Spring is trying to move in, and the garden is starting to show some color.
Hellebores (lentenrose)
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Spring is trying to move in, and the garden is starting to show some color.
Hellebores (lentenrose)
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Starmagnolia
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Oh, how pretty! Thank you, Heidi.
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Very nice, thank you!
So pretty, thanks! We had tulips sneaking up but just had a snowstorm and it was freezing 😾
It is a rainy, damp day today, about 38 degrees F, but I still enjoyed walking through the garden to look at everything that's in bloom right now.
Bleeding heart
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Wild cherry tree
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Rhododendron
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Magnolia
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Pieris
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So nice to see the early bloomers. I didn't recognize the name Pieris but with a google search, discovered some of us know it as the lovely Andromeda.
Spring has sprung. Wait a minute, there's possible snow in the forecast for Saturday.:eek:
I'm over it, I want it to warm up, and plant as many flowers as possible, and get my hibernating plants out of the basement!
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Crabapple tree
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The gardening year is finally in full swing, and everything looks so beautiful after all the rain. Today we made it to 80F.
Foam flower
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Clematis
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Walking Egyptian onion (when the tops get too heavy, they bend over, touch the ground and start growing from there
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Lovely!!!
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I grow some vegetables in my garden and some orchids too.
Wow, where do you live that you can grow orchids in your garden?Quote:
Originally Posted by sleepgrazed
In our area, North Carolina, quite a few hardy orchids are growing.
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Lilacs in full bloom
Scent the air with perfumed spice
Memories, portent
The heavy clusters
Bend time, it’s forever May;
We are young once more
Gathering armfuls
From abandoned places, white
And purple, fragrant
Silent beauty like
Love notes from ghost gardeners
Tinged with wistful tones
Karen, I just saw your picture of that beautiful lilac, and the haiku. I love the fragrance.
The month of May has been a washout. And now, with tropical storm Alberto, there's even more rain coming.
The garden, though, is growing well. But our deck can't handle all the water.
Amazingly, the honey bees are finding their way between the downpours. The first tomatoes are appearing right outside the kitchen window.
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Beautiful Haiku Karen. Brings so many lovely memories for me 💕
Aww, thank you.
We transplanted a fig tree that is loaded this year. My husband snuck into the bush and liberated a small gooseberry tree which appears to be thriving. We also have Lillies, midnight fuschias, salvia and night sky, and red blue petunias. Guess I may need to make chutney one day. Wish I could send some to Pet talkers, not a lot of demand for fig chutney in my family 😐
Oops, not a gooseberry tree, it is a huckleberry tree!
Umm, you certainly could send some to us! :) Bet it's yummy!Quote:
Originally Posted by mon
Flowers are doing great, sure miss a vegetable garden. Not much room for one here, although,last time we had one a whole gang of raccoons used one corner of it for their community toilet. Eeeeeeew! Like who wants to eat the vegetables knowing that 🤢 🙊 One could hurl just thinking about it 😂
Most of my plants were on clearance. This saves a lot of money, especially if someone is as obsessed with plants as I am.:D It's especially rewarding with perennials, since they come back year after year.
Today I found this pot with all those beautiful Gerbera daisies, marked down from $ 13 to $ 5.
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Wow - yes, Perennials are the best - make 'em happy and they come back year after year!
Beautiful! Well done, Heidi and plants and family!
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So pretty and fresh!
Have you tried veggies in pots? I had to give up my vegetable beds a few years ago, because the surrounding trees grew and it became too shady.Quote:
Originally Posted by mon
Beans, tomatoes and cucumbers do well with about 6 hours of sun on my deck. Another bonus: No critters to destroy them!
April:
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Now:
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Excellent idea! Should try that next year as we have flowers in every pot now. Thank goodness for farmers markets!!
trees obscured a lot of space, even their sweep did not really help. found a way out, built wooden boxes in the sunny space and filled them with fertile soil. ready to disembark.
That's a great alternative! Please post some pictures.
From my friend Laura's Garden:
Garden's early gifts
Sage blossoms, chive, strawberries
Brighten a grey day
Very nice!
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I got some edamame plants just to try. They are growing well, but the harvest won't be enough for a whole meal, so I have been eating them right out of the pod. They taste a little like sugar snaps.
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They look nice and healthy, cats4ever. Why are you growing only a few of them? Lack of space or are you just trying it out this time?Quote:
Originally Posted by cats4ever
A little of both! I was curious, and I had a tiny free spot. It used to be my large vegetable garden, but over the years it has become too shady.Quote:
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All my veggies are grown in pots on my deck now.
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I never had really luck with mail order plants. The only one that's ever worked out is an Egyptian walking onion.
It will grow a small bunch of onions on top of the stem, then, the stem will kink, so that the little onions will touch the ground and then grow a new plant, hence the name.
The onions have a pretty harsh flavor, but it's a neat plant, and I had it for about 10 years now.
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We are cleaning up and renewing the gardens at my church. Someone donated three bag full of nice astilbe plants yesterday afternoon, but is handicapped and could not plant them herself. I had such a busy day, I ended up plating them after dark - even on one of the longest days of the year!
I love astilbes with their beautiful feathery blooms. Do you have some pictures? They are probably not in bloom right now.
Today, we found a shed snake skin. It's a about 3 feet long, so the snake should be a bit bigger.
I'm glad to have snakes in the garden. They are safe with me, and help with vermin in the garden.
Everybody at work will kill snakes as soon as they see them, and brag about it..:( Peoples' ignorance makes me incredibly sad!
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They are not blossoming yet - one of them died in the heat wave, but the others looks like they will live. When they blossom I will take pictures.
I found this tomato variety, called "Indigo Rose". The little tomatoes look as beautiful as they did in the picture.
But...they have NO flavor. I'm very disappointed.
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Thanks, good to know! I believe I should put a few in every salad with a nice dressing anyway. They are just too pretty to leave out, maybe a little sea salt....