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16 years ago

Some of the peonies are starting to bloom. Just the lighter colored varieties are open. The dark colors are about a week away. There's some other flowers mixed in. Everything is late and/or water logged and it's cold and raining again!!!

Karyn

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daniellalell
16 years ago
So pretty Karyn..I love the pic of Kyle and the doggy.
My irises are starting to bloom too. I have a baboon bottom that opened this morning. And some others that are getting ready to open.
It's raining here again too. So sick of it. Managed to get a few things in the ground before it started up again. I need to get some peonies.
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fool4flowers
16 years ago
Those are so pretty. Looks like spring. Daniella I wanna see a baboon bottom, lol.
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karyn1
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I want to see the Baboon Bottom as well. I read about it in one of your other posts and didn't realize it was an iris. Who cares what it looks like? I'd buy it just for the name. lol
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lovelyiris
16 years ago
Hey I don't want to see a baboon bottom I want one of the plants. LOL

Beautiful pictures as always Karyn. I just hope ya'll don't get as much rain as we had here last spring. I can honestly tell you that it rained EVERYDAY for 2 months solid. Then the 3rd month it rained at least 3 or 4 days out of the week that month. Needless to say nearly EVERYTHING here drowned. Except for the cannas and elephant ears they dearly loved it. I lost so many of my irises and other plants I was just about ready to throw in the towel and forget about gardening and having flowers everywhere.
Everything was under about 3 inches of water and the ground was so wet everything just rotted. Let me tell you irises are so nasty smelling when they rot. You would have thought there was a sewer plant around here somewhere. Just thinking about the smell still makes me sick at my stomach.

I pray that ya'll will be given some relief sometime in the very near future. The bad things about rain is .... you can't stop it. You can always water something if it's too dry, but I don't know what one can do when everything is so wet and there's no place for the water to go so the stuff can dry out. I kept thinking about digging some of the plants up and I'd say, nah, it's got to stop raining soon. Boy was I ever DEAD WRONG. I wish I would have dug a bunch of stuff up, then I wouldn't have had to start all over from scratch nearly.

Happy Gardening, Get yourself a raincoat and work outside anyway. I do sometimes....lol

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neonposey
16 years ago
Karyn: your pictures are great. I absolutely love peonys and finally have a clump thats thriving after soooo many years of trying them. I just picked one to bring in this morning.

Daniella: i googled baboon bottom and its beautiful! Not like a baboon bottom at all! LOL.
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threas
16 years ago
Beautiful blooms, Karyn. I love the picture of Kyle and your doggie too! I get to see some of your yard in that one also!LOL
Ya, Daniella, I want to see a "Baboon Bottom" too! ;^O
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pagrdnr
16 years ago
Nice pics. My peonies are getting ready to bloom but none open yet. They are wite also. I was worried they wouldn't bloom because I heard somewhere that if you move a peony it will not bloom for 5 years but mine are covered in buds and they have been moved for the past two years. The wisteria is really nice. I saw one trained into a tree form and in bloom when I was going somewhere the other day it it was amazing. I was thinking about trying it but read that it is really invasive. Is this true?
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vaskirt
16 years ago
Karen, What is the orange one with three flowers ? All of the peonies are just beautiful. You are just the opposite of me, my dark ones bloom first, then my white ones. How strange. Please send Marian a baboon bottom...LOL
PS: I want the little brown haired flower with the red shirt on. I would do anything to have a grandchild like that.. he is so sweet.
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sibhskylvr
16 years ago
Karyn

Beautiful! I love the peonies! How do you find the time?? :) I can't seem to find any free time at the moment! How does the old saying go 'To many pans in the fire' or something like that? That's me!

Mike
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karyn1
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16 years ago
That particular wisteria isn't invasive. It's an American variety. The Oriental wisteria are the invasive ones. The blooms aren't fully open yet, when they are it's really pretty.

Edna those are perennial poppies. You better be careful what you ask for. I might just pack Kyle up and send him with a bunch of plants. lol At least he doesn't pull up all my flowers anymore and can actually help some. He even has his own little plants in the greenhouse and I'll let him plant some stuff at the farm. Every morning we have to go out and look at his plants. It's really pretty cute.

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daniellalell
16 years ago
I'll post a pic of the baboon bottom when I get back from the school run. So far only one has opened, I dont know how many there will be, so I dont know if I will have enought to share yet, but I will when I have enough. Plus I divided all my irises last year, and now they are all over the yard, I have no clue what's where. I think I bought them 3 yrs ago? Yeah, last year they didnt bloom cuz I divided..so this is their 2nd bloom for me. At the time it was just 1 plant in a pot, and no bloom yet. I did buy it just for the name, lol, how could I resist.

My 2 girls are the same way. Gotta have their own lil gardening areas. The 4 yr old will plant anything, lol. She calls the seed capsules from the maple tree "tree frogs" and she planted so many last year. I had alot of black walnut seedlings pop up this year, I dont know if it was from her or the squirrels.
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karyn1
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16 years ago
It looks like I'm going to have to divide my iris again. It's the yellow bearded variety and they have very few bloms this season. I thought that I'd divided them a couple years ago but it must have been longer. I had all kinds of colors but somehow the yellows took over and they are my least favorite. I hope I don't find any iris borers when I dig them up. Those things freak me out, ICK!!!! I'll post when I divide them if anybody wants some.
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daniellalell
16 years ago
ooo Karyn, can I get on that list please? I don't have any yellows..just purples and the pink/purple baboon bottom.
I havent had any iris borers *knock on wood*, so I havent seen any in real life. The main bug to gross me out are grubs. Especially tree grubs ((shudder))
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eloise_ca
16 years ago
Ohhhh, I love the peonies too! What is the little round purple flower? My bearded irises are all done blooming. Yep, that red flower (don't tell Kyle we are calling him a flower) is priceless! Adds a lot to that green lawn.
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karyn1
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16 years ago
Daniella you'd just love the iris borers. They are giant white grubs! I'll let you know when I dig them up. I'll probably do it sooner then later. Since they aren't blooming it's not like I have to wait for anything. Eloise that little purple thing is a chive flower. I had them in my herb garden but now they are everywhere. The seeds must have blown all over the place. I don't think Kyle would object to being called a flower. Right now he's going through his "I want nail polish" stage. I just have to remember to take it off before he goes to school. lol
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daniellalell
16 years ago
lmao Karyn!! That's too funny. Kyle is so dang cute.
Um, please dont send me any iris borers in the mail as a joke, lol. O I have goose bumps just thinking about them. Thank you!
My chives spread too, and I didnt realize what it was at first, till I already pulled about 20 of them..oops, lol. I had some in a tiny lil pot last year and it sat on my back steps all winter..I can't believe it but they actually came back! And only in about 2.5" of dirt!
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