mooonsteeeer on my Alexandra's roses
April 2012 blooms
Bearded Irises are just no stop ...
and more ...
This year the garden is full of color, even if we are in water restrictions still (only watering allowed is once a week)
Peony, Clematis and more Irises
more colors ... and flowers
WOW Cheryl! That cedar sage is gorgeous!! I wish mine would get that big!
The last picture is of my favorite rose CASSIE.
This rose is always in bloom. In this picture the rose Cassie is in full shade ! look at all of those blooms !
Now ... this one is a mystery plant !
I think it is a Dyanthus but I don't remember planting it !
Grapes
Rose Hot Cocoa (red) in the front and Cassie in the back (white)
Rose Ballerina (growing in the shade) and Soleil D'Or (full sun)
Your mystery plant is Dianthus (aka Sweet William).
Are there special growing instructions for grapes?
My volunteer dill is blooming like crazy! I love to see the bright yellow flower heads in the garden.
This Sweet William (dianthus) has been a perennial in my garden for the past couple of years. I love the bright pink blooms.
Yellow yarrow has started blooming. Lots of butterflies in my garden this morning, too!
This isn't a perfect coneflower, but it makes me smile when I see it.
Lovely pictures everyone!! I have been busy this month with the Tropical butterfly exhibit at the Botanic Garden. I have taken some pictures but haven't even looked at them yet!
Stephanietx I love your flowers and butterflies.
I really don't do much for grapes. They need sun to make the fruits.
I trimmed them down in february.
I bought them in december a few years ago. My back yard was not ready yet, so the grape roots stayed outside in their box, got snowed and they started to germinate in the box .... So they are pretty hardy !
I give the small leaves to my DH pets too.
Mark (my husband) came home with 4 grape plants the other day! I don't know what he plans to do with them! LOL
Wonderful colors! My clematis have been blooming well too. I didn't know Cassie bloomed in shade...ok..now I have to have it!
stephanie - your Coneflower is dancing.....it's doing the Macarena!
My back lot-Wine Cup
Spiderwort-Gorgeous but impossible to catch the beauty with a phone camera!
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That friend has found the perfect napping spot!
sweetmommy - How cute your little buddy is. ♥
I couldn't bear to take his little hiding place away so he has his own fortress in my garden for the moment.
Morgan- What do you feed your beautiful Desert Roses?
Sweet, I do that, too! I leave their habitat undisturbed if I see them.
sweetmommy - When we put the Desert Rose in the greenhouse for the winter it got some compost along with all the other greenhouse plants. Not very much. Actually, I'm kind of a rebel with that plant, as most Desert Rose aficionados....or Caudiciforms Lovers....like it pruned severely as in pic 1. But when we bought it, it was already full and bushy and we let it be. 2.
Iris.....smells good!
I lost my largest and best shaped adenium to rot this spring, I nearly cried.
C
So many things blooming now, and it all still feels too early to me. Here is my Garden Patrol watching over the Gomphrena and Scabiosa.
Carla
Cute little garden patrol you have there, Carla!
Asiatic Lilies are blooming ...
roses ... roses ...
Columbine ...
flowers everywhere ...
drthor - WOW.........your garden fairies are certainly busy making everything beautiful. I've been showing your pics to my DH. We wonder if everything you plant is perennial?
Loonie - I LOVE the patrol snail!
morganc,
thanks for the nice words.
I do have only 3 small beds in the front of the house that I plant annuals.
Pansies in the fall/winter and Zinnias in the spring/summer
Everything else are perennials and come and go by themselves.
The hardest gardening days are:
February 14th - when I cut down all the roses and perennials
mid November - when I clean out all the summer flowers ... like zinnias and others.
I let all my flowers re-seeds ... example: Poppies and Foxgloves ... they will make a seed stalk and look kind of ugly for a while ... the seeds will dry out and some will be eaten by birds and some will fly around ...
I really think a bird ate my poppy seeds in the front and pooped them in the back garden ...
This is what my Italian grandmother garden did look like ... but much much bigger and so many more flowers ... so I am still working on it.
I hope to remove all the grass in the front one day ... that's what I did in the back ...
drthor, wow!!! your house must be covered with a kaleidoscope of colors. Just so beautiful.
The gloriosa lily is a vining plant with vivid red and yellow. A tendril appears at the tip of the leaf and will grasp what ever it touches.
Amazing plant! They are popping out of the ground; this is the first to get over 6 ft. and has several buds. They are one of my favorites. These are in planted in mostly sun area.
thanks,
inthegarden, do you think it is invasive?
does it suckers everywhere?