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Cool Plants: August 2009
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Monday, August 31, 2009. Niagara Parks' Botanical Gardens, August 24, 2009. Good ol' Echinacea purpurea. With a Bumble Bee doing its duty. I'm fairly certain this is Hibiscus. Kopper King' - an outstanding hybrid by the Fleming brothers of Nebraska. Sp, a genus of four s...
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Cool Plants: October 2009
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Plants that actually reach their peak in October, at least in this part of the country, are few and far between, making them a real treasure to gardeners and garden visitors alike. One of my favourites is Allium thunbergii. After posting a fe...
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Cool Plants: The Fern-leaf Peony
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Thursday, June 12, 2014. The Fern-leaf Peony, aka Paeonia tenuifolia. Is a very unique but well-known and popular perennial. It has several forms and has also been used in hybridization. Here's to dirt under your nails. Mark, the coolplantsguy. View my complete profile.
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Cool Plants: April 2009
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Monday, April 13, 2009. Well, spring is finally here - below are a few pics I took at the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens this past weekend. Here's a good plant of. Showing good, red stems - the Bearsfoot. Hellebore is a unique plant to say the least.
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Cool Plants: April 2010
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Spring at the Nursery, Part 2. This is just a brief post of some pics of certain inspiring plants at the nursery over the last week or two. A few from Papaver nudicaule. Gartenzwerg' (Garden Gnome Iceland Poppy). Next a couple of Aquilegia.
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Cool Plants: June 2010
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Sunday, June 13, 2010. Several years ago, I was fascinated by a "new" offering in Jelitto's latest catalogue listed as Lilium. Martagon-Hybr. 'Painted Ladies'. Showed an arrangement of stems consisting of flowers in an interesting assortment of colours. The self-sowing t...
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Cool Plants: May 2010
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Saturday, May 22, 2010. Spring at the Nursery, Part 3. Case in point, is the re-discovery for me personally, of the genus Geum. Here's a few other "miscellaneous" shots from the nursery this spring. A new plant we are trying, Dianthus. This is an unidentified (I hate tha...
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Cool Plants: September 2009
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Cool plants, flowers, and related material. But mostly opinions and photographs of perennials (stauden, vivaces, vaste planten) from plantsman/nurseryman, gardener, writer, photographer Mark Denee of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Thursday, September 24, 2009. The End of Summer. In any case, here's another set of shots from the Niagara Parks' Botanical Gardens. From the main parking lot, as one begins to enter the gardens, they pass a beautiful grass border in front of some giant conifers. In all ...
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