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I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- Yard Update -April 2012
Thanks! It never died back all the way Lynne it stayed green all winter,, but then again we did have a pretty mild winter and it was mostly covered with leaves,, There are a lot more buds on it now then ever there was last year too!
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Our crocuses (or croci?) have bloomed today, second to do so in the neighbourhood from what I saw! The geranium inside is putting out a bloom, the petals have left the calyx so it should be any time now the petals unfurl
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I don't have good luck with geraniums inside or out. Go figure. They're like a week in everyone else's yard but I've never had great success with them and I love them.
Are pincushin flowers similar to batchelor buttons?
I know exactly what you mean Sheri, I bought two geraniums for .77 in a 4" square pot, I figured if they die, it's still just .77 each, if I keep them alive, it's better than paying 3.50 for a 4" pot in the summer. I see lots of huge geraniums in the windows of houses along the street. I usually kill them the second week I buy them, but I'm having some good luck this time!
I think pincushion and bachelor's buttons are similar, but pincushion is Scabiosa (I think) and Bachelor's Buttons are Centaurea. I think there are annual and perennial varieties of both things.
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
Very nice pictures Sheri!! Thanks for sharing! Someday I will have some to share!
I don't have good luck with geraniums either. I buy them every year and I keep them all summer but they never look too good. I don't know what I do wrong.
Sheri and loz - BEAUTIFUL pictures of BEAUTIFUL flowers!!!
I can't wait for something to start blooming here already. So far I only have a few small scilla in bloom - will try and get a picture tomorrow - I love the blue of the flowers.
Diane!!! That is a winner!!! Did I ever tell you that yellow roses are my favorite? That one is gorgeous! I cannot grow them here because the deer eat the rose bushes down to the ground - thorns and all!
psssst - I think it you crop that picture a little more evenly, you can definitely enter it into that contest that you won a few years ago!
lynne, how nice!1 you must remember to show us the hyacinths when they bloomed.
are they the grape hyacinths?? I love them !!!
Those are full sized hyacinths, Carol. Purples, blues and pinks.
Tina did sent me some grape hyacinth bulbs 2 years ago, but I don't see any signs of them this year - yet. They are much smaller than the ones I posted.
when I typed that I knew it was not right--but my brain would not work, & I could not figure out why it was not right------thanks for getting me back on the straight & narrow.
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the dianthus in the front I just planted this year,, But the little darker ones behind it I brought some seeds back from from CedarHill last September and planted as soon as I got back,, and now they're blooming!
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
I don't know what this white and purple lone flower is,, but I like it maybe maybe more will pop up I've this dianthus here for 4 years,, so I haven't planted anything seeds here I guess the wind just blew it in,??
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Diane, everything is so beautiful, as is usual---and i am thinking that your flower looks like a small petunia---it is very pretty though, whatever it is----
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