Garden photos of '09.....#11

Dyane, yes, you should definitely get a waterfall someday!

Patti, I love your endless stream and waterfall. I have the perfect spot for an endless stream. We have a pond in the backyard that is only seasonal. It fills up when we get lots of rain. Water is pumped out from our cellar via sump pump. It follows a makeshift stream down to the pond. I would love to put a liner in the pond so it will stay full, then put a liner also in the stream and make it an endless one. That would be so nice. I could also make an endless stream going down to the little pond I put in a few years back. I already have a waterfall there, and there's a small slope behind it that goes up to a grouping of 3 birch trees. I could make a stream coming down to the waterfall. I have planned on it, but still have yet to do it.

You have critters munching on your crocus, Patti? I do, too. Darn critters!!!!!

Karen

Here's a few shots from my garden this past Sunday.

Karen

My hellebores are finally blooming.

Another shot.....

Water droplets on columbine foliage.

Moss and oak leaf.....

Closer shot of the moss.....

Last for now.....Chionodoxa

Karen,
Nice shots, I especially love the Columbine. I think I would grow them just for the foliage. The water feature is on the list.
Victor, it's funny my husband said he'd love a pond but our yard is too shady and he'd miss growing waterlilies. We'll see.

Crocus 'Tricolor'...

Sedum 'Autumn Joy'...

Nice shots, Karen. Nice double hellebore!

Sedum sieboldii...

nice NFD..... love the way sedum peeks out Dyane

Wow, so much going on today!

Great pics everyone! I love all of the hellebores.

The streams are great. A lot of hard work! that's for certain.

Fritillaria persicaria
Planted it in the wrong place.

Gophers aren't eating it, must be in the right place!! oh wait, that's my place! It looks great Jo Ann. Nice backlit picture! I love fritillaria, but have such an aweful time trying to grow them due to those darn creatures!

I have never grown these big ones.
Alas they are in the near-middle of a large garden area where nothing has come up yet. Maybe the Hydrangeas will be leafed out when it blooms.
No gophers here, every house has a "balck lab" or the equivilent so that keeps them away, not the deer unfortunatly.
My sister has a terrible deer problem, we have two or three I see from time to time.
To-day is my day to Roundup areas wwhere the mulch was thin on the Lazagna garden

Other stuff will likely be leafing out by the time they bloom.
Dogs are not much of a deterrent to gophers in areas where there are large populations of them. When I had a dog, he would stand out there and bark and the moving ground. It would stop moving until the dog stopped barking, then it would go again. However, my dog did love to chase the deer! He actually didn't like them, he wasn't just trying to threaten them. That was the funniest thing to watch. Good luck with the round up. It's not warm enough here yet for that to be very effective. I'll be glad when it is though.

cute hellebore going to seed!

cute flower during some rain. ....and sun. hmmm....

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On the way to the Cleveland airport, a maintenance truck was picking up a deer road kill. As long as noone got hurt, all clap, one less.

LOL

Thanks Allison!

Iris, I completely agree!

dwarf Silene

leaf of some sort of Guara

My daughter has a dog that would dig moles,what a riot.
You may be right about Roundup and temps,we are due for HI OF 50'S.I'll wait for a few weeks.Grass drives me nuts when it grows where its not supposed to.

and lastly, an anemone flower petal.

Thats just beautiful,looks like fabric.

It'll probably work on the grass, It will take quite a while to see the results of your work though. I don't think that I'd try it on blackberries or scotchbroom for another few weeks though. Your daughter is lucky to have one that goes down after them. Did he catch more than just a few? That would be great!

Thanks. I never thought of that, but It really does have that look to it. Interesting!

Yes her dog caught about one a week.
He nearly ruined the garden though.

lol. I would imagine so!

I like the 'Moss and Leaf' picture. That looks like something one of the gals here would like to paint!

Thanks, guys! Dyane, I love your shots of the sedums.

Shelly, I love the pic of your flower with the water dripping off of it. And that anemone flower petal is stunning!

That's funny about the gophers. My dog would probably kill them, too, if we had them here. She kills voles, baby rabbits, etc. She's my little hunter.

Karen

Thanks, Anita, and if one of the gals would like to paint it, she is certainly welcome to.

Karen

Enjoying everyone's pictures. Are wood hyacinths better perennials than the Dutch type? I was thinking of getting some if so.
Karen I really love that helleborus - it's a very pretty one.
Onewish the third picture of crocus are such a pretty color. They almost look blue to me, I haven't seen any like that before.

I like the wood hyacinths because they are very natural looking---the other hyacinths are sort of stiff---but I like & grow both---wood hyacinth doesn't have the fragrance that the others have. I am disappointed in the fact that they are thinning, rather than multiplying.

THat's exactly what I was wondering! Thank you! My hyacinths are going to be three years old this year and last year they were pretty much pitiful compared to the first, but they still smelled divine! : )

Great pics! Love that anemone, Shelly.

Shelly, love the photo of Guara and the hellebore going to seed.

Robindog, I hope my wood hyacinth do well as I agree about loving the less formal ones than the large ones. Though I do love that white ones called 'Carnegie' and also grow 'Sky Jacket', 'City of Haarlem', and a couple of others including one of the really early ones to be named 'MARIE' in the trade since 1860. I bought it from Old House Garden. Last fall I planted something called Bellevalia romana which is more like the wood hyacinth . It hasn't bloomed yet. I also have Hyacinthus orientalis 'White Festival' that is less formal too. But my favorite is Hyacinthus orientalis var. albulu which I have bought from Buggy crazy in the past. It will be out soon.

nutsfordaylily, congrats on your hellebore. I do hate the critters! Here is a stand that they didn't eat blooming with Iris historidies 'Frank Elder' yesterday. It is Crocus tommasinianus 'Ruby Giant', so I think that is why. Patti

Close up. Trying macro. Patti