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

Pink and white camelia

Big Red

Golden Spirea. A 'Pink Princess' dwarf spriea behind and 'Wine and Roses' Weiglia on the right.

This message was edited Apr 28, 2009 3:02 PM

Wow, what a nice trillium! Your bleeding heart is beautiful! :) Nice colors on the camellias, too. All your garden beds are so nice and tidy and neat-looking-no embarrassing weeds to hide, lol.

Willow.... you're garden is beautifully neat! I love the color of those tulips!

Suzy.... I think that you should try to collect seed from those multistemmed erythroniums!! really, if you were to grow them for a couple of years a little aside from the others, you might find that you have a new cultivar! wouldn't that be awesome??!!!

RJ... Your surrogate garden sounds like a gardeners dream! Something that already has an excellent foundation (garden foundation) with lots of room to tweak and change things as like and many different little microclimates to fit those different scenarios. Do you have any before and after pictures (ok, I know you have some after pictures).

RC, that would be pretty awesome. OK, I'll keep an eye on them and try to get the seed. Maybe I should get some of those cool mesh bags Beahive has.....Do you know how to start them from seed? I think I've heard they're slow to germinate?

I really don't know that much about them other than that they are slow to germinate! But, out in nature, if they environment is ideal, they do pretty well through their own devices. But, I'm sure that their are ways to speed the process up! should be pretty cool to see what you get. I like the idea of those mesh bags. That should work perfectly!

raindrops

more raindrops

even more raindrops

and...................... rain!

that probably belongs in the weather thread! lol

Ok...... I'm not usually one for getting this off topic. But, If you like the song 'Amazing Grace' and have not heard it performed by 'IL Divo', then you should. It really picks up a minte or two into the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVxzEueJ6A

That was beautiful!! I love bagpipes!

Red what is that wonderful flower in post 6478424? I am in love with it!

Also love the Amazing Grace! One of my favorite songs.

Had a nice brake in the rain this morning..got some weeding done and some pictures taken.

One of my many columbines is getting ready to bloom.

and this one too! I love columbines. These are going to be so pretty.

These were hiding. I must have planted them, but can't find the tag!
Any clue? They are pretty.

Menton Tulip among the jack frost. Love this tulip!

My bleeding heart is so lovely this year! Full of love (hearts)!

SALLY, DON'T PULL THE PANSIES!!! When they get raggedy or leggy, just give them a hair cut, cut them back and they will continue to bloom!

Susan105

Great flower shots everyone! I'm SOOO JEALOUS!!!

Susan105

Pansies seem to go year round at my place. Mine just had a trimming yesterday and I saved a bunch of blooms to press. (future craft project!)

red..those raindrop shots are great. I love the reflection in the first one!! terrific!


We are so tired from pulling weeds this morning with Mom. Is it nap time?
Pic needs a flash..still working on it! Yikes!

Thanks folks. I figured that water drops might be the most interesting pictures that I could get in the rain.

Portland and Jan, I'm so glad that you liked it. I was sort of worried when I posted it that folks wouldn't like it as well as I had hoped.

Portland, that flower is Anemone coronaria, part of the "Harmony Mix". However, I cannot find any literature that states that Harmony mix does not incorporate parts of Anemone De Caen, and it really looks a lot like De Caen to me. I think that they may be the same.

great pics Bea.... the dogs are super cute!

Jan, I forgot to mention that I agree about the bagpipes (imagine that...given our lineage :-p ), they pretty much sold me on the song.

Great pictures everyone!!! Love the raindrops. Sure had plenty of opportunity for that today. Went out the fill the feeders and froze my fingers again! Darn it!

I don't pull the pansies unless they die, I deadhead them all summer. It's the violas I pull when they get raggedy, I'll try trimming those too. I don't plant them, they just come up all over, figured it was a present from the birds. Some of my pansies must have seeded last year, I got more of them coming up in the bed where I planted them.

Thanks. I even like the little violas. to me they seem like little unexpected "color spots" that I didn't have to pay for or plant... even better that way!!

here are a few more from a few drier days ago.

columbine tails.

when I planted it, I thought I was planting just a blueish purple anemone.

and about two weeks later...... viola!

I love getting two plants for the price of one! this is the second container that I planted of the anemones that has more than one plant in the pot and i'm still toiling over what to do about them! As in.... do I divide them or let them grow to gether and risk losing one?

They look pretty together, why not leave them as is. Love columbines, mine aren't blooming yet.

That's the way I feel about violas too.

Well, I may leave them together. But.... I fear that if I don't separate them, that 1 may crowd out the other since they are only 1/10th of an inch apart.

My columbines, that have been mine for more than a month, aren't blooming yet either! However, this one was a great price and just had to come home with me!

This message was edited Apr 30, 2009 2:43 AM

red..that is a very pretty columbine. I have not divided my anenomes yet. They have been in the ground for over 2 years and seem to get better each season. Hate to mess up a good thing.


This bed near the front door is loaded with everything under the sun for each season. The anenomes were planted along with tulips,daffodils,dutch iris,muscari all crammed in. Also have a bearded iris in for later!! They do not need much room!

Sooner or later I will need to dig up this bed and thin it out.. but for now it is doing well.

Wow!!!! I love that bed there Bea! That's gorgeous!

I fully agree that mine could stay together for a few years, but I think that they'll be harder to pull apart in a few years? I also think that they might be stuck together a little closer than yours. In the picture above, those white flecks in the dirt are the size of fertilizer beads so it gives a better size reference to tell how close they are. I'll take a better pic later on.

Wow Bea that is a beautiful spring picture. You Oregon gals have talent!

Check out this one. I had forgotten that I planted this and what a nice surprise this afternoon when it caught my eye.

Saxatilis.

This message was edited May 1, 2009 5:41 AM

This cream & red tulip is so pretty.Wish I had the name. It must have come in a mixed bag as there are only a few in the yard.

I love this one. It has every pastel color possible...well almost!