2010 Garden Photos - Part 7

Maybe tiramisu?

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could be... LOL

just looked up the rhubarb flower.. says to cut it off... so many strange new things!!!!

LUV the combo onewish! I have alot of somethingsomethings in my garden too.

I thought you were super organized, Allison?!! Great pics.

Lots of clems about to poop. Also have iris about to bloom. Early.

I am Victor.. too lazy to look them up.. LOL.. not sure if I have a cold (from Jen... coughing)... or it's my allergies

I think that variegated caryopteris is becoming one of my favs

Wow - now you're really confused, Allison. I AM VICTOR!! ^_^

moan... groan.. stop my head hurts

:)

Please...no pooping in the yard! Allison, great photos...love the azaleas, & the raspberry lungwort. Stopped at a nice nursery today with my cousins, I was looking for metal plant tags...all they had were wooden & plastic....those last about 2 months. Did not buy one plant, but bought neem oil to kill red lily beetles.

I thought you were 'I'm Not Patti the Third". I'm waffled.

nice shots allison! and yes chop off the flower head

I am Patti and I like seeing all the confusion in other peoples gardens too. I have been sorting out narcissus and Japanese Maples today. Very windy so it was pretty hard to take pictures between gusts. My rhubarb flowers, but much later. I love the flower, but not if you are growing it for food.

******Post #7746021 by onewish1 is stunning. Everyone make sure you view it. It is a perfect marriage of color and texture. First Place award for a spring picture from the real Patti

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Brilliant idea Real Patti. onewish be sure to enter that one in the photo contest.

Yes - it's a fantastic combo.

People will stand & look & my computer froze.

I just had a wonderful sky. I will post a few pictures as soon as I find the pot of gold. Patti

Wind farm coming your way, Patti. My worry is about migrating birds.

Plenty of room for them to avoid them.

If they know how. wind farms have killed birds & bats in upstate NY.

ooohhh coming from you Patti that means a lot... thank you!!!

guess my planting without a plan works out sometimes.. LOL

Very hard choice, but I think it may prove to be a mess in the long run, though windfarms have been quite good in Europe. Birds, fishermen and recreational sailors probably will, in the fog and storms, be bashing into them on a regular basis. They better have good Bumpers.

There is also a large structure in the middle that will be butt ugly. It will, if built like the plans I have seen, be an offshore transformer substation about10 stories tall. This offshore platform would house over 40,000 gallons of transformer oil. Not cool if there is an accident.

I kind of like the look of the windmills themselves. But 400 feet high is huge and with the blades they will be much taller The Statue of Liberty is only about 300 feet tall. There are going to be 130 poles, each 20 feet in diameter, driven down 80 feet into the seabed. Wish us lots of luck. Poor birds are going to pay a heavy price.

I am hoping that they will have to have all kinds of money guarantees that when they are needing to be replaced or removed that this company won't just abandoned them like many of the oil and mining companies have done all over the world. They just walk and leave huge areas of rusty hulks. I saw in South America vast areas of abandoned oil pipe lines and equipment and junk left by BP and Shell (nice oil slick, folks) which is sickening. Seeing the polluted rivers all over the USA from the tailing is also sickening, literally , but I have hopes that this will be a far cleaner operation. Though the developer seems a tad too slick. Investment is suppose to be over 2 Billion. No telling where the money is coming from. Nice chunk of change. I might just be stupid to hope it actually works out well.

Mother nature might not like it! Hurricane proof?

Here is Mother nature putting on a show today. Patti

Another. Patti

oooohhhhhhhhhh pretty pictures!!!

She was doing her thang! Patti

very cool!!!

Gone, Patti

very nice rainbow - i need a loan, did you find it?

i guess that answers that!

I will third that Allison. Really striking combo.

thanks Weeze!!

Beautiful rainbow shots Real Patti!

Here's a short shrub for the front of a border. Deutzia Cardonnay Pearls. (I think) It should explode soon.

Here's a larger noid Deutzia

Crimson Queen strutting her stuff.

ooohhh the Deutzia is pretty ... and yes that CQ is strutting!!!... outstanding... love the screaming colors this time of year

Just got back from work.
Thanks everyone. Victor the leaves on my noid look opposite. I thought it was a vibernum as well but we did not plant it and it was in the woodsy part of our yard, no fragrance that I could detect.
Here's one more pic. It was windy and shaky when I took the pictures yesterday.
Love the rainbow, epimidium and allison's red and blue combo is beautiful. Love the muscarii.

Very nice, Weeze! Foliage looks dark for Chardonnay. Usually golden. Shady??

A new azalea, Mandarin Lights

Venu that deutzia is stunning.
My salvias are blooming; I got free salvia guaranitica growing well next to it from last year, didnt think it reseeded but it did. the splendens next to it is a long way from blooming.