Countdown to spring! One garden photo per day - Part 8

I hope not!

Great shots, Love them all, Robin egg's made me smile.
Sorry folks, all I have on this computer are Daylilies, did not have a back up disk & lost EVERYTHING when my old computer bit the dust:( What a lesson..:)Anita
Strawberry Beret

That is a 100% improvement over Raspberry Beret - what a miserable disappointment that was.

The colors on yours are so much nicer and easier to match with other plants.

I was shown how to back up on a stick this Christmas. Family got the UB port for me as the connection was in back of the computer. Lovely design? I have only had this computer since 8/08 so need to learn a lot. A friend lost 5 yrs of pictures when his computer died. I went & hugged my slides.

Learned to back up at least once a week when my last 'puter crashed. Got something called 'Click Free' from QVC. It backs up my entire hard drive.

My clem from last season. Photo was taken in the rain.

nice lily karen

pirl it they are in a real pond and grow wild, every winter they die down and every spring they grow back - it is a REAL pond not man made with plants in pots - snakes, fish, otters, muskrats, ducks, blue heron............:)

Thanks, Victor and Bill.

NYV, that 'Anita Strawberry Beret' looks yummy! I would hate to lose all my pics, so that's why I signed up for Carbonite back-up service. Gives me peace of mind.

Nice clem, Candyce.

Karen

I love Carbonite for pain-free, automatic online backup.Very happy with it.

Victor, I love it too. Patti

me three!!

Cant you just hear the birds?

can't wait!!!

beautious

thanks

Catching up again.
Weedy nice sunny DL. So bright and cheerful.
Two very pretty water lilies from Bill and Karen. They grow wild in the reservoir here as well. Lovely.
The strawberry pink color is nice on that DL Anita. Looks like it would blend with lots of other colors.
Candyce is that clem Florida Sieboldii? It is hardy for you up there? I think I would like one but some sites put the hardiness at a warmer zone. So this could be one I can grow would be good news.
JoAnn a lovely garden scene. How could the birds resist. Nice garden art for height too.
And finally a beautiful frilly purple trimmed iris from onewish, nice indeed.
Here is a combo I like phlox and monarda.

I missed lots of beautiful blooms yesterday, love the water lilies!

One of my favorite annuals.

Beautiful Phlox ngam
Osteosperms are my fav. annuals, mixed reviews for mine here last year.

The only ones that did well for me last year were the ones in raised beds. I think it was to darn wet for the others.

I could never figure out what happened, hardly any blooms.thought those werent in enough sun but the full sun ones dried up and dies after a month.

Pixie, I love those Osteospermum (Cape Daisy)and having just returned from their homeland, we were treated to masses of them planted everywhere on our visit along with endless beds of blooming agapanthus. I have grown Osteospermum only in containers in the past.

Ngam, like that phlox and monarda combo. I have struggled to get Phlox to do much here. It grows like gang busters for me in Vt.

I planted lots of new Peony over the last view years, so I am excited to see some real blooms this year. I liked this one a lot last year which came from a DG 2007 fall coop. Paeonia lactiflora Honey Gold Patti

great picture

Thats lovely Patti, I just bought a yellow this past fall im looking forward to. That would look great beside it!! LOL
I bet the fields of Osteospermum were amazing!!!! Are they all colors or is there a predomiant color?

Pixie that is really nice pic. I have tried them in flower boxes and they start out really well then poop out when it gets hot and humid. Probably not enough food for the poor babies.
Patti nice peony. I like the single blooms a lot. That phlox is 'Franz Shubert' and nothing seems to bother him. Some of the others are kinda divas, specially last year with all the rain but that one just keeps on going.

Mostly like the one you posted and often paired with an short orange flowering sunflower like plant. Of course I don't have a good picture of them. Grrrrrrrrrr.

Ngam, Thanks, I want to be the only diva in my garden, so I will look to add Franz Shubert this year. Patti

ngam ~ that clematis IS 'florida'. It's 'Pistachio', though.

If it survives the winter (and I say that every year), this will be its fourth year with me. It fared not so well last year due to all the rain we had.

One of my favorite summer photos ... not a garden, but I helped her grow!

Great shot Jo, yes I hear them:)

Beautiful Iris Onewish, I just love the 2-tones.

ngam, very nice combo, love it!!

pixie, love your daisy pic, P.S Bidding is not like buying, ha, that was funny, till I got on the computer to confirmation E-mails, You Won!!! Guess bidding is JUST like buying!! Shhh don't tell on me:)

Patti, Love that Honey Gold, something about the yellows I just love, I have had Yellow Crown for a few years, it bloomed in 09 & I missed it, as I missed a lot of 09, But I WILL get a pic of it this year!

Candyce, seeing your pic made me smile, I so wanted to post a pic of my grandson, that's a beautiful flower you have grown!

Thanks all for the back up source, sure wish I had something in place when it happened, thank the lord I keep ALL pics on sd card's, all my old pics are on floppies, which this computer does not have a floppy drive, but I still have them all. I would have died if I lost all the pics of my grandson David. He is my best garden helper..:)Anita

Great picture of your helper. I'm new enough so have to get my own pics into the computer. But I certainly want to keep grandchild ones sent to me.

I love the photo of your garden helper! He certainly gets into his work, doesn't he?

Thanks for the compliment on my 'flower'. I find that particular photo very inspiring.

Isnt a mature flower a wonder?
So satisfying when they are grown.

Nice, all!

I agree, 'mature flowers' are the greatest. What I really like is how they keep 'coming back'!

Buds can be sweet.

Buds have so much promise.

Yes, I love beer.

Wonderful lily shot Victor!

Back to spring, more tulips!

Very nice, WC! Like the drops and the lighting.

Thanks, that's from May 2009, I've got plenty of 'wet shots' from last spring... too many! lol!

Yes, I remember it well!

I remember it, too, although not fondly!
The weeds were the big winners last season.