Show Us Beginners Your Blooms Pt II

what's up with that?

Perhaps demanded doesn't grow flowers and wanted to show us where the blooms are in New York.

Central Park would be a better bet

Some of those balcony gardens or rooftop gardens in NY are stunning.....

Burn and Dale.......wow, just love the pix.... and that pasque flower is a beauty, a wild form that grows here in the foothills of the Rocky Mnts. (west of me 'bout 40-50 miles) is the purple variety, gosh they are sooo soft and fuzzy.

What is that dark flower in the 5th pic?


Have some tulips opening here and gettting ready to

flowAjen...the light pink is Gypsophila (baby's breath) repens which is a ground cover, blooms all season and lightly reseeds, the dark flower is Callirhoe involucrata (Wine Cups), low growing at a few inches but have seen a mature planting at about 8-12" as it had mounded, up to 4ft long, both bloom all season.
Oh yummm, tulips, please smell for me and send, lol, thanks.
Sorry, I should have labled, lol. 1. Lily, one of those new crosses between trumpet and oriental, 2. Echinacea palida I'm thinking or is Tennesseensis, 3. Scabiosa, one of the tall ones, 4. Delphinium grandiflora, 12-16", blooms ALL season, comes in blue, pink or white, (I only have the blue at the moment, anyone have seeds for the other colors???)
There, does that help? Do ya like how I'm hooking you all on new plants to try? (LOL). Want some more pix? lol.

pix: verbascum phoenicium
pix: iris setosa I believe, is fairly new and love it, Denver Botanic Garden sale plant, spring at 18-24"
pix: german iris (I think an unkn.)
pix: saponaria ocymoides, spring, groundcover
pix: achillea millefolium, the non reseeding form
Enjoy, lol, I'm naughty for enticing you all.

Outlawheart81....I got some guesses for you on those bulbs....#1,2,and 5 look like tulip an early var. but a species type( the varigated foliage. #3 looks like Hyacynth, #4 daffodil, and #5 also has hyacinth with tulip. Now let me know how I did ,lol.

Love the tulips, Jen especially that last orange one. I've never seen that kind.
Kathy, lovely Iris. I have the burgundy one. and wish the flower would last longer.

Bleeding heart, Forget Me Not, Hyacinthe, Columbine,and another columbine.

That one is 'Donald Duck'

burn, you're Aquilegias are blooming already???

No Jen, sadly nothing blooming, just a few shoots starting to point right now. The flowers are just a reminder of what, I should be expecting in June. ;) You'll probably see yours blooming way before me. Thanks for the name of the tulip. I'll keep an eye on the fall bulbs catalog, for them.

I was kinda wondering how you had all those beauties blooming before me

First fruit on this passion fruit this year.

yum


tulips are starting to come to an end, taking all the pics I can of these, I LOVE them

Very nice birke, Do you like to eat the fruit?
Jen, is your last pic a Redbud? I'm not familiar with them. Looks great! Your just about done with your tulips, and I'm just starting to see crocus. ;)
First two pics crocus. My Rhubarb is shooting up. Next one is Jacob ladder. And last one is Aquilegia.

Well the daffodils are about finished, the peonies I planted last spring are looking lovely (I'm thrilled to say), the salvia 'May Night' is blooming, and the allium is finishing. And I have a question for all you veteran gardeners: it appears that the allium make tiny seed pods? on the tips? Do I let them do that all they want til they're spent, or do I clip them off and let the leaves die--so that it won't suck energy away from the plant?

Oklee

It is entirely up to you. Many people will leave the allium heads as it adds interest to the garden. There are those that will cut the heads off because they like things neatened up. Then there are those that like to trade seeds and will wait until the allium head goes to seed so they can trade them - Typically I leave mine.

Yes a Redbud, that one is Ruby Falls

I usually deadhead the alliums, just makes it neater looking but now you got me thinking....it is a bulb and you should deadhead most bulbs cause it drains the energy....hmmmmmm

@burn_2007 Yes I love passion fruit. I have others growing along my fence like a hedge hoping for a lot of fruit this year!

