A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Blooming Fine #8

The other one was at 98 so I thought I'd just open a new one.

Blooming today in Monroe, NC









I posted the blue one in the Blue flowers of 2009 but it didn't bring the thread to the top. I don't know how to do that.

OH my, I was looking at Blooming Fine #7---so the comments below are for the flowers there---but I must say the ones in Blooming 8 are equally as beautiful.
We are lucky to have some fantastic gardeners here.

What I has originally planned to post in BF #7:
Gee ladies, I feel so inadequate now after seeing what you all are growing yet this late in the year---Simply beautiful photos. And yes I agree, Sheri, you should enter those pictures in a contest of some kind. They are surely award winning shots.

here is my Today's offering-- It is supposed to be a Varigated Lantana--it is doing so well because it's roots left the pot and are in the ground there. And the dirt has been brought in from my previous home.

gosh Carol Jean, it's beautiful. Will it take the winter?

Sheri, Thank you, you are too too kind. No, unfortunately it will not. I might have been able to over-winter it in the house but I don't know if it would take me riping out the roots from the ground---

Wonder if you could put some plastic around it and somehow hook it to the siding on your house and save at least part of it.

I agree With Sheri Carol,, It's beautiful,, another suggestion is to cover it well with leafs, and place leafs in a bucket or something large and place over the pile of leafs,, this will insulate it even when the ground freezes as well as the leaves will begin to compost at least the bottom layer will bringing warmth and nutrients to the ground surrounding it. This is what I do with my brugs cut them way back and do the leaf and bucket thing. A friend of mine lives in KS and Tried it last winter and her plant she experimented with came back Now she is bagging leafs up to do several of hers this way,

wow sounds well worth the try--Now to just find some leaves--Val has plenty--I got my last ones from her, I guess I could again Why not??

Bless Rod for getting rid of 5 of my 5-gallon buckets. There is 1 left, maybe I could "borrow" it????

The crocus have bloomed




and the heleoborus

those are beautiful, Sheri---simply beautiful.

I am a good while away from that--I do have green nubbins coming up that will one day be yello daffodils & purple/white crocus though.

Our first Blooming Fine flowers of the season, beautiful Sheri!

So pretty and cheerful, Sheri! Thanks for sharing!

Lovely, Sheri. I have tried hellebore but it fries in my summers. Someday I will find a happy place for some.

Whoohoo Bloomin' fine is back online...I love this topic.

Make note...today is March 13th and I have daffodils popping up through the soil~

...and daffodils and day lilies...that's not good. It's nice to see signs of spring but not when there's a chance of storms yet to follow. Crazy weather.

Some tulips had bloomed while I was in the hospital but more are budding

Very pretty hyacinths Diane. I can just about smell them through the computer!

Oh so pretty. I should plant some of those also.

oooooo so pretty.

Can't remember this one > rock cress?? maybe?



This is violets that Sheri sent last year,, first time they bloomed for me Thanks Sheri

they're blooming already? Mine are just now coming up. They will take over an area quickly so look out. Don't you just love the color and daintiness though.

the daffs are up and running here

I Love your row of daff's Sheri. I look forward to see your picture every spring!

I have your violets in a big plastic pot,, will they bloom all season?

I just finished blowing off the leavegs from my crocus & daffodils. Not to self--i should have done this when they were barely poking thru. I was just too afraid of the changing weather. Now a lot of them are blown over. I hope they work like corn does & will straighten themselves.


and I also pulled a lot of unwanted green things from my rock garden---to be contuniued tomorrow, which is when I will remove more "greenery" from the rocked area.

Very nice Sheri...too funny Carol, I'm still trying to keep my tulips, crocus and daffy's covered.

Mine bloom probably 1-1/2 months. When it gets hot the flowers start to dry up. What I like is they are pest free and evidentially the deer don't like them. I don't know if they will change in a pot but in the ground some years they are a solid color and sometimes they are variegated. I want to say they're different kinds of the violet but I'll have 1 color one year on the driveway side of the house and the next year I'll have the variegated color. I need to mark a few spots and see if indeed the same plant is having different colored flowers.

I am just hoping that MY violets even come up this year---and that my purple coneflowers come up.
They both will be 15 years old this summer if they come up.

They came from the farm with me.

here is a view of the complete flower bed. in the front of the house. In the cent4er of it is supposed to be my transplanted wild violets from the farm.all I can do now is hope they survived the winter.

Below is a few close-ups:

Oh those look so pretty all in a row.

Thanks Tamara-- :wink:

So very pretty Sheri and Carol!!! Refreshing and cheerful too!


Carol - I love the picture of your white crocuses - they look so crisp!

I love the colors. What kind of violets?

just the wild kind that grow in your grass in the spring. When we livesd out on the farm yet, each spring before Rod began cutting grass I would transplant some of the violets from the grass in my yard to the house-side flower beds that Rod's aunt sopnhie had made.

So when we moved & the house was still ours in the spring, I moved a good amount of the now "tame" violets to this house--along with some of our good soil.

But 3 years of neglect may have done them in.--well that and the clay under the inch or so of good soil that I brought.

BTW: The daffodils are from the farm as well. I bought them when Valarie was about 3--she LOVED flowers & I did not--then, but I planted them for her.

This is the first year that they will bloom here---well it looks like they will bloom---

The white ones are Snow Crocus--"Lady Killer".

I had wanted all Vernus Crocus but as I could not find them I settled for the Large flowering mix. ((Golden Yellow, While, Purple & Vernus.)) and The "Lady Killer" whites.

juniegirl, if your violets don't show up I can send you some in August for next year.

Thank you so much--I'll keep you posted.

So today I planted my 2 new Blue Hyacinths. And low & behold my daffs are now flowering---

OH Happy Day!!!!

pretty pretty

Sheri Thank you so very much-- --
BTW:
Was your nose itching today??? I was thinking of you.

"a very few" of my violets are coming up in my spring bulb area.


but I may still want to have you send me a few violets---we shall see.

But I have not forgotten your generous offer.....

Wow, very pretty...I love spring pics.