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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2023 17:03:34 GMT
Beautiful! I yearn to see & smell lilac.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2023 17:21:37 GMT
3 years ago it wasn’t flowering at all so I pruned it and then propped it up because it was falling over. It flowered last year but it’s really spectacular this year.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2023 17:59:50 GMT
I'll say! You gave it such a nice form, too.
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Post by Kimby on May 13, 2023 21:34:11 GMT
Glad to see you're getting success from your bulbs, Kimby, after all the troubles with deer and other gourmet critters. I've never seen crocus that beautifully colored before! Thanks, Bixa, dear, it’s a crocus called ruby something as I recall. I planted about 30 groups of bulbs in 1986, and the crocuses are the main survivors of that Herculean effort (I removed wheelbarrow loads of rocks digging the holes.) These blooms - and a handful of other crocus clumps, plus 3 daffodils clumps and a lone tulip clump, are behind a fence at home in Missoula. At the lake - where the deer and gophers and voles are all vying to be first to eat anything I plant - NOTHING is in bloom now. However, I spy the 3” long green blades of Iris coming up. Can I hope for more blooms this summer? It’s year 3 since planting them.
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Post by Kimby on May 13, 2023 21:49:26 GMT
Here’s some of the daffs and tulips in bloom this week: Oh, and a hyacinth that I’d been gifted as a potted plant and put in the ground a few years back: (Why didn’t I pull that pine needles out before snapping the shot?)
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2023 23:00:51 GMT
Wow ~ happy & healthy. I adore yellow & you have such a great array of it.
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Post by Kimby on May 13, 2023 23:17:01 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2023 1:59:25 GMT
Dern pretty!
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Post by tod2 on May 14, 2023 11:06:45 GMT
Mick that canopy of lilac Wisteria blooms are beautiful! Well done for coaxing it back to life.
Kimby, Those wild flowers are lovely. Do you ever try and spread their seeds/bulbs ? Those Daffodils bring back so many wonderful memories of our travels around England and seeing wild dafs in amongst grass banks, manicured flowerbeds in towns and villages, and in pots everywhere we went.
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Post by Kimby on May 16, 2023 3:15:53 GMT
Kimby, Those wild flowers are lovely. Do you ever try and spread their seeds/bulbs? I used to try to transplant wildflowers but they always died. Some have long tap roots impossible to dig out, others are just too fragile. The purple one is a Pasque Flower and they make seed heads with hairy achenes that I sometimes collect, if I can get to them before the deer do. Not having any success getting them to grow. But I’ve had better success getting Arrowleaf Balsamroot to grow from seeds I collected. (I’ll post photos when those are in bloom.)
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Post by whatagain on May 17, 2023 16:55:13 GMT
I find our tamaris spectacular. And a very nice pastel color. My wife knows what this is. I would an azalea ?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 17, 2023 18:54:13 GMT
Wonderful show of blooms, Whatagain.
I believe the second picture is of azalea and the third of a rhododendron, although I'm not good at telling those two apart.
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Post by bjd on May 17, 2023 19:05:55 GMT
I think the 3rd one is an azalea. Then again, they are in the same plant family. I thought the white one is a philadelphus (seringat in French). The leaves don't look like rhodo/azalea leaves. Azaleas here have pretty much finished blooming, so I should think it's the same in southeastern France.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 17, 2023 19:31:34 GMT
I agree the leaves of the white bush are small, but they lack that quilting of a philadelphus. If you blow the picture way up, you'll see why I'm guessing azalea. Or it could be a philadelphus.
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Post by lugg on May 17, 2023 19:31:46 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 17, 2023 19:38:47 GMT
I agree the leaves of the white bush are small, but they lack that quilting of a philadelphus. If you blow the picture way up, you'll see why I'm guessing azalea. Or it could be a philadelphus. Blowing it up, I believe you are correct about it being an azalea.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2023 3:53:52 GMT
A few early wildflowers at the lake cottage. There’s still little patches of snow here and there and ice on the lake, but it’s breaking up rapidly. Pasque Flowers (aka Prairie Crocus) Buttercups
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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2023 4:46:43 GMT
Those are all beauties, Lugg. I can see why the Solomon's seal is a favorite -- so giant and so dainty at the same time.
It kills me how those early wild flowers in harsh climate look so fragile, but their very emerging is a feat.
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Post by tod2 on May 18, 2023 16:19:25 GMT
I find our tamaris spectacular. This is regarded as an invasive species here in South Africa. It does produce nectar for honey bees. I think its beautiful but yet to find any. I would give my Eye-Teeth to get Solomon's Seal plant. What a beautiful thing!
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Post by bjd on May 21, 2023 7:41:41 GMT
I wanted to post more photos from this morning but Firefox has been acting up. Pentstemon, erysimum and cranesbill (hardy geranium) Columbine (acquilegia) Alstromeria, escholtzia, salvia Old rose that I dug out from the front of the garden
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Post by mickthecactus on May 21, 2023 7:58:32 GMT
That’s a good show bjd.
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Post by bjd on May 21, 2023 18:22:12 GMT
Foxgloves and delphiniums peony and California poppies cranesbill and a rose osteospermum and nepeta
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Post by mickthecactus on May 21, 2023 19:06:40 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on May 21, 2023 19:09:30 GMT
This has thrown me. I’ve grown a bog standard pot sage for the kitchen for years but after I repotted it this year it burst into flower. I think it’s rather lovely.
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Post by bjd on May 21, 2023 19:41:31 GMT
That is a lovely aquilegia (columbine), Mick.
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Post by Kimby on May 21, 2023 20:07:21 GMT
(Tamarisk is considered invasive in the American west, too. If it’s planted near waterways, it can spread like crazy, as it did in Utah’s canyons. Though it may be pretty while in flower, the thickets of sharp stiff branches are murderous for hikers.)
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Post by mickthecactus on May 21, 2023 20:24:52 GMT
Thanks bjd. I never planted it. It came up between two paving stones and I never had the heart to remove it. It gets better each year.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 21, 2023 22:08:43 GMT
That's quite a floral show you have going, Bjd -- beautiful! I'm swooning over the old rose & love that deep blue of the columbines. The combination of Calif. poppies & peony is wonderful.
Mick, I love your columbine -- the delicate tint of the flowers with the dark stem is gorgeous. I would die for those iris! Are you going to make cutting from the sage, to see if you can keep it going like that? Very striking.
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2023 1:49:51 GMT
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Post by tod2 on May 22, 2023 15:01:22 GMT
All so lovely everyone! I have sage in pots but never kept it until it bloomed. Something worth waiting for.
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