Sooo pretty!!!
Spring peeking!
More pics of the same old corner. It is filling in more these larger purple crocus came up just the other day.
These are new just planted last fall. Not sure which ones they are. Looks like Tulips to me and look at the color on those leaves. Be interesting to see what they look like. I'll have to see if I can find my list from the Spring Bulb Co-op. I did mark some of the bulbs I put in last fall but these don't have a marker.
Thought I would include this pic of my Heuchera. It has looked this good all winter long. My other ones are looking pretty rough but showing new growth. But this one has just looked so good all winter. I don't have a plant tag on it so I'm not sure of the variety might be able to find a tag in my folder. I had tried to leave plant tags in the ground over winter but found quite a few of them 'blowing in the wind'.
Holly - LOVE those variegated leaves on that "tulip"...you'll have to post again when it comes all the way up...I'm wondering what the leaves will look like.
agreed thats a pretty darn good looking winterweary Heuchera
LOL 'blowing in the wind' - laughed when I looked down from the deck yesterday and all I could see were white "sticks" (tags) all over the ground :( It's a good thing I was actually organized last fall otherwise I wouldn't have a clue this spring! Took photos of all my plantings and marked on the photos where everything was located :)
Had to scroll back up and see what your zone is Holly, that Heuchera DOES look good! Really disappointed with most of ours but I have to say 'Citronelle' looks as good as it did before the winter. I've got to get a photo of my new arbor and will try to remember to grab a shot of the 'Citronelle' as well. I was so impressed with it last summer and now I'm even more impressed!
I need Photo Shop!
yeah holly then you can put bears all over your yard
I think I'll have my first open daffodils today- usually this one is first. It has a flower that seems big compared to the foliage height, so it looks like a "dwarf" to me.
Still taking pics of the same old bed but it is the first one to show color. I did have a rather large grouping of the light lavender crocus growing in the middle of my Veggie garden not sure how that happened must have been in a pot or something that I emptied into the Veggie Garden. I will move them this week. There are some really nice groups coming up in the expanded bed by the stone walkway. Not flowering yet but I bet they will really look good when they do.
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I do think you should take the crocus out of the veggie garden when you have a chance. I had put a little bunch of grape hyacinth in my veg garden, but I took them out because as sloppy as I am, I better not have anything I could mistake for an onion. Although crocus foliage is more distinctive than grape hyacinth.
Yep, They are coming out and I have just the spot for them. They are right in the middle of the Strawberry patch. Which we put in last fall. The yard is really starting to come alive. I put in a lot of new spring bulbs last year and it is so much fun to see them coming to life.
Forgot the picture.
It's so much fun seeing all the flowers returning and everyone sharing their pictures! I am so happy to see a White Forsythia grown up. Here's mine that is blooming for the very first time and I was happy to see it finallly blooming after several years of just sitting there and doing nothing. It looks pityful compared to Deb's but I have hope.
I just had to share one more picture. I did not know what this plant was and although I have had it several years, I never thought to ask if anyone knew it's name. I got it at a plant sale way back and did not get the name but was assured I would love it. I did and do but now I know what it is. I just asked on the plant identification forum and got an almost immediate response. It is so pretty when everthing else is still in the winter mode and nothing else is blooming. Just found out, it's a jasmine. I didn't know there was a jasmine that was winter hardy.
Oh I have that one: Winter jasmine. Mine is all leafed out now & climbing but so far no flowers but then, again I am in zone 6b and you are in zone 7. Lovely plant, enticing aroma.
Saw a pink Jasmine at my HD on Saturday. Very pretty! They had about 8 of them....
I believe it was $14.97 in 1gal. pots and held up with a support to the height of about 2 1/2'.
Gita
I got this Hellebore from someone last year--or year before....
Sorry to say--I don't remember who. It was a small, rooted cutting...It has bloomed!
Such a pretty, double flower!!! Such delicate colors!
I keep thinking the name had "lady" in it. Maybe also thew word "red"???
I checked PF's, but did not see a similar bloom posted. Can anyone ID it for me????
Thanks, Gita
Jill,
This is a question for you----
A couple of years ago, you gave me an Alpine Strawberry plant. I planted it in a very large pot and it did OK last year--even though it did not make too many strawberries....
It gets decent sun until early-late afternoon--then my neighbor's tree shades it.
The reason it is in a pot is so I could put it where it WOULD get some sun...
It looked totally dead all winter this year--understandably....And I "know" that Strawberries fruit on new growth and the old ones die off...yes?
This is all the new growth it has put out as of today.....Does this look right to you?
Me thinks it is a gonner!!! I just think it should have more green growth by now...we have had so many warm days....
Your opinion, please! Gita
On a note of a pretty "big accomplishment" on my part---ahemmm....Taaaa-Daaah!!!!
Here is the raised planter I built out of 4x4's.....with a big dose of frustration added....
Never mind that my first, "flawless" plan, on how to put it all together-- never worked!
Plan #2 had more promise--but still needed the AHA! moment to make it easier, which I found out after putting in the first of the 4 layers.....Like--PRE DRILL the holes for the spikes--dummy!!!! So much easier to drive them all in through the 4x4's!
