Spring Blooms part 11

Wow. i am up till at least 1am, 2 or 3 often. Sometimes i have to get up at 6 or 7 or 8 for a job, if not it is usually 10 or so.
i cannot imagine waking up at 4 and not going back to sleep. i cannot imagine waking up at ANY time and not wanting to go back to sleep. My 1st 2 or 3 hours are the worst. i am good for nothing.

I would like to report a murder. Something ate a single and only clematis shoot of my jac - a - something plant. This is it's third year and it has happened every year. Suspects incude grey and red squirrles. The motive is they are mad at the baffles installed on the bird feeder that keeps them from the black sunflower seeds.
I am gonig to have to move the plant - it was a fight with the maple tree and water anyway. Still I was not happy!! the little bast-------s!!

Ugh, don't you just HATE that!!
Amy-I am totally with you on that. I am so NOT a morning person.

My one and only rose

Rhody.

Beautiful rose, Jen. Do you know its name? What a full rhododendron that is!! Lucky you!

beautiful pics

sorry about the murder, but you did make me laugh

No name on the rose it came with the house. The only plant/flower they had here I didn't dig up or move. That rhody is HUGE. That view is from the front of the garage looking left and actually wraps around the left side.

My neighbor's huge rhodie.

Clematis Ramona.

Hummer heaven.

Summer Wine.

Neighbor's C. montana.

Begonia from the Marketplace in my window box.

Wrong photo - skip to the next one!

This message was edited May 29, 2008 7:06 PM

Ugh - sent before I reduced. Sorry.

what is that Victor???

purple plicata (spelling?)

whole view

love this one

Allison, they're so pretty!

Allisone, I have that orange one also. Do you know what cultivar it is?

Very nice, Allison. Forgot to say when I edited the first one that it's the dark iris I posted yesterday. It's even darker as a bud.

Lovely blooms, everyone! And thank you to those of you who kept me from pulling up my hardy hibiscus thinking they didn't make it through winter.......you were right........they both have some green starting. Yay!

Congrats. Two of mine still show no signs. Still hoping though.

I let part of one of my fields grow tall this year, for the birds and wildflowers. I went out today to see what is going on, and there are some nifty wild flowers growing. There is a lot of this one, which , from a distance, I thought were buttercups because they're mixed in. No idea what it is.

You guys get up at 3 am?? That's not morning, that's still night!! I'm a late nighter myself.

Devil's paintbrush in the field, too, along with some unknown yellow flower.

My first lupine ever is blooming for the first time ever. Three years from seed!!!

Wood hyacinth. I just can't get enough of these, and fortunately, they keep popping up all over the place!

My mom always called this forget me not, but it looks to me like it might be bugloss, or false forget me not. Ideas? I love the stuff, even though it pops up all over the place. I have a sea of it in front of a magenta azalea and it's a great combination.

Brunnera- siberian bugloss..... has such nice heart shaped leaves- there are all sorts of fancy ones these days, but the old fashioned kind is great.... and will live in the driest shade. Really- right under a bush or tree.. seeds rather demurely around the garden- a favorite of mine!

orange iris is Disco Music... looks like I am posting a picture ... there are none in plantfiles

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/117248/

here is a shot of it before we divided it last year

Thanks Allison!

Louise, after your post about hibiscus, I was getting nervous about my second one. Yesterday I brushed away a little soil, and sure enough there is new growth. It's still small as it was a stem that got broken off from my first one that I rooted.

I love these Impatients

These little guys are only about 5-10" tall.....'Forever Blue'

I can't remember the name of this one off the top of my head...

But I will most likely bring some to the RU as I have a ton and they need to be divided.

a few more....

and another....