you know?

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Wed May 15, 2013 9:48 am

Great shots, Igor! I especially like the Kalopanax; I've seen photos of a larger one growing here in NS.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu May 16, 2013 3:49 pm

what the communism era supermarkets have been looked like.

Yup, sure do, Igor.
Mostly there was only an echo in those "supermarkets", if they can be called that.
Horrible horrible!

What you and your family have done, Igor, is what we should all do, whether from necessity or desire to put better food on the table.
Feed the family with food from our own gardens.
That's the only way to know what's IN your food.

So...it's called a gunnera, huh?
I thought it was a PISTACHIO...

Barb

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