ragdall
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Post by ragdall on Feb 22, 2010 7:58:31 GMT
zygocactus flowering in February - not the normal season, but very welcome! sandra Sandra, What a nice plant to have blooming on Valentine's Day. I have several indoor plants blooming, but they are not where I can easily photograph the blooms. This potted azalea that Joan gave me in 2005, has 4 blooms at the moment. It's been an amazing plant. (click on the image to view larger)rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 22, 2010 10:31:19 GMT
lovely
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Post by maryinkentucky on Apr 22, 2010 1:54:25 GMT
It's April in Kentucky, and it seems that EVERYTHING is blooming.
The daffodils have come and gone. So have the redbud trees. Dogwoods and lots of flowering fruit trees blooming now. The wisteria and liliacs are still blooming.
Granddaughter #2 has a birthday on April 30, so we watch for the lily-of-the-valley which usually blooms on her birthday. I told her it was her "birthday flower." (The girls still haven't quite caught on to the fact that Nana makes things up!)
blooming now: climatis false Solomon's seal lots of dandelions and violets money plant columbine tulips vinca groundcover
The peonies are in full bud, and the light blue iris are in bud.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 22, 2010 2:27:37 GMT
spring has sprung in your neck of the woods! But we are still in late summer - very warm days & humidity! I have 2 geranium blooms in my north-facing window, & one of the green leafy things in my east-facing bathroom window was lots of tiny leaves on small branches, along with the usual small leaves at end of branches. weird.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 22, 2010 2:29:51 GMT
pic was out of focus, I'll try the other one
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 22, 2010 2:31:12 GMT
the white flowers were also out!
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Post by sorcha on Apr 22, 2010 11:50:42 GMT
FINALLY have tulips, grape hyacinth, and lilac buds. But where are my daffs? Everybody elses are blooming!
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Post by maeve on Apr 25, 2010 12:11:40 GMT
Blooming now at home... Attachments:
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Post by jennieg on Apr 25, 2010 23:01:51 GMT
Maeve, are those gorgeous yellow flowers daffys or jonquils? They are gorgeous, I love yellow!
On Friday night I was given, among other things, a potted gardenia as a farewell gift on my last night at the folk club, it has a flower whose perfume, even though it's currently outside the kitchen window, is wafting inside. Our new house has a patio facing north (the sunny side in Oz) so I think the gardenia will like that. Sunny and a bit sheltered. We have christened the patio 'The Beer Garden', pubs in Oz have an outside area invariably called the beer garden - the name appeals!
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Post by maeve on Apr 26, 2010 0:04:16 GMT
They are from a mixed bag of rose trumpet daffodils from my husband. The photo here is of a daffodil called Tahiti. Maeve Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Apr 26, 2010 8:34:44 GMT
Maeve, Both varieties of daffodil are gorgeous. I love the colours on the rose trumpet daffodils and the delicate centres on Tahiti. Jennie, I think that I can smell your lovely gardenia from here Your Beer Garden promises to be a very welcoming area. rags
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Post by jennieg on Apr 28, 2010 0:43:04 GMT
Maeve, they are beautiful daffies! We will have to wait a few months for daffs here.
When we move to our new house we will leave the garden alone for a year except to tidy up and mow, of course. We don't know what has been planted so anything that comes up will be a surprise! But we noticed that the owner had planted jasmine along the weldmesh fence and that will be pulled out quick smart, because there is bushland over the back fence.......and jasmine can be rampant if it gets away. There is also a palm tree - I have a thing about palm trees - why plant them if you aren't living along the coast or in the tropics? wishful thinking? I'm wondering how one gets rid of palm trees. I like big old stiff sculptural date palms, but not cocos palms.
There will be pics in due course.
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Post by maeve on Apr 28, 2010 12:06:49 GMT
We also waited for a year before doing much (daffodils and tulips were put in the day we signed the papers, though!) and were rewarded with an old rose, peonies, bulbs, and ground phlox as well as wildflowers that have continued to increase in number and varieties. I'm looking forward to your updates, Jennie. Maeve *Double Bloodroot in this photo Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 29, 2010 13:52:34 GMT
beautiful flower, Maeve
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Post by sorcha on Apr 29, 2010 19:35:08 GMT
We DID want it to be spring, right? Oh, the yard work. They aren't 'coconut' palms that you could eat the nuts from?
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