Countdown to spring! One garden photo per day - Part 6

Thanks, everyone!

Louise - is that Tuscan Sun? It's lovely.

I am only just trying to look ahead to Spring as I usually sink into a deep depression in the winter and this was lousier than usual. I finally got my HINI flu shot on Dec 22. I had my regular flu shot earlier as I'm always volunteering for studies if the drugs are free and they pay me. Helps the pill bill. Christmas eve I got the flu and was sick for six days---doc thinks too late with the HINI--may have made it milder though. But then it turned to pneumonia--week on antibiotics. Then doc insists I had a gall bladder attack- ultra sound-scans -blood work-surgery in Feb until which I cannot take arthritis meds. Finally last three days walking in the snow feeling better, started looking at pictures I took last summer with the first camera and a digital that I've had in twenty or more years and found that I could look at them in a slide show on my computer. I'm still trying to learn how to use that computer! Still, I could look ahead to my own daylily seedlings, even if they need dividing and these seedlings have stubbornly refused to set seed for ten years except for a dozen or so I got in 07 (It's 10 already!!!!) And my picture exposes my wild and overgrown garden (I call it Eden after the Fall) and then I forgot how to post photos as I thought I'd gotten lost lurking on some other bunch of forums-----anyway my pictures got me cheered up looking ahead to struggeling with these seedlings again to find their one true love????

Hi weedyseedy. Sorry you are so down. These Central NY winters sure can do that. And being ill besides......We had trouble finding the H1N1 locally, and finally gave up due to our ages, Russ is 67, and I'm 59, and they said people 60 and older probably didn't need it. But the regular flu shots were ridiculously hard to get. We got ours at Walmart, they started at 10. We got there at 8:30, and only two people after us got it, and I'm considered to be a health care professional, as I assist my daughter occassionally in her dental office.

But spring is not far off, and spring is nothing if not beautiful in CNY, after feet and feet of snow. So help is on it's way, and it sounds like you're getting your medical issues resolved before that, so even better.

Stick with us on this forum. If nothing else Victor will cheer you up, LOL.

Love that daylily. I'm partial to the yellow ones, anyway.

Finally got H1N1 shot at local clinic Jan. 12 & DH will get one Feb.1. It seems late, but a good idea. sorry that you were incubating the flu so came down with it. Keep with this thread & flowers will let you know that spring is on the way.

Isn't it the general belief that people over 60 were exposed to it, or innoculated agains it at some point, Lucy? We chose not to get it for that reason, and both our grandchildren had it after they had stayed with us the two days before they got it.

Yes, they said the younger people were more susceptible to getting it because they haven't built up an immunity to it. The older you are the more you've been exposed to it. From the looks of it the older people that have died from it had underlying conditions and even if they caught the regular flu they probably would have died anyway. wow.... that sounded grim, I need to think of a better way to say that.....hmmmm

Pixie that is real close.. but mine has a white beard.. but really close!!!

love Bob Victor!!

Disco Music

Since I have asthma, my Dr. would have a fit if I didn't get a shot. Nice iris, onewish.

thanks!

How about another poppy

nice!!

I hope its my picture( you know how it is sometimes!!)
Its Beauty of Livermore from the co-op so I do have it, maybe a bloom this year.

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Pretty poppy Ge, it's OK if it's not your picture....im sure your growning that poppy though!
Nice bright iris too Allison!


Going with a MG this morning.........

nice Pixi

Thanks Ge

Did anyone else notice this 'Alstroemeria - Tangerine Tango' at brent & Becky's bulbs?? I'm in love with the colors and it says it's hardy to z5 but i've never known one to survie under z6. I'm really tempted to try it.........
http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/summer/productview/?sku=52-11

Oh, give it a try, Pixie. If it works for you, I might try some. Sweet Laura, I think is the name, does OK here, although it's no big increaser.

Does anyone in z6 or 5 grow any crocosmia besides Lucifer that do well? I would like to add some different shades of those. My Lucifer has gone nuts, and spread so well. I love it.

Sorry, Lucy, I didn't know you had asthma. Of course you need flu shots then.

I am really anxious to see the poppys you sent the seeds for Jo. I think it will be the highlight of my spring.

This one is Mauve.........
http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/summer/productview/?sku=52-10
I might try it Polly.....says it will bloom from May to frost.

Hey all, Love all the Pic's, I have been reading & lurking on this thread for a bit, I don't have dial-up, but this thread is getting hard to open, Victor can you please start a #7? Thank you so much..:)Anita


Sorry, I dont have but only 1 pic I took in 2009(I was MIA all of 2009) so I can only share 2008.
Briscoe

That's pretty Pixie. Darn they are pricey for an iffy. But bloom from May to frost.......

Hi Anita, seeing you all over now, that's great.

love that Celeste... very nice Briscoe!.. Polly I planted George Davidson last year.. won't know if it comes back until spring

http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/si/211150/

Hi Anita! (Waving like a fool) So did you to check out those Alstroemeria Anita? I saw the thread and you being done zone-pushing and killing plants. I'm wondering if that what will indeed happen should I order this!! LOL

Oh phooey, you all made me look. Anyone ever try these? http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/summer/productview/?sku=97-02

Polly I have a yellow one thats just struggling along.It will be year3 so lets see how it does.
Nothing compares with Licifer. It also multiplies like mad.

JoAnn or anyone that grows it, does 'Lucifer' look more red or orange in person?

Red, Fire engin red.

Thanks Jo Ann.

