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Keep posting your fav garden pics and scenes. This is one of my fav new echinacea, 'Hope'. I hope it returns this spring. :)
To Chase Away The Winter Blues...2
That's a nice Echi!
Here's a then-and-now shot of the pond area, as seen from the neighbor's yard.
I love daisies. Thank you.
Here is another sunny daisy type bloom, echinacea 'Sunrise'. All these cloudy days and now another messy storm for tomorrow, I need all the sunny blooms you all can post.
I know! ANOTHER ice storm here! As I had no camera til a month ago--I have only AV and orchid pics...
And---I am sooooo enjoying all of your garden pics---It really does help with the winter blues!
It looks like a nice woods walk Willi
Willie your now shot does have some nice green in it, but bring on that rippling water and daisies.
phoebes there isn't a darn thing wrong with orchid pics! :)
Karen - I really like your Scarlet O'Hara photo and your Greetings rose. Very pretty!
Victor - that fall photo of all the oranges is a real photo contest winner!! Superb!
So nice to see all the colors again. Thanks
I want colour. I miss colour sigh.
D'nut - colour for you:
Just noticed this new thread. Thanks, Louise. I miss color too. (Is missing 'colour' worse than missing 'color'??)
Here's a belamcanda.
another warm one:
Here is a flower that will chase away your winter blues and it needs a name
http://www.birdsandblooms.com/Article.aspx?ContentID=116686&pmcode=BB911VH13M&_mid=17900&_rid=17900.16200.441804&r_d=y
Carmen.
another...
Katye what's the first one? Sooooooo prettiful. "Carmen" the coreopsis or are you having a memory of a former girlfriend Victor? For me the coreopsis is 'Cabernet in Snow'.
They have the form for naming it there. They have a great magazine. DM and I fight over who reads it first, I usually win as I am the one who goes and gets the mail. LOL
'Lovely Girl' lily Katye? I have 'Lovely Girl'. ( shhhh not supposed to be hardy here )
I used to get B & B too. Beautiful photos. I would look for the acorn with the kids.
If you use 'colour', then you wait longer than for 'color'. It's that extra 'u' that'll get ya every time.
ahhhhhhh I wondered why you folks dropped the 'u'. Very sensical.
Just trying to be more green. Imagine how much more ink and paper is needed for all those 'u's!
Tell Mother Superior about the "u's". And a proper "grey"... But that was a verrrrrrrry long time ago.
Reality check - windy & 50°. I don't care if we lose power - there is no ice to drive on, and I rediscovered the bliss of walking on pavement: no slip.
D'nut: #1 is Crocosmia 'Glowing Embers', or something on fire. That was from the Rhodesian Ridgeback point of view.
The Lily is 'Arena' - a B&D lily offering.
I grow Lilies for their substance & fragrance; Dahlias for their colour impact & profusion of bloom. Only problem here is lack of heat...
I'll take your climate.
I'm growing my first crocosmia from seed this year "Lucifer". I'm very excited.
Excited about Lucifer? Hmm. Glowing Embers is gorgeous.
Its zone 5 and my best hope for a fake out.
Sell your soul to have it be hardy??
Pure Poetry.
D'nut - I sent some of the C 'g.e.' to the Rockies.
Growing there without a problem. Yes - outdoors, but a bit protected. Mulch for winter.
LMK if you want to try some out - I like to share, and we all get to find out if it works in a different climate.
Victor - I had seen this one before, but looking more amber-gold. Does it fade or might it have been washed out from sunlight?
Right now I wouldn't mind looking washed out from sunlight.
Working dark to dark is not uplifting, whatsoever.
that is pure poetry Victor
Ahhhh Victor! a breath of spring! Is orange your favorite colo(u)r?
Thanks, JoAnn .... a 30 Foot Long walk in the park, even! Meandering the paths helps the illusion, I have discovered.
Now that the pines have grown in, I can really develop the underplanting. I am thinking I want to keep all the things by the pond cool blues. Not sure if I mentioned that the pines are planted on a rock pile of my friend's busted up patio. The alpine garden area. It is already covered with sweet woodruff, couple of iris, and a mahonia just starting to take off.
Any suggestions are most welcomed for the rock pile, which runs east to west, so I have a north side and a south side of the pine row. The pines hide the pump, filter, and settlement pond (east end) which will spill onto the stream that winds around the base of the north side of the rock pile heading west into the main pond.
I am a big fan of Daisies, too, Jan .... Those volunteered in my yard. Some things I don't mind, if they creep in from the neighbor's garden. I miss the B.E.Susans. Need more of those.
I received some AV leaves in a trade that are growing well, but not yet flowering. Who has 'em??
I miss Lucifer. Not familiar with Glowing Embers.
Here's some rippling water for ya, Patti! ..... and my Triple 'Kwanso' ...
Ha ha ha! Phoebe hasn't been around very long Victor...go easy on her!
Ummm No, orange is NOT his favorite...least favorite maybe. He tolerates it but does have a few plants in the orange tones. He has a lovely Iris that is in the orange bracket that i'm in love with. But it's a very soft pastel orange. You would think with the amount of orange color he has in his yard come fall that he loved it. lol
I found something that chased way my winter blues. A wild orchid that decided to grown in one of my pots of strawberries.
These are helping me chase away winter inside right now....
'Passadena'
side view....
How about these blooming in my yard right now