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Post by Kimby on Apr 26, 2012 4:12:41 GMT
I planted about 200 bulbs 25 years ago. Though the tulips petered out within a few years, the daffodils are still going strong:
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 3, 2012 9:28:04 GMT
Splendid daffs there Kimby. My garden's starting to spring into life...the solitary trillium never fails to cheer me up
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Post by rikita on May 7, 2012 17:56:50 GMT
the tulips i bought this year never even blossomed, but the daffodils looked nice. now they are dried up though. but the pansies still are nice. and i saw a little pink bud on one of the geraniums just now.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2012 13:07:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2012 13:39:17 GMT
I have never seen a trillium IRL ....gorgeous pic CPB. That iris is a real stunner too K2!! I need to get out and snap some pics soon,all our springtime blooms are on their way out!!!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 14, 2012 18:24:17 GMT
Scented leaf pelargoniums... melianthus major
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2012 17:34:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2012 17:35:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 28, 2012 14:33:19 GMT
Gad ~~ gorgeous pictures on this page -- darling buds of May, indeed! I'd love to see every one of them hanging on a wall, the better to lovingly linger over each detail. Thanks to Kimby & Cheery (in #s 1123, 1126, & 1133 on the previous page), I zeroed in on the thumbnail pic of Echium when I saw it in an online magazine. The details: davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1940/?utm_source=nl_2012-05-07&utm_medium=emailThe comments from gardeners around the world are an education in themselves.
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Post by lugg on May 30, 2012 8:09:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 11:16:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2012 17:00:56 GMT
Gad, y'all ~~ these are stunners!
Lugg, is the big red beauty a rose or a peony? & ditto on the question about your last pic.
Glorious pics, Casimira. What's that blooming in the upper left of your first frangipani photo?
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Post by lugg on May 31, 2012 10:07:30 GMT
Hi guys- The red flower is a peony and the pink tree is a tamarisk. I dont have many roses in the garden and they are mostly only in bud except for this one I love this thread especially seeing all the blooms that seem so exotic from warmer climes. I can also imagine how beautiful and (well cared for) Cheery's garden must be.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2012 11:55:50 GMT
Lovely rose Lugg. I don't know the tamarisk but it is indeed gorgeous.
Bixa,the flowering plant in that pic is a giant elderberry that I "let go" every year. While I will have a gazillion volunteers sprout all over the place I let 2 of them do their thing in strategic places,mainly as a privacy shield between properties as well as them being so beneficial to the wildlife,not to mention the blooms and berries and their uses.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 31, 2012 17:22:58 GMT
I can almost smell the aroma of that pink beauty through the monitor, Lugg.
Casimira, what a lovely way to incorporate a natural look plus all those benefits into the garden.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 1, 2012 18:53:48 GMT
In bloom in our garden atm... Nasturtiums... cosmos cerinthe Lysimachia atropurpurea melianthus major
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Post by Kimby on Jun 5, 2012 2:20:27 GMT
I don't know the tamarisk but it is indeed gorgeous. Tamarisk is a plant that can get away from civilization and really screw up riparian (riverside) ecosystems, at least in the US. But they are pretty.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 5, 2012 2:28:38 GMT
Here are some from our last trip to the lake: The Glacier Lilies are on their last legs The Larkspur (wild Delphinium) are peaking as are the Mountain Bluebells (Mertensia) The Prairie Smoke (Geum) is about to bloom and there's a lot of it! (It's almost as pretty when it goes to seed, the "smoke")
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2012 15:48:26 GMT
What a treat, Kimby!
I guess we should have started a wildflower thread long ago, but who knew. The stuff you show certainly merits showcasing.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 5, 2012 19:37:04 GMT
Thanks, bixa. If you want to reorganize and move my lake photos to another thread called Wildflowers, it wouldn't hurt my feelings.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2012 20:15:50 GMT
Just because I'm beautiful, it doesn't mean I'm stooopid! No seeking new tasks for this girl. However, if you feel moved to make a Wildflowers thread, who am I to stand in your way? (& sure, I'd move any posts you wanted, if you'd prefer to transfer them to the as-yet uncreated new thread) Actually, there are some nice wild things blooming around here right now. If there were a thread, I'd probably be motivated to add to it. Unfortunately, I don't know wildflowers the way you do. Mine would have captions like "pretty purple flower"; "small yellow flower", etc.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 8, 2012 14:38:04 GMT
No seeking new tasks for this girl. Me neither! The wild ones can stay here with the cultivated beauties.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2012 14:57:01 GMT
Well, I fought with Photobucket for ages last night & this morning because I wanted to embed a slideshow of my fabulous angel trumpet display. Photobucket defeated me, so I'm posting a link to Flickr, which makes for a nicer show, especially if you go full screen (button extreme bottom right). Lemme know if you all think it's too fast. This sequence is from yesterday morning through afternoon to @10:30 last night. The scent throughout my house was lovely! www.flickr.com/photos/17499332@N00/sets/72157630080567650/show/
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Post by Kimby on Jun 8, 2012 15:08:19 GMT
Oh, my, those trumpets have a delicious peachy tint in some photos, and a lemony tint in others. I thought they were white. I'm a bit disappointed you didn't get down on your back and shoot up INTO the trumpets though, bixa.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2012 15:16:48 GMT
Personally, I think keeping it a simple thread, a generic, anything that's in bloom is wise. We do have separate threads for vines, bulbs,tropicana, etc.... and no one seems to, or, rarely posts in them. I gave up being frustrated about it a long time ago thank god!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2012 16:46:54 GMT
Oh, my, those trumpets have a delicious peachy tint in some photos, and a lemony tint in others. I thought they were white. I'm a bit disappointed you didn't get down on your back and shoot up INTO the trumpets though, bixa. Kimby, they were all sort of pale lemony except for the ones that had opened first. Those have the deeper, nicer color. Right now the pale ones are deeper than yesterday.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 8, 2012 19:34:33 GMT
I'm a bit disappointed you didn't get down on your back and shoot up INTO the trumpets though, bixa. Is it too late for a perspectives shot lying on your back?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2012 20:58:16 GMT
Actually, I have one from the last flush of bloom, plus a really good one I took in a former garden of mine in 2008. Will get them up in a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2012 10:43:09 GMT
I meant to comment on your exquisite Brugmansia blooms Bixa, sorry!! My white one, still only a very small specimen, did it's thing last evening and I caught it. I really wish we had a scratch and sniff on here to accompany these pics,the fragrance was/is amazing. I had never made the lemon like association until last night after having read your post Bixa.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2012 13:54:11 GMT
What a voluptous flower, casi. We can almost see down into its throat, but it still leaves something to the imagination.
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