Winter Garden Pictures - Lets See Them
Here is mine.
January 24, 2022
Three arborvitae green giants, an arborvitae emerald green and five Karl Forester grasses. Everything else is mostly the neighbor's monster oak tree and a lot of buckthorn. And the school we are trying to screen.
Update: January 6, 2024
I took the same picture two years later and you can see how fast Green Giant Arborvitaes grow. I took out the Karl Forester grass.
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functionthenlook
2 years ago
One year the gargoyle never made it back to the side garden after Halloween so I just decorated it for Christmas.
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Please, let's see your potted plants after a long winter:-)
Comments (7)Hey! Thanks Jessica. They are planted in the 1.1.1 mix as well as my jades. I love that mix because it outlasts the 5.1.1. mix. Oh, if you pot up your jade into the 1.1.1 mix, believe me when I tell you it will take off on you:-) Thank you for your kind words. Josh! I LOVE your plants. I see how happy they are frolicking in the nice windows you have. Look at what you have done with the CC. I can't believe that it is even flowering again! Bravo. Nice colors. I love that Pichira too. I almost picked one up today. What are the little guys growing next to your CC on the top pic? Cute! I see where you are keeping some of the jades too:-) Nancy! I love those orange flowers too. Did you notice the Hoya flower? That has grown off the Hoya I saved a few months ago! I keep telling them to behave, or I will have to send them the the plant masters for training. They have been good since then. Jodik! Thank you, thank you:-) No worries. I can't wait to see what's up your sleeve..lol I can tell you this. Every time I look at my Clivia flowers, I think of you. I know how much you love flowers like that and they remind me of Ameryllis. God, I can never remember how to spell that name.. Mike...See MorePicture time- lets see your tropical look...
Comments (12)mich gets some credit (or blame, depending on your point of view re design) for sharing a division of Canna 'Tropicanna' with me (seen at far right in the above photo). I broke down and bought a couple additional pots of it as well to make a fair-sized grouping. The other cannas in the bed this year are 'Wyoming', 'Pretoria', 'The President' and 'Red King Humbert' - not unusual hybrids, but I'm enjoying all of them. I apppreciate the brug cutting offer. I don't have that one (it's a beauty), but 'Betty Marshall' has already been in flower in the same bed and a couple other varieties are currently in bud....See MoreJanuary Pictures - Let’s See ‘Em!
Comments (85)Kelley - I think if my little valencia every produces I will try to grow from seed just to see what happens. Every January I setup my seeds, heat mat and grow lights in our kitchen to start all my plants for spring. I will add that to it if it every happens! MyerMike - thanks! I have been on here posting the pics since about 2016 when my poor lisbon and bearrs lime were sunburnt when i first put them in the ground. It was my first time planting a tree(we had just got the house) and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with them and I just didn't want them to die. I'd killed plenty of trees previously on a patio that was in full sun. Even my local nursery gave me BAD advice. I couldn't believe it. The good folks here have helped me get my trees thriving. I've since added a few more trees(and I want to buy more every year). I'm so thankful for this forum and all of you! Helped me help my trees. Nules - those lemons and limes are so beautiful! What do you do with them all? I hope to one day have a lime crop like that!!...See MoreTime for a potted aloe show. Please. Let's see them 2019
Comments (98)Eryn - Aloe plants (and almost all succulents) will indeed change colors due to light levels. Some will turn quite red, others a bronzy brown color. Many find these color changes desirable. It is not necessarily a sign of trouble. I find that nearly every time I repot or replant an Aloe vera plant, it will turn brownish for a while. This is probably due to stress. This Aloe vera plant is quite green in this picture - This is the same plant, looking quite bronze colored, or suntanned. If the plant is otherwise healthy, don't sweat the color change. It may be a good sign that your plant is getting enough good light. ;-)...See Morenickel_kg
2 years agoThe garden, and looking out the window toward the garden. I love when it's cold enough for jackfrost to form on the storm window, such organic patterns.
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nickel_kg
2 years ago
bengz6westmd
2 years agoNot enough remaining snow here for a good pic, so show Jan 2016 w/longleaf pine shouldering a heavy snow burden.
chamaegardener (Z5) Northeast Illinois thanked bengz6westmdfunctionthenlook
2 years agoI just took these while shoveling driveway.
Some kind of ornamental grass
Forsythia bush
Maple tree
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davidrt28 (zone 7)
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Erica X darleyensis; I think this one is 'Ghost Hills'. Of course it's been blooming since December and sailed right through 7.7 F.
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2 years ago
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoFebruary.
Late afternoon shadows on unbroken snow in the field, late January.
Mid December, before snowfall.
November frost
March Hamamelis vernalis.
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2 years agoThis is supposedly Helleborus x lemonnierae HGC Madame Lemonnier. It is ahead of my other hellebores - presumably because of the H. niger parentage. Sorry for the out of focus picture.
Jurassic Park
2 years agoThere was a typical February snow event today, light, water-laden, borderline rain event..., the kind that likes to melt, my favorite!
Snow on the Eastern Hemlocks
Snow on Southern Magnolias and Photinia 'Red Tip'
Snow on Atlas Cedar
Snow on Windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei)
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2 years agoThe ice shows the basin of my rain garden water management project of the last four years:
Warmer times:
Christopher CNC
2 years agoA light dusting this morning that was gone by noon. I know better, winter isn't over.
The snowdrops are out. Imagine seeing this world with what I hope is an easy fix secondary.cataracts.
chamaegardener (Z5) Northeast Illinois thanked Christopher CNCdavidrt28 (zone 7)
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI sometimes watch it but not in the mode for anything 'super' today LOL.
Snow on the boughs of my Redwood 'Soquel'.
The plain old American holly berries have been eaten by the birds but so far they are skipping these Highclere Holly 'James G Esson' ones. Fine with me, and Doug Tallamy LOL. (speaking of Tallamy, anybody know what happened to sam_md? It's well known that the 'real' IDs of various people on this forum are known by some members. Perhaps he has departed this mortal coil...if so, we thank him for his contributions to horticulture and our forum)
An Abies alba in the foreground with a much larger Abies firma in the background. I will be moving this and another Abies alba from an area they cannot stay any longer. One might be for sale - serious enquiries only. Msg me. I will definitely replant at least one elsewhere on my property.
'Wisley Supreme' with cicada damage still visible on stems.chamaegardener (Z5) Northeast Illinois thanked davidrt28 (zone 7)- chamaegardener (Z5) Northeast Illinois thanked DeanW45
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoWell winter is officially over but unofficially it is most definitely is not! We are expecting a very hard freeze tomorrow and Monday nights, which will kill the open flowers on this Camellia 'Destiny'.
BTW I was talking with another Maryland horticulturalist today - IRL - we are convinced it is one and the same Sam of Harford County that we know, and that he's fine. Hope that is the case and he is just no longer contributing here.
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