sally, thanks - I'll be calling her in a little while to see how she's doing. When I left last night, she was mostly just exhausted. She had Radiofrequency Neurolysis done to the second side of her lower spine (L-1 through L-4), which is just a mess from arthritis and osteoporosis. This burns (deadens) the nerves, thereby blocking the pain. It's an amazing thing. Doesn't last forever since the nerves regrow, and at different rates for everyone, but we got almost 10 months' worth of relief from the first RFN last year, so she's encouraged. So am I!
Re: Barrett Browning - maybe this year's bloom (and oddly, it's the ONLY bloom - I had that with a number of clumps this spring, even though I always leave the foliage in place until it's almost gone), is from another plant that "wandered". Your photo does indeed look very much like mine from this year.
Spring peeking Vol. 2
Such beautiful pics everyone!!!
And thanks to you all - I now know what these are....
A reminder to take my fosamax!
I am wondering if barrett browning was a mutation, and if so, can it un-mutate and produce these.
Indeed - it's all the reminder I need to be sure I actually TAKE calcium 2x a day, instead of just thinking about it! She takes Fosamax, plus Fortecal (a nasal spray). And to make things even more interesting, she's also got Rheumatoid Arthritis! That's in addition to severe and progressing emphysema and lung cancer - the latter currently declared treated by surgery 2 years ago next month. 60+ years of heavy smoking finally caught up with her.
ANYWAY. I am wondering the same thing - maybe Barrett Browning is a "sport" of something (like the "Ice Follies"/"Slim Whitman" thing), and has reverted. Maybe I'll find out next spring if ALL the bulbs actually bloom...
Lots of mysteries out there in Garden Land. ;-)
I finally have things starting to bloom - everything here on the north sloping ridge is always 2-3 weeks behind most everyone else in this area. Most spectacular right now is this weeping cherry... Terri
And a close up of the perfect garden sign that I found a couple of years ago and propped up against the cherry tree's trunk...
Oh, Diva thats right, we were talking about that, I was trying to remember what previous discussion I had on the subject.
aspenthomas--that IS a glorious cherry! I hope to have one some day. My son thinks they're really pretty. If we ever move, or otherwise have room, it's on the top of my list.
sally, yeah, I don't know if a "sport" is the same thing as a "mutation" or slightly different. (Guess I could look it up!) DUH!
Terri, gorgeous cherry tree! I wish I had room for another tree in our yard - it would definitely be a cherry of some sort. Love the garden sign too!
As the rains (much-needed!) continue, here are a few more photos taken while the sun was out...
This is my one double Daff, 'Erlicheer'.
Chantell - you NEED this one if you don't already have it - it's very fragrant, and really pretty too! Caveat being that it does tend to get top heavy when it rains.
Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum), which is just now starting to pop open all over the place.
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Another very fragrant daffodil, 'Geranium', which is well worth adding to the garden!
Another Hellebore - all the (hellebore) plants in my garden (until this year) have come from the original cultivar I got many years ago - the variations have been really fun to see.
Another pink bleeding heart plant - the rate at which they grow once they get going is truly amazing.
This is 'Segovia', a lovely miniature daffodil - the flowers are no larger than 1.5". I probably should have put a ruler in this picture - LOL!
This is another of the "Gardening Mysteries" to which I referred a while back - this (greiggii) tulip is "Toronto", which should be much less orange and lots more salmon/coral. This year, it's a bright orange - it looks just like this photo. Very odd - it's growing in the exact same place and soil as it did last year.
Go figure.
And finally, at least for tonight, a "Bee's Eye View" of a random red NoID tulip in the yard, which I will swear I never planted. ;-)
Gorgeous!!! Yes I feel some Daffy's will need ordering....
I apologize for the relatively late notice to you about both "Geranium" & "Erlicheer" - guess I thought you probably already had them. I'm late to the fragrant daffodil collecting, but these two are definitely winners!
chantell- you and me buddy--can do some fragrant daffodil damage in the fall. Sheesh, I only have about tweny zillion daff bulbs in my yard already...
