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Jenn
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoDaffodils are mostly done and deadheaded, but muscari and tulips are going strong. (The deer spray I tried this year really worked so far!)
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Comments (46)The spiky purple plant is Bauer's Dracaena. So far I've actually been able to keep it alive in a window in my guestroom so it will be making a return appearance this season. It was growing in a pot. I probably had close to 70 containers last year. The Brugmansia is 'Charles Grimaldi'. I bought it in a gallon container at a nursery last spring so it's not old at all. They grow really fast. I took cuttings and had no luck keeping them alive but the mother plant stayed potted in the basement all winter mostly dormant. She is now starting to send out new growth-should be interesting this year. The biggest problem I have when I have success wintering over something tender is accomodating the size in year two. Last fall I had to let a banana get frosted because it just got too big to bring inside. Peregrine, great shots of the Boston show. Your closeups are exquisite. With all the wonderful pictures, I don't feel so bad about missing it. Sue...See MorePost your Spring blooms here!
Comments (182)Hi KarenPA, I don't, but this lady seems to say it's inevitable: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/04/gardens-bulbs-alliums Excerpt: Perfect partners Alliums have ugly leaves. Actually, they are lovely in spring but by the time the flowers appear they are manky and on the wane. Great leaf obscurers include geraniums, santolina and Alchemilla mollis. Sedum spectabile makes a good partner, forming a succulent mat of foliage around the base, then springing into flower some time after the alliums have faded. Van der Kloet also recommends grey-leaved hostas, Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Overdam', Campanula latifolia 'Alba' and Geranium magnificum....See MoreShow your Spring jades! 2019 :)
Comments (79)Rob, I knew you would do such a great job. Very very nice there and the colors are nice. Look at the yellow on the edges of your Maruba. Nancy, even now I am still getting burn on a few even though they have been out for weeks. It's the lack of sunny days then hit hard by a hit sunny day doing it....Yours look amazing. I will post a couple I just took too..So good to see your pics again.. Amy, I LOVE that crystal. I am also a collector of rocks and place them in between my plants. Very nice....See MoreSpring 2019, Week 4, Planting Madly Yet? And, Here Comes Rain/Flooding
Comments (37)Amy, Five dogs is a lot! When we had 8 dogs (because our Honey showed up as a skinny, starved and apparently pregnant stray), only 3 or 4 slept indoors in the house and the rest slept in the garage. The three we have now all are spoiled house dogs, and they're getting to where they don't like going outside when it is too cold, too hot, too wet, too windy, etc. I guess they are spoiled from living inside a climate-controlled house. I hope y'all have a great week and that the wedding is perfect. I bet your dad is really enjoying having everyone around a bit more right now. I used to get livid over the herbicide drift, but what good does it do me to let my emotions get all riled up? I have tried (really, really, really hard) to remove emotion from the equation because I just want to be able to live with a peaceful, happy soul. This is one reason I don't document everything and file complaints---I just don't want to end up in a perpetual war with everyone who sprays, and I guarantee y'all that people never will stop using herbicides. I did tell Tim I wanted to put up a big billboard across our front pasture near the bar ditch that says something like "Organic Garden: Stop Spraying Your Herbicides Carelessly and Killing My Plants", but he was not a fan of the idea. lol. Oh, and I was just kidding about doing it.....but there are days when it seems like a good idea if I thought anyone would change their ways because of it, and I do not think that they would. I think I found the source of the Round-up drift, and it is a fairly close neighbor. (sigh) I hope that killing what they wanted to kill was worth the two dozen tomato plants that we lost to their drift here. I wonder how strong some of this crap is that they use. Y'all might remember that several years back---maybe 4 or 5---somebody in the road spilled a tank of herbicide in the road or at least had a big major leak from a tank that ran down into a portion of our bar ditch. I didn't see it happen and only became aware of it after the fact when that area turned brown and died while everything around it was green and thriving. . It was a broadleaf weedkiller, easy to tell because all the broadleaf plants died and