What's Blooming Outside Your Door, Part 2

Iris are blooming and the goldfinches add to the bright colors!

Yellow blooms on my front tree.

The finches sure left a mess today. They have their two feeders and I also have one with black sunflower seed. Well the little stinkers emptied the sunflower one all over the ground looking for
their seed. Little stinkers! The two center birds in this photo appear to be having a little tiff!

I just had to laugh at myself, when I read (Yellow blooms on my front tree.) I said to myself a WHAT tree. Great pic.

I think it is a white birch tree. Was having one of the "senior" moments and just called it my front tree as it is in the front yard and I could not remember the name right then... I was surprised that the picture came out as well as it did. I had to shoot these from inside the house through a closed window or the birds would fly away if I opened the door to go outside. The cat enjoyed the birds this afternoon also...

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One of my kids (Tilly), wanted a birdie really bad , went up and couldnt remember how to get down. and the Maple is a small one LOL

I planted some bulbs year before last, I thought the were Snowdrops, I gave up didn't think they where going to bloom. Well now I don't know what they are, they are blooming.

Another side.

I think they are snowdrops.They just haven't "dropped" yet. ;)
http://www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk/months/january_snowdrops.htm

Bea, I love those 'yellow blooms' on your birch :o) I have 3 birch 'sticks' growing right now. They are amazing growers too! I got them 2 months ago and they were dormant and only a foot long. now they are each 5' tall and blooming! but no yellow blooms yet :o( LOL!

I showed my DH a pix of the chair.. and he just grumbled and walked away :o) knowing that I will wear, and wear at him to eventually build it and paint it! LOL! He really hates adirondack(sp?) chairs, I dont know why ~ probably cause as he ages it gets harder to get out of them?! So it would be especially cruel of me to make him build one, AND paint it pink! LOL! I think I'll wait a few more years :o)

this weekend we are planning to pour more cement and then he will build me 2 arbors with gates for the top of the steps on each side of our yard. The Arbors are long overdue, as my wisteria is in desparate need of support!

Bea, I am amazed at your gardens too! I just started mine in Feb and seeing yours after just a year and a half gives me lots of hope :o) Please keep sending pictures :o)

AnjL

Beautiful flowers everyone! Here are a few of my iris blooming. I bought this one a few years ago at the Garden Club plant sale in Manzanita, OR

Here is Martial Arts. Sorry it's a little fuzzy.

One of my clematis, I don't remember her name but she smells amazing.

All my Iris have fat tummys, but no popping yet.
But 'Snow Angle' Heuchera has.

And Geum 'mango lassie' is about to, its very first time.

Heidi
This piggy backed on the Cyclamen that I got, in your give aways, can you tell me what fern it is, too cool

Diff. angle

This is Eye Wonder

And Persian Wood

One of my shade beds.

Beautiful pictures everyone. I just have to get a bigger place. So many different plants. I need them all.

Some of my Poochela hostas. Thanks again Annie, I love them!

This is Blue Cadet, such a big boy. and the ones I got from HostaJim.

Tills ~ Love the 'Snow Angel.' The color is stunning. Your hostas are doing better than mine. I had to bring them in and put them under the grow light. Seems the slugs took a fancy to mine and my Kats B x HiHo Silver x Atom Smasher from Jim barely survived. But it does have some new growth going so I think it's going to be okay. Your fern is really pretty. . .and it's a stowaway! Lucky you!

Rachel ~ OMG! Those two iris are GORGEOUS! I love the Eye Wonder ~ it's brown! The people who are hosting our trailing trial in Valleyford (Spokane) this weekend are iris breeders. Lynn offered me some last year but I was nowhere near ready. BUT. . . I'm certainly ready this year. Can't hardly wait to see what she's got and what I can come home with!

Shokami ~ nice color combo. And love the 'Sensation.' Think I must get one!

Beautiful flowers everyone. My wish list keeps growing and growing since I have joined DG. To you ladies who's DH's were not sold on the pink adirondack chair..I say either get a new DH or get that pint of pink paint and go for it!! It does not have to be an adirondack, it can be a bench, a lounge chair or even the bird bath..just a splash of color can make your day!! Who knows..when the time comes to repaint the chair I may choose purple or yellow..depending on my mood at the time, but for now pink it will be.. (plus I hate to paint!) I found a metal shocking pink watering can yesterday, that I will soon make into a planter. Pic's to follow. :)
Getting tired of digging holes in this clay rock filled soil.. took the easy way out for my watermelon plant.. if it works great..if not..Safeway...

