Garden Pics: April shows brought these May flowers #5!!!

Willow your yard is beautiful!!! There are so many things I would like to put in....but when the entire yard is only about 48' by 20'.........I will stuff it as full as I can get it!

Willow.. everything looks beautiful in your garden. I am excited to see more of your yellow and orange garden as it grows this summer. Will be stunning !

Julie….I haven’t found the right guy for my yard either. Nice article about your family business, looks like a place I would like to use if need be. Guy and the Clem. were gifts from my sis for her birthday a couple of years ago. I put them both on her oak where she can see from her favorite easy chair.

Actually there were only about 4 other people when I went to Freddies, (the one on 11th rc) so I practically had the place to myself. Except that the woman in line in front of me bought over $300 worth of 4” pots!! I actually left and came back again while they were checking her out.

Willow…..your garden gets prettier everyday. Really like ‘Lem’s Cameo’

Thanks for the comments on my business...not where I would have expected to find myself when I was thinking "I want to be ____________ when I grow up", but I am good at what I do, and have met a lot of great people over the years.

Bea, Sorry to hear about your daughter's car. What a mess! But you are right...good thing she wasn't in it! Cars fix or can be replaced...people not so much! You would be amazed at how many estimates I write a week due to "hit and run" drivers. Most aren't that bad, but doesn't say much for the direction that society is heading...

Willow, Your yard is just stunning! I love the green green green garden right now! So much color and texture! And I too can't wait to see your orange/yellow bed come alive! Don't you just love Lem's Cameo? The blooms are so pretty when they are fully open, but the color contrast of the darker un-opened blooms adds the perfect touch! I have been trying to get a good pic of mine over the last couple of days, but the lighting has never been right. Will keep trying!

Sally, Isn't it funny how you can like the tree men, but you know that you will "know" when you see yours? It is wonderful that you were thoughtful enough to put the gifts where Mom could see them from inside. It has to make her heart happy every day!

So it was threatening rain when I got home tonight and the lighting was NOT good for pics, but there were so many surprises that had popped out since yesterday that I just had to take pics anyway!

I don't even remember seeing color on the buds on this tree peony this weekend, but kept my nose to the grindstone rather than enjoying the garden, so may have just missed it.

And although this flower is another love/hate relationship for me (the name escapes me at this time...c something...), I love the fact that it blooms so early, and it had a late visitor this evening.

I love this little poppy...Double Tangerine. It is not only beautiful, but it reseeds well and seems to bloom forever!

That poppy is great RJ. Is it a papaver orientalis or some other perennial type?

Sally, My pic doesn't show up as well as yours did, but imagine my surprise when I saw one white branch (to the far right back) coming out of this pink azalea!

I'll have a few more pics later on tonight. But, I was so happy to get a chance at a decent shot of this butterfly. When it's wings are open, they're blue. But I'm not sure if it is "the blue butterfly" that is much talked about. I don't think so, but maybe.

And the white part has a little pink stripe!

That's a neat find RJ. Might be a good reason to get out that air layering kit!

Redchic, The poppy is Papaver rupifragum Double Tangerine Gem. Too early here for the orientals, although I have some stunners if the rain doesn't turn them into muck balls. I have plenty of seeds from DTG if anyone would like some...can't stop myself from collecting as it is just SO nice!

This is an unknown miniature iris that snuck out for me today. Have not seen it before (have tons of iris that came from grandma's yard from way back that have never bloomed for me), and am not sure I really care for it all that much, but it was my first true iris bloom, so had to take a pic.

Julie, I will have to put this one on my want list!!!! It is beautiful!! And I love Poppies!

Redchic, You are right...air layerin kit coming up, right after I finish last weekends "to do" list.... Someday!!!

I am jealous of your butterfly pic! I swear I chased one of those darn things all over the yard on Saturday, and it never sat still long enough for me to even get a pic with the wings closed! They almost glow blue when they are flying, don't they? Mine apparently wasn't fond of , how does Beahive put it? Oh yeah...the "crazy lady with the camera"!

Columbine are starting to bloom.

Last one for the night. My painted fern is starting to really show it's stuff.

OK, dork move...can you tell that I am tired. Let's try the painted fern again! Guess that's why the offer the "preview" function!

