Spring Blooms - Part 4

great photos everyone!

yeah I grew these lupine from seed last year.... they didn't bloom yet... so happy to see they made it though winter ok

Victor my pinky winky is showing signs of life too

Spring is here, some background color showing up.

Clematis Miss Bateman buds.

lilac buds

Size looks good, Lauren. Yes, species tulip is supposed to return, but mine did not! Looks great, Allison and Deb.

yeah for Deb!

thanks!
I was playing with the brightness/contrast on the lilac, I kind of like it.

Corneilian cherry tree is in bloom--a relative of dogwood with yellow flowers. DH dug it out of our woods 10 yrs. ago. Beat the forsythia this yr.

Jo Anne ....love the person playing for plants. I think I would do that!

Since we are all talking pictures. Does anyone have any thoughts to share about a good digital camera or one that they like? And where they found it? The camera that I use most of the times is not mine, I can borrow it as often as I want. However, I think I would like to get one and I just had the thought to do it in the next day or two. I had one that was sort of cheap (to me it was expensive) and the colors were so muted that the pictures came out resembling sepia photos.

I'm looking to spend $100-150.... but I'll go as high as $200 (less money for plants)
I don't want/need anything really fancy
would like 7 mpixels, more would be cool, but I doubt in my price range. (will go no lower than 5)
must take clear pictures and true colors (less photoshop fixing that way)
the camera I use is pretty much "point and click", but has a few more advanced features
(I like that concept)
And ideally uses a universal type memory card.... since I already have several on hand.
The one that I use is an HP photosmart... don't remember the number, and it was just
fine.... if anything it was a little on the simple side for me.

Am I asking way to much for the amount that I am willing to spend?

Thanks so much for any ideas! I guess I'm coming down with the spring picture bug... since the spring cleaning bug has never caught on with me.

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Finally getting some blooms other than crocuses. Here is my forsythia in bloom. Eleanor

My daffs have started blooming - just planted last year. That's it for now but most everything seems to be coming up and doing well - hope to keep the animals out of the garden (famous last words)!!! Eleanor

a beautiful daffodil! what variety is it?

Anybody know what the heck this is? It just showed up.

Looks like Horsetail fern (horrible stuff) or Dock Weed,neither are great.

This is waht we inherited, what a mess.
I hope the picture is goodenough to see half the cherry is weeping ,the grafted tree continued to grow for 20 years and we have a half and hals weeping cherry.
Sarah wants to take it out. There doesn't seem to be anyway to trim so it doesn't look lopsided.

Are Horsetail Fern or Dock Weed those disgusting little plants that look like tiny pine trees? If so, those are the ones we continually do battle with in our gardens. Even when you think you've got the root of the darned thing - you don't.

I have those tiny pine tree looking things too. This stuff has no leaf. Very weird.

Horse tail fern is the tiny tree and it is almost impossible to get rid of. Not even field animals will eat it.
Dock Weed is a different weed altogether. Google them to see if that's what it is.

Here's my forsythia! And my loooooong driveway - I hate to walk down for the mail in the winter!!!

When I ever get around to that side of the house, I'll get the forsythias pruned and tamed. They've been rambling for 15 years - there's alot more than what's in the pic, but if I snapped all of them the backhoe would've got in the way. And you know how those two yellows clash!

Yes but.................there is something special about having the space to just let them go airy and big.

I agree w/doc. It makes me sad to see those flat topped and ball shaped hedges of yellow.
Let them go where they want is my vote, not that there was one.

Let run free, Sue. They look great out there.

Ok...after discussing the "RoundUp Queen" aka My mother, I went up to my parents house today and took some spring photos. Here are some of the Pulmonaria in bloom:

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More Pulmonaria...

This is the weeping cherry my father threatened to George Washington, until he saw the blooms the next spring...

Different view, same tree...

This is a pic of the bed where I put in the Pulmonaria, Brunnera, Hellebore, Peonies, Bleeding Hearts, Stella D'Oro DL, and Hosta 'Grand Tiara' last year...after ripping out what was already there! lol.

This is a close-up view of the island I created under the weeping cherry...The vinca has pretty much taken over the whole area...

This is the bed on the side of my parents house that almost nothing grows, unless it loves crappy soil, blasting sun, no water, no nutrients, and total and complete neglect...

This is what happens when Blue Fescue 'Elija Blue' goes to seed...

This is the notorious Eth, whose idea of weeding is Round Up...lol. With my nephew Carson...

Guess I'll scratch ornamental grasses off my list. Blue Fescu awfull. It was in my old neighborhood and migrated everywhere

Ok, back to my house...here are some unknown mini/dwarf Daffs...

Here is a little colony of Muscari...

Here is an unknown JM about ready to do it's thing...

Can not find the tag, nor remember the name of this perennial, it stinks up the whole yard when it is in full bloom...forms a nice clump, that just keeps on clumping...

This is always a great sign...these are the buds on my J. Wisteria, that I'm tediously growing into a tree form...

Can we see the tree form of it?