Comments on: Shade Gardening and Blooming where One is Planted https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:21:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: nancy.johnson https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16197 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:53:13 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16197 Hi Anita, Thank you for your lovely pictures. With so much shade in my yard, I do my vegetable gardening in containers on the deck. Welcome to RGBP.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16196 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:34:08 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16196 Thanks so much for the identification, Elizabeth and Ray. I will prune it this year (have never pruned it.)
Thanks Jen for the poem.
Yay, thrilled to be so successful in my first blog identification plea. There will be many to follow, sadly, as the previous owners planted a lot of specimen trees and bushes–and we don't know their names, so can't research their care.

]]> By: Jennifer in OR https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16195 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:29:54 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16195 Anita, What beautiful beginnings! I love all the flowers, and especially the willow you pictured. I had a weeping willow tree in my yard as a child. My mom wrote a beautiful poem about the willow~here is part of it for you:

THE WILLOW TREE

When God made trees, so long ago,
The world was not yet full of woe.
But God in his foreknowledge knew,
And so He made the willow too.

There are trees so tall and straight and proud
They speak of courage strong and loud.
But there are moments, not a few –
For them, the willow weeps with you.

~Enjoy the weekend! Jen

]]> By: Ray Barnes https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16194 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:03:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16194 Hi Anita
Your plant is a shrub Ribes Sanguineum (flowering currant) of the family Grossulariaceae). It has black fruit – not edible – in Summer and for a final positive identification (no polite way to put this, smells of cat pee).
It is hardy and needs very little help apart from occasional thinning.
Get me!

]]> By: Rev Elizabeth https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16193 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:46:33 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16193 Ribes Sanguineum if you want the Latin!

]]> By: Rev Elizabeth https://anitamathias.com/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16192 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:42:02 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/03/26/shade-gardening-and-blooming-where-one-is-planted/#comment-16192 The pink flowering shrub is a flowering currant and can be pruned hard after flowering.

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