Countdown to spring! One Photo per Day Part 12

More than twenty years ago my wife gave me a group of perennials, an achillea, I think ptarmica, maybe the pearl, and an adenophora confusa, a heliopsis, and a lythrum or loosestrife. The darn lythrum is still seeding itself around and the swamps are full of it. Some of it grows six or seven feet high. I still have to admit that it looks good with adenophora or russian sage if it just wasn't such a menace in the wild swamps. I'm not certain it likes the same soil conditions as the sage but the colors look good together. It's hard to hate it when a whole wet area is blooming. --------------------------------Weedy

Oh, don't like to see Bambi in my yard, Patti!

I know what you mean, Weedy, but we have to control ourselves and overlook the fact that it looks so nice and rip it out. We have to be good stewards of our wild areas, or there'll eventually be no more native plants left. All the aliens will have taken over. Slowly and insidiously.....

Karen

so many beautiful blooms today!!!.. but Pat I wouldn't complain if a few cuttings of your heat wave just happened to show up in my mailbox

:::cheezy grin::::

and Weeze if you run out I will send you some of mine!!!

The beetle was let go in our area & I'm glad to say loosestrife seems to have diappeared. The Miles River which flows? through town is very sluggish as there is a very shallow drop. The loosestrife which has been chocking it seems to be gone. I hope so, pretty as it is. I have seen the plant in other places in town, but not in the water. Hope that it stays that way.

Hope its not the Red Lily Beetle.
I wondered why the birds stopped feeding from under the spruces where I threw seed.
The deer have been coming and eating the bird seed.
Spring brouse plants cant come soon enough around here.
I am luckier than most as I only have 1 or2 instead of a herd of 5 or more.
My pic for today Orange Art lily and Bali Hai will be planted woyh DL's Night Beacon and Dallas Star

the iris is beautiful ...

dwarf balloons

New spot for the Orange Art lily

Patti I would not have guessed the first pic was loosestrife either. I have never seen it up close or i a garden setting since it has been banned for so long. The beetle does seem to be working and is supposed to be a specific feeder but who knows. I have at least one or two Bambies running around here because I have seen the split hoof prints over by the bird feeder in the snow but I have not seen them since late fall.
So many pretty pics and collages again already today. JoAnn is that catmint in the large pic of the last collage? A very pretty combo of blooms.

Hi Pat
Yes its Walkers Low but off the web not mine.

All so pretty...spring is almost here!!

Zinnia

I saw a Robin yesterday.It was sitting on the only patch of grass for yards.

Love the color on the Dwarf Balloons! ... (I didn't know they had 'dwarf' balloons), it's on my seed list now!
I always have zinnias Luvs, (such an underrated flower). They're old reliables in my garden, reminds me of planting seeds as a child.

Henrii 9/29/09

Well I was so encouraged with the earlier forecast of 50 degrees at the end of the week and maybe getting out to do some clean up but not looking so good now. Need all these colorful pics of lovely blooms to stay hopeful that this crummy winter weather will finally make way and let spring happen. Here is my pic for today. Bright warm color cause I need it today. Daylily 'Sunset Pride' with a bunch of balloons sticking their heads in the shot.

Nice closeup, WC.

Great color, Ron.

Love the blue on the balloon, Allison. I don't have much luck with them.

Nice set, Jo. Great iris.

PDD with Quickfire hydrangea.

Very nice, Pat! Great light.

green envy echie

nice pictures all

My single balloon is in partial shade. don't know if that is the way to grow them, but this one likes it so why challenge it. Position in marked as it starts in late spring. Didn't know about dwarfs as this one spralls if not tied up.

yup - balloon flowers are a problem with flopping

Pretty Daylily 'Sunset Pride' , love the color!

How has Envy performed, Bill? How old is it?

i've had it for two years, this will be the third - i like it - no flopping

Nice combo of hydrangea and PDD Victor.
I hope my 'Green Envy' echie looks that good this year. Poor thing was attacked by ground hog so last year I was surprised it returned at all but hoping after a year recovering I will see more blooms this year.
I also had to stake the balloons by the end of summer. Maybe all the rain caused them to grow so tall. You can't beat them for rich blue color though.

ngam, great picture for this dismal day. Thanks

WC, love your shot of the clematis.

GE1836, enjoying your combo's as always.

Wha, just picked up seeds of zinnia Envy. Love that Plant. Also love the big white one called Zinnia elegans Polar Bear or Benary's Giant White and I will pick those seeds up on my next trip off island this weekend. But mine have never survived a winter and returned.

Deer, oh dear. The estimated # per square mile on Nantucket is 45 to 55, but we live in the area on the island that has an estimated population of deer which is considerable higher, maybe even double. I ought to open a free B&B for hunters if they will only hunt in our square mile. I don't know how far they roam, but when the can eat my plants, why bother to browse elsewhere. My biggest hope is that some of the new big buck houses, with huge landscaping that have been built across from us that are down closer to or on the harbor, are feeding them finer fare than the get here. Big Bucks should feed the bucks. This one should have some choice plants to nibble on, far better than ours. Sold 02/03/2010: $19,200,000 What recession?

Going with the orange theme. Patti

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Oh nice collage Patti. Love those hot colors. Good luck with the deer. Mine have 80 acres of woodland to munch and crunch so I don't think I should have to share my little garden with them at all.

ngam, Thanks, I hope they don't find you. We have over 3000 acres of conservation land only an acre away, but they like me better. grrrrrrrrrrrr. It is called the Middle Moors. Just too many deer. Patti

Really like Kipling, but they are all pretty----20 mill for a house? Must be into steal as my DH would say!

Patti,nice DL's.
20 mil for a summer place?
Wonder who? Celebs living there.

Not Steel these days, mor like software developers and internet kings.

Wall street. Patti

patti i read that deer typically live thier entire lives in one square mile if the food source is available - in winter heavy snows do drive them to deer dens typically under a grove of hemlock for protection.

oh - guess i will never be your neighbor:)

Not me either!

I feel lucky

I recently installed a driveway alarm since my driveway is so long and now I cannot see the end of it because of my spruce. The dang thing is always going off with the deer now! Last night one was about 15 feet from the window. I run to get the BB rifle I borrowed from my BIL and it wouldn't work!! Felt like pulling a Cagney and throwing it at the %$#@$%%.

Victor, If we had an alarm it would be on 24-7. They will have some good munching on your drive. I am still hoping to have my Lagerstroemia indica 'White Chocolate' - Crape Myrtle do something someday after seeing pictures of your crape mytle in bloom. Can't remember which one you had on that drive. Don't put out your eye! Patti

Hee hee!

Along the drive I have both Tonto (3 of them) and Hopi (one). Deer never touch them.

The blueberry farm has those alarms---because there are 3 houses on the estate, each has a different zone---I listened to that alarm ten times yesterday--couldn't figure out if it was for my son's house or not---very annoying!

Weeze taught me a trick with the balloons.. pinch them early.. and the spikes doubled if not tripled ... and the pinched and non pinched bloomed at the same time... doing them all this year

Since the only pictures I took last summer were daylilies (my wife runs every time I get the camera out, I don't know why,I think she's beautiful) here is a seedling that popped up when I started to rejuvenate an area full of weeds. It's probably aseedling of Catherine Woodbery, though it sure doesn't look like her. I promptly made the cross I think produced this one and ended up with a couple hundred seeds that I'll probably plant outside in the Spring--which looks closer all the time----------------------------Weedy

Nice color. Seedlings have a mind of their own, don't they.

Friso