Spring 2009 - What's Blooming in Your Garden?

Yes that does look different, Patti - but equally beautiful and you really captured it nicely. I wonder if the other was Cantab? I grow Dutch and German (bearded) Iris but none of the small reticulated ones - that may have to be a new project for me next year.

I think it is one of these, 'Cantab', Harmony' or 'Aida' which is a sport of 'Harmony'. I think from looking at my pictures it seems like Harmony, but just a wild guess. Mine are a month away. Patti

Bea: Which anemone was that one above? It's gorgeous. Glad to see others here are planting Chionodoxa, which I'm trying for the first time this year. Can't wait to see mine blooming!

Angie

Bea, is that coronaria? I love it, but it's not hardy here. I grow anemone blanda, which is my less glorious substitute.

Donna

The anemone came in a mixed bag of "anemone de caens"

Here is a close up of one taken last year.

Bea: Your photos are great. You have an artistic eye for them.


Muscari armeniacum growing along the path.

Bea: If that's Anemone coronaria, I have it planted already, so I'll be waiting anxiously to see it bloom. I also A. gigantea. Wheee!

That is a great shot of your Muscari, Chris.

Yellow tulips have finally colored in nicely

Ice Follies are open

Quails open - very early for them

City of Haarlem

Oooh, oooh, Steve: How beautiful! A much-needed breath of springtime blossoms!

Thank you.

Steve,

LOVE your pics. You have tons of great stuff. I went out this morning and found that my iris reticulata has broken dormancy. As they show up, I'll send pics.

By the way, my chinodoxa all came from White Flower Farm, in the beginning, and then as I realized how terrific Scheepers was, I bought more pink and white from them. Between Brent and Becky, Old House Gardens and Scheepers, I've gotten some lovely things. But McClure and Zimmerman has given me samplers that I liked so much that I purchased them later, like species tulip turkestanica. Here's a picture from last year. This is one tulip that multiplies. 10 turned into 19!

Donna

Donna, I've fallen in love the species tulips the last few years! Those are some of my favorites! Do you grow T.tarda? I love that one too, as well as all the T.clusianas.

Steve, do you grow any species tulips?

Yes, those spp. tulips are so very attractive indeed. A job nicely done, there Donna. Did you divide the tulips last Fall? I'm waiting and see if Steve has grown those successfully, before I venture out to collect some for my garden since our climate is very similar. ^_^

This is what I've blooming today in the garden. A brief trip to the SW, now back home in the SE, and spring is almost here.

Oh gosh, can't you take pity on someone who still has from 6 to 8" of snow covering everything!!
Loved the pictures though. Zone envy here, I think.

Lily _love, your flowers are so gorgeous!!

Maxine

Maxine, here is wishing you spring time. Thanks for your comment, springbulbs is reason for the season. I just can't wait until this time of year to see these beautiful blooms.
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Wow Kim. Wonderful. And yes, I did divide my turks. Actually, what I do is dig them, pop in some nasturtiums and then put the bulbs them back in fall. But several times I have missed a few and they come back anyway. The interesting thing about turkestanica is that it propagates by sending out what looks like a thick strand of thread, and on the other end is a bulb. Since that section of the yard has prairie dropseed, I don't water it much. Here is what the same section looks like in the summer.

I also grow the Greigii Pinnochio.

http://www.johnscheepers.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=5650&_category=Tulips:Greigii

It really pops, and because it's near species, when I dig it up it has always produced extra bulbs.

Donne

Lily, your tulips and pansies are wonderful! One of my favorite combos!

Donna, gorgeous pic! Your nasturtiums are the prettiest I've seen!

Wow, Donna & Kim - beautiful pictures!! And thanks for the nice words. I think EVERYone who has been posting here has a terrific sense of gardening as I've seen all of your terrific planting schemes in your gardens in their various stages of bloom. Kim and I have the fortune of being two of the earliest though we're finished when the rest of you are growing strong.

Neal, At this house I bought in '06 I planted a bunch for the first time this past fall. I did have some Lilac Wonders planted at my old place and they DID return well the following year. I planted T. Batalinii "Bright Gem" and "Marjoletti" that I got from Easy to Grow Bulbs this past fall and they've sprouted but no blooms yet - will post pictures when they do and it will also be interesting to see how well/if the return next year.

I did have a bunch of Single Lates return 2nd year last year. I have lots of leaves this year in the same spot and am eager to see if any come back for a third year, as standard non-species tulips are generally considered annuals here. My 2007 tulips are all also showing leaves and in a couple weeks we'll see if/how many of them repeat bloom.

Donna, I like your nasturtiums too - your gardens are always so neat and well-planned :-)

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"Vuurbaak" hyacinths I got from OHG three falls ago... I love this color.....

