Spring Blooms - Part 2

Are those pots expensive?

You just hit on the most expensive part of the hobby, the pots! If you get a good source then you try to get a few more than you need for the future, I have about as many extra pots as I do trees! ☺

WaterCan2, nice hobby. I so love them, but I don't have the patience. I went to the flower show in Boston and was amazed at all the specialtiy growers selling bonsai plants and equipment in NE.

Hey all, I am so excited, I have tulips! Not many yet, but it is a returning one from 2006. I bought 20 for 4.00 from Brent and Becky in Nov of 2006. It is a Waterlily Tulip called Showwinner (kaufmanniana) I also have a couple of new varieties reticulated iris out today. Iris reticulata J.S. Dijt and a NOID which I didn't list in my journal, but clearly planted a group of them. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Patti

Wow - first tulips on the forum - congrats, Patti!

Striped leaves, interesting! ☺

Wow!

Thanks Victor, I almost missed them as I was so busy trying to get through my "Victor" list that I didn't walk through the garden first thing in the morning as is my habit. I have high hopes as things seem to be all popping up as planned. DH wants to go to VT to ski next week end, but I am staying here so I don't miss anything. Projects getting done. But DH was not so keen about the new beds that I was sure I had mentioned months ago. He said I most likely wrote my DG fellow gardeners instead of telling him. Of course I wrote about it on DG. But he agrees that it will look good. The bed will go from in front of the sad ice damaged cedar across in front of those Clethra bushes and just past a high bush blue berry to the first Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) in that stand. I will plant it with mostly rosa rugosa, ink berry, a couple more high bush blue berries and a mess of sweet fern and lots of bulbs in the fall. Patti

Nice piece of land Patti!

nice Patti. I had mine open too.

Oh nice tulips already. Your new bed sounds lovely and the spot looks like a perfect place. I try to get the late blooming tulips so that there are other tasty munchies for Bambi and friends in the woods. I usually get to see about half of my tulips bloom even though most are surrounded by daffs or allium. Only have leaves up about four inches right now.

ouch, that hurts when bambi comes to visit... how can such a beautiful animal do such damage!

Looks like a species tulip, Anitabryk2?

Finally have some crocus starting to open.

2nd one

And last one, a bit dirty from all the rain this morning. Sun came out for a few minutes.

Nice, Deb!

They didn't stay open very long, and it looks like Wed is the only day with sun this week.

Our second batch of crocus (first away from the house) have started to bloom. Daff in front of wall along the road have stalks still in the foliage. The earliest that they have bloomed has been April 1 and I would let them wait a bit. Grape hyacyinth 'Valerie Ennis' is starting to poke up as is 'Katharine Hodgkins' reticulata. We didn't plant new ones last yr because of the extra dry August--maybe next fall.

Nice crocuses, Deb.

Nice pics Debilu! ☺

Thanks everyone, they have only been open a few hours so far, where's the sun?

It might return on Wednesday.

CapeCodGardener, It is funny because we are often behind the mainland for spring bulbs. This is kind of a fluke. But I am happy to have them starting. Last year the first tulip was 'Juan' which didn't bloom until mid April. Everything is running weeks ahead of last year. Fingers crossed that we don't get a blizzard. Patti

sjms - http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/spring/productview/?sku=02-1432

thanks A- I had t. tarda once upon a time.. did it die out?? I'll have to try again... I love the species tulips- I think one of the problems I have is that I'm always moving things around in my garden- and the little bulbs suffer.... or chipmunks....

Grrrr... speaking of Bambi, I got hit! I knew it was inevitable. I should've sprayed. Well, they're sprayed now.

Here's some survivors

Nice shot, Harper. I lost some bulbs too to the beasts.

they ate crocus????

still adjusting to the new camera

one in the lawn

Lily & Jily helping me clean up

Nice shots, Allison. Yes, something ate some crocus.

wow... you guys must have real hungry critters

Yes, good shots Allison, I especially like the first one & the dogs too! ☺

I actually worked up a sweat cleaning up.... feels good

I wonder if the woodchucks eat bulb blooms. I've got what I call "nose holes" all over my beds - could be skunks looking for grubs. I don't see the deer prints around any of these holes.

VICTOR IT MUST HAVE HEARD ME WHINING ..... i'm sooooooo excited

it's been so long since I have owned this one.... I don't even remember what color or kind it is

:)

Great!! Congrats on the hellebore.

now I feel bad I didn't clean up the dead stuff on it

:)

just hope it was worth the 3 or 4 year wait