garden Pics "This caught my eye today.....#2"

Ginger.. Hope your neighbors do not help themselves to all your new crops. Everything looks great! That would be a bummer!

Yeah... I'm worried about them too.

Willow. I got mine at Ritz. Ours is going out so it was $100 off.

G.

Beahive fabulous frog pix!!


Beadmom great bug!!

So many great photos lately. I need a new camera.

Tulips blooming by the garage with Akebia, this doesn't happen often. See who stuck her little yellow head in the picture?

Currant is blooming nicely.

Soooo many pretty things going on today!

great pics of the frog Bea!!! Yes the pink tree is a Cornus Florida 'Rubra' Just a guess on the Rubra part, but it's probably close.

Hi Beadmom! Hopefully you enjoy your drive through Oakridge. great bug shot!

Love the tulips Thistle!

Trientalis coming up today under my fir tree out front! Pictures tomorrow, I hope.

Great pictures everyone!! They are all so good. Love that frog.


Bea...if you're interested my sis started this thread about frogs, bet they'd love to see that beauty.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/960832/#top

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Here she is facing forward for the camera.

Great picture Bea. I just can't believe that you get that good of a close up with it having a DSLR camera. That's great!

Portland, that's too bad to hear about your sister being like that. But, at least you can recognise it!

So, I have some pictures from today. pretty much a bunch of Lewisia and some other things.

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a calluna

lewesia

clematis

and another lewisia

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japanese maple

red.. Beautiful lewesia! Since I bought my first one on the 18th..I am hooked! May need to make another trip to Woodburn to see if they have them at Al's!

I may have to go to Al's as well - do they usually have lewesia? It would be a nice outing on a nice day! Probably about an hour drive from Portland? Yesterday I went to a birthday party for my daughter's boyfriend's mother - it was out in farm country about a hour away and at first I didn't want to go so far for a Bday for someone I don't know very well. However, it was such a beautiful drive and wonderful scenery and was very enjoyable!

Judi,

I am not for sure if they have lewesia, but they seemed to have everything under the sun on my first visit. It was like a kid in a candy store! Very hard to decide what to get. As a newbie to Oregon (2.5 years) I find these new treasures all the time.
I did learn that they have 3 locations from their web site . Maybe one of these is closer to Portland.
PORTLAND METRO-AREA NURSERY LOCATIONS
Sherwood • 16920 SW Roy Rogers Rd • Sherwood, OR 97140 • 503 726 1162 • Map • Store Hours
Gresham • 7505 SE Hogan Rd • Gresham, OR 97080 • 503 491 0771 • Map • Store Hours
SALEM AREA NURSERY LOCATION
Woodburn • 1220 N Pacific Hwy (99E) • Woodburn, OR 97071 • 503 981 1245 • Map • Store Hours

My daughter lives in Portland and is attending Western Culinary Institute - Cordon Bleu program. I still get lost everytime I go up there! I have a GPS in my car...but have yet learned how to use it!!
More important things to do...gardening!


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Wow can you get behind in a couple of days without internet!!! Wonderful pics everyone!

Beahive, I agree, that leprechaun columbine is wonderful!! And your frog! And the rhodies! Nice stuff...looks like that garden would be wonderful to visit!

Judi, Your yard is beautiful as well. You have me hungry for fresh vegies with your pea pics! I think that your pretty rock flower as an aubritia...I love them but so do my slugs.

Ginger, I am jealous of your new lens! What fun that will be this summer when your new "decorations" are blooming! Not jealous of your neighbors though...have enough of my own to worry about on that front.

Thistle, Isn't it odd some of the combos that are blooming together this year? Stuff is all confused, but makes for some nice combos! Your currant is nice as well...as is your greenhouse in the other thread that made me drool!

Redchic, More awesome pics! That pink lewesia is my favorite! I also really like the jap. maple shot...the colors and textures are stunning. I can never manage to capture that kind of detail with the camera.

We spent the weekend on the dry side of the state, and enjoyed a world that is now slightly ahead of ours on the wet side.

Not so sure that the quince was meant to bloom with the lilac and the bleeding heart, but the side of the house was very colorful!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE having even a surrogate yard to grow lilacs in!

They smelled incredible...even from the other side of the house.

And the flowering almond was just starting to show it's stuff as well.

RJ..if i am successful collecting seed I will mail you some too! Wish me luck! It is so pretty!

The lilacs & flowering almond are fantastic. I have a couple tiny lilacs
that someone gave me when I first moved here. I may have a few blooms this year, but nothing like the ones in your photo's. WOW!

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I wanted some lilacs. I found a sale that has 5 bushes for $25 but they guy told me I'd be setting up a deer salad bar.

grrr..