Greetings to all! 60 today (YAH!)

Gemini - the nasturtiums are the whirlybird type. The flowers are held well above the leaves. I got them from JIhnny's Selected Seeds. In the fall I wait until they've gone to seed and collect some for the following year.

Steve - compliments from the Master! I blush as I sit here. And the Vuurbanks are gorgeous - I love pinky purples. By the way, the Mount Hoods I posted earlier came from Scott at OHG, as have most of my daffodils.

I was intrigued about the return of your single late tulips. Typically, I dig up my single lates in the fall, but couldn't get Maureen, a single late, out of the ground for three years. Each year, it came back as a huge flower, and the third year it produced additional bulbs. And this was a bed that I water regularly, because I have glads, lilies, and miscanthus 'Morning Light in it, and I normally pull out and store the glads and put the tulips in. I have never heard that single lates persisted and propagated, but your experience and mine make me think that they might do just that.

I am so enjoying this thread. It's so nice of our southern friends to take the time to go out and photograph their treasures. I'll do my part when ours turn up.

Donna

Took the boxes off the crocus yesterday and after 5 days under cover and a foot of snow all around them, they look good. Ones which hadn't bloomed grew an inch or so and the ones which had been in bloom opened right up again:

David_Paul, Proof is under the box. Nice shot. Still none here. I am heading south in a few days and hope to catch a few bulbs in bloom in Okla. Mine are still sleeping here except the snowdrops which are going on and on. Love them, but then they are the only show in town. Well the newspaper reported a crocus blooming on Fair Street. Appropriate. Patti

You'll have the blooms Steve does when you get back I bet (well, almost).

Think this snow was good. Keep their little bulbly heads down a little longer. Our lawns and gardens should explode in color in a week.

Patti, do you grow any Snow Crocus? Here they bloom alongside Snowdrops. I LOVE them, and want to add more every year. These days I only buy them by the 100, and they're really cheap that way. They stay in bloom a long time too. Mine get covered with snow, and are right there looking lovely as soon as it melts.

Sorry DP I must have missed that but why did you have to put boxes over your crocus? I

Oh, good, I thought I was asleep at the switch. Why DID you put them under a box? I just went out and sprayed my emerging ones with thiram to keep the rabbits from nibbling them (or at least more than I allot them!!)

Donna

Dahlianut & Donna....

We had 14" of snow last weekend. Couple dozen crocus were in bloom when the storm hit. Hence covering them with upturned Earthboxes:

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Probably wasn't needed. Noticed today some crocus in full bloom in an area that had been under snow yesterday.

Some of the earliest Crocuses here were beaten down by eight inches of snow, but the Eranthis had no problems at all. No biggie, lots more should be coming up soon!

I love the way the crocus just keep producing blooms! I have one patch that rabbits keep nibbling off...well mowing down is more like it, but after a few days a bunch more blooms are there. Its the only spot in the lawn I have that problem, so those crocus are getting moved this spring. It's near a blue spruce, and I think they hide under there and sneak out and eat without the cats or dogs noticing.

Thank you DP.

I've had to start spraying my emerging tulips and crocuses with thiram because I have a bunny (thnk heaven, only one) who used my yard as shelter and likes to nip things. Last winter I had a big hulking rabbit (looked like it could wrestle you to the ground) that systematically DUG UP 12 White Trumphinators, 12 Angeliques, 12 Mayfairs and 12 White Tacomas - all 48 - and ate them during the winter. There were also a dozen allium christophii, but evidently they were not to Mr. Bunny's taste. I remember seeing a very fat rabbit in my yard. It had never happened before. This year I used hardware cloth on the area.

But also this year a hawk kept turning up in the yard. It would sit on the house and fly away when I opened the garge door. And one night a few weeks ago an owl was so close and so loud he woke us up. I must get him to move in.

Donna

Donna,

I think with your cold winters you should do really well with tulip perennialization compared to many of us - especially me. I consider myself lucky to get them to return. I would love to see your pictures and you're even getting offsets! I know if you're getting good return even in a bed you water regularly, you must be doing something right o have perfect soil and drainage :-)

Should we start a new thread, since this is getting kind of long?

Please do Steve, it's time for a new thread. :-)

That is a beautiful shot, Kim. Love your color combinations. My tulips are blooming now too ...

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Link to new thread

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Corydalis `Beth Evans' blooming for me now. This is my first year planting this bulb.

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That Beth Evans is very pretty!

Thank you, Lily. I love corydalis. There's a blue form I need to get planted as well next fall. I'm hoping Beth Evans makes a respectable clump next spring!

Angie

Angie, please come and join Steve and others on the new thread. We can't afford to miss out some fantastic show on that new thread that Steve has created above. :-)
Kim