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Dianne, you are such a show off!!!!!


Carol Jean, I never clean out my flower gardens until the last minute either. You just never know when the frost might hit again.

Well---I feel that way too. And this is the first year for these crocus--I just planted last fall (I think)--didn't record it--my bad

Diane--when you are good--well, you are good !!!

Beautiful flowers for sure !!!!

Yup JunieGirl...Diane does have such a variety of gorgeous flowers in her garden!!

I fell behind on some topics, due to computer problems. Am slowly catching up and enjoying the pics. So pretty.

My Bee's Jubilee blooms pink and white. Looks just like smaller version of Nelly Moser.

Thanks Tamara

Show us a photo when it blooms. I want to see what I am missing..

Will do, but you have a long wait ahead of you

I am a patient person. They say god things come to those who wait and wait and wait.
I'm waiting.

I found a Little bit of green in the garden today. The snow has melted mostly.



A picture of the rock gardens



And a picture for Lynne of my weeping pussy willow. It's been in for 3 or 4 years now and it's probably 2 1/2 feet tall.

Cool rock gardens Mel!!!! It is great that you have seen some green underneath the snow!

I couldn't believe my eyes. While I was delivering the paper, I saw daffs, tulips and iris poking they heads up. I also saw sedums coming out and the bright red peony shoots!

really cool rock garden Mel.

WOW - I just saw mel's pictures - very nice rock garden, and I love your weeping pussy willow! Thanks for sharing that with me - I am very disappointed in mine currently - I don't think I should have cut it back to 2 inches from the trunk when it was first leafing out - all the new branches are growing straight up!!! Not weeping at all! And it does appear that it will only get as high as the graft is - that is not very high for a tree at all - oh, well... it will be an experiment for sure.

~~~~~~~~~~ Not Yet!! a couple more weeks maybe!!

Melcom

Are you the one who told us they were carrying rocks to make this?
One at a time ?
that is cool.

blooming today was star gazer lilies.



the bed is between the sidewalk and the road on a main road in down town savannah



and i'm guessing most of you have never seen them naturalize. i never had but they are beautiful

Are they fragrant?
Mine sure are.
They are so nice .

i don't know. i was stopped at a stop light, saw them, took the picture, then the light turned green

Jiffy, thank you for the brightness! Those flowers are gorgeous and makes me antsy for my season to come.

Dodge, I do the stonework and mother nature has provided the ledge. My whole property is ledge, almost all the dirt I own has been trucked in. I'm always lugging rocks around here and building walls. Broken my finger and thumb doing it. Stitches too. Here I am working on a spiral garden, Shirley is gonna miss it. I never share pictures of myself,




I love rocks :ding:

Here's the same rock garden before I started reworking the top section last year. It was all weeds up above, now there are three small gardens and a pond up there.

Before:



During (and dormant):




After will come this summer.

By the way, the yellow baby sled in the picture is my absolute best friend outside. I've had that thing since my daughter was a baby and she's 11 now. I drag it around everywhere in the garden. Weeding, lugging big rocks or piles of small rock, carrying around seedlings or store bought plants searching for the perfect spot for them, seed collecting, etc. It is the best garden tool ever!

nice mel. and i don't have rocks. at all. all my rocks are brought in. we have sand.

Jiffy! Come up and get some, I have plenty.

don't tempt me. loz can testify to me gathering rocks on every trip north!

I drive my family crazy. Everywhere I go , I steal rocks.

Come anytime! I'll show you some good rock gathering spots around town too,

wow

Your doing well.

I spent about 4 hours last weekend weeding, cleaning up, and planting new seeds for spring. My bulbs are just about in bloom and then guess what happened today? It snowed! It's almost April in Seattle, we're not supposed to be seeing snow. Oh well, hopefully the cold weather will officially be gone for good now that mother nature got that out of her system in our area.

It will melt fast.

It might benefit the seeds. Shock them into germination. DId you plant some lettuce and Onions and radishes?

Our favorite firsters.

b

I haven't gotten brave enough for planting edibles yet. I planted lots and lots of flower seeds. All those seeds that I've collected through the seed tag games got put out there. I'm so disorganized though. I just grabbed packets of seeds and through them out at random, didn't mark where I put what. I have a feeling that when they all bloom I'll be making a few posts in the mystery plant section. Oh well, I remember plant names better when I know what they look like anyway.

Cheryl...the natural gardener.

SO what the heck.. I get wild flower mixes which are probably all swept off the floor at the gardencenter.
It is fun to not know what your getting. I am just as disorganized as you ..

Went chasing frogs today instead of doing house work.. There was a lul when I baked 2 pies. One peach and one blackberry.. I had the berries frozen from last summer and the peaches also.

See I dont do anything according to Hoyle either.

Great pictures Jiff. That's why we should always have our camera. Don't drive, talk on the phone and take pictures at the same time. May be dangerous.

gosh, you're made a great yard for having nothing but a ledge to work with.

You should show more pictures of yourself. You look lovely. :wink:

Mel, is that salvia you have growing there? Isn't that what kids are smoking now?

My grand daughter, Darbi, gave me this pot with this little tulip bulb 3 years ago. I leave it outside in the same pot, same dirt and it keeps coming back.

this jasmine smells so good I can smell it all the way down the driveway.




sweet little dogwood.

I have my sedum in the ground but I'm going to put some in pots like Dianne does.

Wow your doing well in the Pots.

You have my Strawberry jar.. I put hens and chickens in mine.

I like your oval driveway. You have a real nice Island to plant on.

I put those hens and chicks you sent me in that pot too. I've got pansys in there right now too.

Most of that driveway will be gone - sorry to say.

Your place looks lovely tho.

thanks. That jasmine smells delicious.

Sheri I can't wait for my jasmine to bloom~ Your Jasmine smells so good I can smell it all the way here!!!

Isn't it cool to have that tulip from Darby bloom for you year after year,, Pretty color too!

I love your drive way too,, I would have a lot of fun designing a flower bed for that!!
I have a lot of different sedums in containers,, like Dodge I have a strawberry pot,, this year I have sedum & cactus succulents in it,, some of the succulents I had in it last year out grew it,, and I had to repot them ,,