Hardenbergia (lilac vine) blooming this week!
We planted a 1 gallon last February and it has gone crazy! Unfortunately the bees are having love affair with it and I can't get too close!
Garden Photos of '09......#2
What a treat for the eyes.
nice... can't wait for spring!!!
mrsj that one one gorgeous looking vine....I just LOVE the colour! I have to research that one now!
WAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOO
Galanthus.
I was out measuring the new garden and low -and-behold Lookie.
Makes my day.
I know by tomorrow they will be fully open but I couldnt wait to share.
Lilacs are hard to grow here - you really have to work them...bags of ice around the base throughout the winter, etc....so I don't do that anymore, the lilac vine is the closest I can get to that show and color!
Nothing else blooming right now except a couple of my miniature roses....the bearded iris bed had been cleaned of debris and after rain stops today I have to get out and pull weeds that are taking over a gravel area!
I'm sure our snowdrops are up, they come up beneath the snow. This year there is a lot of snow to be beneath.
:::::Clapping::::: For Ge!!!
Very nice, Shelly. Which is that? Looks like one of my Sunshine hybrids.
I need to go out and check mine, now!! Way to bring in Spring, JoAnn!
Love the hellebore AND the lilac vine .... what great colors on both!
Cool, Jo Ann! I'll have to check too. They're called snowdrops for a reason!
i'm dancin
Video?
More like Snoopy, sorry no poles involved.
finger cymbals and scarves??
Doin a dance of joy for the snowdrops. Big melt happening here but I'm going to shovel more snow on the beds today.
According to Fridays Oprah If I lived in Moritania I would be highly sought after.
I think scarves would work,
lots
of
them.
I remember when I was a kid, my mother's church had an old-fashioned bazaar one summer, and because the pastor was Syrian, it was so genuine they had Arabesque Belly Dancers, the colorful tents, camels, etc. ...... quite the sight for an 8-year old ^_^ to say the least.
Ahhhh .... fond memories .......
tee hee
Thanks Ge, Onewish and Victor!
Jo Ann, Hellebores make themselves so easy to photograph! Your snow drops are ahead of mine!! that's so cool! I saw that episode of Oprah (I don't get to watch it often), I thought that was fantastic!!
Victor, those two are both 'black diamond,' even though one is definitely more red than the other. I was really after the 'onyx oddessy', but the colors of the ones that they had on hand weren't all that great, sooooo what did I walk away with? lol! Still holding out for one of the oddessy's though and then my budget will be shot!! I have seen the sunshine strain in catalogs and thought that they looked very pretty! But, since hellebores don't always come true from seed I have yet to take the plunge and buy one of the sunshines sight unseen. I did that once quite a few years ago with 'blue lady' and was pretty dissapointed.
I'd love to see this dance!!
Mrsj. i love the hardenbergia!
Good mornin RC
morning!
ok people I need an ID.... I am plant sitting a neighbors house plants... she claims this plant was from a cutting I gave her... looks too shiny for a coleus... do you think this is a dahlia?
stem
Very prettiful but not a dahlia.
begonia maybe?
Poison Ivy? I really don't have a clue. Am very jealous of the snowdrops, Jo Ann, & the hellebores, Shelley. And the lilac vine was such a beauty. I have snow--nothing else.
Begonia would be my guess.
The stem looks like coleus. Did she spray it with something?
Shelly, I just love your new hellebores. Very velvety looking. Nice shots. Yes, you sure have a talent for photography.
Mrsj, love the lilac vine. Wish I could grow that here.
Jo Ann, why would you be highly sought after in Moritania?
Allison, the stem on that plant looks squarish to me. That would indicate a member of the mint family. ????
Karen
Anita.. I wouldn't imagine she would spray anything on it... I don't believe she even gives the house plants fertilizer...I think the only time they gets some is when they come here... I usually sneak some of the slow release stuff in right before they go home... coleus was my first guess ... but that shine.. i don't think so
NFD....it is kind of squareish... the only mint things i have are the humming bird mint, and some variegated mint that I got from the RU... both of those have small leaves
I know I gave her some dahlias when the storm beat the heck out of them... and what ever was in my begonia pots towards the end of summer... gosh... wish i could remember...
OH OH ... maybe it's one of Pirl's house plants she let me take home... going to have to check with her
Pirl thinks it's a hydrangea ... can't even imagine then... maybe her oldtimers just forgot it was from her own shrub... but i don't remember hers being that shiny either... oh well might have to just wait and see
its not a bagonia I grow them and that is not it not sure look familiar maybe something I had as a house plant at one time
Karen guess you missed Oprah last Friday.
No bother, she featured beauty standards all over the world and in Moritania the height of beauty is extreem overweight and stretch marks.
I'm there!
Of course they cover it alll up with long flowing billowing gowns and head cover, unlike overweight women in this country who try to look like Paris Hilton and wear Paris's size on a body that needs a 25X. Grosses me out.
That belly flab hanging down is a real turn off here( we call it,"the jungle flap" in this house).LOL
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we call that a Patrick.... as in Sponge Bob
lol...too funny!
there was a bar we used to go see my friends band at... and two girls would come in all the time like that.. you would think they would have gotten the point when I took a Patrick figurine with me and he was dancing on our table next to them... of course not
Beauty is in the mind of the beholder.
Those women must not have realized how much grunting and oofing they did in order to get into their car.
I'm all over this subject because I just lost 8 pounds, I can be smugg and critical.
too drunk maybe... they were the falling down drunk kind... they both went over once and flipped a table next to the stage
nothing wrong with feeling good about something accomplished