Christi, I think your Lady Banks rose buds suffered the same fate as my Texas Mountain laurel, most of them froze when they were about to open and the temperature went down to 27, I do have a few blooms, but lost about 3/4ths of them.
It is so sad, you wait all year, and they freeze just as they are about to open.
Patience patience my dear.
Josephine.
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Spring Has Sprung! .... at least i hope so!!
I think you are right, Jo. I have heard that trees have 3 sets of buds (leaves). Don't think flowers are the same. The Lady Banksia was so beautiful last year and then it started to rain and rain and rain and rain. We have had 5"s today. Sure hope we aren't on the same track as last year.
C
Tracie, your bulbs and irises are just AMAZING!!!
Carla, I hope you didn't get washed out! That sounds frightening. We were spared. In fact, I could have used a little more rain.
I'll just call this Sheila's Poppy, because my friend Sheila found some in the yard of her home when she moved in and then shared them with me.
elphaba, thank you very much! i just love this time of year!!! it seems like every time you go outside, you can find something new.
tracie
heres a double daff noid, but was suggested that it may be
Golden Ducet
Sheilas' poppy is lovely. I always want to plant some but never get one of those "round tuits" in the fall when it is time to seed. Thanks for sharing that one...
So strange. I got some free poppy seeds in the mail from Burt's Bees. Don't remember why. As is almost always the case, I just threw them around the bed.
There were few seeds and I guess every single one germinated. The plants are so lush now and bursting with buds. Can't wait till they bloom. Will take pictures.
C
Looking forward to seeing your photos. Then, y'all remind me in the fall when it is time to plant them... LOL
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a couple of new photos that i took today. i am just so happy that the storm that was forcasted as very severe pretty much passed up by. i was so afraid what my garden would look like if we got severe weather. i hope all of you fared as well. :)
tracie
mixed daffs with snapdragons and delphinimum in the background
a close up of some snapdragons that just sat there all winter and finally burst into bloom!
tracie
Pod , your plant that multiplies rapidly.., mounds with pink flowers and the shamrock leaves is Oxalis.......I love it, some of my mounds are as big as basketballs...it reseeds and comes up all in the yard......I just dig it up and move it to a more favorable place. they seem to do better here in light shade......beautiful in the spring under the daffodills and iris, the hot summer about burns them up, but then they thrive again in the fall. i border my beds with them. The first I got was from and old house being demolished, I have shared many and everyone who sees mine asks for a start.
Thank you for the name. Sometimers disease had kicked in... Sometimes I remember and sometimes, I forget ~ LOL I think I got the start of this from a friend also. It always delights me to see where it will pop up when least expected. Afternoon shade seems to be the order of the day here too.
Elphaba,
Which irises do you plant? Have never attempted to grow them here, so thought I would give them a try.
Thanks
What irises do I plant? Well, now that's a good question. I had a successful bed of tall bearded irises with everything nicely labeled. The best ones as I recall were Superstition and Phantom Masquerade. Then I decided to make the pond bigger. I carefully dug up my irises and labeled them, but a squirrel found them and all identifying markers were lost! I was also never able to grow them as well as I did in that first bed perhaps because now there are too many plants competing for the sunlight.
Louisiana irises grow better for me. They come back even after being smothered by other plants. I have Full Eclipse and Sinfronietta (or something like that) and a bunch of unnamed ones that my neighbor gave me. I also have walking irises -- yellow ones and a purple and white ones. Butterfly irises are nice too, but mine don't get enough sun anymore.
hi guys,
i spent the day out in the yard planting more flowers and cleaning beds, took a few new pics that i thought you might like!
tracie
my first tulips ever!
Triumph "Purple Flag"
a little friend on the grape hyacinth
just a shot of one of my flower beds
Elphaba ~ questions, please ma'am? Do you have your walking iris in ground? My yellow blooms all winter, the blue & white will start shortly. I keep them potted to provide winter protection.
On the butterfly iris ~ Dietes bicolor? What do you do to make them bloom? I have had some for years. They spread but not the first bloom. If they would only give me one, I would remember why I thought I needed them!!?! Grrrr....
