White Wall Tire

http://www.plantdelights.com/Hosta-White-Wall-Tire-for-sale/Buy-Hosta/

Interesting hosta, emerges white, then turns green.

We saw one at Boerner.

Phlomis tuberosa

http://www.bluestoneperennials.com/PHTU.html

Jerusalem Sage.

This looks like an interesting plant, I would like to try it.

Monches Farm sent me an e-mail that it is in bloom at their nursery this week.

Kiss me over the garden gate

http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/annual/kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate/

We bought one today at Heritage Flower Farm.

We have grown them in the past, they do well in one season but self-seed erratically.

New Baptisias in the garden

We have planted four new Baptisias in the garden:

'Purple Smoke'
'Solar Flare'
'Cherries Jubilee' x 2

We love Baptisias.

Five Oreganos

We currently have five oreganos in the garden:

old-fashioned oregano
Cuban oregano
oregano 'Herrenhausen'
oregano 'Cleopatra'
oregano 'Kent Beauty'

We love growing oreganos as ornamentals.

Invasive Orchids

http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/homeowners_battling_a_weedy_orchid_invading_lawns_and_flowerbeds

There was a local sighting, but none in our garden yet.

Peppermint Ice

http://www.mzbulb.com/dp.asp?pID=f12169

I love Hellebores in general, and this one is a particular stunner.

Kudos Gold

http://www.santarosagardens.com/Agastache-p/aga-gld.htm

Spectacular zone 5 Agastache.

Balmy Purple

http://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/5861/balmy-purple-bee-balm/

The old fashioned red flowered bee balm does very well in our garden.

I would like to try this compact alternative.

The Gus

On Thursday, June 2, I attended the regularly scheduled MGV work day at The Gus Green Thumb Garden (but now called The Fox TV6 Home Demonstration Garden or something like that).

I did some watering, also did some weeding, and performed other miscellaneous mundane tasks.

The gooseberry is setting a lot of fruit, starting to look very yummy.

The clematis features some very nice blossoms on a compact plant.

Counts as 3.5 hours of MGV volunteer hours (includes drive time).

Boerner Garden Walk

On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, we attended the Garden Walk at Boerner Botanical Gardens.

The guide was Nick Ternes of botanophilia.com.

The topic was flowering trees and shrubs.

It was a beautiful evening, and we saw lots of beautiful trees, shrubs, vines, and other plants.

We have seen Nick before, and he does a good job, very knowledgeable.

Well worth attending.

Counts as 1.5 MGV education hours.