Ginger

Rj your eastside gardens are lovely.

Loving everyone's pictures, even if I don't comment on them all-this thread is kind of a "chill zone" for me-look and enjoy....
Anyway, I just took this one of a bloom on my Corydalis Chocolate Stars. My camera doesn't have good macro ability so I struggle with these types of shots-one reason why I don't post a lot of pix...

And here's my 'sugar and spice' Tiarrella today. I think this is my favorite Tiarella.

Here's an Erythronium-I think this was from the weekend, but I downloaded it today...

Thanks all!

Suzybell.... great pictures, especially that last one!! Oooohhhh.... please tell me that you know what kind of erythronium that is??? It's unusual for them to have more than one flower per stalk!!

Ginger, yep, a deer salad bar is true! However, once they're tall enough........
They just love one of my lilacs and leave the others alone (usually). I've come to see it as a sacrificial plant.

Rj... lovely gardens and great pictures!! Whose gardens are the surrogates? What on earth are you talking about when you say you can't capture such textures with a camera.... you just did!

RJ How do you get your bleeding heart so nice and big? That is one thing that just really never has done well here for some reason. Mine is puny compared to yours. I love the lilacs, I can almost smell them! Ours are not blooming yet, not even close.
Darmera is ready to flower.

Beahive, I will definitely wish you "leprechaun" luck! It is just glorious...have not seen another columbine that I have acually liked the foilage of before.

Ginger, I agree with Redchick...if you can protect your lilacs for a couple of years until they get past easy grazing level, you are good to go. That's what it took for me to be able to grow photinia. Granted, my photinia are more like a tree than a bush, but now I get the red leaves at least! I don't have a problem with deer with my lilacs, but they are the old fashioned kind, and I have planted nummies like roses and grapes around them, so that helps too...


Susy, I think that your pics are wonderful! I really love your tierella. I have one limping along, but they are so stunning when they are happy like yours!

Redchic, My surrogate garden in E-WA is at my Mom's "fishing shack" on the Potholes Reservoir (close to Moses Lake). In truth, we consider it "ours" as we worked together to find it, talked Dad into thinking that it was a good idea, and then decorated it together. It is a little dream getaway that had a wonderful mature landscape (including a sprinkler system!) that was incredible. Of course, we have made plenty of changes to the yard over the four or five years that we have owned it, but the foundation was a dream to work with. It is a gardener's paradise to have a garden on both sides of the hill, because things like the lilacs and tomatoes that don't do much over here just thrive over there. It is only around a 3 hour drive, so we manage to spend at least one full day/night there every other week or so when the pass is clear. I could never live on that side as I would miss the forest too much, but I sure do love to garden and eat the produce from that side!

Thistle, Can't take credit for the bleeding heart as it was already in our east side yard when we found the place. I will tell you that if you add water to anything on that side of the hill, it seems to take off. We have learned an awful lot about drastic pruning tending that garden! Thanks for the pic of your darmera. Between that one and Kathy's on another thread, I can at least put a nametag on my unknown "really cool pond plant".


Our little toad population is still very low this year, but a few of the cut little kids are finally showing themselves.


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Thanks! With all the pictures I take that don't work out, it feels great for you to like the (very few) ones that do.

RC, the Erythronium is our native one, Erythronium Oregonum. I went and looked all of them over after your post, and it turns out I have three that had multiple blooms this year. The one in the pix had three, and the one behind it had two, plus another one in a different spot also had two. So, the shot above had blooms from two of them together. I got them from Buggy Crazy, if that helps..

Julie, thanks! That's the happiest Tiarella I have (hmm, wonder if that has anything to do with it being my favorite??? LOL) I'm beginning to suspect that they are fussier than Heuchera as far as dividing them. I'm beginning to think they really NEED dividing frequently. My Pink Skyrocket has been declining and looked awful this spring, so I dug it up, looked it over and decided to try dividing it, and now it's (they're) looking great and growing well again. I have the Mystic Mist-wow, can it ever be pretty when it's happy, but it hasn't been leafing out well at all. Don't know what's up with it-I just got it last summer. How cool to be able to regularly spend time on the E. WA side. A fantastic opportunity to get to see the sun in the winter! I'll bet you could grow fabulous tulips over there with the colder winters, too. Did you cut some of the lilac to bring back over here to enjoy?

A new container planted. I received the Gerbera as a present so added some snaps and lobelia to it.

This is the bed I put the other snaps and marigolds in. Saved some space for dahlias but might put iris in there.

My trillium. Four stems this year and four buds. It is maybe 8 yrs old. My BIL gave it to me.

Bleeding heart needs one more day of sunshine.

These large snowdrops have a different bloom.

Orange tulips.

'Mindy's Love' getting ready to shine.