This is my one mini daff- NoID--blooms about an inch across on six inch stems. Two blooms per stem. Only complaint, they tend to stick out on a forty five degree angle to the ground..could that be due to being under a dogwood? I think I can move a couple and see if that helps next year.
Truth be known...the photos I posted are the "only" (remember I have a townhouse...LOL) Daffys I have....so picking up a couple of each, somehow, this fall will be on the "to do" list
Two of my early childhood memories of flowers are Dragon's Teeth (Dutchman's Breeches) and Monkey Faces (Pansies). Our DB just started to bloom. Jamie (who's 27) and I collected these over 20 years ago, just a little fella and his dad grubbing around in the woods, looking for more wild flowers to import to our then new natural bed. Our Jack in the Pulpit and Yellow Violets date to about the same time. Ric
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Eastern Bluebird...
A pair are building their nest behind our apartment bldg!
A VERY interesting Post and very eye-opening......
This was posted by "Xeramtheum"....on the Datura Forum.
He/she seems to be the Brug and Datura expert.
Datura, Brugmansia, tomatoes & potatoes are of the same family Solanaceae.
Here is a list of other plants in the Solanaceae Family.
Alona
Anisodus
Anthocercis
Atropa (deadly nightshade)
Atropanthe
Browallia
Brugmansia (angel's trumpet)
Brunfelsia
Calibrachoa
Capsicum (peppers)
Cestrum
Chamaesaracha
Combera
Crenidium
Cuatresia
Cyphanthera
Cyphomandra
Datura (jimsonweed)
Duboisia
Exodeconus
Fabiana
Hyoscyamus (henbane)
Iochroma
Jaltomata
Juanulloa
Latua
Leucophysalis
Lycianthes
Lycium (boxthorn)
Lycopersicon
Mandragora (mandrake)
Mellissia (St. Elena boxwood)
Methysticodendron
Nicandra
Nicotiana (tobacco)
Nierembergia or cupflower
Nolana
Petunia
Physalis (cape gooseberry, ground-cherry, tomatillo)
Physochlaina
Plowmania
Przewalskia
Quincula
Salpichroa
Salpiglossis
Saracha
Schizanthus
Schwenckia
Scopolia
Sessea
Solandra
Solanum (tomato, potato, eggplant, Kangaroo Apple)
Streptosolen
Trechonaetes
Trianaea
Vestia
Withania
And those big green "tomato" hornworms will happily much on any plants on that list! Since learning they turn into such nifty moths, I've just been moving the hornworms off my tomato plants and onto something else, like a stand of nicotiana. I also think I have enough braconid wasps etc. in my yard that the hornworms aren't a major issue.
Gorgeous photos! Hopefully I'll be able to catch up on some editing & downloading this weekend.. I know I've got some spring cuties stuck int eh camera!
I planted Scilla siberiaca 'Spring Beautfy' a couple years ago, and I love it... bigger, bluer flower than the species. It seems to me though that by the time it bloomed, the crocuses in my yard were done this year. I have it paired with some miniature daffodils ('Jenny' & 'Sundial', I think).
I love the sweet scented daffs! Thalia is a little musky to my nose, like a paperwhite. I don't think I've got Earlicheer, but it's similar to Cheerfulness (double white... there's also a Yellow Cheerfulness... both late bloomers and sweetly fragrant). I realized this spring that 'Minnow' (bicolor miniature daff) is also very sweet smelling, and it's an earlier bloomer (early-midseason I'd say). Geranium is another late one, sweet and also so perky with its orange cup... it's one that gets several blooms on a stem, too, which I like.
Trying to remember... hasn't bloomed yet this year, but it seems to me that Tahiti had a nice scent, and what a knockout different sort of bloom! The orange in it really stands out... here's a photo from last year.
My Tahiti Daffs are just starting to open.....Will post some pictures in a few days--now that it is getting warmer.....
Have all my seedling trays outside today--in full shade---also--all my cuttings, like Brugs and begonias.....on my front porch by the entrance.....NO sun at all!
Planted my Cardinal Climber yesterday in it's container. No issues with too cold--as it is well protected.....I even cut open a cardboard box ans shielded them from the hot, morning sun.
