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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2024 19:45:51 GMT
Yes, a variety called Siberian Tiger.
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Post by lugg on Apr 6, 2024 19:52:14 GMT
I have a wealth of blue grape hyacinth blooming but the white ones are lovely Mick and I have not seen them before. Following on from the theme of the various colours of bulbs , my bluebells are flowering now with both blue and white varieties, if this storm stops before they are decimated I will post a photo.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 8, 2024 23:10:56 GMT
My volunteer Daphne shrub is finally big enough that I can snip off a few sprays of blossoms and enjoy the heady fragrance on my kitchen table.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2024 6:37:20 GMT
I bought a daphne this year and it had one tiny flower on it. Heaven knows how long it will take to be big enough to cut some branches off.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 9, 2024 7:25:15 GMT
That Daphne is lovely.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2024 15:46:59 GMT
So pretty, Kimby. It must be a very robust shrub.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 10, 2024 9:42:37 GMT
Our azalée is starting to bloom. pictures by night of our cherry tree.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 10, 2024 18:51:53 GMT
When I was little, the azaleas were the #1 sign of spring for me. Of course depending on the year, most of the Easter eggs were hidden under the azalea bushes. Not very well hidden, I must say.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2024 8:01:08 GMT
Did they - like us - hide again newly discovered eggs so that the chase would last longer ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2024 19:13:42 GMT
Since they use coloured hard boiled eggs in the US, I think that both my brother and I had empty cartons in which to place a dozen eggs each, so there was no adding or subtracting of eggs. I never even knew about chocolate Easter eggs until I moved to France, but I clearly remember that after Easter in my childhood, we had more hard boiled eggs during meals than we might have wanted.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 11, 2024 23:48:43 GMT
I bought a daphne this year and it had one tiny flower on it. Heaven knows how long it will take to be big enough to cut some branches off. Actually it’s less than 4’ tall and only 3 feet wide. When I first noticed it, it was only a couple bare stems about 2 feet tall. I was cutting brush and noticed it looked different from all the other bare stems around it, so spared it. Then a month or so later it suddenly burst into bloom on bare twigs right after my Dad died. I put a wire cage around it to protect it from the deer. Each year it gets bigger, and this year stems were poking through the fencing, so I snipped a few before the deer could. The smell is overpowering though, so I’ve moved them off the kitchen table to another part of the house where I can see them without getting drunk on it. I have since read that “every part of the Daphne is toxic”. I wonder if the heady scent could be harmful, too…
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2024 7:58:09 GMT
Here’s the last one
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 13, 2024 15:48:20 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 14, 2024 11:39:08 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2024 14:49:43 GMT
Another mystery volunteer in my yard. It appears to be a violet of some sort. Maybe. I’ve never seen a pink violet, but we do have wild purple violets and wild yellow violets. It’s growing amongst last year’s dead stems from the oregano or marjoram which popped up several years ago.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 14, 2024 16:02:18 GMT
Not able to see your flower, Patrick.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2024 18:11:14 GMT
Not able to see your flower, Patrick. It was there earlier.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:16:01 GMT
I couldn't see it either. But I have a ceanothus in my garden.
Kimby, those look like ordinary violets but I don't see a pink one.
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Post by lugg on Apr 14, 2024 19:16:53 GMT
Lovely blooms Kimby, Mick and K2. he poppies are far in advance than those here in my part of the world. I cannot see your Ceanothus patrick but can imagine how lovely it is ...one of my favourite shrubs. The tulips are starting to bloom here live.staticflickr.com/65535/53649655869_d242574ace_c.jpg
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2024 20:15:50 GMT
Ooooo ~ Kerouac's beautiful red poppy & the star-shaped ? & the downright thrilling anemones! Kimby, those look like ordinary violets but I don't see a pink one. Ditto. But they are just lovely. Lugg, that tulip is stellar -- literally in its shape, but also in its pure whiteness just barely tinted on the tips. patricklondon ~~ I tried to see your Ceanothus on your blog, but it's not showing there either. (Always a pleasure to visit your blog, though!) Also snooped the non-showing pic from your post here, & a) not a jpg, so wouldn't show up; and b) the link you used is from your private blog storage, so apparently can't be used for sharing.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2024 20:32:58 GMT
Kimby, those look like ordinary violets but I don't see a pink one. These are a magenta sort of pink. Our purple violets are very blue, not at all pink. Funny that both you and Bixa don’t see it as a shade of pink. Looks rosy pink to me.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 15, 2024 8:21:28 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2024 8:45:20 GMT
I see it now. Nice!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 15, 2024 18:44:54 GMT
I've been thinking about getting a ceanothus for a while...but then I'm lusting over bjd's camellia...and I saw a fabulous magnolia stellata in a garden I went past on the bus home from town....
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Post by lugg on Apr 15, 2024 19:38:59 GMT
Humph. Computer and phone wouldn't play nicely together, but I think it's fixed now. It is for me and wow - it is gorgeous.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 19:50:57 GMT
My ceanothus bloomed for the first time this year but it's nowhere the size of Patrick's. Yes, I can finally see it. I don't think it will ever get that size.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2024 15:10:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2024 22:34:36 GMT
Wow, beautiful & especially so against that wall.
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