Yes, please don't freeze your face off, Dahlianut! LOL!
Karen
To Chase Away The Winter Blues...
ow - that hurts just thinking about it...
I would freeze solid. LOL. As a 3rd generation Floridian I have very thin blood. To show you how short our seasons are--the leave did not turn color down here unto Dec. and now the maples have not only lost their leave but are blooming.
WOW! That's a funny looking maple, Wren. hee-hee
Looking out the window today spring seems a long way off. Snow again. New catalogs arriving every day, not a good combination for not spending more $$$. I shall be strong and persevere. Color that's what we need, warm and color. Everything is relative and when we are in the middle of garden season all you people with warmer climates will be too hot to deal with garden tasks I guess and then there is that snow angel factor, LOL. I do envy places with longer growing seasons but the winter does give me a chance to rest up and get excited about the garden again. Looking forward to the first signs of spring already.
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That is my Dutchman's pipe vine flower. Which is growing in a big pot and survived 4 broods of caterpillars this last summer.
Long growing seasons means lots of weeds. LOL
Although not very showy, I admired the grit of this Armeria I tucked into a gap in a stone wall. Of course, according to Will, we shouldn't be admiring last seasons flowers:
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
but like of each thing that in season grows."
William Shakespeare "Love's Labours Lost"
Very lovely DonShirer. I like them because they flower a long time and the flowers dry like little straw flowers so keep looking prettiful.
I love the little wall flowers! What Will fails to take into consideration is that...very often, what grows in this season is dependent on lessons learned in last season..... though he does seem to have a way with words--LOL
Will can take that sentiment and.............well, anyhow, I will continue to wish for flowers in the winter, but not for snow in May. ^_^
Karen
I suppose we would not appreciate the new spring green and tiny crocus flowers poking through the late snow as much if it was warm all the time, but a shorter less cold and icy winter season couldn't hurt.
You going to have lots of babies to sell this year too Sherrie? When May rolls around again I bet we will all be complaining that there is so much to do and not enough time or energy to do it. LOL We are never satisfied but too much to do in the garden is better than not being able to do anything...oh there is that drooling and ordering thing that seems to happen about this time every year though. :)
Soon things like this will return.....maybe a little early I hope.
Coreopsis, not sure which one, but it sure is sun shiny.
Not much longer to go!!
Can't go wrong with a sunny flower like that. Beautiful shade of yellow. I have two new coreopsis of the threadleaf variety coming this spring and hope they are as pretty as yours. I'm not sure if this ordering thing helps or makes waiting that much worse, but that doesn't stop the ordering or the anticipation from growing. :)
Yikes - somehow this thread dropped out on me and it took quite awhile to catch up....so many pretty flowers!
Pat - I really like that verbena. I'll bet it would be a perennial down here. Hmmmmm.
Dahlia - those are very pretty red/yellow dahlias. My babies are doing very well, so it will be quite exciting to see what I end up with. The big dilemma......do I Ieave them all down here to be subjected to the Fla. summer? Or do I get myself in over my head with dahlias to dig up in Nh in the fall if I bring them back with me???? Maybe I'll just bring some tubers if they have any by May, and then I can share them with my DG dahlia-lovin' pals.
Here in Florida do you live? My DGM grow Dahlias here in northeaster Florida.
Louise I think you are correct about the verbena. It is listed as hardy to z6 or 7 depending on where you look but it re-seeds easily all on it's own here. I really like it a lot.
All those beautiful photo's sure make me long for spring! I planted a bunch of new tulips so I can't wait to see those come up!
Here is a clematis....
Beautiful clematis, Dawn. How do you so with yours? I have so many problems with clematis wilt that I'm ready to give up on the large flowered beauties that I love so much and just put in the species varieties, as I've heard they really don't have a problem with the wilt.
Karen
Oooooohhhh! So pretty! I can feel the summer breezes....
Wren - I live in southwest Fla in zone 10a, but we go up to NH for the summer months.
Pat - it is the hot, wet summer that is the problem with so many flowers that do great up in New England, but wilt down here in the heat.
Dawn - that is a lovely clematis shot!
just looking at that picture Dawn... made me say aaaaahhhhhhhh... can't wait for spring!
Dawn! Do you remember the name of the Clem?
I had clematis growing over the tall fence across my driveway. One day I had some help doing yard work, only to come around front and see my denuded fence. I didn't freak out on the outside, but darned if the three 25 year old plants weren't all pulled up and out.
"Oh, I thought they were weeds out of control." No more Nelly Moser. It took ten years to get them to grow completely across the drive.
Thanks for the great shot of yours, Dawn!! I am definitely going to replant them this spring. It was a nice way to make the driveway more private.
Ohh Willi what a mess. I dont hire lawn guys for that reason, and Victor lost Daylilies last summer.
Dawn your clem looks wonderful. I have one that is very much like yours called "Elsa Spath". Is that what yours is called?
WillieB that is a terrible tragedy. Twenty five years and they yanked it out. What an effort it must have been to accomplish such a thing. You are to be commended for not going off like a volcano and remembering they had good intentions, but OMG I think freaking out would have been very understandable. I hope the new ones grow well and quickly for you.
Here is a recent one of mine, 'Betty Corning'. This will be the third year and I am really looking forward to seeing how she does. Sweet little bells all over.
I love how dainty that one is Pat, such a soft pastel color too, whats not to like??
They say it takes 3 years for a daylily to settle in. This one was planted in the spring and picture was taken about 6-8 weeks later. I can't wait to see this one is 3 years!
Blue Flax, they sway in the breeze and the little blue flower always makes me smile.
'Garden Party' a dwarf oriental and a great bloomer!
'Harbor Gate' first year in my garden.
Okay 'Garden Party' on list of lilies I need. Hmmm Flax, I love that blue too. Haven't had any for the last few years. It just died out one year, didn't re-seed I guess and you know what happens to an empty spot.
Garden Party really amazed me, I had just planted it a few months before this picture. I'm really looking forward to see what it does this year!!
Oh, Willie, how awful! I would have been dying inside. Landscapers don't know a thing about real gardening.
Cute little clem, Pat! I want to grow more of those small flowered ones. As I stated before, I've had trouble with the large flowered ones with that clematis wilt. They are constantly dying back on me.
Nice pics, Celeste. I tried blue flax this year, and it died. Tried white flax another year and killed that, too. I tried blue flax when I lived in Nevada, and it was in pure sand soil, and it did great.
Karen
Here's a nice little NOID iris.
Another NOID iris
Forsythia
Hellebore 'Ivory Prince'
Coreopsis, I think it was 'Little Sun'
Gaillardia 'Fanfare'
Rhodie and wild rambler rose (Rosa multiflora)
One of my late mother's daylily seedlings.
