Sheri ~ I hope it( Phlox) will survive there all thru the summer IF I see it's trying to give up I'll put it in ground. I like it!! I may get more for another area!
I love your Daffi's It's rare I see white ones, I've been looking for the pink/peach ones<,
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Ahhhhhhhhhh But Dodge When July and August is scorching our flowers with the heat and drought,, you'll northerners will be showing yours off!! SO then We get to be happy for you!! :wink: I've seen the Pink daffi's I think they are sooooooooooo pretty and dainty looking! I'm hoping to find some bulbs at sells this weekend!
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
The fruit tree bloom in my yard is rapidly declining. There aren't any flowers to bloom here for a month or two;the peas will be blooming by then.It's sad really that my yard has plenty of space for flowers but my parents won't let me plant any;they say it's so my dad can mow the lawn without mowing over flowers. Also I'm broke as a deadbeat;my parents borrowed money from me;my bank account went from $70 to $40 in less than a month. Deadbeats,they won't even pay back their own son for borrowing money from him. He's just too lazy to mow arond anything that's not lawn & weeds;actually,my lawn is mostly Bermuda grass or crabgrass,annual weeds,&perennial ones too. I'm going to disobey them & plant flowers anyway. I'll offer to mow the "lawn" so my dad won't mow over the flowers.
watch for places to get free seeds, be a seed snatcher.
I feel for you I got 2 dead beats my self, hubby's daughter and her husband refuse to get a job, have 3 kids to support and the oldest is working and giving them money for cig's
I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- Yard Update -April 2012
There are 6 blooming crocus here in my front flower bed. "Please overlook the uncleaned part of my flower bed".--I am afraid it will get too cold some more ---so I have not cleaned out the leaves yet.
This bed is where my wild violets & the violas are planted. I am trying to get some springflowers started here as well. Wish me luck !!!
This is a picture of my whole flower bed. the one where I planted my dafodils from the "farm". They are along the back of the bed, along the house next to the spring Flag. They may actually bloom this year---if they do it will be the first year for it--I guess my bulbs were too imature til now(?)
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Daffys arent up very much yet.. Give them time. Mine is just poking up now . It isn't a warm spring yet .. Bee cool . YOur doing great and I love the beds. Lots neater than us farmers.
Daffys arent up very much yet.. Give them time. Mine is just poking up now . It isn't a warm spring yet .. Bee cool . YOur doing great and I love the beds. Lots neater than us farmers.
I never stopped enjoying the farm.. Lived on my daddys till I married and 8 months in town. Back to the farm we are on now. Ours.
Pretty Purple Carol,, your camera really picked up the color well!!
Another color of Peruvian lilies has bloomed
Cream colored clematis bursting with Happiness!
Orange African Bulbine blooming already! Must have loved the leaves over them in the colder weather! I will do that again next year!! these are really nice when they are in full bloom and lots of blooms, tiny tiny star shaped flowers clustered on a stock,, the leaves are succulent perfect for hot dry weather,
Your a real neato flower raiser. I love them all. Now is that a Plastic fencing with the pink lily on top? That is so sweet . I am wondering if the clematis is like mine. Dang beetles usully eat away the leaves.
Hi Dodge Thanks!,,,, Yep that a vinyl lattace or rather a piece of one, It's kinda cool it grow out of the opening and bloomed thatway ! :wink:
I also have Jack mandi and Bee's jubilee in the same area,, but for the life of me I can't think of the name of this cream one?? It always blooms first,, then blooms again in late spring/and / or early fall,. Last year I cut them all back,, this year I left them alone,, so now all the vines are mixed up and I could never begin to trace it back to the soil to figure out which brown vine belongs to which clematis at this point!,,
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
I have the jack one , what color is Bee's Jubilee? I also have Nelly Moser, and a Blue one . Mine arent nice like yours. Runts. My sister in Ohio had the most gorgous ones on arches. I dont think she chopped them back. They seemed like they were almost a foot thick all the way around the arch. She also had a orange trumpet vine, which grew right up the side of the house and wound around the tv antenna. They had to cut it back all the time.
Bee's Jublilee is pinkish/ mauve in color at least mine is,, and I found the name of the other one ( white)it's Candida! Yeah there are three different classes of Clematis,, some you don't prune at all,, some you prune back in the spring and again after it blooms and the third you prune down 12 inches in spring and again after it blooms.. Jack mandi can be pruned this spring back to a healthy node on the vine, and then again after it blooms for repeat blooming,, Your sister must have class 1 type that blooms off old wood,,
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
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!
Helping the world one seed at a time
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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.
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.
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!
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.
I haven't gotten brave enough for planting edibles yet. I planted lots and lots of flowerseeds. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 & cactussucculents in it,, some of the succulents I had in it last year out grew it,, and I had to repot them ,,
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Dodge, you are going to send me a piece of that blackberry pie, right???
I SOOOOOOOOO miss my blackberry plants---well, darn, I miss the farm in general.
it was nicer living there & it was cheraper to live there.--Oh well--you do what you gotta do.
about the strawberry pots. My MIL gave me hers when she moved to the assisted living facility. I planted hens & chicks in it, and they are doing well. Currently they are residing on my DH's work bench in the garage (in front of the window).
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so Carol Jean, I take it you moved from the country to the city?
dodge, did you get a new button? Am I just noticing it?
yep--we sold a 5 acre 'farmette' in the country and moved into a new construction in town. (town is 1,000 people--house is FAR from fancy.) farmhouse had 1800 sq ft---house in town has 1500---but it has a full unfinished basement.
The idea was to keep me from being out in the country all alone, not able to keep things up, if rod were to pass. FYI: DH had a friend who died and left his wife out on a 160 acre farm, and a weldiong buisness to sell.
he didn't want that for me.
My yard was beautiful. We had planted over 25 trees when we moved out there in 1980. THIS yard was a field before the house was built.--Oh well--
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Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
Sheri, Your jasmine is beautiful. I just now saw you asked about the salvia. Yes it's sizzler red salvia, I don't know if the kids are smokin' it. My kids haven't anyway.
I spoke too soon about the snow being gone. It snowed all day yesterday and we got about 4" dumped onto everything. It's so depressing. Today has been extremely cold and windy. Uggh. But good weather is on the way, it should be in the 50's by Tuesday.
Well everyone--, i am proud my daffodils finally bloomed. I planted them the spring of 2005. They bloomed for the firsdt time this spring. better late than never, HUH ??
The electrical & water notification flags were put into this bed by my DH--he thought it would be amusing.---so I left them.
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Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
My Crown Of Thorns is blooming (Euphorbia milii) the branches from this plant was used to weave the crown of thorns for Jesus during his passion
Helping the world one seed at a time
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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