Gram, I'd say they're 18" tall at most. And these particular ones have just tons of blooms! They're getting tired now, but they started blooming in time for Christmas! I planted 3 bulbs, and even though I've picked off most of the dead blooms there are easily 17 - 18 left. Each bulb made two stalks! This was when they were at their prime; my DH tried to get them with our Ye Olde Filme Camera:
xxx, Carrie
Pretty Carrie!
Harper
Andy - I think I might have seen your dun dogs here today. It was little snippets of a rainbow on both sides of the sun. Is that them?
Al - you cannot chide me on my spelling ever again - dun dogs? You mean sun dogs don't you?
that won't stop me.LOL
yes sun dogs, and I won't even edit it for you ;)~
Al, could be. The rainbows should at the same angle above the horizon as the sun. There may be a halo around the sun, too. Very cool.
Andy P
Andy - do you have a sun dog picture?
Yank, sure. Taken December 10, 2005. The last one I saw.
Andy P
It was a bit too cloudy for a halo and the sun was setting, but there was no other reason to see rainbow colors.
If there is a "sun dog" is there a "sun cat"?
lol
What is a sun dog? I have no clue.
Dawn, it's when the sun's rays hit cloud ice crystals at just the right angle to be reflected back to Earth. (in a nutshell) A meteorological phenomena.
Andy, Nap, just the pictures we need on a grey winter day. Which is 50* for me right now. I should be out raking up walnut sticks.
Laniebug, Pixie, now that is cool! You must have stood outside on the same night.
ROTFL over Sarah's night of drinking!!
Al, love the girls ''freezing.''
Carrie, that's beautiful!
Andy, a bud on my amaryllis popped up yesterday. It's taller than the curled over leaves. Took me by suprise. Poor Sarah. It's so much fun to watch dogs make friends and then play together.
I've been making wish lists from the flower catalogues, researching, changing my mind and writing out the check! I've ordered things I've had my eye on for years. I've come to the conclusion that sometimes you just have to order it and fit it in later. Funny how a spot opens up. I need to fill the shady bed, so a lot of astilbes are needed. There are a lot of choices now. A lot. I found a few books at Barnes and Noble. Usually I can't find anything I don't already have, or need.
I did a very dumb thing a few weeks ago. I accidently deleted the picture folder and didn't have all of them backed up. I could cry. SIL retrieved some of them from the camera card and is going to try again with another program. I lost mostly scenery, but it was my scenery. All of them can be retaken. I'll never be in a hurry on the computer again.
Hoarfrost
Cool picture!
Harper
Sally - that's a cool pic! Sorry about your photos. I put all mine on disc and still don't trust that with how the kids treat the discs so now I put them on an external hard drive also. Do you want some of my pics.LOL
Yessss, LOL!
Nice shot, Ruth.
Al, I'll take a few shots, too. Got any Dahlia pics?, lol.
Some Asiatic Lily seed pods, shot last weekend.
Andy P
For some reason, I love that last pic, Andy. It's somewhat odd, yet eye-appealing.
Billyporter, where have you been!!?? Oh, I am so sorry about your pictures disappearing. But that means you need to take a lot of new ones! We'd be happy to view them with you.
I like that pic too Andy.
Harper
I'm confused! Billy are you also Sally and Ruth??
Hoar frost must describe your picture and not be another name. Could you explain it? Incredible picture.
Dave
Hi Nap, I've been trying to keep the house claen since taking x-mas down and working on flower orders! Takes a lot of concentration to keep all the wish lists straight! I gave up on the house. Back to doing what's necessary for it to look like I cleaned. :))
Laughing. Just Sally. (My alter ego, Billy Porter, is from a Mick Ronson song. Mick Ronson played for David Bowie.)
Hoarfrost is beautiful, especially when the sun is out. If the sun does come out it can melt in 5 minutes and you would never know it had been there. I'm not very good at explaining things so here's a link.
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/feature/wf231002.htm
Birdnest in grapevines on a country fence.
Thanks for the link and explaining! Now I don't have to call you billy, Sally, Ruth, Frosty! (I figured frosty was the the better way to go with your 4th name. ;)
Laughing! I've never been so many people, thank goodness!
^^warning - musical diversion ahead^^
Sally - I didn't know that about your name, I grew up a huge Bowie fan but never listened to any Ronson solo albums. I think he played on 3 of Bowie's. I probably liked Robert Fripp's work a little better and am more familiar with it.
I try to stay to the unwritten rule that even if I know your name ,unless I see you use it in a post, I won't use it.
here's a photo of winky red and white columbine for you to have, I ordered the blue one for this year - how excting
All these frosty pics remind me of when I was a teen. I had a small greenhouse with an old Florence kerosene heater that I had to light in the evenings. Some times I could watch the moisture on the glass freeze up into 'fern like' formations. It would happen very fast, I could see it forming like time lapse photography. Fascinating.
Andy P
Al, I'm still a fan!!! I could listen to Heroes every day for the rest of my life! I too only use names if the person signs their post or if I use a shortcut.
Gorgeous columbine!!! I'm hoping the Red Hobbit and Swallowtail I planted last year bloom this year. They are supposed to reseed true to color.
That's cool Andy!
Al, I love that columbine. I think I'm gonna get me one. Yum. Good enough to eat.
Andy, that's cool about how you could see the frost form right in front of your eyes. What's more cool is that you had a greenhouse when you were a kid. Were you the main keeper of the greenhouse, or was it mostly your parents' and you were helping out?
When I was a kid, one year my father decided he was going to build a floor to ceiling bay window in our old farmhouse. He's great at that stuff, but slow. He didn't finish in time for winter and we froze out butts off that year with just plastic covering the gaping hole. It was beautiful when it was done, though! Lotsa plants!
Harper
That's what I thought too, about the greenhouse and being a teen.
Harper, I bet that window was/is something to see. How great to have a talented Father!
Harper, The greenhouse was mine. I worked at my dad's store and saved up for this 'Mail order' 8 X 12 Redwood model. I enjoyed it for 4 years until I joined the military.
I've been digging in the soil for a long time.
The lower pic was taken from my bedroom window with my Kodak Brownie.
Andy P
Correction: 9 X 12 size
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That is so cool!!! Man, I was only 6 and still had a brother to be born. :)) I think you qualify as youngest gardener.
LOL, it's been a while since I've qualified as the youngest anything.
I was only -2 , I bet you miss it Andy
Harper - you'll want columbine, they go on sale cheap later in the summer after they have flowered and I always buy more then.
I have some new columbines that should bloom next Spring. Mixed volunteers that I potted up last year and planted in the Fall. I love 'mystery' plants. Unfortunately, Columbines don't live very long for me, 5 or 6 years max.
Al, that winky series is really pretty. I got some Nora Barlowe seeds sent to me by a DG member and I bought some 'Woodside Variegata' seed from Park's for wintersowing. I didn't have very good luck with my plants of 'Songbird' that I planted in '05, but the ones that have survived are lovely. I added some 'Swan Rose and White' that I got on sale at the end of the season this fall.
here's my Songbird Robin
Al & Gram, those are both really pretty columbines.
Thanks Dave.
Jan - I have Nora Barlowe and I think 'Blue' Barlowe - real nice.
You know I'm looking through all my catalogs seed shopping and it's amazing the amount of columbine seeds for sale.
there are just so many different forms of columbines and lots of color combinations. they really are quite wonderful.
Gram, were you around for Andy's columbine thread last Spring?
don't remember, Dave. I subscribed in May, but I don't remember what forums I was active in at the beginning. and I was a lurker before that.
