July 17, 2012 - features of the day, and more flowers

That Tropaeolum speciosa we saw last week is still still looking very showy, and it was featured at the garden yesterday afternoon. We also saw some of it in the alpine garden climbing through the Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana gracilis' (thank you, garden person who gave me the name of that).



Nadia posted the Alangium platanifolium a week or two ago. I'm still trying to get a decent photo of it, but a cutting was right there at the entrance, as it was featured yesterday as well.


Speaking of trying to get a decent photo, this Rubus tricolor has been eluding me as well, though the leaves are photogenic enough. I'll give up on this now. It only ever has a few flowers - I can't tell if it's finished flowering, or just getting going.


I think most people know Deutzia pulchra, but I hadn't learned to recognize it yet. The grey calyxes seem pretty distinctive.


We liked these pink flowers outside the entrance. They look like something most people would know, but we don't know what they are.

 

I forgot one! Hydrangea macrophylla 'Homigo', with double blossoms. This is outside the garden entrance.

 

Overall habit and structure of foliage sprays of specimen shown not usual for 'Nana Gracilis'. Pink flower is a Sidalcea.

 

Thanks, Ron (and thanks for your other replies too). Sidalcea oregana? I'm glad it turns out to be something I really have never heard of, though it did think seeing the photo that the flower looked like it could be in the mallow family (which Sidalcea is).

 

That guy in the shorts has a book, maybe he knows.

I was thinking it might be that species also. I am growing one of the natives on Camano Island, could be the same one.

 

The Sidalcea is one of two propagated from plants collected in Oregon. It came as either S. campestris or S. virgata (this one possibly a hybrid?). They are not labelled yet and I don't know which is which. Both accessions were planted at the entrance.

 

There are some rare, less familiar species of Sidalcea present in the region.