Blooms 2011 #4

Great boss!

Great views Tex.

Just gorgeous Tex! Thanks for sharing with us!!

tex those are great pictures!

Everything is so beautiful, and we're grateful for all the wonderful pictures you share.

I'm trying to catch up from awhile ago. Karen, your picture of the pond in the previous thread showed a white weepy shrub in the far background. What was that? Spirea?
Wynne

my rhodies are starting to bloom

Allium, don't ask me which one didn't even remember planting this...

Baby Blessed patch

Winky Series Aquilegia with the Baby Blessed

'Hakura Nishiki' willow

The tulips are lovely, Tex....Jen, great blooms in your garden as well! Noid tulips.....

These look like your Claudia ones, Tex.....

those frilly ones are too cool

Gorgeous stuff going on at your place, Tex! Glad to see you posting again. I LOVE the orange double tulips, and that pic of it with the bright pink phlox is stunning! What a great combo! It also looks fabulous with the blues. Very nice!

Marilyn, your pink crab is to-die-for! Love it!

Jen, those yellow iris with the blue/white aquilegia is very pretty.

Wynne, yes, the weepy looking shrub is a spirea. That's a bridal wreath one, and the earliest to bloom here. It's very pretty when it blooms but the rest of the year I just don't care for it, and I'm always having to trim it back. Too much work, so It's coming out. I can plant hostas and other stuff in there.

I took some pics today. Will post later.

Karen

Wow Jen! Very Nice... Can't believe how fast Baby Blessed turned into a clump!!!

In Maine, spring is just getting started. But the magnolia is really getting my attention. It was put in late last fall, after a workman backed over and broke the old one. Last tree at the nursery, a bit thin in places, but boy can it put out flowers! Magnolia kobus var stellata 'Royal Star'.
Wynne

How wonderful that is. Cousin just left from a visit.She lives in Maine and was surprised at how much was up and going here.

I see that Magnolia alot and it always is loaded with blooms.

ok I have 2 possible weeds or plants that need ID please (excuse my shadow.. figured it would be too washed out to see what it was with the sun)

side view

2nd one

2nd one side view

now on to the good stuff

Like the star magnolia, Wynne....Allison, could be black-eyed Susans......

Celeste look what a nice clump your baby blessed made!!!!

Allison, the second one is a bad vine...yank it! Like the pink azalea!

the 1st one RD?... and that might be them.. no tag there.. think there was some planted there.. thanks!!!... glad I didn't pull em.. LOL

LOL.. thanks.. will do that!!!

Trollius

I have some that look the same in my annual garden, so I thought that's what they were.....

and wanted your guys opinion... this one has been struggling for a few years now.. move it, trash it, or leave it?

I'd wait a year...this winter was so brutal!

I actually cut it back last year... was all dead in the middle.. and just growing leaves on the tips.. I think the thing needs some worms up there in that rocky ground.. might have to relocate some.. LOL

Have both those weeds, but don't know what they are. Yes, the second is a pita vine.

thanks... I will ask again next year... I am sure.. LOL

oohh is that vine really hard to pull?.. think I might have another on the slope that I "tried" to get out

Not sure. I have a few weed vines.

no names

pretty shot

Thanks...but I don't remember planting green-white ones! LOL

Allison I have that first one too, didn't think it was BES because the leaves aren't fuzzy