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Cute Tiddlywinks RJ. Ahhh.... tear up the to do list and go straight for the gusto. The plants have their own time frame. lol Thanks for the info on the poppy. I'll have to look into that.
There were two of those butterflies in the area and I started to try to get a picture of one. That thing would not let me get within 10 feet of it. Then I spotted this other one. It landed and stayed there.... until I finally left!



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Shelly love the Butterfly!!!

rc……did you see I had water droplets on my marigold? I’d just watered! LOL
Thank you for the iris. That butterfly is another keeper

Bea….you have the best looking toads I’ve ever seen. I still think they belong in a children’s book.

Julie…..Beautiful pictures, everyone’s are. Love the blue w/visitor and the Double Tangerine. Too funny about your azalea!! It’s pretty anyway. Mom has a hosta that used to be variegated. Maybe the plants are fed up with all this messing around. LOL
The painted fern made me sad, I was in the co-op that ordered JPF’s and got Christmas ferns instead (which I don’t really care for). It was a mixup at the grower, they mislabled the plants. I’ll use them somewhere, maybe I'll take them back in the woods. I was really looking forward to JPFs.

Nice pictures, guys. Love the poppy. Julie, I'm jealous of your peony. And the blue butterfly. Oh my - I don't think I've ever seen those here.

Patricia - I think I understand now. You actually have two houses, right? How can you fit so many nice things around one home??

Trisha - I was thinking of Laura today? How's she doing? Is she getting any time in the yard?

Laura has been having some allergy/Asthma issues but she has been getting out in the yard some.....got her seeds sown in her back area.....we went out to the garden center and looked around today.....her next big project is to quit smoking!!!!! Sure hope she makes it this time....I know, from personal experience, that it will help at least some of her issues...so wish her luck!

Think it is time for me to call it a night....have a good night everyone.

Thanks for the update. Good luck to her on the quitting smoking thing. I know it isn't easy. And if she's having asthma/allergy issues . . . well, poor thing!!

Tell her we miss her.

Kathy

Definitely good luck and good wishes are being sent Laura's way. She'll make it, even if it takes many tries.

Thanks Katie and Sally.

Katie.... if you use google images for blue butterfly, I'm sure that they'll be loads of pictures, of the one that makes the news every now and then, with their wings open. They're sooooo pretty. They're protected and that why the occasional news article surfaces.

Sally.... I did notice the water drops. Wonderful!! Good trick huh!!

a few more from my walk today.

a slightly different shade for a camas.

getting ready to open

a small field of them. Actually, the trail goes through there two. I think that the camas may have won that battle.

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and the last.

Part of an Iris. ok, this one was taken in my yard.

Katie.... here you go. Fenders Blue Butterfly http://oregonstate.edu/~wilsomar/Persp_FBB.htm

However, that is not the only one that's talked about. But, that is the one in my picture!

Cool you got that picture. I didn't plan the water drops, just spotted them after I watered and it just so happened I had my camera in my pocket. The things I learn on DG. LOL

I love the color and shape of the camas. What trail!!!

That white Iris looks like a really fine fabric, does that make sense?

Sally....Yep, always very valuable information that we learn here! lol The fabric makes perfect sense to me. and I can see that.

Sally, I am sorry about your painted fern experience! It is so disapointing when you are all excited about something you purchase, and then find out it's mis-labeled!

Redchic, What a gorgeous trail! Love the camas...wish they were so prolific here! Your iris is stunning too! Almost iridescent. My butterfly must be different than yours...doesn't look like Fender's gets up this far. Now I am really going to be walking around the yard like a mad woman trying to get a picture of mine so you can see him.

I was ten minutes late to work this morning because I couldn't resist taking a few pics while my car warmed up. The colors were absolutely vivid this am...of course there wasn't enough light to get the full effect....I could have just sat there and admired the beauty of the colors for hours.

This is an exbury that has been struggling along for several years. It is finally getting a good foothold.

Another pic that shows it's color range a little better.

Still can't get the full shot of Lem's Cameo to glow in my pics like it does in person. Was a lot darker pink this morning than usual as the rain weighed down all the blooms and you could see a lot more of the dark backside.

This is the color that the whole bush just glowed with.....

Purple rhody, which I write about on a new thread - philosophy 101

Beautiful pictures everyone.
This is a shot up the other side of the house. My neighbors yard really helps.

A pot of daffs that my sister's gave my mom last Nov. on her b-day. They are outside her bedroom window.

I think this is FMNs and pink strawberries under the blueberry bushes.

Another yellow Monarch something

And a pink one.