Garden Gems - April 2012, Part 2

It's so gorgeous when open

Love all the photos, I really haven't spent much time in my garden, will have to look and see what's happening.

great tour Jen.. love the fountain!!

Very nice!

I am so happy with that Rogersia.. guess putting tons of water gels under it was a good thing!!

Yes - it LOVES water.

that's what the guy at fairweather told me... said the momma was living in a pondish area in the middle of the woods.... to keep it real wet... Randy dug a really deep hole.. and I put two layers of gels down in there.. mixed each one up.. thank god.. since it hasn't rained steady.. and not a spot I normally water until later on

OMG Bill, those are just beautiful, i'd love to be a bird in your yard right now. :)
Wonder if she'll lay her eggs in your garden Jo! LOL
Allison, I love that red az! I think the ones I got last year from you bit the big one. :(
Very pretty Jen, love Grace Ward, it has survived here, but barely. :(

oh no.. so sorry Celeste.. I know how much you liked them

:(

Looks like B kawa, Bill.

Bill, those colors are just amazing! I love the different leaf shapes as well.....Jen & Allison, many lovely photos from both of you, & Jo, I wondered like Pixie whether she was looking for a nesting area.....you might have Mallard babies......

Celeste, I'm disappointed in that Grace Ward, too

thanks all and thanks victor will try and shape it back into a tree again.

rogersia love water allison - moved mine back to a bed by the pond that is always wet.

My hawthorn Winter King is all out of shape from the snow last fall. Not sure what I will do. A large branch split but is still fully alive on both sides of the split.

always a bummer

Anyone know what this tree is? It was at the gardens I went to today
Second pic is a close up of the leaves...the trunk behind them is not the tree

were there any spent blooms? looks like it could be a magnolia

no spent blooms...aren't magnolia leaves shinier?

Looks like a magnolia to me as well.....

Saucer Magnolia is what it reminds me of.

I'll need to go back earlier next year and check to see the blooms

colors in the yard look nice after a rain

what a great yard Bill.. love to see it all at once again!!!

Very nice, if you like perfect. ;)

Looks like a botanical garden! Here are some bloomers in my garden...dwarf iris, anemone that Joanne gave me, and a parrot tulip....

would NEVER happen here Victor

;)

Not here either!

Two more shots of Dawn and barberry.

Bill you have a great layout,so soothing to the eye.
Victor I have Dawn.I planted it last year and had a bloom that summer. The plant isnt very big now but alive and I hope for fuller blooms.Pix when it does. Late May or June.

Not quite perfect, I see a garden hose!

Yours it's pretty close there Victor...

Bill that pic looked photoshopped....but for those of us who were there in person know better ☺

This opened today

i did too was tying to keep it out of the frame - not

Still way up there Bill
I like the white iris

I'm sitting here in the cold and almost nothing is blooming yet but I'm loving all your pictures, very inspiring. Bill, I want to see your garden in person someday!

was nice to see in person

Karen is this another from you?... such a cutie!!!

Me again.....believe that is " Blueberry Tart"

I can totally hear your Maine accent saying that name... thanks babe!!

;)

the tag must have disappeared... thought everything you gave me was marked... the slope strikes again.. will look around for it

What accent? ^_^

It's either 'Blueberry Tart' or 'Indian Beauty'....I always get them mixed up. IrisMA would be able to tell the difference. :)

Jen & I went to a mid atlantic seed swap this past sat... and the one woman was from Boston originally .. I knew it right way.. told her she will fit right in at a NE swap!!!... it did make me giggle a bit when I read your blueberry tart... I read it like you would say it

;)