Flowerette, glad you joined us. I know any of the Louisiana iris will do well in your zone. Up here, they tend to ramble out of the planted area. It's all right tho, I like them!
Pod, yes, walking irises are in the ground and spreading all over the place! Some of the yellows had a bit of freeze damage, so it probably is a good idea to protect them in winter. The blue and white ones have no freeze damage at all and they are full of buds right now. The yellows have been blooming on and off.
Butterfly irises are Dietes Grandiflora, I think. I didn't plant them. They were here when I moved in and I've done nothing for the poor things and yet they bloom pretty reliably in the spring. I do have two dietes bicolor that I've had for several years and they have never bloomed, so I share your pain. Glad you pointed out the difference.
Aha! perhaps I shall ship these and look for D grandiflora. I seem to be drawn to that type of foliage and it is a good thing when they don't bloom ~ LOL
i got a walking iris in a trade last year. it has been planted in the ground and looks pretty much the same now as it did when i planted it. i am kinda worried because it hasnt grow, but at least it hasnt died either! any info you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. thanks
tracie
My yellow walking iris babies have taken a while to get established. I'm not sure how long b/c I haven't kept track. I just remember thinking that they weren't doing anything and then one day they had magically grown up. I bet that's what's going to happen for you.
I just got the blue and white last summer, and its babies are already blooming. It's also the one that wasn't bothered by a little freezing weather, so some varieties are must be hardier than others.
Aggiegirl, I got some walking irises last November from a friend. I planted them and it looked like they all died. I cut the tops off and now they are coming back again. They may not like to be moved.
Podster, the oxalis is the same as what I call wood sorrel. There are lots of different kinds and colors. I saw some at a home where the owner was driving up. I asked for a division and she gave me four bulbs. I just love them. Mine are the same color as yours are.
Charlene
i am pretty sure that the one that i got is yellow. when you say "babies", do they produce a lot of offspring? forgive my ingnorance! lol if you ever want to get rid of a few of the blue and white ones, i would love to trade for some. i am always looking for cool new plants, especially ones that like the shade.
tracie
Here is a yellow rose that I got from the FWRU last October. Melva shared it with me.
Here is the rose when it first bloomed.
so pretty! i love roses, but i hate all the diseases that they get in our hot, humid weather. i wish the double knockout roses werent so expensive. they arent as pretty as the hybrid tea roses, but they supposed to be very disease resistant.
tracie
These are my wild spiderworts I love them even if they are a bit invasive and close as soon as the sun gets bright.
Those spiderworts look like dayflowers, Commelina erecta.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57022/
Don't you like the cloudy days when the spiderworts stay open all day!
Tracie ~ the walking iris sets plantlets like the spider plant. One plant for each bloom.
They are dayflowers and they are everywhere here and I love 'em. They are in the spiderwort family I think.
Charlene
You are right about the cloudy days Pod. They have really shown their beauty all day a lot lately. I have so many of them in clusters and they really look great in big clusters.
so, do you have to plant the plantlets? i have never had a spider plant, do you just take that babies off and plant them?
tracie
Yes, they will take root. If you are successful at keeping them in ground, the plantlets will touch the earth and root from there. I have some walking onions that do the same. Pretty neat!
AJNTEXAS ~ I am not familiar with the dayflowers. Do they close up when the sun shines on them? They look pretty...
Cool! thanks for the info. i cant wait to see if my little plant has babies!
tracie
Elphaba,
Thanks for the info. Hopefully, March Mart will have the Louisiana iris.
Yes, Dayflower and Spiderwort, are in the same family, but not the the same genus.
Erect Dayflower, Commelina erecta
Family: Commelinaceae
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=COER
Prairie Spiderwort, Tradescantia occidentalis
Family: Commelinaceae
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=TROC
I love them both.
I'm not sure about the dayflowers, I don't have any myself. I've only seen them in the wild.
AJ, do you mean you are not sure whether you like the Dayflowers?
Sorry, I was responding to podsters question about dayflowers closing. Yes I do like them.