Columbines of all sorts

Well we have had a beautiful weekend! Lots of sun and warmth combine that with the week of rain we received and it does the garden good. My pink arabis and my white arabis have started to bloom also my Pulmonaria as well. There are only a few things that I waiting on now to see if they made it thru the winter. My columbines are doing fab and my dwarf columbine is beginning to get buds. Hope the week brings lots sunny skies.

Michelle

I borrowed my BIL's camera so I got some pics this morning of my garden! YAY! Here's some of my columbines coming up.

Steve

Canadian Columbine 'Little Lanterns'

A. Alpina

One of many Nora Barlow seedlings. This one has a darker redish tinge to the young leaves and red stems.

oops...forgot to add pic! LOL

Nice pic's steve,i like the folage on the little lanterns kind of looks like parsley leaves ,started some of them this year nice green as will alot
of the ones i have has a purpleish ting to the leaves,My blue poppies
has the funnest leaves kind of a dark green with a brown fuzz on it.
I'm going to have to borrow a camera and put some pics here to.

Steve,
Your columbines look great!
Michelle

I planted a Nora Barlow seedling and the Alpina next to the little lanterns

hoping to get some interesting hybrids.
Did you say you have Blue Poppies Digging? Lucky you! I can't wait to see the pics!
While I have a camera I have to remember to take it around with me.
I've mssed some good pictures :(

Thanks for the compliments on my photos!
Steve

yup i have blue poppies,im so pleased cant wate for them to bloom,and yes i will share some pics,im hoping to get some of my garden today if i can figure out how to put them here.

When do your blue poppies bloom? I'm all excited now and I still can't wait to see the pics!

We went on a walk yesterday on the nature trails and got this photo of a Trillum.

Steve

Gees Steve im not sure when thay bloom,i know how you feel i can't wate myself.
When i bought the seed thay told me thay were hardy to zone 7 and the chanches of them comeing back to flower was nill.
ha,ha i laugh it them mine did there biannual so this year i will also get seed to grow more .
I love blue and in the pictures i have seen thay seem to be the most intence blue there is.
But when thay do bloom i will put the pic's of them right away.
Trillums are so pretty i dont think we have any native ones here,
now dont quot me on that mmmmmm i should ask Todd, we have one flower it doze look like a trillum.
I did get my pic,s today but havent got them posted yet.

Good thing you tried the poppies anyway and didn't listen to whoever told you they weren't hardy! It's funny how sometimes one place says a plant is hardy to zone 4 or something and another says its hardy to zone 2. BTW, I saw some blue impatiens on the annual forum. And their perennial too!
WOO HOO! You should go check it out!

Steve

Pictures of last year's Purple Lady Bonnets.

Steve i have blue impatience got some seed for them this year.
and i didn't know thay were a perennial mmmmmm i hope so thay are realy nice

Where did you get your seeds Digging?

This is a pink dianthus from my garden last year.
Don't know the name its a old one that was here in this garden when
i moved here.And the smell is ohhhhhhhhh so nice.

I traded for them ,Some lady in Finland had some she sent me 6 seeds 4 are growing and are thay ever slow.

this is a pic of a sedium,called stonecrop

This is a daylily i think its call Rasberry ripple not sure

this is sweetwilliams im sorry about the quality of the pic's my sister took them she has'nt quite mastered the digitical camera

I really like those sweet williams and the daylily. Such nice colouring.....especially the sw's. Dianthus never seem to last for along time around here....they get all leggy after a number of years. I chopped some dianthus/carnation(?) right back to the woody stems but I don't think it's going to sprout again.

Steve

yes steve i have to do that with some of the ones i have ,not the one in the pic though that one lasts for years,i even took cuttings of it and thay root realy will .Now i do have one called britiny its a small red one that doze get legy and i cut mine back as early as i can in spring
befor new growth,and it doze fine but if cut when the new growth starts forget it .the thing dozent do will.

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Steve we were talking about Trillums yesterday,and we do have a native one.Though we did was't sure and thanks to Todd i now know.

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Cool, what type of Trillum is it? I also love May apples, they look like mini palm trees. I think I cut my dianthus back in march, right back to the woody stem....no leaves left.....I checked it....think its dead. I got a good number of years out of it anyways. Now I have a spot I can put something else in! hehehe

Steve

The name of the trillium is T.Cernuum,or The nodding trillium.
To bad about your dianthus,i say the same thing when something of mine bites the bullet.
My lupins has gone to a better place.Not to fond of them dont live long at all anyway i now have space for a fue more daylilys.
Oh heres a pic of my baby ,one of the himalayan blue poppy
hope you can see it.

here is one of one of my flower bed on the side of my house

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Nice garden there! I wish mine looked like that! But things have been looking up for it lately. Cute poppy, I hope he does well for you. I have an Oriental poppy, shirly poppies and danish flag poppies......although I'm not sure if the danish flag came up much cause I can't tell them apart from the shirlies....
Do you know if Lupins like shade? I saw in a magazine that they were shade plants...but I always thought they were sun?

Steve

Steve,
Lupins love the sun. I don't have any in my garden but they grow completely wild here. What a gorgeous site to see lots of fields full with Lupins it is something I look forward to every year.

Michelle

I've always grown mine in full sun.as amatter of fact i have a pic of one of the white one i have.
This lupin is huge found some little babys from it today potted them up for another spot in my garden.

Articfire thay grow wild here to .and yes thay do look good.my wife
loves them and allways sayes why cant thay grow like that in the garden .I've tryed do do it for her but it always looks planded if you know what i mean

heres another shot of that lupin,once again sorry the pic's are poor
i didn't take them.
Ok everone lets see some shots of everones garden.Get out the cameras

I know what you mean digging. It really is hard to duplicate Mother Nature's handy work!

Love the pic of your white Lupin!

Michelle

I always thought lupins were sun too. I guess the magazine was wrong! :)
I have some shots of the garden taken this year....I posted some of them on this thread I started.....come join us! http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/593438/

Steve

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OOps forget to add the pic.

this is last years flower bed in the front of my place

another flower in the front side garden

Your beds look really good Digging, very well planted!

Steve

Thanks yes thay were realy nice last year,hope thay will be this year as will.
Man the weather has been lovely the last couple days.Getting alot of work done,the grass is turning green ,might have to cut it soon oh joy of joys.

It's sooo nice out here too today!!! I LOVE SPRING! Plants and seedlings are lookin' good!!! Our grass will probably have to be cut soon too....

Steve

Man the weather is so nice the last fue days(as i knock on wood)
getting a lot of things done vegy garden is turned and ready to go.
Two flower beds done and ready to go.And most of my seeds are planted couple left to do.
Hows everone making out with theres.