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Post by ragdall on Apr 1, 2009 10:05:15 GMT
Pip, You are so lucky to have things blooming at the end of March! Have you tried to take photographs of the blossoms with your camera?
I still have deep snow in my yard. The spring birds have begun to arrive, though and I have blooms on some of my indoor plants.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Apr 5, 2009 18:58:47 GMT
The redbuds and lilacs are blooming now.
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Post by ragdall on Apr 8, 2009 8:54:53 GMT
Mary, It must smell wonderful with the lilacs in bloom. Mine bloom in May. Monday, I discovered tiny crocuses blooming in the flower bed along the south wall of the house.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Apr 10, 2009 17:22:49 GMT
I took some lilacs to an elderly friend today. She had the vase ready because I take them every year.
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Post by ragdall on Apr 12, 2009 7:35:44 GMT
Mary it's very kind of you to take the lilacs to your friend. It sounds as if she looks forward to you bringing them. What colour(s) were the lilacs?
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Post by maryinkentucky on Apr 13, 2009 0:39:06 GMT
Why, lilac, of course. There are white lilacs, but we see mostly the lilac-colored ones around here. They have deep roots and are very hard to move. Also, we almost always get a heavy frost when they are budding, but this year, even though we got the frost, it must have been just a few days too late because the blooms are beautiful. Last year when I went on a wildflower walk, the guide showed us a white redbud tree. I commented at the time, "Why would anyone want a white redbud tree?" I've since seen places where the white fit in better than the traditional reddish purple.
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Post by maryinkentucky on May 22, 2009 1:38:47 GMT
peonies flanked by light blue iris catalpa trees are blooming pink rose (either New Dawn or Van Fleet) geraniums, petunias, impatiens, begonias and marigolds Missouri primrose hostas are getting big Siberian iris (or are they Japanese iris, I have both)
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Post by maryinkentucky on May 24, 2009 16:31:19 GMT
The daisies along the roadsides are blooming.
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Post by Pip Freeman on Jun 25, 2009 11:33:11 GMT
That sounds a beautiful garden Mary.
Roses are doing very well this year, my flower garden seems swamped by them and the scent is glorious, it always seems at its best in the evenings. I particularly love the old rose 'Albertine' and my two enormous ramblers which must climb at least 25 feet up into the trees, the 'Rambling Rector' has thousands of tiny white blossoms and is entangled with a honeysuckle, and 'Paul's Himalayan Musk' has taken over a fir tree. The garden is like a jungle but a very pretty scented one
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Post by Pip Freeman on Aug 12, 2009 10:40:09 GMT
My flower garden has been rather neglected in favour of the vegetable plot, but we have a jungle like mass of hydrangeas, and fuschias and masses of honeysucke draped round the windows, the hanging baskets of sweet peas by the door look quite nice now. The cats have made sheltered 'nests' in the flower beds where they keep cool and it makes their coats smell sweet.
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Post by ragdall on Sept 4, 2009 11:23:55 GMT
Pip, Your garden sounds lovely. I've never seen sweet peas used in hanging baskets. They would smell wonderful. I haven't been able to grow sweet peas in recent years because the trees grew and there is too much shade along the back of the house. It hadn't occurred to me that I could grow them on the deck where there is more sun. We're coming to the end of summer here. There could be frost any night now. Here are the flowers blooming along the back of my house, geraniums and petunias with a few sunflowers that the birds planted for me. (click on the image to view larger)
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Post by ragdall on Oct 5, 2009 9:29:57 GMT
A month has gone by since my previous post. The first frost hit while we were away, killing my Impatiens and most of the petunias. It damaged some of the flowers on the Geraniums but the plants have made a comeback. I know that I might lose everything any day now, but I'm enjoying the blooms for as long as I can. We won't have leaves or flowers outdoors again until at least the end of April.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Oct 5, 2009 13:50:47 GMT
I'm so envious of your geraniums!
I had some very nice ones in pots this summer, but while I was away, they didn't get watered correctly. Actually, the stress made them bloom profusely for a last hurrah, then they got a disease (white scale or something), so I cut them back. The few that I had started from cuttings are looking beautiful now with the cool weather.
My Angel Wing Begonias are blooming prolificly now, so I have lots of cuttings in water in vases indoors. I also have a large pot of coleus I started from seed, so I'll try to get cuttings from them.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 28, 2009 11:23:44 GMT
1. zygocactus (well, these must be christmas cactus as my zygocactus bloom in the middle of the year!) lots of lovely blossoms on one plant.
Last month one of my zygocactus that had been sitting quietly, looking beautifully green in it's pot for about 2 years popped out new leaves & 1 flower! Then it went back to being quiet, but I have a photo to prove it. (how do I post photos?)
2. Begonias - they also love my north facing window.
Last week I bought 4 small green plants - not flowering plants - because I had a few spaces, several in the north facing window, the others in an east facing window. Some will get bushy, others will trail around. Peperomia, philodendron, dracena & anon (something must have happened to that label!)
I'm also looking after my neighbour's luxuriant big green plants - not being a "real" gardener I'm not sure of the names of any of them. But they are very beautiful & glossy & green.
sandra (vague gardener)
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Post by ragdall on Dec 30, 2009 8:53:20 GMT
Sandra, It must be nice to have all the blooms and warm weather. It's snowing here at the moment.
In order to post a picture here it must be online on a hosting site (or on your own website, if you have one.) I opened a photobucket account for cup of kindness that you can use if you don't have another place to host the picture(s), just let me know and I'll send you the information you'll need to access it.
Once the images are online you click on the picture frame icon [img][/img] and paste or type the URL of your image between those two tags. Be careful not to leave any empty spaces before or after the URL. You'll have to use "reply" to do this, you can't see the icons in the "Quick Reply".
I'd love to see your pictures.
rags
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