Thanks for the pic onewish. That looks good. I have had that on the list need to get list for a while.

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the tips are red red.. sometimes yellowish towards the bottom of the flower (can't post 2 photos).. I will dmail it to you

Here's one of mine

Thanks for the pics and info you two. Really pretty.

Lucifer definitely looks fire engine red, like Jo said. And to me it seems to go with the purple shades, so I think it's towards that color spectrum rather than the orange side.

That George Davidson is pretty. let me know how it does, please. I like the yellow one, too.

I heard there was a new strain of crocosmias that were hardy being developed in England, then I never heard anything more about them. Maybe they turned out not to be so hardy.

There was a crocosmia god on DG last year. His website just made me nuts.
I have seen pics of Lucifer that originated in Africa, the plant was 6 feet tall.

Yes, that's the person I think. Wasn't he from England?

My Lucifers get six feet.

paeonia

Yes he was and such a great guy.

You really got to watch out for Lucifer, can get you in trouble---take over a whole area and choke out the better flowers if you don't watch it. (Him?) , But humming birds love it and can get very possessive and buzz you if your sitting on the ground weeding (or just sitting looking at the flowers). As to the flu, I'm over seventy and I was told I might have some immunity, but my really sharp doc was taking no chances, and had plenty of the vaccine, while I procrastinated and could have just run into his office months ago, I didn't so I guess it really was my own fault. Wife nagged when she got hers, and of course you know how stubborn nagging makes old coots! Looking ahead to garden shows, Rochester and Syracuse, garden club today maybe,. The yellow daylily is very early, by the way, since it's pod parent was some mix of Lemon and middendorf lilies. But it's pollen poppa was a late multiflora type---spring and August romance when the early one bloomed out of season one year never to repeat the late bloom even though I watered and fertilized it half to death.! Odder yet it has an eyed sibling that blooms in early June

Lucifer can run like a bat out of you know what here. Plenty of room.

I'm not doing the flower shows this year. The Syracuse one just seems same ole, same ole every year.

How exciting you hybridized from the old daylilies, weedyseedy. I have a huge collection of the old ones if you ever need pollen. lots of Stout and others. No one seems interested in them. Or if you ever want a division come on over.

AUGUST PIONEER--STOUT 1937

AUTUMN DAFFODIL--KRAUSE 1948 30/2.5 LA FR BRIGHT YELLOW

AUTUMN MINARET--STOUT 1951 70+/4.5 VLA FR LT ORANGE-YELLOW

BUCKEYE--STOUT 1941 30 4.5 RE EM ORANGE YELLOW

BUTTERPAT--KENNEDY 1970 35/2.5 M NOC MEDIUM YELLOW

CORKY--FISCHER 1959 34/2.5 DOR GOLD

EARLIANNA--BETSCHER 1938 24/4 E RE FR YELLOW-ORANGE

FAIRY GOLD--NESMITH 47/3 MLA LT ORANGE YELLOW

GOLD DUST--YELD 1905 24/4 EE CLEAR GOLDEN YELLOW

GOLDEN CHIMES--FISCHER 1954 46/3 YELLOW ORANGE

GRACILIS--ORIGION UK 18/2.5 EE DAINTTY LEMON YELLOW

GREEN GOLD--KD SMITH 1951 47/5 EM STRIKING DEEP GREENISH YELLOW

HYPERION--FB MEAD 40/5 M FR BRIGHT LEMON YELLOW

HYPERION SUPREME--KLEHM 1987 34/6.5 YELLOW SELF, LT GREEN THROAT

LIME SPRITE--B. TERRY 36/3 M VFR NOC BRIGHT LEMON YELLOW

LUCRECE--SCHULTER 1986 50 EM GOLD SELF W/ GREEN GOLD THROAT

MME BELLUM (CAN FIND NOTHING ON IT) TALL TRUMPET SHAPED YELLOW

ORANGEMAN--YELD 1906 27/4 RE CREAMY ORANGE-YELLOW

PINOCCHIO-STOUT???

PRINCESS--STOUT 30/4.5 EM RE FR LT YELLOW

QUEEN OF GONZALES--RUSSELL 1942

RED SENTINEL-SAXTON-60" RED

STATELY LADY--SAXTON 54/5 V LATE FR MELON YELLOW BLEND ALTISSIMA

STATUESQUE--STOUT 1956 60/3.5 MLA CLEAR EMPIRE YELLOW ALTISSIMA TYPE

TETRINA’S DAUGHTER--FAY 1971 48/4 TRUMPET SHAPED YELLOW

TEXAS SUNLIGHT--J LEWIS 1981 28/3 M GOLD GOLD THROAT

TINKERBELLE ?????

THUMBELINA--FISCHER 1954 15/2 M TINY GOLDEN ORANGE TRUMPETS

VICTORIA ADEN--ADEN 1981 12/2.5/APRICOT SELF W/GREEN THROAT

Well weedyseedy I am glad you are feeling better too. Also happy you have shared two very nice DLs with us. I think I will finally give 'Lucifer' a try and put him on the end of a bed next to 'Becky'. They can fight it out.

Mine are in the "lost boys" area so they can do as they wish.
I would definatly dig and seperate every 3-4 years.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, weedy. Here's to a big turnaround! Nice shots.

Very nice shot, Pirl! You must have been feeling patriotic to be up and about so early! Nice to know someone is being creative while I sleep.

Great shots, all! Things are normal - I see Jo has already posted three...