Hey folks, new here and my yard exploded in the last couple of weeks....and nobody in my house gets excited about it but me, so I'm GLAD to be here and see there really ARE other people in the world that get excited about things that grow and bloom (or not)!

1. Mexican evening primrose (AKA weeds in TX, or so I hear, Lol)
2. Misc. Miniature Rose, Anonymous but beautimous!
3. Peony, 'Sorbet', my absolute favorite, the first thing I ever planted, so my firstborn if you will (eeeww)
4. Double Knock-Out, always trying to sneak out the side fence
5. Another Peony, this one is a common variety I'm sure, but I don't know the name.....maybe the hitchhiker knows?

Welcome to DG Upallnightagain. Yup...folks here get excited about every bloom...their own and each others....grin Congrats on another season of beauties in the garden.

Up

Gorgeous flowers and I just love the colors!

Welcome!

Welcome to the thread UP, yep do get excited about my blooms, especially after a long winter of the white stuff.
Love your blooms, very colorful, hope to see more of them

Great hedge of passion fruits, Birke.

FlowAgen....I'm sorry, I was naughty and using last years pix, lol, I only got a few plants in bloom so far. sob, sob....
Up.....Welcome!!!!! Don't cha just love it when you can talk plants, show pix and actually discuss growth habits and how tos.
Ok... plants that I do have blooming now....iris g dwarf: yellow and one purple, j js, perennial Alyssum, Thermopsis just beginning to open, and Dicentra formosa also just beginning. Spent the last two days weeding and cutting down last years foliage, things are a bit early this year. NEW, pix to come, lol. So here a sunrise for ya all instead. Kathy

At the State Arboretum in Largo, Fl>

pix1: iris buchannii, very early
pix2: iris g. dwarf, gosh need to get the name, hope the tags still there
pix3: Basket of Gold Alyssum (Aurinea saxatilis)
pix4: Ajuga tri color
pix5: And scads of J J's, love how they are breeding and creating so many new colors for me.

DTGardener, lovely shots, favorite is the first one.
Kathy, love that Iris buchannii, I've never seen that one before.


Poppy Anemone Burgundy

Nice Kathy!
Love the color on that poppy anemone

here come the irises, the last one I had to bring in cause the bloom broke off

Flower Garden 2012
Hellebores in the shade garden.

The irises are almost finished here...got a couple pics...

our Spring was early

burn, that anenome is beautiful, just love it
dome....how pretty your garden is, what hem. is that Hyperion?
flo and moonhowl.....I'm continually amazed at how beautiful iris are, the luminecence of each bloom is spectacular, wouldn't it be great if they could get iris to bloom all season. I know there are rebloomers but they don't do it here for me....don't I wish!!!!!! Not sure if it's the altitude (6800feet) or if it's my zone (Z5, now listed as Z6) and the season's not long enough.
burn... the iris buchannii is new for me, in summer the foliage disappears, in fact I thought I had lost it, lol. It was the first thing to bloom in the garden.
Pix: Thermopsis montana, just began blooming realy nice and then the deer found it, so here's last years pix (***##^&***&)
Pix: Centaurea montana just starting to open nicely, also found a big chomp mark this morning.
Pix: Centauea m. Amethyst in Snow
Pix: Linum perenne (flax just opening)
pix: and a new aquisition, for me an annual Osteospurmum, nifty, huh?

So Gorgeous!

wwk - You're probably seeing the pink flower - it's watsonia. I mostly have TB iris and daylillies in the front flower bed, also a few stray California poppies!
I love Osteospurnum - I have a purple one and I swear it looks like it was cut out with a machine, like a silk flower. If you are lucky you will get a few volunteers next year.
Look at all the Iris. Mine are all opening at once - my yard is gorgeous - I fear it will be short lived though.