Spring slideshow, Oakland hills

I was admiring doss' "What's happening in your spring gardens" threads 1 and 2. Some areas are several weeks ahead of my garden. The freesias finally opened up and it was like a signal for the poppies, roses, etc., to start blooming! I even had a very tiny flowerhead open up on a young 'Endless Summer' hydrangea that I wasn't sure was going to make it through its first winter.

I went out and took a lot of pix (over 40) with my new camera. They are loaded into a slideshow on Photobucket. Hope you enjoy the show (I also posted this in the Cottage Garden forum under someone's 'Spring pictures' discussion thread):
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c116/jkom51/2009Qtr1/?albumview=slideshow

Beautiful! Thanks for the show.

Your garden is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!

Great show! You and I have similar tastes, I have many of the same plants. Some day, I'd love to visit your garden.
Think I'll put a slideshow together too but I really need to get some planting done, I have a fellow DG coming for a visit in less than 2 weeks and I am so behind with what I need to get done. Oh well. Gardens are never finished anyways.

Beautiful garden ! ! !

Fabulous Garden! Thanks for sharing

Love the photos. What a fun way to share them. Such a wide variety of plants. Did you notice the snail in the camellia?

Oh yes, I've been spreading the Sluggo and stomping on passing snails wherever I find them - it's been a bumper crop for snails and slugs this year, with the recent rains!

if you have pets watch the sluggo, they can be attracted to it and it's not good....try a pie tin of....drum roll please....beer...yep they are little boozers but it kills them...put the tins out at night where they are most likely to show up and in the morining, dead drunk slugs...lol...and it won't hurt the other critters (except they may stagger a bit...lol)

hmmm the way I spelled, you'd think I was sipping out of one of those tins...lol...

Sluggo has iron phosphate as the active so it's perfectly safe to use...it's the other slug products with metaldehyde as the active that you have to watch out for especially if you have pets.

Yes, there are two versions, this is the one I use: http://www.pestproducts.com/sluggo.htm
Here's the other one: http://www.biconet.com/crawlers/sluggo.html

Nice! All that is blooming now?! I have buds on my roses the size of my pinkie-nail!
( Wait until the deer find out about THAT!)

You must have a lot more warmth over there, what a difference a few miles can make!

CC

Mrs colla - it looks like everything is ready to burst forth !

beautiful grdens! thanks for sharing!

Thanks jkom for your show.

My roses are really scattered this spring, a few blooms here and there.
Mrs Colla, I agree with Red-- your garden looks ready to go.

jkom, I love your tibouchina (sp?) and sodenii impatiens. My tib doesn't want to bloom tho it is going into its 2nd year and has allways been green and healthy. The impatiens is one of the few standing from a long line of trials. I have killed impatiens from every continent. I guess they were all too rare for SD. My sodenii is long and leggy--too little sun? Should I be pinching it back??

Anyways great pics.

Loved your slideshow, jkom! I wish my garden was in bloom. It's just now starting to bloom. Let the flowers spring forth ;)