Kat, Ooh, those are so pretty, I especially love the vivid color of that first one! I couldn't find a database listing for an Azalea named Oriental Lights; did you perhaps mean Azalea (Rhododendron 'Mandarin Lights') ? I couldn't find Oriental Lights when doing a google search either.

When you don't know the exact name, you upload photos to the general entry for all Rhododendrons (Rhododendron)

Look over on the left side of the database page, click on Upload a Photo and follow the steps. If you have any trouble, just give a shout out and we'll help.

Alstroemeria

I found one today that I was gonna put in now, but I'm saving it for Z hope I can find it again

Yes, I meant Mandarin Lights. It is in fact now Rhododendron, as you know, but with five stamens instead of ten, so will see how long THAT lasts, lol.

When I wanted to enter a couple of photos of Anthemis tinctoria, last year, I couldn't believe that the name had changed to Cota tinctoria. In the 1938 Catalogue it was registered as Anthemis tinctoria, and wherever I made garden beds at Riverview in Robson - especially in the dry gravelly parts of the garden, there it would spring up. In moving to Grandview Heights, I seem to have brought seeds along in the compost, to my delight and amazement. So now, throughout my garden, I again have this wonderfully adaptable plant. It has much more sun up here on this bench of sandy land, and it loves to intersperse itself amongst many parts of my flower beds.

I've popped two photos into the Database this evening, and will also show how neighbourly it gets with other plants.



Cota tinctoria - synonymous with Anthemis tinctoria - first pictured with Hemerocallis Wide Wide World, and then with Malva moschata 'Alba'.



Next, it's rubbing shoulders with Nepeta Six Hills Giant and then it's spilling out from under Lavender Schola or 'Blue Cushion'.

I think you can tell how fond I've become of this endearing burst of gold in my gardens.

Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is a wonderfully fragrant plant that I love to have close to the house - to be able to reach out and rub a leaf whenever I fancy.


I also wanted to add the Agastache Acapulco Orange, but when I looked at all the other entries in the Database, it doesn't seem to match. First I'll show my photo that has the label at the base, and another photo of it. There seems so much more purple at the base of the petals, and it doesn't have that light orange tone.

And now I'll show a couple from the Database.

Does anyone recognize what variety it could be?
Any help would be appreciated.

Acacia farnesiana - (Huisache)
Seeds are a favorite for quail.

Few more A's:








AppleAjuga

April Queen > < forced daffodils > < Ara

Fun game, and some great photos - I've already added to my 'wish list'...

I started uploading some of my 'A's, then thought I might confine myself in to acers, which as you might guess from the sheer number in our garden, I really love! I don't have pics of them all, but here are most of them -











Same acer, slightly earlier:





More 'A's later...

@Hemnorth,
Cota tinctoria - synonymous with Anthemis tinctoria is new to me. Your excellent description made it sound irresistible, so I added it to my want list!

Dang name changing! Please, save us some seed Nora, I'd love to have an Anthemis aka Cota again...

Fabulous Mika!
I'm so envious of you and Deb to be able to grow these so well

Thanks, Dirt! And thank you for the acorn tip. It might be worth a shot for you to try acers - I have found them really unfussy - in theory they like acid, well drained soil, and we have alkaline, clay based soil... so I can't get heathers, azaleas and rhododendrons to grow here (except in containers). Luckily none of those begin with the letter 'A'!

ha-yeah, we are very alkaline, clay, and dry, and hot. I still have one that was supposed to do okay in full sun. It fried really badly. I moved it into the only spot I had (free space in shade/part shade is gone). Main trunk died the next winter after that. It's still alive, but not a very impressive shrub

Ah yes, the not enough shade problem! I have one acer that is fine in spring but later on it gets too much sun and the edges of the leaves burn... My fault - I should have put it in a shadier spot.

I found a couple more in the A category:

Here's my little shrub, last year

you can even see its former trunk there (I've cut that off since, but I neglected to get a fall pic this year and just thru that one in on the fall color drive)

and here's a few more

Nora, I just love Agastache! and they do so well here for me too.
I agree, it doesn't look as labeled.
There's just so many of the rosey, pinky, verging on purple bracted ones it's hard to guess.
Where did you get it?

Amorpha fruiticosa (River Locust)



Dirt, your amorpha blooms are prettier than mine.

Found another A:

Aristolochia. Looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book! Host for the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly.