Winter blahs(and its not even winter!)-share your pics!

Love the Salsa bed, Neal!

Thank you Neal.

Love the salsa bed. I'm going for hotter colors this year. It seems a lot of people are going for hotter colors for the upcoming year. Although I think the poppies look good in there with the lilies.

I like the poppies too. Every salsa needs a little red :)

Found this one while sorting through some pics that were organized incorrectly. Made me think of warm weather.

I'm afraid I don't have the lovely beds and combos that you all do (yet!!!) but I have a friend who has a daylily farm nearby - maybe you'd enjoy some of her lovelies?

Another....

Last one.

Well, you bet I will enjoy daylily pictures. Thanks. I love the light orange daylily with some brighter orange in it. Kinda reminds me of a daffodil.

Be sure to show us your gardens when you get the beds and combos.

Lovely viburnum, Louise!

Thanks Polly.

I have to laugh....I just bought a roll up keyboard for 10 bucks. It actually works!!

sheep produce great compost for flowers.

At my first glance, I thought that was a cow! Very cute.

That is a beautiful Jacob's lamb. Male or Female? A friend had a male and a female and named them Rambo and Lambo.
Mary

Oh my goodness Mary!! You are the first person to recognize the breed. Most people think it's a goat because of the horns. I don't know the sex of that one. My brother raises them as a hobby, along with fancy chickens. He keeps me supplied with aged manure:)

I love the rams when they get their full horns grown. Does you brother sheer them for the fleece? When I lived in Calif my friend who owned Rambo & Lambo. He decided he wanted them trimmed and wanted me to do it, BUT he did not want to buy clippers, so quess what? I cut all their fleece off with a pair of scissors. Oh my word!! Never, Never again. !!! He now lives in Oregon and took them up there with him. Boy was I happy to see them leave.
Mary

Ooooh, I'm with Polly- that light orange DL is a beauty! Reminds me of orange sherbet and mango slices- kinda makes me hungry, LOL.

He tried shearing them once with scissors and promptly went to buy clippers.

I have to add a third vote for the sherbert DL! It's a beauty.

thoughts of spring........

Hey, did you steal my daffodils?

Ah, Neal - that's a different garden, lol!

Wonderful tulips, Louise.

Victor - is this the photo of Omoshiro you wanted me to post?

Here's a good link for a long visit - doubly good for a blizzard warning day here in the northeast:

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/668191

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Gorgeous, gorgous photos!

Venu/Gemini - I thnk we all hit the same sale as I have those daffs too.

Arlene - I just added your Omoshiro to my want list. I have a weakness for clems and that one is stunning.

Me too! How funny. And I can't even think where mine came from , maybe Van Engelen?

Thank you, Carolyn. It's a clematis worth growing.

That's not Victor's favorite photo...that's mine!! ;)

Carolyn, I have not been able to find Omoshiro. I'm wait listed at Brushwood for that one. Isn't it gorgeous??!!

I think my daffs came from Brent & Becky's. Or I sneaked down to Kentucky to steal Neal's^_^ Aren't daffs such happy spring flowers?

some tulips screaming spring.

Venu - Beautiful tulips. Are they the Monsella? I have been looking at buying them for several years now. The colors are so striking.

One thing I really look forward to is the newness of Spring. Another of my favorites are the dogwood. Dogwood is our state tree and they grow wild here in the hills.

Glorious, Carolyn. I love how you've arranged them.

beautiful contemplation spot.

My winter depression lifted a little to day. I noticed the the rose cuttings in the bathroom are starting to put out leaves. Several other thinks I have in there is also showing signs of growth. OH YES!!!
Mary

I bed we did hit the same sale- great minds! I believe those I posted are 'Precocious' from Brent&Becky's.
Venu, is that the name of yours?

Arlene, I loved that slide show- what an amazing design for a hillside garden!

Carolyn, lovely setting there! And it reminds me, I must get some dogwoods going here, and some redbuds.

One of my favorite Grannie's bloomers with some of my other bloomers

Love these colors

Peonies were heavily budded this year. This was just as they were starting to open. They were looking just beautiful a few days before my garden club's annual plant swap when it came a heavy down pour and shattered almost all of the blooms and of course I didn't get another picture before the storm and while they were in full bloom.

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Bigred - I like your favorite Grannie's bloomer. She is so cute! I see the sunflower to the right of her is taller than she is!

Yup,that's my lil bitterweed...LOL

What a lovely bloom, that sweet lil bitterweed is bigRed ;) Love those tulips, Venu. How tall do they get? I warm my day to see those beautiful blooms.

The crocosmia Lucifer are very striking close to white blooms. I have some growing near Annabel Hydrangea very pretty.

Wonderful pics bigred!

burn, love the idea of Lucifer with Annabel!

Really red and wonderful

Bigred, you sure that ain't a sweetpea?

Happy Holiday everyone
Spring is comming

I guess she would be more like a Stinkweed....LOL

Merry Christmas everybody. Didn't put up the big tree this year but did this table topper in mostly organics from the garden.

That is the best tree I have seen anywhere.
Happy Holidays everyone

Very nice tree, Peggy - you can come decorate mine anytime! Or just send me directions, lol - I have a dozen little red bulbs on mine and that's *it*!

I'm in a chocolate brown frame of mind this year.