[Magdalen] In the weeds

[Jay Weigel]

The road lilies (orange daylilies) are in full bloom here. Ours look better
this year than I can remember them any summer since I moved here. I have
always loved the mix of road lilies and the blue flowers of chicory. The
mullein, or verbascum to give it its fancy name, is just about to bloom
both on roadsides (native yellow form) and in gardens (various lovely
shaded cultivars), and various other lilies are blooming in gardens. Our
hostas are also just about to bloom, and the one we laughingly call
Gigantor, a Gold Standard one I brought from Richmond in a modestly
decent-sized outdoor pot, is rapidly outgrowing the 30-gallon pot we moved
it to a couple of summers ago. We are torn between dividing it and watching
it to see how big it will get. S/O allows as how he has *never* seen a Gold
Standard that big.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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>
> In a message dated 6/19/2016 12:46:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>
> The  roses are in full bloom, and I noticed chicory along the roadsides.
> It's  early. We don't usually see chicory before July  4th.
> -M>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> Tip-toe through the tulips!  Our 80' tulip tree (Liriodendron  tulipifera)
> is
> in full bloom.  The yellowish tulip-like flowers are high up in the  tree
> and
> are best seen through an upstairs window.  It's pretty good for a six  inch
> bare-root seedling I tore out of a crack in the Procathedral parking  lot
> and planted here in 1988.
>
> Our native rosebay rhododendrons (Rhododendron maximum) are
> loaded with swollen buds ready to burst into their white/pink blossoms
> in time for the 4th of July.  We had quite a show with the earlier  little
> leaf and Piedmont rhododendrons and also the Asian and native
> magnolias this year.  This is all still very exotic for a native
> Wisconsinite
> and for a Cruzian from the tropics where there is no spring.
>
> My flock of plastic pink flamingos is marching across the garden  looking
> very pleased.
>
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> David Strang.
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