Look at the dates too! It's amazing what can happen in less than a month! Now I KNOW, that I have good soil this year for sure! No repeats of last year! I was all freaked out a month ago that I had lost all of my bulbs LOL! And that creeping phlox grows, fast! And these are just the very, very early bloomers!
wow, that's great!
Michelle
beautiful. what kind of tree do you have?
awesome! thanks for sharing.
cool, it looks so nice a fairy showed up to enjoy it!
very cool. I love the fairy that grew on the edge of the fountain, too. =)
Cheri'
Really cool fountain you have there!! Did you get it locally or mail order? Spring is such a terrific, uplifting time of year to me and for the very thing you've illustrated in your collage. Love the tulips too! Are they a species tulip?
Love it! It will just get prettier every year; you'll really enjoy the progression. I love how bulbs increase and form casual drifts as time goes on. Thanks for sharing, and keep showing the progressions through the seasons!
It is mazaing how fast things can grow in good soil! Seems everything just popped up over night. I have about 100 daffs and tulips behind me int he yard as will that just grow, and grow and grow! The Giant Alliums have great foiliage too.
I bought the fountain at Home Depot. I set it in the ground too, with the Phlox around it. The Phlox did nothing last year in clay LOL! As far as the Tulips, I am not sure what a Species Tulip is? They are of the Greigii Division, Flowerdale cultivar. I had to add them here on the Plant Files as they weren't yet in here. Can't find them on line anywhere!
Thanks for all the compliments! I will be sure to post more photos!
J
I was actually looking at Home Depots fountains on Friday!
What a beautiful little sanctuary you have there! I love the "living, changing sculpture" element to gardening - it grows before our eyes - plus the green is so soothing after a brown winter.
Did you get a lot of hail last week? We did - tons of it - but not too much damage here, tulips and sedums got the worst of it, but just leaf bruising, they'll recover :-)
My neighbor's phlox has been in full bloom for about a month now too. From my side of the street they almost look like bright paint splotches - very cool effect. So I broke down and bought a couple of small pink ones to fill in a spot, the hail knocked all the blooms off - but now they've got new ones! Amazing! -C
A species tulip is a variety that's found in the wild-not hybrid. I love those. So many of the hybrid tulips, while big and lovely, don't perennialize-just sort of dissapear after a few years. But the species seem to be more reliable perennials and many of them spread so you have more every year.
Darn! I guess these aren't species then :(
Thanks for sharing that info.
C - Yes, we got just a little hail, but yu folks out there always get more than we. My familt is from Ft. Lupton and they always got the weather!
J
Ft. Lupton huh? Cool, that's really close to me!
Ya,
My Grandad owned Apple's Automotive. Just south of Lupton on Denver Avenue!
