Almost nothing is purchased for my garden. Not much more is purchased for work. Just about everything is recycled from somewhere else, along with its history. Consequently, the landscapes are as homey as my home garden is. It is often difficult to not brag about it a bit too much. It is gratifying that others can enjoy so much of what I have enjoyed in my garden. For Six on Saturday, though, I will be brief with my descriptions of these few flowers that bloomed last week. Half are angel’s trumpets. Half are white. Of course, it is no coincidence that white is my favorite color. I requested pruning scraps of single white angel’s trumpet and white orchid cactus. Even if recycling, I may be somewhat selective. It all works out well.

1. Gladiolus papilio, butterfly gladiolus that was budded last week bloomed this week. It makes its landscape feel delightfully homey for me. I should have gotten a better picture.

2. Hydrangea macrophylla, bigleaf hydrangea, like so much of what blooms here, came from another garden, then bloomed too well in recovery to not move out to a landscape.

3. Brugmansia, angel’s trumpet of an unidentified cultivar remains unidentified, but is a bit more obviously pink than any other color. Perhaps its cultivar name is not important.

4. Brugmansia candida, angel’s trumpet with fluffy double white flowers is what started all this fuss about angel’s trumpet. Yellow ‘Charles Grimaldi’ was the second acquisition.

5. Brugmansia, angel’s trumpet with single white flowers is an unidentified cultivar that I got merely because I like its single white flowers, but is not so great for the landscapes.

6. Epiphyllum, orchid cactus with clear white flowers remains as unidentified as most of these Six. Like all of these six, it also has important history that makes its garden homey.

This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/

15 thoughts on “Six on Saturday: Homey”

  1. I love your six. Gladiolus ‘Papilio’ is a favourite of mine. Fabulous brugmansias, I have given them up because slugs love them so. I can’t understand why they don’t get poisoned.

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    1. because slugs are the spawn of Satan! Brugmansias grow so fast that mollusks bother them only while they begin to grow after winter. After that, the damage is barely noticeable.

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    1. Brugmansia candida is the second most popular angel’s trumpet. (I believe that it is a simple species, since, as far as I know, it lacks a cultivar name.) Brugmansia X cubensis ‘Charles Grimaldi’ is the most popular. ‘Charles Grimaldi’ is the most vigorous, with the most abundant and most fragrant bloom. Brugmansia candida can be about as vigorous, with similarly abundant and fragrant bloom, but is more compact. The two are often seen together, and Brugmansia candida stays a bit lower, with a denser canopy. So, although I would say that it is comparably vigorous, I would also say that its height is more reasonable. The unidentified pink cultivar is very similar to ‘Charles Grimaldi’, but now that I know that it is pink, I do not expect it to be quite as vigorous. There are many cultivars, but I get the impression that all are more docile than ‘Charles Grimaldi’ and Brugmansia candida. ‘Cherub’ blooms with ridiculously large single pink flowers, but develops awkward form, with fat and knobby stems.The unidentified cultivar that blooms with single white flowers is the wimpiest. It can grow almost ten feet tall, but gets shabby on top. It is best if kept about six feet tall, and even then, it blooms with only a few flowers. I only wanted it because I like the simple flowers. I got it for my own garden, rather than the gardens at work.

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    1. That is what I do. I mean, I am a career nurseryman. I propagated and grew horticultural commodities from stock. Although it was technically neither recycled nor donated, it was not purchased from other nurseries.

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  5. I can agree with the sentiment that history makes it homey. I am still planting beans that originated in gardens of friends. I think of them at planting, at harvesting, and when saving seeds to keep my scarlet runner, unnamed green beans, and chinese long bean. I wish I have been in the position to take some things from my mom’s house hen she passed, but her roses would be devoured by japanese beetles and much else she loved is not suitable for my zone. I always loved the Angel trumpet flowers when I lived in SoCal. It is nice to see them!

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    1. Angel’s trumpet were not planned. I just happened to grab a piece of the double white Brugmansia candida from where it needed pruning over a sidewalk in downtown Santa Cruz, and grew it. That started it all. I took a few more bits when I pruned the ‘Charles Grimaldi’ angel’s trumpet in Brent’s garden. Heck, I just might grab more bits if I see one that I lack.

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  7. All the Brugmansias are gorgeous, but particularly the double white one. They are so dramatic and have such presence. I like the orchid cactus, too. Is the Hydrangea still canned? It reminds me of one I gave to my mom a few years before she passed. I planted it for her where she could see it from her kitchen window. After she passed, I lifted it and brought it here, where it is still growing in a container on my deck (our of reach of the deer.) It is terrific how easily they root from cuttings. You do have a lovely, homey collection!

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    1. The hydrangea came from my mother’s garden. I grew it from a specimen here, sent it there, and then removed it and brought it back here. It remains canned, but bloomed too nicely to not put it out in the landscape somewhere. It will come back here after bloom.

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