Spring Blooms - Part 7

my most recent compost adoptee! Beautiful blooms! unfortunately the roots are in aweful shape and it has some bark split. I'm only giving it a 50-50 chance to make it more than 2 years.

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the dogwoods are going to bloom profusely this season!

Shelly, it is so fun to see your plants, most are totally out of my 6b almost 7a realm. I have the same sedum, for example, but it looks nothing like that, it is really leggy, like it is stretching for the sun.
But I always hope I can have what you have.
Is that called zone envy??

I think that's a great name for it Sharran. I would love to be zone 8! so... yeah, it fits. Actually, at least half of what I have is hardy to at least zone 6. Just let me know, if something catches your fancy to try. i'm going to be hitting the yard work hard this friday and hopefully thinning out some stuff!! But, I love your setting, so it goes both ways. Hopefully this week is coming along better for you? It was great to chat with you on Sunday. Sorry it had to be so brief though! Do you still want me to run one of your photos through photo shop to draw pruning marks?? I'll have a chance to do that on Fri.

what is your Sedum Sharran? I'm wondering if this is something that I want to bring into the yard and where to put it? Is it so tough and tenacious that it could survive nearly 50 years neglected and under ivy? (there were bunk houses where I live at up until the 1950's when they were destroyed, burned, plowed and planted over.) Nothing was ever built in the area again until 1998, I have found a few odd weigelia's and chaenomeles that have remained from then. Anyhow, if it's that tough.... I'm not sure I want it competing in the yard with anything else!!! a couple of years ago I found a lilac in the wooded area of the yard, blending with the cotton woods, that I figure has survived all that from the 1920's. It's going to bloom this year!!!

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Didn't read the whole thread past your red leaved columbines but many plants do that when temps are near 35*
We had frost about tendays ago, my hydrengea leaves (barely open) look toasted. Hope the plant can survive.
redchick, your gardens are beautiful. I'm going to go a bit bolder with size and color now that I've seen your iberis.
I'm not sure we can grow it in zone 6 but there must be something similar in size and shape for us.
Love the big leaf plants in bronze.
Jo Ann

Aster "Lady in Black" wow.

that aster is pretty impressive

I was totaly confused.
Aster lat. close up looked like the large leafed plants behind the iberis and I went to google aster lady n blak and saw something completely different.
love the close ups but my head ia awhirrl.

Googled iberis and see it's a ground cover border plant.
It lookes like a 18 in plant in the pic. Scale is everything, I should have listened to myself say "That looks like ajuga in the background, I wonder what variety grows that tall ?"
Too early in the day after being up all night,couldn't sleep.

Nice shots, Shelly. That sedum looks like a number of different ones to me. Tough to ID just from that shot.

Glad I was able to make the morning a little more interesting Jo Ann! Yep the basel leaves of the aster will mabe be 18" tall by summer and the iberis is only 8-9" right now.However, there are a couple of Phormium that look would look similar in shape and color to the aster but be another 3 or 4' tall, If you wanted that look! But, I'm not sure how hardy they are :-( There's quite a few 'hills and valleys in the yard. I can be on my feet and stand head to head with my lavender and Iris in one area of the yard, and no I'm not really, really short :-p

If you think that it'll help victor I'll get another, cleared pic of the sedum this evening!

hopefully you'll get a nap and a strong cup of coffee here soon Jo Ann, I know that I need one!

Thank you for the warm welcome everyone. I am trying to identify the almond if anyone knows anything about them. I can't seem to find any almond trees with blooms as dark as the one I have.

Here's one that I forgot I planted, but so glad I did. Planted it that is.

Allium? Very nice!

Schuberti, must be the female cause the thingis (very scientific of me) would be longer if it was a male.

Gotta love allium. I have heard that about male thingys too ;)

Hey I got an iris - it's the white one.

Wider shot of some tulips - around peak now.

red chic - it looks like a sedum for sure - have no idea which one it could be. May be easier to id once it blooms in the fall. I have several different kind and none that look like this. Although I saw some at a hotel in Detroit I was staying at for biz that look very similiar. They had tags and I was going to walk into the bed to check them out but people were watching "who is that guy in the fower bed with coat in tie". I backed off.

If you had a pipe and nodded while saying 'vvveryyy inntterestinggg' no one would have paid attention.

I got a white one too. My first seed grown perennial. I am so proud cause I am NO GOOD at growing from seed. Colombine Oragami

Or they would have thrown one of those funny white coats on wha! Stuck on white.

Nice, Al. Congrats, Weeze. Did you grow it indoors, wintersow or just throw the seed?

Winterthrow?

I get seedlings all over from them.

That was a wintersow last winter. As in not the winter that just passed. The winter before. I am just no good at the seed thing. I bought a bunch of seeds last fall and shipped them off to another DGer cause I knew no good would come of those seeds in my care. A good woman knows her limitations:~)

Yes, I just get the seeds as they open and spread them right away - just like nature would do.

Jeeez Al, it wasn't an accomplishment?? lol....But guess what, my first dahlias are looking real happy.

I didn't say it wasn't.LOl It's always harder to intentionally do anything. How many dahlias you got?

I didn't lose any, Al.

Bought 9, have 8. Evidently I planted a bit too soon in the garden. And off the top of my head I can only remember one name. Crazy Love...a good name to remember..yes??

That's one I've heard of.

Good job Victor - I'm glad I lost some.

A little early start..snow in summer

The tree peony I thought I killed last fall

I think this is clematis Blue Light just opening with a little vistor if you look closely

Very nice! But you're reminding me of the $$ tree peony that is on life support for me. Love the clem. Does look like Blue Light.

A few from today.....

Yea, Victor I think it is. I have mixed up Blue Light and Multi Blue. The tree peony is my savior. I had that tree for awhile but a weigelia was overpowering it. I got the shovel and OH MY what did I do. Every leaf fell off in almost minutes, but it popped back up this spring. The blooms are not as big, but it bloomed!!

Great shots, Celeste! Lots of great color.

Victor, look what I bought today!