Garden Gems for May 2012

looks like weeds or re-seeds to me.

not much planted there.. my guess is weeds.. just figured I would check before I pull

:)

Good looking at iris this morninghttp://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a45324e544d354d544d3d0d0a&blogview=true

nice jen, allison, and joann - btw joann you need to edit the link and put a space before the http. and i love that silver spring allium got some 2 yrs ago and added more last fall.

here are a few from this weekend - first if a "purple" tree peony that is pink, so many blooms i had to stake it up after the rain last week made it top heavy, another with rodies in bloom (good yr for the them) w/cham. boulevard, looking back with my little shirazz in foreground, shade garden, and noid BI

patch of noid iris, one of my all time fav. sib charming billy if only for the name :), unknown coop BI that does not match any description, believe this BI is crimson lights, and the last is pink lenox.

Love that peony! I see lots of blooms on rhodos, Bill....not very many here.....also noticed short lilies, Jo...love your City of Gold iris.....pretty blooms, Jen & Allison.....

Allison I like Plum Quirky
Looks like a weed almost like monarda leaves but aren't fuzzy

So pretty Bill, I can see why charming billy is your favorite

Charming Billy fits perfectly.

The roses have begun....very early! Living is Easy & Fourth of July.......noid iris, very close to black......

oooh I like that crimson lights Bill!!!.. and your noid RD!!

ooh, I love nearly black flowers!

Bill, is that a weeping hemlock in your shade garden. If so, what kind?

Here is my new favorite hosta pic- I have to take another pic when the Aruncus behind it blooms. Lots of texture. Hosta is 'Liberty'

How the heck is everyone? I did so much work outside last year that it has given me more time to stroll this year. So I've been doing my daily strolls and enjoying the blooms, but it suddenly dawned on me that I was lacking something.....everyone else's blooms! So here I am, and it looks like the northeast is having a banner year. Wonderful photos and gardens by all!! I saw some posts about Omoshiro above, the one pictured here has been in a pot for a year since I couldn't decide where to put it, but after seeing it bloom, in the pot it will stay. Also clem Candida, tree peony Alhambra, JM Emperor I with a weigela, Rose May Queen loving the roof of the garden shed. Anyone notice some abnormally large blooms this year?

hi weeze all of those look great!

noreaster it is a sargent weeping hemlock, liberty use to be in the picture behind the large sagae hosta until i moved it this spring to a better place it is a really nice hosta.

hey Weeze.. we miss you!!! the JM & W are the perfect combo!!!

Beautiful pics everyone!!

My peonies are a bit early like everything else and of course it's been raining!

Shirley Temple

Bowl of Beauty and a noid red

Hey Weeze! Great to see you posting. Beauties.

mine are just starting too Ronnie.. and yes it's raining here too.. can't wait to smell them!!!

Thanks guys. I've always said that blooming peonies will bring the rain, heavy rain!

Love everyone's pics!

Weeze, nice to see you back. You have some really pretty shots there.

Here are some from me, taken just 2 days ago.

The first is columbines, then a NOID blue iris. Then I have a TBI called 'Gnu' by hybridizer Brad Kasperek. Next is a pic of those last 2 together. Then one more shot of 'Gnu'.

Karen

A shot of a Kasperek hybrid TBI, and another with columbines and 'Immortality' behind it. Then a clump shot of 'Immortality', followed by 2 shots of a rootbeer brown TBI.

Karen

Good to see ya Weeze!

NOID TBI, 2 shots of peony 'Scarlet O'Hara', a bud getting ready of peony 'Festiva Maxima', and backlit flowers of Clematis montana rubens in a red barberry shrub.

Karen

4 shots of clem 'Nellie Moser' and one of my Dawn Redwood 'Ogon'.

Karen

3 shots of lupin and columbine, and 2 of my fave NOID TBI's.

Karen

2 shots of hardy geranium 'Orkney Cherry', which I just love. I dug it up to divide today and got about 5 or 6 divisions out of it to pot up and sell. I was thrilled, as I had only gotten it last year. I think those will sell fast.

Next I have 2 shots of a NOID TBI and one of a NOID sib.

Karen

2 shots of a NOID TBI, a clump shot of NOID sibs, 'Wabash', and a NOID daylily, the first of the season. That DL always blooms first. Usually it's in bloom the last week in May. This year it started 3 weeks early.

Karen

Last pics of the night. I know, I know....you're all thinking, "Thank God!". LOL!

3 shots of NOID oriental poppy. I just love this poppy. So delicate looking, and looks like it was made of tissue paper.

Last, but not least, pics of baby robins in a nest in a basket in the small shed attached to our house.

Karen

Everyones pix are beauties
Noreaster that hosta is great. I am partial to the tall ones.

Lots of beautiful shots, I agree Jo, I like the tall hosta too. I am looking for a big one for David's house.

Lovely pictures everyone!
Hi Weeze, nice to have you back!!

wow Karen.. have a lot going on .. nice!!!

deb-k How is that garden looking?
I got Blue Umbrellas at Gro-Moore 3 years ago,really handsome now.

Davids garden? I need to take some pictures, so I have before shots. I've started taking some plants over but haven't really done anything yet.
There are 2 trees, the branches arch toward each other, some dead branches to trim out, and hopefully the rest will live. They want to put a path through them into a clearing. I have visions.

That is a nice hosta

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Definitely get those before shots. I always find it amazing to see the changes. This was a big weedy area 6 years ago. Then and now.

I live on befores and afters. Shows someone cared,or didnt in some cases. Venu thats a great garden spot.
This is the Shade garden in 2008.
Three scots pines cut down due to beetle and a different look today.The bear sits on the farthest pine to go and the birdbath is on the pine cut down last winter.

Great pics everyone.


WEEZE, so good to see you!!! What a difference you made in that area!

Hey, Weeze, great seeing your blooms.....especially love the May Queen rose! Karen, some really lovely plants there, the bright blue iris is awesome.....Noreaster, I have that hosta...thanks for IDing it for me! Ronnie, that's a very pretty peony...mine are just budded, but will bloom soon....

that before and after looks great weeze - lots of jm's in there!

LOL Bill, I noticed that too. I think you and Victor have rubbed off on her. :)