Coming from here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/959263/#new
Things are starting to come alive in my garden. Hopefully you will all be seeing it soon!
Here is a Pieris.
Garden photos of '09.....#7
Had a friend visit.
As if there were not already enough reasons to love this plant, Spirea thunbergii 'Ogon' wakes up earlier than any other shrub I have!
Persistent oakleaf hydrangea leaf.
lots of those hahahahah say two cayotes last night one female and one male they looked good big bushy tails to dark for pictures they didnt come out cant see anything lol need night vision lense
the chipmunks are out to must have run out of food hahahah not like I didnt get them enough sunflower seeds last fall
I'm looking forward to something like that in 3 weeks.
My tulips are just peeking and Belemcanda.
the leaf looks fury
Mona, DH has a night vision scope and it's amazing what you can see at night in our field!
Victor nice pics, love your 'friend'!
I have one for another camera a 35 mm but not for the digital I have to get a new camera this one is old and slow and to much drag not good for pic of birds and anything moving and not further than 12 feet so need a new one lol
victor do you have trouble with your brown pets eating the oak leaf Hydrangea's? they found one of mine
oh btw check out the lj's jm thread he has pic's posted of some trees.
Crocus tommasinianus roseus did not do well the first year (planted it late and the bulbs were a little musty) but twice as many came back. Wispy than other crocus so I wish I had planted it closer to the house but its still visible from a ways.
Very nice DP!
Looks great, David!
Yes, Bill, the deer do eat them. I have to spray them all the time.
I wanted to plant them last fall and ended up giving them to my sister lol I have to build up the soil on the front lawn fist when I tried to plant them I hit rock only one or one half inch of soil which is all grass roots now lol so this spring I am going to start adding soil to the lawn maybe do it two or three times over the summer rakes in a little water and do it again a few weeks later till it builds up a few inches so I can put in the crocuses
nice Victor & DP
I second that Allison!
woo hoo... movement
#2
Jily helping the birds pick up the peanuts they dropped
Lily says Momma get off your butt and open the door
Yay!!
do you cut back last years stuff on the coral bells... or leave it?
If it's yucky, I cut it.
I think I cut one of mine back last year and it didn't grow back all that great.. wrong timing maybe
one wish....isn't that "movement" amazing? Didn't plan on having Red Emperor tulips this year and tore out most of them. But not one area in the lawn. Overnight they were up and three inches high.
lol did you just pull the green last year or did you dig out the bulbs some can be up to 18 inches deep since tulips off shoots come from the bottom of the bulb so each consecutive growth in deeper into the grown
I had some that grew in the vegie garden and DH said one year they have to go and gave up at two feet deep and still had not found the bulbs lol good luck with that hahahah
scicciarella...the ones i noticed, I had left where they were as they died (laziness, nothing planned). Now I'll have to check in back and see if the ones I dug up I really did dig up...lol...
Crocus Cream Beauty bloomed this morning:
Below is either Crocus chrysanthus "Dorothy" or "Goldilocks"..
But reading around, I see c. chrysanthus has "6 oval or pointed petals ". Mine has 12 (maybe more).
Can I pay off my mortgage? Do I have a crocus idiots like me will pay more for?
Or am I faced with another disappointment, everyone sees them at one time or another and I just didn't know added petals were common?
yes it makes me very happy... my crocus are only still showing greens... and a few hyacinths just poking up.. amazing how your 1/2 zone makes such a difference DP
David_Paul, I would post that one in the bulb forum or send a picture to Brent and Becky or OHG. I don't think that is common.
I want to know if you are located by a nuclear power plant? I am now so suspicious of your double crocus along with your early blooms. Could it be thermal nuclear waste heat under your property? Patti
LOL...Patti....I'm living in a Simpson Cartoon!
Just as I have suspected.
But I think nuke is out.
Might be lead. When I got estimates on restoring some columns, the carpenter said "Thank God for lead paint!"....the presevative qualities of lead oxide are why there are columns to repair (no problem in the yard or garden though, I had it tested. Background levels).
Or it might be coal. My neighbors and I have discussed how our homes were once heated by coal. A good time on High Street is showing each other where our coal shoots were. Appears one now long departed neighbor across the street, on the salt marsh, volunteered or charged to have everyone dump their coal ash on his property. Soil test show he has quite the acidic coal ash heap.
Do understand how having early crocus and mutated crocus would raise suspicions.
I'm suspicious myself now.
This message was edited Mar 10, 2009 7:30 PM
Is that the only one, David?
That is the only one I'm admitting to, Victor.
(unless someone wishes to send me a postal money order made out to my Swiss bank account for more mutatated plants I might have. Not saying I have any of course...but I might).
This message was edited Mar 10, 2009 7:47 PM
lol..... that's awesome David! Great picture too!.
Allison your hellebores are already catching up to mine!! and Jily is super cute.
looks more like a water lily than a crocus very beautifull
took this a ways downstream of my place at about noon today.
and these a little bit later.
pulmonaria
the last one
