Spring Blooms - Part 4

All nice photos. Wish I recognized more plants.

Viburnum on the edge of woods. Atlanta.

Side entry gate with azaleas and akebia quinata. The akebia is threatening to swallow us up!

Very nice, Thom. That unknown one looks familiar. Didn't know George Washington had become a verb!

Nice, Laurel! My new viburnum - carlcephalum smells heavenly though I have to get close to smell it.

not a great pic, but here is the tree form, top and bottom...

Helleborus flowers and seed pods forming. Oh this is such fun.

In the previous pic, I'm actually trying to create a "leader," but, oye, is all I have to say...It's going to be a labor of love. I bought it, the wisteria, when it was a young wisp of a thing, I purchased it at HD, for 75% off, I believe it cost me about $3, or so. I have retied every season, I prune the bajeezus out of it, and shape, and train, and shape and train; I figure by the time my 40th bday comes around, it should be able to almost stand on it's own, ALMOST...that's 7 growing seasons from now! This is year number 3 for the wisteria.

Here's the bottom.

Thom, did I miss something? What tree form? Is that a wisteria cultivar? Nice if it is.

Laurel

Pot o' pansies...

Victor-I checked on JM 'Peaches and Cream'-it healed over nicely! Here is a pic of the leaf out...

LOL...yes, we are cross posting Laurel. lol. Redchic asked me to post pics of a J. Wisteria that I'm trying to form into a tree form. It is a labor of love.


And here is another unidentified JM...this was on the "buy me now, I'm about to die table" I believe this beauty was $5! No idea what it is though...

Are Akebia hardy for me? Think I've looked at some stunners, but I think the ones I was looking at are hardy starting at zone 6b-7a...

Great pics!

Victor-would that make me, um, verbose?

lol

Jm's look good, Thom! No, you can never go wrong invoking GW.

Thom, if they are and you're willing to accept shipping on a box car's worth, I think I can help you out here :). Please don't go out and buy it. Regarding wisteria, it is escaping into the woods by underground runners up at Maypop and popping up as much as fifty feet away from the source. Here comes the RoundUp!

Laurel

Laurel-Thanks, but, just use RoundUp on it...if you need help, I'll hire out my mother...lol.
I have the one, and that's enough for me. When I said prune, I mean the roots also. I will, in the late summer/early fall, did it up, and prune. I read as much as I could on tree formed wisteria, and every source I found said to prune, train, prune, train...So, I take it as seriously as I could/can. Eventually, I would like to move it out back near my eventual pond, in my eventual new-new bed, with my eventual JM garden...eventually! lol.

I'll probably be 40 before all of those eventuals happen!

you're right, it's definitely a labor of love. It's looking good though, and I think the tree wisteria will be well worth it. You can always say that it has some artistic characteristics to it! $5 JM, I'd have to try that any day!

Every time I see a table with half dead plants, shrubs, or trees on it, especially JM's, I'm like, Why the heck now? I usually do several things, one, knock off all of the potting soil, and repot with ProMix. I drench and drench, and drench some more the newly potted plant. I found out, after having some misadventures, that many garden centers will OVER fertilize their plants...way OVER. I figure by flushing the roots, newly potted plant, I can try/attempt to flush out all of the salts from the over fertlizer. Then, I just sit back and watch. So far, 2 of my favorite JM's, were bought on the "I'm about to die, buy me table!"

Ahh yes, I once had an "eventual" pond. I'll share mine with you. Now you can have a virtual pond. The Atlanta one is like Ellie Mae Clampett's...concrete.

Preggers nesting goldfish.

L
P.S. I already had the mother to end all mother's. Traveled with leaking briskets and garlic bagels in her suitcase. Bless her, she was one of a kind and one was enough with or without RoundUp!

Yes, overfertilizing is common with nurseries. They want to push growth so the plants looks lush and blooms heavily so people will buy it.

That's great. Where were they bought from, any place that have have out west as well? Like maybe Home Depot. (I think they're out your way too). If so, I'm going to shop there more! Seems strange that they would have that "problem" with overfertilzing... but hey, more cheap plants for us! I've never obtained a JM that way, but I have lots of delphiniums that were only a dollar or two because they seem to not know where the watering hose is -- actually more like they're short staffed. I can safely say that happens a lot where i work (not the overfertilizing!), unfortunately for people, we also like to try to revitalize our mistakes. Well, most of them..... I love to shop at our own clearance space!

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JM Mikawa yatsubusa. Notice how closely packed the leaves are. They're almost like shingles.

Sedum - forgot which.

great photos all

Enkianthus.

Inside the tulip.

'Peve Minaret' bald cypress.

JM 'Koto no ito'. Incredibly wispy.

looks like my honey hair

:)

Onewish, can we have a photo to compare? I've got some honey hair hanging around here too (very few). This has got to be one of those rare times when I resort to the expression ROFL!!!

Laurel

Victor...heres' a red one to go with your yellow "inside the tulip"

Beautiful, David!

Nice pictures everyone!

I don't think I posted this one of 'Uki'.

I ment my honeys hair.... but....ssshhh don't tell him I posted this... he will kill me

:)

Which honey's hair did you mean?
^_^

triumph tulips "Purple Flag" 4/20
Bought a bag of 8 at HD, and every one came up.

my 1st daffodil "Thalia" 4/20.
They are supposed to be multiflowered - we'll see...

A delightful surprise on Sunday!
The species tulips i liked this year all seemed to be sold out, or never on sale... So i bought some super cheap tardas. But last year i had grown "Little Beauty" up in no man's land by the cruddy trees - they were beautiful for about 2 days (except you have to go up there to see them and no one does except me) and then they were all eaten.
And yet - look what i found up there!
(still in a place no one can see them...)

Beautiful blooms everyone! Redchic - the daffodil is Narcissus: Ice King - from Biltmore Estate. Eleanor

love the hd tulips

great, I've seen that one in a couple ofmy plant catolog's. You picture makes it look so much more interesting.