What's in full bloom now? MAY 16th - MAY 31st

Oh, and Gwen- absolutely. We'll go with "hope". ;)

I was trying to find a picture of my seed collection using organza draw string bags. No luck...have way to many pictures. Anyway here is a link to where I buy them. I use the wine size for tall things like foxglove,munkshood and delphiniums. Once the flowers die back..I slip these on and let the pods etc dry. Then I remove the stem in the bag and shake all the seeds to the botom. Foxglove seeds are very very tiny. Best way I have found to collect them. You can also leave them in place to dry if you want more in the same location.
These bags are washabe as they get pretty dirty being exposed to the elements.
http://www.giftsintl.com/organzabag.php

I cut the legs off of old pantyhose to bag flower heads. I'm cheap. LOL!

I get those organza bags on ebay. I paid $6 including postage for a whole big lot of them. They look nice tied to the flower head in the garden. As of yet, I've not actually gotten any seeds. I'm not good on follow-thru!

If you want those white foxgloves, self pollinate a couple of the white flowers. Use a little paintbrush to brush the pollen from one flower onto the pistals of the other flower, then cover that last flower with a little bag to prevent further pollination and to collect the seed. Or cross a white with another white.

Katye, your columbine are just incredible! WOW!!!

Gwen, If the phlox I gave you don't come back next year, I will give you new clumps and we can pretend that they did.... Mine in my front bed are a wee bit too happy for a narrow bed.

Pony, Foxglove seed heads and seeds are very very similar to snapdragons.

Kymmco, be careful with seed collecting... it is a very addictive gardening chore. I don't cover my plants as I am just too darn lazy to go through the trouble, but I do snip the pods off into plastic cups, toss a piece of paper in the cup with the name on it, let them dry completely, and then store in tiny bags. (And bags.... and bags... and bags.... amazing how I know that I have enough seeds to plant my entire garden for the next two or three years and I will still collect thousands of seeds this year)

So if a bee goes from a pink flower to a white flower, then the white flower will spit out pink seeds?

My pink poppies opened in the rain, poor guys. They'll likely end up with their faces in the mud before the day is over. Here's one on a sunnier day (last year).

Gorgeous poppy. I loooove pink and salmon colored poppies.

My NOID poppy that I mentioned earlier in one of these threads also chose the middle of a deluge to finally bloom for the first time. Since I didn't know how long it would be before the one solitary bloom was also face down in the mud, I had to run out in the rain and get a picture.

So the answer is (drumroll please).... white. Okay, that's kind of boring, but it does have a beautiful tinge of pinky purple in the middle of the blossom.

Last weekend the sun came out long enough for me to get a picture of my bearded iris in bloom.

A maple in full bloom. Do not know the name. I bought it at the Ernst in Port Orchard when it was closing. Two inches high and $2:00.

Black Lace

Ooh. Pretty Maple. I miss Ernst- I used to shop there a lot.

Anah Kruschke

Marachioness of Lansdowne

Sorry, It's Whitney's Black (NOT)

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Hope this is M of L

Maybe this one isn't blurry. Okay, I give up. ^_^

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My snowball bush. Stole a start from the neighbor's bush.

Wine and Roses would be in full bloom if the deer hadn't trimmed it.

That's from a start?!? - Wow! I love that plant and bought one last summer. I just planted it in the ground the beginning of this week. One of the plants I wanted rain for. ;) Now the rain has pelted all the flowers off. Oh, well, it's watered in now, baby!

One tiny allium

Bummer! Mine looks great. The deer don't eat my weigelas for some reason. We rarely have a deer and when we do, they prefer roses and pussy willow.

Yes a twig after 20 years.

And some sad looking iris.

That is just beautiful Gwen. Someday I may remember to sprinkle on the bonemeal in time.

This one does not want to stand and be proud.

Oooh I love 'Wine & Roses' weigela. I asked my Dad to try to root a cutting for me off of his, we'll see if it works. Anyone have any success propagating Weigela that way?

Yes they are easy to start. Take a cutting in the fall, Sept./Oct. Stick it in the dirt and you can leave it outside.

Are they that easy? I'll try and do some starts this fall. I really don't know what variety mine is. It was here when we moved in. There is also a light pink one with varigated leaves. It has yew and also grape vines growing into it that I haven't pruned out yet, but here it is. It's so light, I think it needs something dark behind it to show it off.

I was looking up Weigela after falling in love with my parents Wine & Roses cultivar, and Gwen I think your variegated type is just called Variegata. Wine & Roses is the most common one with dark foliage, so that's probably the other one.

Let me know if you get successful starts of either, I'd be happy to take one off your hands :)

I want to say that they had gallon pots of Variegata at Flowerworld for something as low as $5.99. If I'm wrong, then it was $7.00 - something outrageous like that.

Hi Gwen, Yes it is that easy. I have the varigated one also. They are so pretty.

I had a Variegata at our old house. I killed it. *sob*

Pixie asked to see this grass that the animals like to eat. It is a native and comes up all over, but is easy to control.

This is 'Skookum'.

And a good one of'Marchioness of Landsdowne'.

A bee on a blossum

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Bleeding hearts and ajuga

A very low-grower with a pretty little flower.

A Pretty Iris

Willow that is a pretty iris. Mine are mushy. :(