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here ya go!

Thanks Jiffy! I always forget to check the post count.

Thorny, your mimosa picture came out beautiful!

A few things started blooming today, I'll show you two.

Trollius;



And Lychnis.

Oh, I have lots to post. Took them in the rain so the pics aren't the brightest.

Columbines:
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Jacob's Ladder:

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Rock Moss:
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Sensation lilac:

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Princess Weigela:

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Great pictures Mel and Tamara!!! I love all the flowers you both posted!!!

yes me too!! I especially love the columbine---I really wish I could have a flower bed on a shaded side of my house--I would love to have several varieties of columbine--- where I try to have one is jsut too sunny--it keeps coming back, but never gets large enough to bloom.

While stalking a House Wren in a neighbor's yard this evening, I saw these and snapped a picture. I'm not sure if these are Coneflowers or Daisies.

meeeeee too!!!!

Thorny I vote they are coneflowers--very pretty though.

They look like Coneflowers to me too, Thorny, very pretty!

Tamara , I love that lilac!

Here are some blooms in my gardens yesterday.

Baby pink lilies


monarda (bee balm)... smells so good when you rub the leaves


oriental lilies


tiger lilies

Very pretty.

All lovely!

Yes - coneflowers.

Excellent flowers Tamara, mel , thorn..

That is a pretty lilac......AN love the columbine.

Thorn.......I lean more to a daisy??????
But never seen a pink one.....My coneflower is in bloom have to look in the morning.

Mel, isn't that lynchis what you want seeds for? I've got them ready to mail but looks like the same thing to me.

Sheri

bleeding heat vine almost died out in the heat,, I gave her a flush of superthrive and watered again 2 days later and WALLLLAAAAAA She is blooming again,,


I have her in all shade,, all day!!! Whewwwwwww I see she likes to stay moist her leaves leaves lifted after about 2 hours ,, I really want her to make it!! to next year,, I cut off pieces and rooting them in water,, no roots yet but still look healthy!

ah to have an all shade flower bed---a lucky lady you are, Diane

Diane .Will you please send me seeds from that beautiful bleeding heart?????? Never seen that before.. I am so happy you saved it .......

Diane - that is so pretty - I've never heard of a bleeding heart vine before!

Diane, that is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Ah, to have a full sun flower bed....only to dream Guess we always want what we don't have.

Vines looking good Diane.

Last fall, I never got a chance to collect seeds so they fell wherever....I have baby plants of everything coming up everywhere, just amazing.

WOW--was tht a slip or what!! What I meant to say was---I wish I had a full SHADE flower bed.--All I have is full sun flower beds.--well in the back anyway.

The one bed in the front--while it faces east---could at best be used as a partial shade/ partial sun bed----but as it is I have it full with my wild violets, and my daffodils from the farm.--no real room left----.

:ding: it Diane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here is my Nikko Blue Hydrangea--yea I said Blue-----but not to worry--I fed it Miracid today--apparently my soil is neutral---could it be becasue of all the coffee grounds I was advised to put on the plant early on??? (by one of my ceramic friends)

you see, they started out white--so I stopped giving them the coffee grounds.--so they slowly began turning pale pink--& now one is looking sorta purpleish.--So we shall see what the Miracid does for them---The box says once every 2 weeks???

nice carol. i always muched mine with pine straw. that was enough to keep it blue. don't have one now, wish i did.

You need to start the acid well before bloom time to get the true blue you are looking for, Carol. These got a little on the purple side.

That is mostly pine needles under mine, Jiffy. That is their protection from too much sun and wind, pines.

ok ladies, can one buy pine needles to use as mulch--or do I have to strike up an aquantance with someone who owns some pine trees???

and I figured that about the miracid---but I thought it would not hurt to try, huh???

Tina that bloom is simply beautiful by the way.

I use aluminum sulphate on mine to blue them up. It helps acidify the soil. And regular or acid plant food.

2 tablespoons vinegar .gallon of water

Wow ladies those are beautiful, they won't over winter here. I'm glad I get to see pics of them.

Great pictures Loz and Tina!

I, too, am having difficulty keeping my blue hydrangeas blue! I used aluminum sulphate on one earlier this spring a few times, but the blooms that are just coming out look like they will be either pink of lilac. I want my blue back!!!

I :ding: my hydrangeas....they are such big, mature plants and are always so heavy with blooms....first good storm we have will knock them over though then Mark will have to tie them up all ugly.

I also have 2 small hydrangeas that are oh-----about a foot and a half tall now, they are supposed to be blue. Can't wait for the first year that they bloom. I ordered them from some catalog a few years ago and when they came they were seriously about 2 inches tall.

Love all the hydrangea pictures.

about the hydrangea that you ordered being so small--yep--that has been my experience---so I think with the exception of a specialty item i am pretty much done mail-ordering for my plants & trees. :wink:

I had some of those and threw them out .........Bloom only one time in 7 years??

I am sooo jealous! I cannot grow hydrangeas!

I have a PeeGee hydrangea, it has white blooms that turn pink when the frost starts in the fall.

I'm getting excited. I have buds on the blackbery lily and a bud on the portulaca. I can't wait to see them bloom. Blooms are going to be somewhat scarce this year because I'm starting just about everything from seed or transplanted it from the old place. So each bloom is very very special to me.