Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos - Part 45

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Love those colors, Shelly, especially the last one.

Very nice, Shelly. That is really dark!

I love the strawberries with color....very Christmas-ie.

drooooool over the icey JM leaves.

Nice pics Shelly

purty strawberries

shelly those pics are beautiful.

I say all three of those shots go in the next years photo contest folder RC.... love them all!

Fabby idea onewish!!! I agree. We should remind always to do that.

thanks all. I guess that Ice has an upside after all ---outlining the strawberry leaves. The phygelia has definitely taken a stronghold of me. It's quickly becoming one of those plants where if I see it, I have to get it. I might already have 5, but oh well, 6 will be better!

Dahlia.... you don't have any Ice pictures to share yet?

Onewish, that's a great thought and thanks for reminding me. I'm definitely going to do that. Will save me sooo much time and indecisiveness next year. Do you have your folder up an running yet?

These are a few more that I didn't have time to sort through earlier today.

Frozen JM leaves catching what little sun there is.

and another strawberry. I'm not sure if I had really noticed that they were evergreen before.

I like this one too

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5864023

I did make a folder... 4 pictures in it... this picture is one of them

He's a beauty

thank you.... amazing it's another fascination that the gene pool bought about.... I love to watch the birds... so did my grandmother....(my grandma used to have the chippy birds land on her to eat out of her hand) and I just learned when my mom came over for thanksgiving... she also loves to watch them... she commented on my feeders.... and told me she is going to come over in the mornings to watch with her morning coffee like I do

:)

Some of my best times were spent with my grandmother.I was the kid who marched to a different drummer and my mother didn't know what to do with me.
My grandmother seemed to like to listen to my wild schemes.
We would go to the woods for wildflowers and she showed me where bird nests were, all my gardening sence came from her as did canning,cooking,"home arts" like sewing ,knitting etc.
My mother was wise and clever and supported my projects, but grandmother was the path into the family history.
We would sit and watch birds from her kitchen window. Its the first and only time I saw a shrike, it swooped down on the sparrows ant took one out, just like that.
I was amazed at how cruel nature could be.

wow never saw that one before.... pretty bird too.... yes it is amazing how cruel it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lanius_ludovicianus1.jpg

More nice ones, Shelly. Love the bird, Allison. Finally got out for a few shots today. Not too much right now. Here's Nandina 'Firepower'.

Astilbe.

Pond.

great pond shot victor.

Nandina domestica.

Thanks, Jo Anne. It's a bit depressing though!

I always love the layers of images under water and the sky reflected on the surface makes it soooo abstract.
Hang in there spring will come.

love that nandina

Well, I had a lot to catch up on. Nice pictures, everyone. Not much going on in my gardens lately. Haven't had time to do much. Busy, busy, busy, is me.

Shelly, I loved that one picture you took of the backlit branch with red leaves and blue sky. Also the frost lined strawberry leaves. I used to live in a zone 7 (I think) in Reno, NV. I'm not really sure about that, though. Fall was later than here and spring earlier. Winters were not quite as harsh as here most of the time. Snow usually didn't last long, though there were some times when we were slammed and unprepared. I actually loved it, as I didn't see it happen much.

Karen

Victor, I love those nandina and for once you have a plant that doesn't outsize mine 3 to1:-p And the pond shot is a beauty.

Thanks so much Karen. Sweet as always! Yep, what you describe does sound a just like zone 7. And nearly identical to Eugene. I'm about 1100' higher than Eugene, so I do get more snow (which I Do Not like) and Ice. But, other than that, I think that it can't be beat! Today was sort of weird for me. When I left my house, heading for work a little over an hour away in Eugene, I threw in long johns, extra gloves, two sweatshirts, coat and raingear because is was still only 31 deg. at my place at noon. An hour later in Eugene, it was 61 deg. I was surprised when I stepped out of my car because Eugene is usually only about 5-8 deg warmer. It was an absolutely beautiful day there and my place never did fully unthaw. :-( I was actually a couple hours late to work because there were tow trucks pulling cars out of the ditch on both sides of my driveway. However, I'll still take that anyday over just about any other place.

some from this morning.



Frozen or thawed?

I don't really like how JM Koto no Ito's leaves sort of freeze dried stuck on the tree this year. However, I thought that it was interesting that it was steaming while others were still freezing. That's not something that I see very often.

This is what my schizostylus looks like now (sorry karen).

Rhody ebony pearl.

I knew that it just had to be too good to be true that I would get to see my hellebore bloom so early.

Hopefully those buds will make it, I think they will.

Love that Koto shot, Shelly!

I wit Victor, Shelly. Smokin', even!

I love that shot of the frost lined Rhodie leaves. Nice! The Koto shot is great, too. I bet that hellebore will be just fine. They are pretty tough.

Here are some pics from my yard today. We had our first snowfall. Sure is pretty.

Karen

My deceased asparagus fern.

Mugo pine in the front yard.

My dog Patches and Dad's dog Buffy playing.

My pond.