After an achy back and having to bend over to drive in over 30-6" spike-nails--it was done!!!! NOT perfectly aligned--but done!!!!
This morning I filled it with 2 wheelbarrows-full of "good stuff" and planted my small
"Karomo Shukibu" Azalea in it.....which spent the Winter, in it's 12" pot, half-dug into the bed to help it make it through the freezes and thaws....
It all started with this tiny, blooming branch-tip, a man I work with, brought to show me as it was so unique....In return--I tracked down the name of it for him (thanks to DG!) so he now knows what he has had for 25 years already.
He DID tell me it has a semi-trailing habit, and that his wife keeps cutting off the drooping branches and rooting the....and that is why I spent over $40 to buy all the materials to build this "throne" for it to grow in....ahemmm...again......Had to dig up my large-leafed, variegated Hosta that was right under this spot!
Gita
I can't wait to see it bloom! Will take "fresher" pictures than this poor cutting shows....
Some of you may remember me posting this last year for ID????
Here is a Digitalis (Foxglove) I seeded last year. As you all may know--it comes up--grows--survives the Winter intact--and then gets all "buff" and will soon send up the flower stalk and bloom....
A true Biennial!
Very nicely done. Now your next step will be a hypertufa trough.
HUH???? WHAT is that??????
Gita, That is a really beautiful Hellebore. I read somewhere that the double blooms have a more upright stance, better to view the bloom also.
Take a look at this site. Maybe you can ID it here?
http://www.terranovanurseries.com/wholesale/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=438
The cement planters behind the shoes are Hypertufa troughs gardens. Here is the link I started:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/529048/
Nice job on the planter Gita! And that hellebore is beautiful!. And the azalea is really special. Bet it will love it's new home!
Button, are those real shoes? Mike took me down to Williamsburg yesterday for my birthday. We went to eat at Captain Georges and then to the Pottery to buy some plants. I found several different 'hen and chickens' type plants and got four pots. I would love any advice on growing them either from you or anyone else who grows them. One was even blooming. I have never seen them bloom. Will they survive outside all winter?
Thanks.
Some of the Hens-n-chicks are hardy esp the Semps...and Jovibarba Heuffelii. Squaw Mtn is a good vendor w/a nice selection but you need to order early http://www.squawmountaingardens.com/product.cfm?CID=13
Thanks Chantell! I had to tell you. I just went to the site and began reading and read death is the next step after flowering on some of these. Of course, one of the ones I got was blooming and had several more buds getting ready to bloom. Live and learn.
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Holly,
It seems upright because I propped it up a bit with the fencing so i could take the picture...
I looked in the link and even though none of the colors matched, mine seemed similar to the ones in that combo picture called "Regal Ruffles"....
I guess i will have to go back to my old D-mails and find out who it was that sent it to me.....
I sent her something and we had agreed on a trade---and then a long, long time went by and I had not received my Lenten Rose.....I almost accuse this person on backing out of the trade, and she said she had been too busy and would mail it the next day.....
It had been, like, a month or more.....
Will let you know if I find it....
Gita
yes...but generally they've produced or are in the middle of producing pups...least that's been my exp. with the one's I have in the previous named cactus patch. Very easy plants with pretty winter coloring.
Chantell, do you grow them outside? Year-round?
Gita, your Hellebore is EXQUISITE! We have a few young doubles in the garden but yours is outstanding. Wish I could identify it for you but the doubles are tricky :(
Shirley, you can grow the Hens and Chicks outside! Chantell's right, when the "hens" bloom, it's their last hurrah - but then the "chicks" take over where Mother Hen left off :) Most of them are hardy to Zone 3 or 4, although there are few that aren't as hardy. You shouldn't have any problem. The only thing they don't like is moist soil, they like it lean and mean :)
Chantell, Thanks for the link. So pretty.
Wyldeflwr, I have quite a few of them for years they were growing in my old stone wall. Not a lot of different varities but last year there was a DG Co-op and I picked up some different varities to spread around. Here a an old picture of the wall before we reworked it last year. Last year when we reworked the wall I pulled most of them and spread them around to different pots to hold them over.
Wyldeflwr, My semps are outside on top of the well bed all the time. They are extremely hardy. My DH drilled holes in the tongue of the shoe & the potting soil was packed in & the semps are planted. If you are on a budget, like yours truly. Go to a consignment or thrift shop & buy used shoes. You might find other great gardening implements there.
Debbie - I'm foaming at that mouth...tell me THAT is a pic from your place?!?!?
There was a very old thread about planting shoes in the Garden Art Forum. Some picked up at thrift stores and yard sales. They were quite interesting. These are my last pair of steel toed work boots. The last couple of years that I worked they were getting a bit worn out but I wouldn't buy a new pair as I wanted them very disputable when I retired. This pic is from last summer there are several of them in the Blue Agave pot that I pulled from my wall while we were working on it.
Here is the link I know there are more pics out there but these couple are cute. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/607281/
Ok...first to show off the semps pretty color
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