I have more plants in little pots than I would care to admit -- plants I bought late last year and didn't get planted. Some of them looked pretty much dead in September, due to hot summer days and erratic watering by me. So I've been hovering to see if I'd see signs of life, fully expecting to see nothing promising. I can't tell you how it makes my heart dance to see that little tiny bump of green in the middle of the pot, heralding new life. I am so excited by each plant -- it is a little bit ridiculous.
DO YOU HAVE SOME SIGNS OF SPRING 2013? #2
Happy, the Miscanthus giganteus I got from Santa Rosa last year is still not showing any sign of life. Making me a teeny bit nervous...
Sand cherry is a shrub/tree
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53153/
amazing how it started with just a cutting from Terri(roses r red) this was in 2011, just planted
then in 2012, this is the 1st time it flowered
Persian Pearl Tulip
ssgardener -- the ornamental grasses are all really late to break dormancy, so I wouldn't worry yet about your miscanthus.
Someone mentioned the "old fashioned" (heirloom???) Daffodils--the ones that have the triple,
mixed up blooms. I have had them pop up here and there since day one.
I used to dig them up in the woods...
Now--I see that these I have them in this round bed. I did a lot of digging up of all kinds of daff bulbs
last year. Then--I had to find a places to pot some of the bulbs...I don't know--but here they are..
I was sticking bulbs into anything I could find....A lot of pots...here and there...
Gita, they are pretty!!!
Man did we need this rain or what!!!
Daffodils are beautiful....looks like you have Pink Tea and Lemon Drop there. Love them.
Here is a few I brought in yesterday. The one that looks like a dandelion is called Rip van Winkle, and it is tiny as well as the one with the orange trumpet, that one is a miniature as is the Rip van Winkle. The pure white is Mount Hood, the white with the yellow center in the front is one that came in a mix and it is beautiful but I can only think it is one of the sorbet group.
I wish I could show you my entire collection, but it would take so long. I just love them all.
Amen and Hallelua on the rain!
My signs of spring taken Tuesday afternoon after first 'unseasonably' warm day
Fiddleheads, bluebells, white bleeding heart, pink bleeding heart
Holly--In case you do not know it--your Daff in picture #3 is called "Salome".....
I used to have some-- G.
Thanks Gita, Haven't gotten out to look or take pics of the leaves of the Black Pussywillow to compare with your pic yet.
When I came home from work yesterday, my weeping cherry and my saucer magnolia were in full bloom. So amazing what a single day brings about.
wonderful!
Yes after the warmth and rain things seemed to triple overnight here, today! When the sun comes up I expect to see peach and crabapple in full bloom. Crabapple- mine is some old messy cultivar and it gets about two really nice days but when those days happen I just love it; it's a favorite childhood scent.
Aspen -- do you know what cultivar of cherry you have? I'm thinking of adding some this year....
Happy, no I don't think so. I picked it up years ago at a local nursery's year end sale and I don't think it had a tag. I've saved every tag though, so I'll double check later this evening.
I just came in for a quick lunch break, Mike and I have been yardening, We keep laughing at each other, because our energy level is so pathetic and the coughing OMG. I'm at the tail end of bronchitis, he is at the beginning. We do something for 15-20 minutes, then sit . Round and round it goes, but it sure in nice outside regardless...
LOL Terri, Ric and I are out there, too. Just came in for a break, I over did it the other days and the back of my thighs are screaming everytime I bend over. I'm dividing and replanting one of the hosta. Just pulled all the pond plants out of the Veggie garden where I usually over winter some pots. Right now I am sitting in the lounge listening to some nice mellow music don't really want to go back out but it is just beautiful and the beds are calling me.
It was so nice today I just had to go out and pull up some of the weeds that were all over the flower bed in front of the house. I think that is the only place in this yard that has any shade, the rest of the yard, including the deck, are full sun. I hope Steve (my landlord) wasn't fond of his weeds, lol.
Also wondered around the goldfish pond in the backyard and found the critters that have been keeping me from sleeping. I do believe I may have interrupted them.
Love that weeping cherry
I knew hostas could handle rough treatment, but I had no idea how really hardy they were.
I had dug out a clump of roots over winter but had no idea what it was because the squirrels had dug up the marker. I lost track of it so the roots just sat exposed all winter, on top of the soil, in full shade.
