Spring Blooms - Part 5

Thanks everyone. dogpile I still snitch rocks - it's an addiction. Spent all last fall going across the street stockpiling stone from the woods to replace a white picket fence and build a 100 ft wall (with a neighbors permission to use his yard to get there). Easilly 25 tons, never can have too much stone. I will post pictures of this project after the spring projects are done.

The stone was not from a wall. It was in piles from an old farmers stone dump.

Those are the little gold mines I used to hit all the time. I had my helper grab a ton or so from a former neighbor's huge bird bath and flower bed edging. It was more of a random pile but it was nice large pieces of weathered lime stone. We got it one day ahead of the bull dozer shoving it in a hole. The house and all the junk was a blessing to see go down. Two young folks built a new home and did away with tons of junk as well as a lot of trees to let in the sun for a decent back yard. If I wanted ten pieces like that the nursery would hit me up for at least three dollars a piece. It is now stored on my property for one of our design improvements.
.......I missed a thousand or so bricks the guy had hidden on his front porch. To my dismay they all got shoved in the basement and covered over. Free or inexpensive is the only way to go when lady luck nods to us. I must control myself because I see interesting junk to gold suff all the time. My last jewel was a male bed pan of enameled steel. That just had to be a flower pot or an eBay offering someday. I see them selling for twenty five bucks and ship. ]:o)

too bad you missed the bricks - a few years ago a friend was having a stone patio built and needed to get rid of a brick walkway. It ended up having two layers of brick. They are now around my fire pit. Had to buy the last batch of city pavers for the front walkway. These are better bricks although free is always nice.

ANY ONE NEEDS ROCKS COME TO MY HOUSE... i need to get rid of tons

sphinx moth???

another shot

every thing is blooming

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glad the hyacinth covers the smell of these babies

hellebore from one of last years co-ops... don't know which one the tag wore off

bleeding heart starting up

creeping pholx

love these little guys

Everything looks great onewish. Do you know the cultivar of the pulmonaria? I have Mrs Moon, but I like yours better.

Beautiful spring flowers Onewish. I think I saw a hummingbird moth yesterday but it was very small. Do they start small and get larger? I have only noticed the full sized ones later in the season. I don't know if it really was one or some other bug that can hover in one spot. I like the pulmonaria too and the daffs. Creeping phlox is just starting here too.

Nice JM shots and great bench, Bill. Great shots rc, ngam and Allison. Looks like primetime, Allison!

Heuchera 'Caramel' new foliage.

Another daff.

NOID tulip.

Fothergilla gardenii.

gorgeous pictures, everyone. Here's something in peak form in my garden today. 3 very old, enormous flowering quince underplanted with a mixture of Daffodils "Pink Charm" and "Chromacolor"

Gorgeous daisy!!

Helebore "Ashwoods Black"

Mystery Helebore

Thanks Venu. There was a picture of this property taken from the 1930s and these quince were huge even back then!

pulmonaria rasberry splash

I was going to ask the same question about the moth.... not sure either but it was doing the hover dance too

Victor this is just the pre show

:)

Edit - love the color of the caramel Victor

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WOW! WOW! WOW! It's been a busy bloomin' day. All of the pics are beautiful!! Eleanor

My uploading is falling behind...
Purple Flag triumphs with the mixed Darwins around the front of the building on Monday...

And a little tarda tulip blooming thru the chicken wire on Monday, too...
Too bad no one ever notices them - they just look like more dandelions from afar...

wow onewish, the hyacinths must smell heavenly! The mystery hellebore is very pretty too.

My computer is having issues with space and something and is not loading things in order, then stopping loading. So these pics that I took today my be discombobulated.

Brunner J.F. flower

we saw this plant of mine earlier, but I just had to get a good close up, since I can now.

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Would you have weeded this thing or not?


Ok, so the picture and answer are out of order, but I had to try.






OK..... we shouldn't weed that one! It's a first year seedling of Hosta "nana"! I have come very close to weeding the babies and many occasions.

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a JM seedling. The closest jm to it is about 300 feet away and is "ukigumo." Actually, I don't have a red maple on the property.... goes to show how variable the species is.

This JM seedling appeared last year as well and is farely dissected when it opens fully. I almost pulled this little fellow up last year! Again, the closest potential parent is uki at about 100' away. Guess those squirrels have been active.

love the patterns of mother nature. And the lady bug.

Just for safety sake and spelling we'll call this Cercidiphyllum jap. "red fox"

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Rhody bud

JM "koto-no-ito." finally waking up. Yeah, I was so jealous of Victors' Now to go and spray it before the deer it it!

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Finally found "freckles." I was wondering where she had disappeared to!

this is a cute little mess that I should have dealt with last year. The monarda over the course of a couple of years has sort of "pushed" these three together. The used to be over a foot apart from each other.