Sequoia, I think I've got you figured out. You're a plant elitist. Do you wear hipster glasses and skinny jeans? ;)
FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING!!!! Post your pics!!!!
Haha...no skinny jeans but the glasses one might call hipster ;)
I love that pic of your daughter! How sweet!
Sequoia: I knew it!
I do have a soft spot for dogwoods, but the poor things are susceptible to lots of diseases. Many of the beautiful old trees in my neighborhood are dying because of anthracnose. I love a good kousa dogwood now and then too.
But the piece de resistance is the Mexican Flowering Dogwood at the National Arboretum in DC. I had the fortune to be there one year when it was blooming. Gorgeous.
http://hankinslawrenceimages.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/mexican-flowering-dogwoods/
I don't really know how to get a hold of one right now. One day! :)
Gorgeous! I'd love a large mature dogwood in my yard.
If I had to pick a dogwood, it'd be the kousa and I'd make it an understory tree. Dogwoods are the classic flowering tree. To me they are like classic/antique cars; nice to look at but I wouldn't want one myself :)
Sequoia, Come on! Dogwood trees are pretty all year round. You've got to love them!!! Still trying to picture you digging in the garden in skinny jeans :o).
Cat, beautiful picture. I mean your daughter, teehee!
Hey!!!!! Instead of wondering what each of us look like--let's meet each other...
Please post a picture of yourself....Jeff--you go first! None of us have met you.
Click on my name and see me--even if it is 5 years old. I have different glasses now....:o)
I wish people would go back to posting pictures of themselves as part of their profile..
G.
Haha...I'm pretty sure I'd rip through a pair of those in one day's work in the garden! The rear would blow right out! I don't know how boys wear those things....they have to be so uncomfortable!
I do agree that dogwoods are pretty, I just wouldn't want one :) I'd much rather have a cherry or a redbud. My favorite is the golden rain tree or the black locust.
Here is a picture of my wife and I on our 1 year anniversary this past November. We were at my parent's and they went through great trouble to find a baker that could recreate the top of our wedding cake from the picture to the right of the cake AND make it gluten free. It was really sweet of them.
Thank you--you are a lovely couple----Young! Great! Good for fresh perspectives.
When I "talk" to people here--I like to visualize looking at them. It helps...
OK! here is a fairly recent one of me from Sept. last year--at our (no date given!)
Class reunion.....and--I have my new glasses on.
Gita
NEXT????????
Haha...no date given :)
I'm sorry to tell you, Sequoia, that while you have the requisite glasses, you do not have nearly enough hair to be a true hipster. Pretty wife! Congrats on your anniversary.
Gita knows what I look like.
Here's the first selfie I ever posted, and the only reason I did it was because I had just gotten my braces off and I was so happy to be done with them. This was about 2 months ago.
thanks, SSG and Donner!
Typ, absolutely gorgeous!
yes, I live in fear that my dogwood will end up catching that nasty anthracnose. Donner, I agree that they are beautiful year round. From the spring blossoms to the late summer berries to the lovely fall foliage. I also have a redbud, and it's constantly having to be trimmed because it's a taller tree and so the branches keep growing into the power lines. Plus, after the spring flowering there is no visual interest. Plus, the redbuds are on every street corner around here, so I can easily enjoy them without having one in my own front yard! My redbud is a mature tree; perhaps someday I will live long enough to see it grow old and replaced with something else. Who knows what I would want by then??
Haha typ...I've been shaving for many years now. Sad to say but the forces are retreating if you know what I mean...
Catmint, maybe when your redbud needs replacement they will have a nice genetically modified something! I like the clump redbud with the red leaves.
Donner---hope you don't mind--but I will post YOUR picture here---
a nice one--from 2012's Timmonium Flower and Garden show--
Donner (Sally) among the orchids....
Donner, those are beautiful photos of you! :-)
Just did a tour of my yard and I'm thrilled with all the different shoots and buds I now have sprouting up! And my winter aconite has bloomed--yay! And of course especially enticing are the swaths of tulip and daffodil shoots, representing my bounty from the fall bulb buy.
1) first winter aconite blooms--yay!
2) are these going to be huge red tulips or what?? :-D (I think those are the Darwin Red Impression)
3) and who else could I show a bunch of daffodil sprouts to but my fellow MAFers??