Thinking of planting my Dill out today.....Only have about 3 cells of it....Maybe also my Pink 4's??? SHOULD plant out my Nasturtiums--they are getting so big! Trying to stifle my impatience....
Should bring my Clivia outside--but it is SOOOO heavy, I don't want to bring it in and out.....The pot must weigh at least 40lbs! When I bring it ouitside--it is going to stay there.....Should wait at least another 2 weeks.....
My G-Friend that gave it to me---her's are already blooming---but, she has a Sun Room...and mine has been it pretty poor light, inside, for the Winter....HUGE, though....Toying with the idea of separating it.......a bit scared to do it.....
Onr thing i can do in this "in-between" time frame is get all my pots ready fot planting. Fix up the soil in them....refresh all the ingredients.....Also my W-Boxes that I grow all my basils in.....AND--should lug out my Pregnant Onion and my dormant Brug plants---SOON......
YES! It is getting to be crunch time!!!!
Bracing for all the activity.......AHHHH.....My aching back!
Gita
1--Here is my perennial fern unfurling it's new fronds....
Have just about every tray outside today--seedlings and cuttings!
hart---Here are the Blue Bells you gave me last Spring....YEAH!!!! They "took"!!!!!
Even though they are in my "YUK" bed---but if yours could grow and bloom in a layer of rocks--mine can fight maple roots!!!!
Looking forward to seeing the blooms. Do you know if rabbits like to chew on these????
buttoneer--here is your Spinach seeds sprouting that you have me at the Seed Swap.....
They sure took their sweet time!
I have the rabbit fence around this bed already---just in case any of them feel like having a salad! This is also the bed I plan to put mu Dill seedlings in.....
Crunch time indeed!! When I start moving things in and out, here and there, I lose things! My strawberry spinach was almost dried up in their little cells.
I spent almost all day outside today. I am feelin SO GOOD!!! that rain was really dragging me down.
Hubby is tickled that I offered to shorten a flower bed and give us room to park three vehicles by the house instead of leaving one on the court, or doing the Vehicle Shuffle. I have a ton of iris to unload, and anyway needed to get all the goldenrod out of there. It sends runners out big time.-- and a big clump of grass that needed to be divided. Moved some variegated Sedum The whole area really needed cleaning out. If anybody wants to look at those iris, see my journal under Perennials for Dads Lavendar, White over Purple and from Lucy, or something like that. Really all Iris in my yard have plenty to share. I really want to tackle the other clumps and get them thinned too.
Lovely photos everyone.
DaylilyDiva, I think you are really DaffodilDiva. Your daffs are gorgeous!
This is Fortissimo with Darwin Red Oxford (I think) about to open.
Chantel, Your Bonfire is beautiful. I lost a lot of Euphorbias this winter.
Wild_Va_Rose, That Bluebird photo is lovely.
I just love the color of this Hyacinth "Jan Bos"
Sally, That little Daff is so sweet. Makes me smile.
Holly, I still don't see any Dutchman's Breeches coming up. Your making me jealous.
This Helebores is "Kingston Cardinal"
Aspenthomas, Your cherry tree is spectacular and the stone is a very nice touch.
Critter, thank you for the Solanaecae info and also the help with the Scilla Siberica.
This Daff is "Thalia". The tulip is "Miss Confection"
Gita, Your energy is amazing!
I found the emerging foliage of this Siberian Iris to be beautiful. Sorry, I can not locate the name right now.
Sally, you'd be proud of me. I just pruned a heaping wheelbarrow of old canes out of my raspberry patch!
If you've got some of that "Lucy's" iris to spare, I'd love it! I found a pot or two of irises on the side patio that belong to you (peach ones I got at the rhizome sale, I think)... they say "for Sally" LOL.
I'm taking almost all the Raspberries out of the garden. They have been growing wild for years. I would like to keep some in a well managed bed, but right now it's me them against them and I am winning. AHHHHAAAAAAA (maniacal laughter following me down to the garden)
Here we go....... I've been waiting for these tulips to open.
These are my Easter Bonnets.
Here we are all looking our best and someone has to be a little different. LOL
This one is new, I'll have to check my list and see what it is.
I didn't plant too many bulbs for this year, I'm trying to tone it down a little
