My favorite flower, brought from my home in NC here to Maryland. I used to pick these for my mother at the Barfield Park in Durham when I was a child. I also have some of what we used to call "Confederate violets" from there but no picture yet. Thanks for letting me share my pictures. I am learning and new to this computer stuff.
wyldeflwr-
good job on the pictures! you also have some excellent flowers there! Is the first yellow a wood poppy?
Your quince looks like a peach color - I like it better than the coral-y kind I'm seeing in all the older yards around here. Could be the lighitng, tho.
It is just a glorious morning here!
wyldeflwr, you pics are beautiful.
Gita, yes the recipe came from the Ballmer Sun, Hon! Would like to go to Longwood, but not going anywhere for a while. Had neck surgery last week, can't ride in a car for a month!! Wost of all, can't go out and dig in the dirt!!!!!!!! Garage is full of just arrived plants that are calling to me, but my DH will help out.
Perry Hall is close, about 20 minutes. We'll have to get together sometime!
Thanks for the compliments on the pictures! Sallyg, that is a wood poppy. I have oodles of it and others that have smaller, double flowers. I will take some pictures of it when they begin to bloom. They are very prolific. The quince came from NC as a "store bought" addition to my garden. I kept seeing them in bloom when we were visiting there and thought at first they were an azalea. When I found one at a local nursery, I brought it home. It has spread out all over the place and I could probably dig up some and send to you if you are interested. I suppose suckers would be the same color, right? I told my husband the other day not to use the mower around it before I had a chance to pot up some of it because I thought I could share. I just love the color! My mother always had the reddish one and it reminds me of her and I do have one of those but it's small and not too happy where it lives. But this one is very happy and we have had to cut it back several times. Seems like it wants to take over the yard. Pardon the ranting. I'm stuck inside waiting on an important phone call and I am so itching to be out playing in the dirt.
The Quince is beautiful. Is that Cydonia oblonga? But that gets 20' high according to plantfiles!
Flowering Quince
Chaenomeles 'Cameo'
This looks like what I have. I didn't know the name of it, but just loved the flowers and HAD to have it in my world. This did manage to get up to about five feet when we pruned it back. I don't think it get tree tall.
Hmm. I'm very intruiged. What shape is it? Is it a handsome shrub when not in bloom, or do you grow it just for the flowers?
This is what is looks like today. Last year it was two or three feet taller but DH "pruned" it for me. I will be happy to send you some of the suckers if you want to try it.
I like it! I'm dmailing you! (And thanks!)
Kwanzan Cherry trees are blooming!!!!!!!! SOOO beautiful! Hope we don't get a hard rain--then they are all gone....blowing in the wind up and down my street--like pink snow.
Some asst. short tulips. I just liked the color combination.
Some "blues" at the base of my old Birch Tree....Grape Hyacynths and Forget-me-nots.
A clump of late-blooming daffodils.....
And, finally, here is my newly acquired Clivia--now in full bloom. I really need to take it outside on these balmy days, but--I literally--can hardly lift the pot. It is unbelievably heavy--and I think I am strong.......
Used a flash--NOT so great an exposure....
This is much better--no flash--close-up of one of the bloom clusters.
Oh Gita, It's hard not to envy you! I love the blues! I have tried for several years to get the forgetmenots to grow in my yard. When my daughter was here and had her own garden area, it was always full of them and then after the tornado went through a few years back and took down the tree that was near her bed, they left. I got several clumps from a friend on two or three occasions and they just didn't like where I put them, UNTIL this year! I am so happy to report that I have a really nice clump of them in one of my beds and a few I have spotted in a couple of other spots. The combination you have there is beautiful! I love grape hyacinths smell too.
The clivia is beautiful! Last year I purchased one at some sale somewhere. I don't even remember but not knowing anything about it and being told it would overwinter here, I left it outside. Last week when I was reading about your gift, I realized I had been told wrong. I went to check on the pot, which I had sunk into the ground and there is nothing there. Or if it is anything there it is not alive. Made me feel bad. That flower is so pretty. You must have two green thumbs.
Shirley
Shirley,
Once you have Forget-Me=Nots--you will always have them! Here's what you can di to spread them around...
When the flower stalks are done blooming, gather a hand-full of them and just go where you want them to grow and rub them with hour hands over the new location. You will see tham all sprout before winter sets in. They multiply so quickly!
Another plant that will be all over your garden once you have them is the Rose Campion. The flowers are kind of magenta. It is a wildflower and also self-seeds freely. I have seeds--and could also dig you one up.
Are you going to Bec's Swap? If you are, I can bring you some of these.....
Gita
Here is the Rose campion
Every-ones pictures are beautiful. I just love spring.
Bleeding Heart
Closer
Thanks to wyldeflwr's post I found out that my questionable Cardinal Bush is really a Quince.
Vinca, Just groomed this section and it's looking pretty good if I do say so myself.
I just put these Peonies in last year. They were transplanted from a neighbors yard. I was so happy to see them come up this spring. Wonder if they will bloom for me?
You have seen a few pics of the daffs and tulips before but the tulips have really opened up. Some of the other later daffs are coming the grape hyacinths and the clematis are growing.
Pear tree in bloom
pretty picture, Kubileya- !
More pictures! My new Greigii Tulip, Oratorio
I really like the color of the closed bloom.
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My deck garden
Close up of Salome in deck garden.
Buds of my Weeping Cherry
Very nice. These 'Jack Snipe' daffs won't be around much longer, but the 'Lady Jane' tulips should go for a couple weeks. There's a young Campanula glomerata coming up nicely on the lower left in this pic.
These pretty little bulbs bloom every year, but no idea what they are.
Anybody know?
I don't have anything like that but they sure are pretty.
It looks like a species tulip, maybe Tulipa tarda. What does the outside of the flower look like?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2278/
499 of these units, and one yellow lol.
WOW, That's impressive.
You're right, claypa, thanks a lot!
Claypa, I like those 'Lady Jane' s. ? In the catalog it says Rose red as the color, yours look more pink? I find that the color description doesn't always match when things bloom.
Maybe it depends on the soil and weather, I don't know, but I wouldn't call them red... maybe dark pink? Reddish pink? That picture was taken on a cloudy day...
I just went out and looked at them some more, the ones in full sun are redder than the ones that get part sun/part shade.
It's kind of fun, some cars are slowing down to look at the tulips here today. I'm such a geek! haha
I snapped a few photos today - this first one is for Chantell. This is what has become of the sedum cuttings that she gave me last Spring at Hart's Swap. Whenever I look at those clumps, I have to resist rolling in it - looks so comfie! =)
Things are finally waking up in the front yard. My creeping phlox is blooming right now. The pink azaleas in the background are my neighbors.
In the foreground, the violas have nearly taken over this bed around the Oak tree. I started out with a few violas three years ago and they have now become a carpet of purple -- if only they bloomed throughout the Summer...
My grape hyacinth and daffydillz are just about finished blooming.
