2010 Garden Photos - 15

wolfseye dw

some hosta's

really liking this rouge cardinal in the jm

and some geranium's

Beautiful Bill!!!!!!
I want some of the light pink & funky colored lupine seeds please :)

will do:)

Very nice, Bill! You guys are making me want to try lupines now!

Victor another batch of beauties. Hydrangea looking good. I am happy to be seeing buds on all of mine after a late frost nipped a few things.
Bill such nice colors and shapes in your pic selections. Lovely. I am envious of all these lupin pics. Do you remember which strain you planted?

You should Victor!

I need the Light Pink to go with this one.....

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I have no buds on my hydrangeas yet, much less flowers! The late freezing fog nipped them badly. Loved all the lupine photos, & the roses as well. This rose, William Baffin, was cut down & dug up 2 years ago....here it is again...can't get rid of it!

Spirea Snowstorm....

Wow - great shot, Celeste!

When do you plant the seeds?

Most of the time I follow M.N.'s lead Victor, she drops them to the earth in just a few weeks. Leave them there all alone until next spring and WHA-LA I have babies. I think I have at least 3-5 ( 4") plants out there right now that are from the yellow lupine.
I originally started them from seed in the house one Feb/March, placed them out in the garden that summer and haven't touched one since. Let Mother Nature do the rest. ^_^

Bill, now I'll always think of you when I see my Sweet William. I actually have to move it, my red twig dogwood that was supposed to be 4x4', is 6x6'and invading space. I love it though, maybe I could keep it pruned shorter.

I just bought a lupine with buds so I could have one this year, had them in the past and they were gorgeous. Bunnies have eaten them, so I bought liquid fence for the first time. My first ones were from seed I also started indoors.

Thanks, Celeste. That's what I do with my columbine.

Doing my little flower dance now.
Tahhh - dahhhh Pleasant Earlybird. First year to bloom.

pat the lupine where from seed, i think it was a mixed burpee selection and there are foxglove and alliums mixed in there too.

not sure if anyone has thought of me as sweet deb:)

like the spirea marilyn

OMG Ge!! Beautiful!!!!!

Nice JI, Jo! ^_^

Annabelle is full of blooms. I did not cut this one back at all. It is way ahead of the ones I did cut.

Mophead is full too.

Even has a pink bloom.

Cool!

These lilies match the seed heads on the physocarpus much better than this shows.

Better lighting for Hagley and Abundance.

New one - Twilight.

WL again. The subtle pink is so nice.

Last - did not give up on this JM when it was eaten last year.

really nice lilies Victor

Ya loving those lilies Victor.

I need to get some Lupines also.

Oranges & Lemons gaillardia.

Serotina honeysuckle on the pool arbor that I finally picked up this past Sunday with my father's help. Was down since the winter.

Another shot of that euphorbia.

jm looks to have bounced back nice victor!

Yes, it's really nice. It's Beni somebody. Great leaves.

you do not have many beni's like me - how can you forget? :)

Found it - Beni ubi gohon.

must have been on the tip of your tongue:)

I get weird looks here when pronouncing these things.

:) i know - i always try to get the name right when showing someone the yard - then i realize i could say anything and they would not know the difference after the first 10 trees - by #60 i do not even think they are listening:)

have to ask louise and hank:)

Especially with that funny Boston accent!