Well what do you know, they're putting on new growth, sideways, with the roots sitting on top of the soil. I guess I need to go get them planted now!
The Japanese forest grass and Japanese pieris are putting on new growth.
I have bleeding hearts for the first time! But I made the mistake of planting it in full sun. When should I move it?
Ssg- I would move them asap.
Thanks, Terp. They're getting moved as soon as I feel better....
Primula
Donald Duck Tulip
Firespray Tulip(grows in the shade)
Oh, I want that tulip! Gotta hunt it down. Thanks, flowAjen!
ssgardener -- I agree with Terp -- move your bleeding hearts soon. I think it is going to rain Friday -- I'd aim for right before the rain. Until then, put an upside down pot or something on top of them to give them a little shade.
I hate to say this but our bleeding hearts have always been grown in the full sun beside a light building and they bloom and grow like weeds. (running and hiding under a rock so no one can hit me). LOL Honest to God, I would not say that if it was not true. Forgive me. Listen to the lady with the plants. I am just not into garden plants like that so ours could just be dumb luck. Tropicals are my thing and Christmas Cactus as most of you know.
I have a bleeding heart in sun now, but when the trees leaf out it is in shade til the afternoon. .
Whoa, JB, that's very interesting. I'm still not feeling better (boo!) so I haven't moved the bleeding heart yet. I checked on it today and it's blooming like mad in literally all day full sun. I need to move it regardless because it's occupying a precious full sun spot that is soon to be occupied by all those lilies I got.
The bed I completely stripped, raised and mulched in the fall for the gfs mom. Lots of spring bulbs right now, to be replaced with annuals until the perennials I bought, with her money, gain some size. Lessons I have learned so far, knockout roses are not foundation plants. The bed is barren in the winter, she wanted roses though.
The tulips look fabulous. "To be replaced?" Are you pitching the bulbs? Say it isn't so.
No no. Does anybody here pitch plants? Besides Gita at home depot. I should have said I will fill in the space that spring bulbs leave behind with annuals, certainly not replace.
Although I am considering replacing the mini iris I purchased in the front with some regular ones. I'm afraid they will be "lost" on the home owner. I.e. she just wants it to look good.
I lik e it too, Terp, but like with front foundation plantings, at least some evergreen-ness is probably more pleasing. The white perennial geranium that Jill has shared is a really nice tidy, evergreen low plant.
Oh well. Next time.
Paul--tsk...tsk.....Me pitching plants down the chute has these caveats---
--#1--It is part of my job...just helping Sue (Bell Nursery pal) out.
She is a marathon worker--I don't know how she does it all?
Many days--she alone has to unload and display all the racks and racks of
deliveries that come in. She also has to water all the blooming stuff.
HD people do all the trees and shrubs and evergreens and bushes...
She will even dead-head annuals just so they look better. I do that too--when i am out there.
We are "kindered souls" in that we both LOVE plants--care for them--and know what to do.
My "out there" stint will start first Sunday in may. Yippie!!!
--Reason #2--If I am the one chucking the plants--I keep all the pots they come in.
That is why I gladly volunteer...By now--no one even bothers to ask "Are you allowed to do that"???
You got some pots from me--did you not, Paul??? Now I could give you even more.
Make a list--and come on over....
Sue--making a face.....
Gita,
I would do the same thing for the same reasons. I'm really happy that one of us gets to spend time outside and make money at the same time.
Nuts- My post bombed cuz my pix were too pixelish... let me try just two
Crabapple, fifty year old tree
Saxifraga virginiensis courtesy greeenthumb, and hyacinth, phlox
Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that the daffodils seem a bit taller than usual? (Either that or my arms are shorter!)
Lungwort. Old lungwort. And my little bloodroot.
Great pictures. Sally, I've always wanted crab apples and actually did some research a few years ago on them, but haven't acted on it yet. They are so pretty, and most of the problems with older cultivars have been overcome - disease resistance and now many are available that don't drop the fruit - it stays on the trees and birds consume from there. Paul, nice job on that flower bed - the epitome of spring! I want bloodroot - they've been posting pics over in the shady gardens forum too - really like this plant.
Yeah, Me too, I want bloodroot and Dog tooth Violets.
Sally, it's so pretty!
American Dream Tulip and Erlicheer Daff
Some wildflowers from my walk this afternoon. Enjoy.