Lost of other stuff coming up: Allium, English primrose, Muscari, Scilla siberica, creeping phlox, Glory of the Snow, Iris reticulata, yarrow, sedum, candytuft, lungwort, parsley, and lots of tiny flower buds on spring blooming trees and shrubs! this is my first spring watching stuff come up--it is really a thrill! :-)
Typ, really nice picture of you - great smile sans braces! I love that Mexican dogwood you mentioned. I just pinned it to one of my Pinterest boards where I'm keeping track of specific plants that I would like to get someday...
And Sequoia, it is nice to have a face to put with your posts. Funny, but when you first started posting, I pictured a middle aged woman, then when you mentioned a wife, I pictured a retired older man, then when you mentioned that you had only been out of college a few years, I REALLY had to laugh about how wrong I was... You have a very pretty wife, and still a honeymooner :)
Here is my picture - HA HA HA. Pictures of what I look like now are few and far between, but I'll find one.
Type I agree that is a wonderful picture of you! :-)
No fair--Terri--showing pictures when you were in pre-school....
Geez--it does not even resemble you now.....hppe you find one.
Well, it took a bit of looking, but here is one from Ric & Holly's 2012 spring swap with Donner Sally.
Cat, how exciting to see all those shoots coming up!
Great photo of you Aspen. you are glowing! :-)
Haha Aspen, that's funny how we all have a mental image of what someone is like in our minds. I'm wrong a lot...lol Thanks for the compliment :)
It is always so much fun to meet everyone in person. I remember the first time that Jan and I met we just bonded instantly.
You wife is very beautiful, Sequoia.
Love Terri's kid photo. The same eyes at the age. Very cute.
Thank you, Cat. I wouldn't call them beautiful, but you are very kind :-).
They are all such great pictures,
CatMint, Your daughter is so cute, bet she is just a sweetheart.
Sequoia, Nice to see what you and your lovely wife look like.
twpwc, What a great smile you have.
Aspenhill, LOL love those old pictures.
Gita, I swear you never change.
So on the discussion on the Dogwoods. I was at a seminar on Natives. One of the things they talked about was how people were switching out their native dogwoods for Kosua dogwoods. They said the the Kousa berries are larger and many of the birds that eat native dogwood berries can't eat the Kousa berries.
thanks, Holly--she is generally a good kid! :-)
And great point about the Kousa dogwood berries. I love hearing the birds chirping in my dogwood (right outside my window) as they enjoy a berry meal! And so far, the neighborhood/stray cat hasn't learned to climb the tree in his hungry pursuit of feathered meals, so it seems a safer place for them than the feeder...
I've also read that my red bud tree 'provides nesting material for native bees'. I try to remember this every time I see its branches poking into the power lines.
My reticulated iris is blooming this morning, poking its pretty heads up in the rain!
Sure wish it were sunny today!
OK, Folks----need more of your pictures!!!
C'mon---please! Lets do this!! G.
My picture is on my articles- but I'll try to get on the other computer and send one more recent.
Tete a tete daffodils
Petasites, as it first emerges it is weird
Lovely spring flowers,CatMint and Sally!
I have a 20' x 8' bed of daffodils that are starting to bloom. I'll post a pic when they're further along.
I told my wife that you guys thought she was pretty and she asked what pic I put up. Naturally she thought that was a terrible picture...LOL
I hope to have pics of mini daffs up soon. Should be a few days before a couple pop out. Crocus in the front yard are winding down but near peak in the back. We have only a few perennials breaking above the soil line. Probably doesn't help I put a couple inches of mulch down over the lot of them.
very cool, Sally! Is this your first daffodil??
My first and only daffodils this year so far are Tete a Tete and another which I think is Topolino, The Tete a Tete is very short, I wonder if the weather affects how tall they get.
So much rain- I guess today I need to get caught up on everything that is NOT yardening
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The reticulated irises on the front yard are finally blooming. There seems to be a 10-day difference between the sunny and warm back yard and shady and cooler front yard.
Share some photos when you get a chance, SSG! Sally, I know you are ahead of us spring-wise--I wonder which of my daffs will be the first to bloom!
SSG, sounds just like my garden. Front is always a week behind the backyard. My front door is west-facing. It's really nice in the spring because it prolongs the joy of watching things come alive. It's not so nice in August because my front yard becomes unbearably hot in the afternoons.
killed our first mosquito yesterday!! ugggghhh seems a bit early
more rain in Jersey today. not many other blooms now for us, but lots of plant growth on the move
here's a pic of me and mom at this years Philly Flower Show. Harry took the picture. the second pic is one of all of us at the Kimmel Center this year. Hopefully, I'll get some pictures of us in the garden this year
