Spring Blooms part 11

Verbena

Lilac Ludwig Spaeth

pretty

Celeste, had I waited a few minutes you would have answered my unasked question!

These are so soft a light blue that they look white at times.

Honeysuckle 'Arnold' starting to bloom...hope the hummers like it!

I think this Dahlia ia called 'Pooh'

Violette Verbascum

Lupine starting to show color....this one looks like it will be purple the other is red and now I have yellow!!

Wow! Wow! Wow!
What else can I possibly say? The photos are beautiful this morning. Thank you everyone.

yes pixie you are off to a great photo day... love the pooh

All very nice Celeste!

Awwwe....thank you everyone!!

There is a co-op on iris starting soon.....don't know what will be offered but at 2.00 a piece.....I'm IN!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/852794/

Such beauties, everyone.

Here are some pix of what I found when I got home from work last night.

Here is a noid iris that I bought at the local garden club's annual sale. In real life it looks like velvet

Here is a delicious new rose...a big miniature just released this spring by Weeks Roses called Coffee Bean.

Here is a wonderful viburnum that I seem to have lost the tag for. Anybody have a guess as to its id?

Here's a close up of the blooms. When it is in bud, it is the same color as that tulip in the lower right.

Here's my ninebark/lamb's ear combo, which I'm bringing along.

a close up of that...kinda dramatic, isn't it?

This is a spirea I planted the first year we moved in here. We had a beauty back at my childhood home, and this is one of the first plants I bought. 24 springs ago.

And here's an ancient rose that is ready to pop with literally thousands of small red delights. There's a picture of this old house from the 1930s and this rose is on it, just as huge as it is here.

Once it blooms, I'll post another shot.

it's cool you have a picture from the 30's of your house.... would love to see it

Awesome pictures here!

Deborah - That spirea is impressive - very showy against the green background.

Celeste - I love the great variety you have.

RC - WOW!

I think I still have it...some things were lost in a fire...I'll check around.

RC beautiful photos!
Daisy I love the fact that a rose has been around that long!! It must be very special to you.

Your property is beautiful Daisy

thanks, everyone. I do love this old place, and most of the beauty in it is due to the gardeners who came before me...members of a generational farm family who took time off from their many chores to plant an allee of now-ancient maples...to plant an antique rose here, to tuck an island of lilacs there...to carve a small pond out of the little trout stream and plant 3 now gigantic weeping willows next to it. I am so, so grateful to them and I try to remember to whisper a little thank you to them when I'm outside.

All I can do is add some flourishes.

And one issue is, this place SWALLOWS even the biggest plant, in the context of the big old bushes and trees already here. So it takes a while for my stuff to have any impact...like the 24 years for the spirea above to actually "read."

But the pool garden, because it is enclosed does sort of let me play and have a little impact...

gorgeous.
thought it was going to sun 2 seconds ago, I was going out to plant the rest of the 30 hostas but now wind and most likely rain.
Lovin it.

Wow - tons of great shots, everyone! Daisy, hard to tell from that viburnum pic - could be a sargentii. Do you have a closer shot? Which ninebark is that - Diablo? I like that color combo. It looks kind of close to the one I posted the other day with Sedum sieboldii.

I saw that combo, Victor, and it does look like that. It's a Summerwine ninebark.

Here is a closer shot of that Viburnum.

this shows the horizontal aspect of the flowers. before they appear in full bloom, they are RED

and here's the whole bush, closer

The leaves also resemble a sargentii. They have that lacecap hydrangea flower type. Very nice! Did you ever prune your Summer Wine? Mine is way more floppy than that. I will prune after flowering stops.

Nope, never did prune it. It keeps growing up and up. I want it to flop. Maybe when it gets older. This is just its 3rd spring.

That's weird. Wanna switch?

Here's the poppy, I think it's 'Beauty of Livermoor'...I think...not totally 100% sure.

Someone else posted...great minds think alike...or plant alike :-)

That is gorgeous! Is that purple I see at the throat? Amazing!

It's kind of a purple...it's the shade of purple where it's almost black...I have 2 other colors of poppies planted near there, and both are about to pop. One is a white, and the other a salmon...I hope they have blooms all around the same time!

Very nice. Annual type?

Looks like papavar oriental to me. Perennial poppies , the center is black and blue even aqua in some light.