ragdall
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Post by ragdall on Jun 1, 2011 10:34:19 GMT
Mary, I'm glad that you've been able to replant and that the tornadoes weren't in your area. You have to work so hard to help your plants survive. I hope that the rest of spring and summer will bring you perfect weather and everything will be able to catch up.
Backing up the photos was a good idea. One of the reasons I pay the $25 a year for Flickr is that it's an archive for my digital photos. If anything happens to the ones in my house I'll at least have the 11,000 or so that I've uploaded there.
Sandra, You have a lovely window garden. Your verigated pink, zygo is beautiful! It's sad that you're losing your oldest begonia.
Jennie, It must be fun to discover plants in your garden that you hadn't noticed there before. I hope the sweet peas all survive. They smell so nice.
rags
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Post by jennieg on Jun 3, 2011 5:53:08 GMT
Maeve, aren't they lovely - truly gorgeous! Our climate is too mild for some of those lovely plants.
Rags, so far so good with the seedlings....they are still holding up their little heads (leaves?), the rain earlier in the week has made everything in the garden smile.
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Post by ragdall on Jun 4, 2011 4:42:06 GMT
Jennie, I'm glad to hear that the seedlings are managing to survive. This is such a beautiful, poetic description: the rain earlier in the week has made everything in the garden smile. Maeve, the tree peony blossom is gorgeous, so perfect, delicately crafted, bright and white. Are the the native ladyslipper orchids in woods on your own land? It's wonderful that you've been able to protect them. My camera and I have seen white ladyslipper orchids and yellow ladyslipper orchids, but never pink. Those are well worth protecting. rags, ( 500+ miles away from home in a hotel)
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Post by jennieg on Jun 4, 2011 5:32:08 GMT
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Post by maeve on Jun 8, 2011 11:48:12 GMT
Ladyslippers- Rags, we have a big chunk of mostly woodland and the locally common Moccasin Flowers ( pink ladyslippers) are in there. I'd love to add some Showy and some Yellow ladyslippers once we've cleaned up from our recent sustainable wood harvest. These pinks often have white sports, but I haven't seen any in our patch yet. A high school student has seemingly cracked the mystery of reliable propagation methods for these orchids. Nerine lilies- One of these days I'm going to plant some here. There are one or two that will be borderline hardy here, with mulch. Beautiful! Sweet peas- Beautiful, fragrant, poisonous! I love 'em. I couldn't get them planted early enough this year. Next year... Here's the newest tree peony opening. Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jun 8, 2011 12:57:24 GMT
pretty little thumbnail but magnificent large pic! - what a centre!
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Post by jennieg on Jun 10, 2011 12:03:39 GMT
What a gorgeous peony!
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Post by maeve on Jun 10, 2011 16:17:11 GMT
Sandra and Jennie- Thanks. It's nice that a few gardens keep looking good even when suffering from gross neglect!
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Post by maryinkentucky on Jun 14, 2011 18:06:59 GMT
The deer found my garden and ate almost all the lettuce, beets, beans and corn! And we are in the city limits! Since they cut the nearby hay fields yesterday, maybe there won't be any more deer. (They don't have cover to sneak over to my place.) I replanted a few beans and corn.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Jun 14, 2011 18:19:19 GMT
Hubby found some pink paint, and what used to be a modest, white concrete garden ornament...........is now a pink flamingo! He used to hide in the corner of my flower bed, but now he's out front! I think he needs a name. Attachments:
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Post by maryinkentucky on Jun 14, 2011 18:21:46 GMT
What did I do to get such blooming geraniums? My theory is that when they're stressed, they give a last hurrah before they die. Attachments:
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Post by maryinkentucky on Jun 14, 2011 18:23:44 GMT
I planted some fountain grass this year. The other afternoon when the sun was behind them the backlighting was so pretty I wished I could capture it in a photo the way Rags can. Attachments:
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Post by jennieg on Jun 14, 2011 22:56:55 GMT
My goodness Mary, that is one pink flamingo.......! Geraniums seem to be fairly hardy, they even flower in winter here. Of course our winter is fairly mild, compared to winters in some parts of the US.
We are having rain, lovely rain......the folks over on the coast are having floods but here it's good steady soaking garden rain.
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