the grasses did not. So, here we are 4 or 5 years later and there's still only grass in that area---everything around it has wildflowers. Obviously that soil is contaminated and I assume the contamination is so bad because the herbicide ran into the soil in a concentration greater than what is sprayed through the air. I expected to see the wildflowers return to this area, but they still haven't. After that spill we stopped collecting the grass clippings when we mow the bar ditch. We used to catch them in the riding mower's grass catcher and use them as mulch or as fodder for the compost pile, but we don't any more. The rain mostly missed us too, but I am not going to complain because our soil remains incredibly wet from all the previous rain. We ended up with about a half-inch, which is much less than the 2-3" or even the 3-4" that the QPF predicted for us 7 days out from the multi-rain event. I'm not complaining. Heavy rain fell west of us, moving north towards OKC. It fell over a huge area to our south with so many problems caused that it makes my head spin just thinking about it. Overnight it fell to our south/southeast. All we had here was light rain, mist, clouds and, today, fog and mist. I miss the sunshine and hope it comes out of hiding today. Larry, Your garden might be spotty, but it sounds like you'll have plenty of everything regardless. Jennifer, There's something to be said for planting only a reasonable number of tomato plants. I might do that next year because this year my tomato plantings are totally out of control, and I'll pay the price for that by having to preserve tomatoes like mad this summer. Luckily, I am not a sentimental tomato grower, so when I have harvested and canned, frozen and dehydrated all I want to preserve, I can ruthlessly yank out the plants and throw them on the compost pile without a second thought, keeping only a small handful for fresh eating. I always remind myself when that time comes that (to steal my cousin's daughter's favorite childhood phrase) that "you are not the boss of me" (I'm speaking to the tomato plants there) and out come the excess plants. There are people here in my neighborhood who think it is a crime to pull out healthy tomato plants that still are producing. Well, that's their issue, not mine, because my large number of tomato plants are a tool that serve me and when their service is done, I want to be done with them and replant that space in something else that will provide a different harvest. I also have no desire to spend the entire long, hot summer trying to keep 100 tomato plants watered and happy and healthy because that becomes an increasingly difficult battle at some point every summer. I'd rather have southern peas growing at that point because you generally don't have to water them much if at all. I believe I could give up canning, freezing and dehydrating tomatoes in a heartbeat at some point and just grow a few for fresh eating each year, but I am not at that point yet. I think I might retire completely when Tim retires from working. Well, maybe I'd make one or two salsa batches per year for us. Just for us. Rebecca, It sounds like it was the perfect day for you to get a lot done yesterday. I planted corn and beans yesterday and this morning, while it is foggy and misty out, I'm going to start some hot-season flower seeds in flats. It is hard to guess how many to start because so many volunteers are so slow to pop up and show themselves in the garden this year. I don't know if we'll have less because of all the excess autumn/winter rain and the excessively wet ground we've had since September, of if they are just slower to appear. Or, if maybe I mulched so heavily last year that they cannot sprout. Time will tell. This year continues to remind me a great deal of 2002 when we stayed cool and rainy through June and then were instantly hot and a whole lot less rainy. I wonder if that will happen this year? It wasn't the worst year ever as the cool-season plants stayed productive very late into spring and almost into summer. The only hard part was the ultra-brief transition from cool to hot. My broccoli is trying to head up. I hope we are going to get normal heads and not buttonheads. It seems awfully early considering how late (compared to most years) that I planted. Dawn...See More
punky5656
4 years ago
@katob. Yes, it’s toronto! I looked up the order. But those are a distant memory (and future wish—-I will plant them again). The newest blooms are the parrot tulips. Loving them!! The last two phots are “incredible parrot” and they are HUGE!! Reddish orange with bolts of pink shooting through I am in love
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sandyslopes z6 n. UT
4 years ago
Daffodil 'Tahiti'
Muscari
My only daffodil 'Chromacolor'
Hyacinth
Not a bulb but pretty buds on the crab apple.