My very first iris. A Pacific coast native, I think.
Rach, you have some unusual but very lovely irises. And Bea, fabulous ideas and flowers!

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The little gold one is Arom smasher X ven and he came with a #, don't know what the other is. I just planted them today, they have been in the GH, and baited for slugs big time. those I got from Jim. 'Blue Cadet' I got last summer at HD. I think?

Pix, the large piece of Madrona will not fit in the cage, so I came up with a idea for my Honey Suckle, once the trailer is painted it will be trained to go over it too.

Hey Bea,
Sorry Rustic and country all the way for me, depends on your garden, we live in the woods. My DH loves what I have done, and wants to add to it, now that is a scary. LOL
And I am having a old travel trailer painted into a gypsy wagon, to fit into the woodland theme. Get this it will be painted purple, your pink chair will fit just right. LOL

Tilly .. perfect the way you have it. A pink chair would look silly. Rustic is the way for you to go. Beautiful setting. The gypsy wagon
will be great. Be sure to post pic's when completed..

You know on the other side of this, pink just might work, but its not really a pink, its a Purple Lilac. that is what my potting bench will be painted, and a few other things. I have a thing for that color Purple and blues and anything in the middle.
This was a funny, not going this far.

Lilac will be nice. Pink ,I think would be to loud for your surroundings.
Will the trailer (gypsy wagon) have a purpose when you are done. Potting shed or storage or guest cottage? It will be cute I am sure!

It will be a potting shed and storage and a place to hide, LOL

Bea, I love the watermelon planting! LOL! You have to let me know if it works! I'm running out of room to plant things... but I have stacks and stacks of garden soil just sitting there for the time being....maybe I can get DH to move his veggies there so I can plant more flowers?! :o)

Will do. I also made one with cucumber & zucchini. I still have more roses and daylilies coming..wish I could do those plants with this method! Getting tired of digging large holes and carting off clay dirt clods & rocks and lugging home bags of good soil and compost. Soon the foundation plantings will be done...and I can concentrate
on relaxing with a good book, a glass of wine, in my pink chair of course!
CA poppies followed me to Oregon.. Actually, I love them and threw seed here and there . Just love them.

:o) my poppies finally bloomed a few days ago.... yours look like theve received much more rain than mine :o)

Wonderful photos and ideas!!! (Bea, I smile every time I think of your comment on getting a new DH if he doesn't go for the chair!!!)

Everyone's gardens are coming along fabulously. I wasn't going to start one more project until I got caught up on the "regular" stuff (like a year's worth of weeds in every single garden - some of them totally out of control!), but darned if I didn't succumb to a metal bench/arbor that just called to me. Now I have to prepare the area where I want it to sit!. And then put it together. And then get a planter box for each side so I can plant all my little Clematis plants that I bought online last year. Sheesh. Such problems, you know.

Oh, I guess I did start another project the other day, too - widening the little garden that runs along my deck . . . my excuse was that it was the only shady area that really hot day last weekend! This photo shows the part going down the slope.

This is a little more straight on and there's still a long way to go in the other direction, but I'm not widening that part as much. For some reason, I call this my "Frog Garden."

Isn't funny how things happen that way, I said the same thing. Catch up on the others before I start something new, How that was a crock!!!
I'm so focused on woodland, the rest as go to pot.

Love the frog garden, mostly the fat ones LOL

Glad you are getting out there again.
^_^

Heres the first blooms of the poppy, there are covered in buds and soooo big.
The flowers are as big as my hand.

Hi everyone! I have been so busy, I am now the proud owner of four 4' X 8' raised vegetable gardens. I also have 51 new Dahlias up and ready to plant and a few more coming up...I hope...lol
I have many plants blooming and many about to.

Rachel... this is the same clematis you showed earlier, it is Clematis montana and smells wonderful. It will bloom later in the summer too just not as prolific.