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Post by tod2 on Mar 28, 2022 12:36:17 GMT
I just knew that the pale pink flower featured in Bixa's post (#3257, number 1) had to be in the bignonia family. They're blooming like crazy here right now. Several variations of them in evidence on fences and the like. I just love them! Kimby, on the otherside of the coin, so to speak, the Zim Creeper with its pretty pink tubular flowers also loves you! So much so it will never leave your garden. Chop it to bits and in a few months it will be back stronger than ever. Ours is 40 something years old and refuses to die!
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2022 16:09:37 GMT
It appears that you have confused my post with something Kimby may have said Tod.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 28, 2022 16:19:55 GMT
True! So Sorry!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2022 23:35:13 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2022 12:36:06 GMT
My Daphne shrub began its annual spring bloom on March 31st, the 9th anniversary of my Dad’s death. It was a “volunteer” that I first noticed right after his death, so I call it my Dad shrub.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2022 13:28:38 GMT
Could it simply be a polygala ? That is a complicated word... let us this is a 'whatvus this thing again, ah, yes, complicated. A mimosa. We have a lot of different mimosas and they bloom nearly all year... Thus us an arbousier. Ref fruits, splendid, butveven with no fruit they have a splendid (multi) trunks. This one is probably mire than a century old. At least 80. Th These are called sorceress' fingers. They hardly need soul and a few drops of water now and then. This one is a ...in any case a 'and don't touch it, i know it is in the way but it is difficult to get and it has found its place' kind of plant... The glycine. We had before a few bougainvilleas but they didn't likevthst spot.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2022 14:11:40 GMT
Good pictures WA. The Estate looks in good shape.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2022 15:09:03 GMT
Thanks Mick. All credit goes to my wife !
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2022 15:46:26 GMT
Spring has sprung.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 11, 2022 17:09:52 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2022 17:12:17 GMT
Hi Tod. Thanks, now i know their name. They have always been here, we never bought or received them.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 11, 2022 17:21:56 GMT
Those darn birds again....dropping seeds all around the world! Our sand dunes on the beaches are covered in them. So pretty.
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Post by bjd on Apr 11, 2022 18:23:52 GMT
We have those Hottentot plants here too. And yes, that is a polygala. I like them a lot but they are not very hardy so both times I planted some, they froze.
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Post by lugg on Apr 11, 2022 19:20:26 GMT
Such gorgeous blooms all - I am very envious
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2022 21:28:37 GMT
Lots of beautiful blooms of Spring, many of which I don't recognize. Others I recognize & love, but can't have in my climate. But everything is so pretty!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2022 1:00:02 GMT
Some nice surprises for me in the past week. The other amaryllises have been here & gone, but I had another pot wherein I'd put the dinkier bulbs the last time I divided them. They are bravely blooming in the heat, so I moved them over to keep company with the Agapanthus in the front bed. The picture was taken on the 10th, when one flower wasn't fully open, but all four are still giving it their all ~ But the treat di tutti treat for me was seeing that a butterfly pea is finally open! It was shyly facing in towards the porch, so you get one picture of it that way, & one after I teased it out through the grate. The camera didn't do a good job of capturing that magnificent deep blue, which is very close to that of the Agapanthus ~
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2022 6:28:35 GMT
Beautiful rare blue colour. My agapanthuses (agapanthi?) are a much lighter blue.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2022 6:37:47 GMT
Breathtaking! What a start to the day!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2022 12:27:42 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2022 12:38:48 GMT
Thanks, Bjd and Mick! Yes, I feel very fortunate to have scored that deep blue Agapanthus, although the more usual ones are lovely also.
Those daffy darlings are right on time for Easter, Mick!
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Post by tod2 on Apr 14, 2022 14:25:00 GMT
Bixa - You lucky lady! What a brilliant flower.....and may I add that the colour you were describing must have been "Gentian Blue" That is the deep blue colour of a rare flower found among the rocky terrain of Ireland. I hunted and hunted but it illuded me. If this flower makes pods like a pea, please remember me.....
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2022 14:41:24 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2022 15:07:45 GMT
Wow, Mick - - Those are beautiful!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2022 15:10:16 GMT
Tod, sorry - - doing this on phone, which I hate. Of course I'll save pods for you. That's how I got my butterfly pea plants.
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Post by casimira on Apr 14, 2022 17:12:50 GMT
Bixa - You lucky lady! What a brilliant flower.....and may I add that the colour you were describing must have been "Gentian Blue" That is the deep blue colour of a rare flower found among the rocky terrain of Ireland. I hunted and hunted but it illuded me. If this flower makes pods like a pea, please remember me..... That Butterfly Pea vine produces a lot of seed pods. Gorgeous pics Whatagain, Bixa, Mick, Kim and Kerouac!!! Kim, that flower you posted that bloomed on the anniversary of your father's death is gorgeous. I had a lone Louisiana iris bloom on the empty lot at the old place on the anniversary of my father's death (March 17th). It was in a spot where I had no irises planted. I'm assuming that the bulldozer moved it to where it is now located.
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Post by questa on Apr 15, 2022 0:17:37 GMT
That's a nice acacia you have there. As the National flower of Australia the ac. pycnantha or Golden wattle is liked by everyone except hay fever sufferers...like 80% of the population. It is pretty and easy to grow and shape, starts blooming end of winter,one of few plants that grow in every State and puts out a sap that is the base for a chewing gum that the aborigines used to get a "lift" when walking long distances
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Post by tod2 on Apr 15, 2022 10:19:09 GMT
Mick - fab photos! You have persuaded me to get some bulbs for this spring. Those double ones are almost not real they are so perfect.
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Post by lugg on Apr 16, 2022 19:23:55 GMT
gorgeous blooms Mich and Bixa
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Post by whatagain on Apr 20, 2022 19:42:30 GMT
Cherry trees blossoming in Waterloo, on ly way to my garagist. Our 20some rhododendron. Starts to look like a tree. Something along our fence. A spiree ? Our own cherry tree.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2022 21:15:15 GMT
Beautiful specimens! Everyones pictures show what I miss about Spring in more northern climates.
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