roses....and more..please post your flower pics..
thought I would start a new thread for flowers. As we all get more coming out we can keep this going...should be fun to see the progression of blooms from one part of the country to another. Our azaleas are all gone and the roses are bursting. There are tons of buds and many haven't even started yet . Clemmies are just starting too and the jasmines. So we should be able to keep this going for a while. I hope all will participate !
Here is a sampling. Photobucket has still not re-instituted its slideshow . If you click on a pic it will take you to the album I made for roses etc 2013. c
baptisia...this is a rare pale yellow one :
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Zepherine D at the entrance to carport :
can't remember her name :
or hers :
main rose garden by carport
by the pool :
pool wall :
by the fountain in pool area:
tradescantia, I love purple :
Madame Alfred a bower of roses as you come in the pool gate ..she has a fragrance like lychee..sweet !
one more...pool wall :
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11 years agoOh goodness, everything is just gorgeous!
Evenshade, your gardens are envious for sure!
Mtn, I never get tired of looking at the beautiful grounds surrounding your home. Just lovely.
Everyone with roses - I am envious! I haven't had the time or patience to try anything but knockouts. Some day, (sigh)!
Trailrunner, we have 9 acres, about half in woods. Had to cut a lot of pine trees to build so it left us with some openness that we've tried to replant with trees in some areas. Here is a pic of the 'backside' of the pond looking toward the back of the house. It needs to be cleaned out, but we've had such ugly weather it's still on the to-do list. The dogwoods didn't do much this year and everything is late. I hope the iris will eventually bloom out as well as the daylilies (I have way too many). We're just outside of Huntsville.
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11 years agoMtn, the light is different in this photo of the stone house than the others, the trim color looks much lighter and beautiful with the stone. I liked it when it appeared darker, too, in the winter, it is a chameleon building that takes its cues from the seasons! The tulips and cherry tree are magnificent, and the daffodils. I haven't had much luck with daffs, it is just too wet! Our last house had a perennial garden designed by the PO, containing some flowers and colors I would never have chosen. But it was always a reminder that I was just one of many caretakers, and I came to appreciate the variety, and by the time we left regarded those gaudy colors as welcome harbingers of spring.
I came home from a week in Virginia to see these yellow knockouts blooming!
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11 years agoK, don't you live in the north? For some reason I thought you did. Because mine haven't started budding yet because of all the freezes we've had on a weekly basis, and I'm in OK.
The only plants that are blooming are my Dianthus and Spiderwort, but not enough blooms to take a picture.
Today my DIL gave me this Calla Lily. It is so bushy and healthy! I've never grown CL's before, but I'm going to put it in a pot on the front porch. I read they make good potted plants indoors or out, but I want to do it outdoors. If any of you have grown these before, how much morning sun do you give them?
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11 years agoNot cultivated, clearly, but one of our happy spring scenes here is a field of yarrow that is beautiful! These views are along the side of our driveway. We have a couple of distinct areas of yarrow, about three acres of it. It will have to be bush hogged in about three or four weeks, as other, less attractive weeds will slowly win the competition for resources, although it's so wet we will have to wait until it dries up or the tractor will get stuck---- a not uncommon occurrence :-) We rmow the first 20 feet out from the drive every week, and from there it's all up to Mother Nature. Yarrow in the early spring, queen Anne's lace later on, after we've bush hogged a couple of times.
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10 years agoI have been enjoying everyones gorgeous gardens and fabulous flower pictures. We finally have warm weather here in Wisconsin. Tulips, daffodills and other early spring flowers have come and gone. Roses,peonies and others are not blooming yet.My flowering trees were a week to 10 days later than normal but as you can see by this one. It was worth the wait.
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