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katob Z6ish, NE Pa
4 years agoPunky those tulips are amazing!... and I need to keep my eyes open for a nice crabapple :)
I took a bunch of pictures during the weekend gloom. Tulip season is my favorite, here's 'Pink Impression' along the street.
A couple in the vegetable garden
A few more in the vegetable garden
a nice double which is nearly swamped in weeds, but I don't always mind the weeds.
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4 years agoThe doubles did not handle all the wind and rain well, but fortunately a few strays are taking up the slack. I'm not sure how they got mixed in there...
tulip 'Muvota'.
I like how this one started green and will turn all yellow.
and a few daffodils which I keep saying I'm going to divide.
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4 years agospring beauty (claytonia) is a native bulb which will open up in the sun.. if it ever returns.... (the claytonia is at the base of the birch).
and snowy rice cake plant (Arisaema sikokianum), a tuber kind of plant from Japan.
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KarenPA_6b
4 years agoSome late blooming bulbs:
Spring Green and White Triumphantor tulips returning from planting 3 years ago.
Chinatown only 3 bulbs return this year
Camassia leichtlinii Caerulea Due to the rain, this is the best that I have seen these blooms.
I forget what these are but they are very nice.
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biondanonima (Zone 7a Hudson Valley)
4 years agoI was away for the weekend and came home to a pretty surprise - my species tulips bloomed while I was away! The regular tulips I have in the same area were real duds so I assumed these little guys would be too, but they finally appeared! These are batalinii little gem. I love the orange with the purple muscari!
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4 years agobiondanonima, nice color combo.
My species tulips are brightening up the yard......
Tubergen's Gem
Peppermint Stick
Dan (zone 5b) WI
4 years agoSome of the “mid” season tulips are almost in bloom
^ tulips that a landscaper friend of mine gave me (the company has extras) a couple of years ago- they keep coming up year after year, even if the hosta shades them out by the beginning of summer
^ I read all about tulips last year and for these ones I let the foliage die completely ( until they dried out) and applied fertilizer in fall and now I have two flowers (this was originally only one tulip) - and the flower size is the same as last year!
^same for this one- this one decided to grow more ”sister” bulbs( only one flower,) but the bloom size did not decrease
^love the COLOR
^ love the pansies in bloom, started them from seed and they survived a harsh winter only to give me such a beautiful burst of color
^ my neighbor‘s tulips, I admire these tulips because they come up year after year, They are probably older than me (Im not THAT old..)
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4 years agoMy lily flowering tulips have been around for a while. They get a little smaller year to year, but the lily flowering tulips have a place in my heart because I think their form is so elegant.....
Marilyn
Red Shine
Mona Lisa
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4 years agoThe Darwins on the west hill are gone by now, but now blooming on the east hill....
Darwin Tulip 'Pink Impression'
Some random tulips around the yard......
This shows how tulips like our sandy soil. My neighbor tossed a bunch of bulbs over the hillside and they managed to take root.
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4 years agoBulbs here are still doing their thing....
Here's Marilyn still flowering now with Alliums, which all planted themselves in this area. 'Purple Sensation' are the only alliums I've had spread like this.
A patch of Marilyn in front.
Tulip 'Silver Parrot'
Allium 'Gladiator', a tall variety
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4 years agoYou know those mixed bags of lilies you can buy at big box stores? These came from one of those bags.
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4 years agomazerolm, people tell me I have a short growing season! You must have a love for the garden and flowers to make the effort in z3. It's all looking so good!
This year I've had some "no shows". Maybe because of our record breaking rain? Last fall I planted 50 Muscari, comosum plumosum and 10 Ornithalum that I haven't seen yet. They may still show up, but the clock is ticking!Still have alliums around the yard....
One patch of white giant alliums.....
Hyacinthoides hispanica
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