2010 Garden Photos - Part 5

Nice jumper!!

Nice, Lucy.

Great colors, Celeste.

I like the panorama, Jo. I just downloaded a pano program for my iPhone.

Lilac.

Pond. Still have to get to it to cut stuff back and clean it up.

Another.

JM Villa Taranto. I love how it has both strapleaves and palmate ones.

Florida anise.

Carol Mackie daphne.

Last - Lilac Sunday.

Haven't seen Karen post for a while.

Victor, love the photos of your japanese maples.

How many cultivars do you have? (I hope that's not an intrusive question; I apologize if it is.)

Can you offer any info on the least expensive vendors or sources for JM's? They can be expensive.

check out wildwood nursery, davidsansjapanesemaples.com, and topiary gardens.

nice jumper

clean that pond victor! great shot of villa.

wha,

thanks for the info..always looking to save a buck or two...

no problem - topiary is the lowest priced and she has a huge selection - they are not big trees as they are grafted and grown in syracuse, ny - davidsans has large trees at a reasonable price - tell either of them i sent you and they will take care of you. victor orders a lot from wildwood, i order there too although usually only if the other two do not have what i want - greer gardens is another source.

i just referred a dg'r from CA to topiary he ordered two trees got them was impressed and ordered 4 more.

Thanks, BA. I have between 40 and 50. I would also add Fairweather Gardens to Bill's list. All the ones I've gotten from them have thrived. Villa Taranto is from them. I have bought a few from Mountain Maples, but have not bought from them in years. I got Orangeola and Washi no o from them.

Thank you, guys, I appreciate the help.

Victor, in the "Plantfiles" section of DG, the JM Orangeola is shown in a May 2007 photo (beautiful!); I was wondering if you trim it or leave it alone.

Never have.

There should be a 12-step program for people like me who love japanese maples (and another one for hosta lovers).

I haven't admitted it's a problem! ^_^

How about iris people?

I'm Italian.

lol

Victor the lilacs are great. We will celebrate our famous lilacs here in late May maybe earlier since the spring has come on so early. Its a really big deal here and planned years in advance so I suppose the printers who do the posters and ads and all the PR stuff has to wait until the parks people say within a few weeks ,when the trees will bloom.
People come from all over the world to see the lilacs so it would be disapointing if there werent any this year because they bloomed a week ago. lol

Great shots Victor. The lilacs are all budded up and getting some color here. A few sunny days should get them popping open. They are really early this year here too, like most things are this spring.

i have a couple lilac blooms, most are still waiting for warmer weather

http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/GardensApril

What a difference a month makes.

yes it does.. looking good!!!

Nice pics JoAnn. Your garden is looking good and growing well. Things are way ahead of time around here this year too, that is everything except the gardener who seems to be always later with things than she should. The last ten days or so of cooler more normal weather seems to have slowed things down a little bit I think and may have saved the bulb blooms from fading too fast.

Thanks ngam
I cant express how much I am enjoying building this living painting.

bleeding heart. I saw this this am.

my red and white ones along the back fence.

pulmenaria going past and the ginger that's taking over

nice Jumper!!... I have decided I don't like the fern leaf BH's... even though they last longer... eh.. they don't do it for me

not too many returns this year on my jump ups & pansies ... think that means I need to plant more

:)

Louise are these all your heleopsis(sp?)

1st creeping pholx to bloom.. some of the others still look yucky

I was going to get rid of the vinca... glad I didn't ... think I like it

my first tulip to bloom

I think the vinca is a keeper, just have to teach it to stay in the corral.

Vinca in small doses can be elegant.

I find it easy to keep under control... it's real easy to pull