Show Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - February 2019
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Comments (24)Yes, thank goodness, March 1st! Red ball is a nice touch in the winter garden, Claire. Very nice. No smoking trees here (I like the photos, PL) but the swamp maples are preparing their April flowers: and the catkins on the Japanese willow have swelled, maybe doubled, since I saw them in January: Despite Mother Nature still coming through with some strong right punches, it appears things are pretty much on schedule. I still like the 6 months WITH leaves better than the 6 months without them. Jane...See MoreShow us Your Landscape - A Photo Thread - February 2011
Comments (20)It has taken me the better part of two weeks to figure out how to post photos again after Imageshack started requiring folks to register. They no longer permit simple uploads + in order to copy the Direct Link you now have to register/log in. At first I couldn't find the direct link after logging in so I've been putzing around trying to figure out which link/code I actually need to copy that gives a photo larger than my thumbprint & smaller than a drive-in movie screen. These were taken back before the change on their website but not much looks any different around the garden since. Thanks for all your gorgeous photos which drove me out the door with camera in hand to find a few interesting things in the winter garden. Butterfly bush seedhead Harry Lauter walkingstick tree/Demented witchazel Daffodils H. Cinnamon Snow Carex/Japanese sedge 'Ice Dance' Lavandula/Lavender Provence...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - May 2019
Comments (54)So many pretty pictures. Prairiemoon2, I like that hosta, as well. I think we are all behind on our work. Spring is the time for doing things outside, and Ma Nature is not cooperating. I still have work to do on our little sailboat for the summer, and I can't get to it with this kind of weather! Very frustrating. I'm tired of the continual damp chilly wetness! I love the picture of you oriental poppy bud. I have a poppy the birds planted (in honor of their method of planting I call it my Oriental Poopy--because I'm just that funny and I have two boys) and each year I wonder how many gardeners pull a stray seedling because they so resemble thistles! As for Baptisia, I believe they do have a large taproot, which is why I wanted to start from seed. I've seen some in the store but I'm not keen to buy them. I'd pot up a seedling any day, but I don't like getting mature taproot plants form a nursery. They are supposed to be slooooooowwwwwwww growers, and mine sure did follow that path! I'm am very glad to hear they are tenacious, though! Claire, I don't remember seeing Spanish bluebells before. They go on the "want" list! Very nice! I also have an unnamed lilac in the same color, so I wonder if it is a Charles Joly. Still waiting for the buds to open so I can smell it. It is doing just OK in it's spot. I really need to pile some compost/leaf litter over it for some extra help. It gets plenty of sun, but I've been doing some pruning of very old growth the last couple or years and it still needs more work. Claire, I also want to say something about your "forest." My attitude towards trees and sun made a 180 degree shift last year after reading Ken Druse's book The New Shade Garden. It is really lovely, in my opinion, and was inspiring to me. He has multiple pictures of trees living in the canopy which are normally planted by landscapers in full sun. There is an astoundingly beautiful zen quality of seeing a redbud in the canopy with a few beautifully shaped branches reaching in all directions for the sun. Each bud seems to be highlighted and appreciated, instead of a mass bundle of buds like you see in full sun. I have fallen in love with what happens in the canopy of my tall oaks. It's really changed how I view my shade. I would love to see your natural forest. I'm sure it is just as inspiring! And, on a side note, I have one Aralia 'Sun King' which has obviously been the hotel for some slugs this spring. Finally put out the beer canisters, and boy are the slugs heading for the bar now, thankfully. Poor Aralia....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - October 2019
Comments (48)The sun is out this morning, despite a frosty 32 degrees @ 6am. It's warmed up a little and the wind has died down. I was able to get a few photos of color around the yard. The way the trees are situated around us, when fall arrives, they block the sun a lot more. My front bed is full sun all summer but in fall there are 3 hrs during the day that the top of a neighboring tree shades most of it. Which isn't a problem in the front, but in the back, it makes it impossible to plant fall crops. That's a pretty color on that Azalea, Deanna. And I like that Bolero Mum. Aronia Native Oakleaf Hydrangea...See MoreNHBabs z4b-5a NH
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