April snow storms bring May flowers!

Oooh! I just looked up the name of the orange tulip in thesecond to last of the photos (post # 3501618). It's Dordogne tulip. It pays to keep a journal!

sofanisba - that is a gorgeous stand of tulips! I like to look at mixed colors like that and imagine what it would look like as you eliminate each color. I can't see any one color going away out of that picture - its just perfect.
Wish my cutting garden looked like that. You're giving me ideas but getting to bloom at the same time is what I have to work on. I have the scarlet color nailed - Lychnis arkwrightii - goes to seed every year and spreads gently - what a great flower. And this year I'm putting in Thomas Edison dahlias right behind them, along with Papageno - sort of a pink striped orange. should be very colorful!

I assume the Thomas Edison dahlias start as bulbs, not tubers!

I hope you're sleeping it off, Victor.

Dave, my headlight only goes on when I flip the front of it to the open position. When I get a great idea for the garden I either order plants or ask people if they'd like some plants so I can make room for what I want. Most great ideas are either garden or food related.

Harper - blood meal keeps the rabbits away but attracts dogs. I use many bags of it every spring to keep the bunnies away from the Asiatics and Orientals.

alyrics, it was all by chance, I swear. I bought a bunch of tulips that I thought looked pretty by the picture, and threw them in there. I didn't pay attention to whether they were early or late bloomers or how tall they were (the orange princess is short, I now know!) The only thing I could visualize was the muscari. Phew, I feel so lucky!

Your dahlia bed sounds wonderful. I love pink and orange together.

Pirl, I have a dog. My first year here, I used bone meal on my bulbs. The next morning, they were all dug up. I assume a raccoon did it.

pirl do you have raccoon or deer problems? - maybe bloodmeal would keep those cretins off my lilies.

Victorgardner - what do you mean? Thomas Edison is a dahlia so its a tuber. Are you teasin me and I don't get it? Wouldn't the the first time.

Yes, of course I am teasing. Thomas Edison - bulb - get it?!!

alyrics, Thomas Edison invented the light "bulb". Yuk, yuk, yuk....

And he just wanted the light so he could raise dahlias!

We used Deer Scram in 2005 (November) and had no problems until one deer paid a visit earlier this spring and ate 48 of our 50 Pink Impression tulips. A DG person from Canada told me Blood Meal would help deter them and I put that down as my DH put down more Deer Scram - no more deer.........so far.

Arrrrgh! I would've ground my teeth down to the nubs.

OOOOHHHHHHH Victor - ya got me. Bulbs - duh!

Tom Edison invented the light buld & strapped it to his head like Pirl for nighttime mid-winter weeding.
It's all connected!

Pirl, I feel like I should buy one just like yours... some times I am so involved that I don't go inside until night... and I only go inside because I can 't see anything but I could be another 2 hrs outside!

Dave, what's a buld?

I could have used your nightlight last eve when I hurried through planting out a couple flats of annuals to finish before the storm that came at about 2 am. I have the coolest avant-garde looking flag pole area - hee hee. I planted striped rows of white alyssum and red begonias, then dark purple allysum and 'stars' of white begonia. I just couldn't do the mulch because I couldn't see at all by the time I got done. Had to laugh when I went out this morning to see what I'd done. It will be fun when it grows in.

I understood buld. My son is dyslexic

Kassia and alyrics - there are plug in Halogen lamps that would give more light than what I have for night gardening. I'm sure HD must have them.

Don't the bugs bother you at night? I am a mosquito MAGNET. Did anyone else get that crazy storm today?? Had no power for five hours. Back on about 1/2 hour ago. Only about 1/2 inch of rain but it came down fast and heavy with lots of wind!

It was bad in Danbury. The sky got dark and the wind came up and snapped trees all over and it poured buckets! It hadn't been that bad in Bridgeport but driving home the traffic signals were out and I could see where road crews had to clear the road in a number of places for broken trees. I wondered if some had been lightning strikes because branches were cracked off old, healthy trees.

The storm began after I had put everything that might be hurled by the winds safely away. We lost power for less than a minute. Since then it's been quiet with just a little rain. Big storms due tonight.

No, not more storm!

Egad! What kind of thread will a new storm create????

We had it. It lasted 1/2 hour, but it was fierce. They said a tornado touched down in Cortlandt (20 minutes from here). The lights flickered a lot, but we didn't lose power.

The buld was Edison's archetype for the bulb. It was worn on one's head.
Sorry. Im figured you folks knew about that too. ;)

Edison nicknamed his first two children Dot and Dash, honoring Morse Code. Did you know that?

Interesting that everyone knows Edison but nobody knows Nicola Tesla, father of alternating current, which, of course, we use (except after storms like yesterday!). Edison was obstinate about direct current, even after seeing the obvious advantages of ac. They fought it out for a while. Luckily Tesla won. Had Edison won, we'd have a generator every few blocks!

Thanks for the history lesson, Victor. I LOVE learning new stuff.

After all the gorgeous pics, which I have just caught up with (and thoroughly enjoyed!)...would you like to see some of mine?

first, I have to congratulate Dave on posting some actual pics! thanks, Dave, it's nice not to have to imagine your garden ;0)

peony-flowered tulip, Queen of the Congo (it's a deeper red than the pic shows)

one of the new roses in my rose garden...Sexy Rexy (a lot of folks call my DH Rex..so I have a Sexy Rexy in my house. might as well have one in the garden, too LOL)

unknown late daff

another

some mixed annuals I bought to spruce up my new herb garden

here's a thread to see the rest of it


http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/724355/

a tiny Veronica, 'Dick's Wine' in my rock garden

here's where it's planted

creeping phlox 'Fort Hill'

lilac 'Charles Joly' (just planted this spring)

lilac 'Sensation' (also just planted)

tulip 'Lilac Sensation'

tulip 'Strawberries & Cream' (another of the peony type

my favorite tulip (a parrot), 'Fantasy'