What's blooming for us in Canada?

LOL at the ark!!! I hope I won't have to fill one, but I think it's still raining and this is only the first day...
I don't think I'll be able to not peak after all....I haven't gotten outside hardly at all today and I'm dieing to go look....even if the rain would just let up a bit. I don't mind getting a little wet :) I still am going to try to not look in the coldframe though.
As far as I know jack-in-the-pulpits are perennial. I had it for a few years. Oh, and I discovered another baby earlier.....so now I have 7!!!

Steve

I wouldnt be able to not look as will.I have to check my plantes everyday its the first thing i do,willlllll after my pot of coffee it helps to jump start the batteries,coffee or a mars bar and i could plough the north forty you chould see me go after i eat one of those suckers.
Will congrats on the new one ,i cant jget them to grow for me?them and beets .Steve what plant have you tried and cant get to grow.

For me it was polyanthus primrose, I tried a number of them and they barely came back, if at all. Untill this year when surprisingly one came AND flowered! WOO HOO!!!!

I grow my Jack in part shade and good soil and he gets watered through the summer. Thats all I do for him......I hope it helps.

Steve

BTW, I looked in my coldframe earlier :P

ha, ha i new you couldn't do it.Congrats on the primrose i can grow them .I think i may let them dry out to much thanks for the info.

All my Jacks were moved yesterday, so now I have 10!!! I really should shut-up about them though.....I probably sound like I'm rambling again.... :D

not at all,i like hereing about plants and as a gardener we all love to talk shop.

I have this purple leaf sandcherry on my deck in a huge terra cotta pot (man is it heavy!), and it has been in glorious bloom for a couple of weeks now.
Christine

I know this is cheating, but somewhere in the wolrd, where its a perfect climate, this Hoya Compacta's relatives are blooming there too, instead of sitting on a shelf in a bedroom in a cold northern country like ours.....
Christine

Thnaks for sharing the photos Christine! Thats a very nice hoya you have. I have one I grew from a cutting, but it only makes like 2 leaves a year. Maybe I should put it outside for the summer.

Steve

Thanks Steve. The HoyaCanuck will help. You have Dmail.

Christine

Thanks I got your D-mail :)

Steve

Ceedub the sandcherry it's not hardy were you live.I thought thay were tuff shrubs mmmmmm was thinking about getting one may have to rethink my plans.

Ddirt, it is very hardy where I live; I see it in places where it gets no attention at all and they come back each year (train station yard = no watering, in spring they're fine and in flower). In fact mine is on my deck in a big container, and I only wind some burlap around it in the winter. It does really well. Maybe this is a different/hardier sandcherry than the one you're thinking of?
Christine

I just bought some new ground cover this aft for one of my beds! They are Veronica 'Miffy Brute' , Campanula poscharskyana and Gypsophila repens 'Rosea'. I love mixing ground covers together to get a nice patchwork. Also picked up Pineapple sage and a variegated Marjoram, which I'm going to grow in my green house(after I finish cleaning the junk out) so our rabbit can munch it along with other herbs when I bring her out. She won't get to touch the pineapple sage though... ;D

Steve

thanks ceedub im going to try the one you have .i like the sound of the hardness of that one,im going to replace my purple smoke tree,think it might be close to the same color.
Steve i like grown covers as will.There are some assum one out there
i should get into growing more.

Digging - You should definitely get into growing more ground cover :)
I love it.

digging - where is comebychance Canada ?
Judy

I temporarily took the batteries from a tv remote and used them in the camera so I could get a few quick pics! YAY!!!

Christine, I got a quick pic of my hoya.

Here's some pics of a few of my spring arrangements...

And here's the last one I did with double white lilacs, red and yellow tulips, and cephalaria leaves.

Steve

Steve,
Your spring boquets look great. We finally got some rain last night. We so needed it everything was very dry. Plants should really take off now. I have all my creeping phlox, arabis, pulmonaria, aubrieta, violets and jacob's ladder in bloom. Columbines are just starting. Will try to get some pics.

Michelle

Thanks Michelle :)
yes, please get some pics of your garden, I love seeing what everyone else has done. I also have jacob's ladder in bloom, and one's(a taller type) still in bud. Columbine's are also just starting, can't wait till they're open. This is the first bloom for most of them. Also have, creeping phlox, money plant, leopards bane, violets, white bleeding heart, archangel, lamium and the cephalaria is getting HUGE! Every year I think I should divide it, then when it comes back it the spring it looks like theres nothing to divide........but then it starts growing....

Steve

Steve, definitely a Hoya Carnosa. You now know how to look after him properly, and he'll be doing (hoya-type) backflips for you in no time at all. Let me know how you make out.

Christine

I will be sure to keep you up to date Christine. I can't wait to see the 'backflips'!

Steve

Here's a picture of the creeping veronica I just got.
'Miffy Brute'

Here's a new pic of my flowering almond. See how much it's grown!

Here's a couple of the cephalaria

Here's the second one

And here's a few of one of my beds.

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And in a different bed this is the first hardy geranium I've ever had. Aside from those pink ones that come up in the lawn.....

Steve

Very nice displays Steve, and they're all growing so nicely. Keep it up!
C.

sammigirl ComeByChance is in newfoundland.
Steve nice picks your plantes are so advanced,mine are two or three weeks behind you.My lilics are just comming into leaf but with the rain we had today thay are realy out now.
Steve in the pic of your flowering almond is that a jacobs ladder nice color i have the dark purple one it smells like grape koolaid.
The one you have there seems light almost BLUE mmmmmm save some seed of it for me.

Thanks Ceedub and Digging for your nice comments.
Here is a close up of our Jacobs Ladder.

Steve

man i like that one,it is lighter then mine a friend of mine has a white one .i find that jacobs ladders stay in bloom for a long time which is a good thing.how ever tay selfseed like crazy.this is a pic of one of mine a couple weeks ago,its much bigger now even the leaves are darker .will thay look darker what do you think Steve

Nice pic of yourm flower bed there,what is the red in the backgrown is it a bleeding heart,

Ya, your's look quite darker. I think I have that one too. It grows to about 2 feet and has dark blue/purple flowers? And it sometimes reblooms in the summer.

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Thanks, Digging. The red is an old quince bush. Doesn't grow as well as it used to, it's right on the fence line twining through the fence. Half on the neighbors side and half on ours.

yup that's the one have you ever smelled the flowers it smells just like grape koolaid,the quince nice red color i like red and thats is a nice one.

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Is your Jacobs Ladder in sun or shade? Mine doesn't seem to get very big. It only has one flower stem on it. It probably would have had 2 but I busted a peice off raking. How many flower stems does yours usually make?

my jacobs are in both,and has meny flower stocks,thay form large clumps.the one in this thread is one that grow last year i left it there by mistake had it for a friend, all last summer it only had a couple leaves but i find thay do like water.AS a mater of intress mine gets almost 3ft hi and flowers for a long time.
Maybe the one you have is a dwarf of some type i must keep some seed from mine for you you can grow it and see if there is a difference.