Garden Photo's - Part 6

Great pics all!!! Spring has sprung! I am pleased with this new grouping that I started small cuz I wasn't sure if they'd bloom together in this spot. Dwarf dafs are about 10" tall. I luv it when a plan comes together ^_^

The 'Chopin' tulips planted by the unknown gardener who tags things are open now. Another small grouping cuz they only get morning sun . Pumping them up this fall ^_^

awesome!

"Showwinners" opened today. I will too remember to move them out of the herb garden. ps my little camera doesn't do red.

They look red to me.

TA DAAAA! Dutch hyacinth although this is when the wheels usually fall off and they stunt. WHOA better remove some of the leaf mulch cuz there be mold :O

tee hee flowerjen. ahem, correction: 'My little camera does crappy definition of red fleurs'.

LOL

LUV pasque flowers.

funky

I am very excited about this little tulip who is flowering in a spray. Will ID when it opens. I only put a small mixed batch around the salix which was almost, mostly dead when I got it so I didn't want to have to dig up alot of tulips if I had to remove the salix.

This for you onewish ^_^ I brought in this begonia that was still flowering in late fall and forgot it was in this pot. Look who's back ^_^

oh... yeah for the begonia!!!!

I never bother to winter them over but now I'm think hmmmm put them in the spider pots for the winter. Are you going to have the luvly orange ones again this year?

I bought all these this year

http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/vbc/onewish1/85100/

ooooooooooo Giant Ruffled Orange oooooooooo. I luv the orange ones.

I had it last year.. but didn't get the tubers in before they froze to death

:(

How do you store them? (She asks, WAY hijacking the thread)

like you say easy peasy .... dig em out.. sometimes I rinsed them off.. sometimes not.. let the foliage die off by themselves (can do that either before or after digging).. all I did was put them in an empty flower pot in the garage ... guess it would be the same as your dahlias .. but I never worried about watching them shriveling up .. didn't realize they could do that.. guess they can take it.. the biggest thing I learned last year is trying to divide the tuber.. is a waste of time.. when they get too big and don't perform anymore it's better off making new ones from plant cuttings.. a piece of an old tuber is just that.. a smaller old tuber.. not worth it

Thanks onewish. I think it may be way too dry here to just put them in an empty pot but maybe like my callas I could just move them in their pots with soil down into the cold room and bring them up in the spring and start watering them. I'm also gonna put some in the spider pots cuz of the TA DA phenomenom that happened this year. Great info on 'forget about dividing them' cuz I so would try that. Thanks.(Now we return you all to your regularly scheduled program of Garden Photos)

for now.. LOL

(snort) ^_^

I missed that snort!!!

Sound doesn't carry in NJ? I could hear it from here.

Brunerra so vibrant

The Helebore that ate Chicago.

Special tulip Gavota
SHOOT thats Purple Star

Heres a bunch Gavota is cream and burgundy

Do helebores get cut back when finished blooming?

I just left them... but wait to see what someone else says.. looking good JoAnn!!

Good morning Allison.
That helebore is huge. Everything I plant there get giant sized.
If the helebore gets much bigger I will ahve to move the lilies.I simply cant move the helebore.

hope mine looks like that someday... I am loving stinky!!!

I went to visit my sister yesterday and went to a nursery there I had bought plants from last year. I was really disapointed in the selection.2 varieties of echis Purple and white .whoooopie.
Coreopsis wasnt much better either.1 variety I already had.
I probably wont go there again.

I have some phlox that is blooming. Its purple. Its not supposed to be purple. Its supposed to be red. I will take a pic of it and post it later. Talk about disapointment!

Ge1836, I love your, what I assume is Helleborus foetidus Miss Jekyll. It is my favorite one so far. Here it is this week and at the start of it blooming in Nov 19th of 2009. It has been gorgeous all winter. What more could you want in a plant. I'll bet your lilies just come up around and through it without a thought. But you may be right. Patti

Thanks for the assurance Patti.I wont dig lilies unless I have to.

Teeny tiny carpet phlox

Minnow daff, the blossom is only 1"

My Baby Moons are bloming

Noid Iris, from Celeste