Gardening, anyone?
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Blessings, so glad you met the neighbor and learned he has "smarter" plans including trees more suited to the space.
Your flower bed is beautiful. I love the angel, the clever use of the red wagon and the white birch. This is so pretty to look at.
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Our Japanese Maple is back!
Wishing all a wonderful weekend.
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Blessings. . .Lovely yard. Have fun with the new garden.
Balthus. . .absolutely love your Japanese maple in the giant pot. Showed it to DH and told him I want a matched pair. He likes them too but had a good question, Can the tree and plants around it survive the winter? We don't usually get terribly cold winters but we can go below zero at times.
Going hiking tomorrow at Callaway Gardens. . .our favorite for spring and summer. Hopefully I'll get some ideas and I can photograph all the azaleas.
Scottie
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Blessings- it's so great you met your neighbor and had the opportunity to understand, and not steam. Well done!
Here's one of my little potted Japanese Maples. Just leafed out this week. I'm so excited! Spring us happening!!!!
Here is a more traditional one, a little further behind. I gave it two serious haircuts this year, trying to upgrade it from the Prince Valiant/lollipop lookto ..... I don't know... Obi Wan Kenobe?
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DivineMrsM - thank you! My goal for the yard was to be able to look out the windows and see the forest, even though we live in the valley. The angel statue is sitting on top of an old concrete birdbath that my brother was throwing out. I turned the bowl upside down to make a stand. Right now, I have wave petunias blooming in the wagon - which was actually my original little red wagon when I was a child.
Balthus - love your potted Japanese maple, especially the colors!
Scottiemom11 - our whole yard is practically a Japanese Maple forest... we transplanted a bunch of them from my brother's place in the mountains where it snowed. Here in the valley, it has gotten down to 15 degrees or so some winters, (Zone 8) but we have never lost a tree to the cold.
Jackbirdie - I was so relieved when the new neighbor took the time to come over and talk to us! Nothing worse than bad feelings between neighbors. I love all the purple and blue in your garden, against the contrast of your long-haired reddish maple!
Ladies with Japanese Maples - are you seeing lots of seedlings sprout up this year? We must have THOUSANDS of mini-maples coming up everywhere. Must be the recent rains and the current sunny days and mild temps. (The gardener says they'll die out once summer comes - it can get up to 115 degrees here.)
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What a sweet legend!
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Hi, Teka! I sure wish this board had "LIKE" buttons! Love the pussy willow legend....
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Dh and I had a walk-about the azalea trail at Callaway Gardens. I love photographing their plants and flowers to get ideas for my garden.
Scottie
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Scottie - beautiful! You have cardinals in Georgia?
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Blessings, we have lots of Cardinals here. At least two pairs live in my yard year round. Probably because we have too many bird feeders. I miss our annual humming birds though.
Scottie
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Scottie, those are breathtaking I so miss spring in the south with the azaleas and dogwoods. We lived near Greenville, SC for a couple of years.
Our grass is greening up, daffodils have their buds, neighbors crocuses are in bloom but nothing like the beautiful photos I've been watching here. We removed our old crab apple tree yesterday. It was planted too close to the house and had many dead branches and barely bloomed last year. I will miss those spring blooms though.
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thanks everyone. We inherited the potted maple when we bought this house but have always had at least 1-2 wherever we have lived. Winter in Dallas can be mild or sometimes with bouts of cold, snow and ice so we have wrapped potted trees as too heavy to move and they all have survived. Lovely to see everyone's gardens and scenery. Joyful Easter to those who celebrate. May peace be with you today and always.
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Blessings, that is a clever use for the birdbath! I may try something similar. I have a birdbath that I'm not quite sure what to do with as we have an outdoor cat so I don't want to attract birds to water. I will have to see if I can find something suitable to perch on it. Besides, the past few years I've become enamored with garden sculptures, ones that speak to my soul. So you've given me a good idea.
Balthus and Jackie, beautiful Japanese maples. I have one in my backyard too and love it. It isn't leafed out yet. It's lovely, but not nearly as lush and heavily branched as others I see around town. Not sure why, because we have great soil and its in a good location. I even tried fertilizer specifically for the type tree but it didn't do anything for it.The beautiful maroon color of the leaves is such an eyecatcher, and I love the yellow leafed one you have too, Jackie.
Cute little poem about pussy willows.Teka.
Scottie, the walk in that garden looks like it was breathtaking. My,my, I just loooove spring.
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Scottie- you have a great eye- beautiful collection of photos!
Happy Easter to all!
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More proof of life: I went outside to plant out some sweat peas and realized that what I thought was just leafing out of the wisteria are beaucoup blooms! A late cherry not far behind. The owners told me it fruits prolifically. And I witnessed a nice reblock of the wisteria in September last year! Oh joy!
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My DH & I are rejoining the Cooper Fitness Center as birthday gifts to each other. My birthday was a few weeks ago (turned 63) & his is next Sunday - the big 60! It's pricey but close to home & work & the grounds are incredibly beautiful. We belonged about 12 years ago & dropped out but we both need to be back at a gym and know we will commit to going at least 3-4 times a week. We did a one mike walk today. So not my garden but a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Dallas. Hope everyone had a good day wherever you are
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Ladies.. I have so enjoyed reading your stories of how "spring has sprung" .. and seeing all your beautiful photos of buds and blooms, and reading your legend Teka.
My hubby gave me a set of 20 solar garden lights ( instead of an egg for Easter) and I had great fun placing them around the garden.. Mostly up in the pots. I love them!!
It's Monday here , but I hope you're all having a wonderful Easter.!
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Balthus, not hard to get a one mile walk in when you're surrounded by such beauty!
Happy Easter to all
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We have a lot of northern flickers in the garden right now. I thought they were some kind of dove, but a friend straightened me out. Hear them celebrating!
Not my photo. Interesting, they look also something like downy woodpeckers. Just beautiful I think.
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They are in the woodpecker family. One year we had 2 males on telephone poles about half a block apart drumming their little hearts out. It was a real racket. So far we've only heard light drumming.
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Wren- thank you for that tidbit! Everything makes more sense now. 🙏🏼
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Thanks for the welcome Teka.
The pussy willows will be out here soon - I just love them. What a lovely story.
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One of my native azaleas. This one did not bloom last year.
Scottie
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Love native Azaleas! Beautiful color. Is it fragrant? The natives often seem to be while the commercially available hybrids are not.
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Scottie.. The azaleas are very pretty.!
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Ahhh, azaleas. Love them, too. They offer so much, beautiful flowers in the spring, evergreen leaves in the winter. I also like that they are slow growing and don't need trimmed every year like many other shrubs
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Divine. . .other than my encore azeleas, mine are finicky. The purple formosa's require bi-annual trimming and the native azaleas lose all of their leaves in the winter. Jackie. . .I'm not sure if they are fragrant. I've mostly been avoiding being outside with all of the pollen this year. I'm hoping my other native azaleas will bloom because they are still bare.
Scottie
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Here's a photo of an Emperor Candle that just come out in flower. Its our "suprise plant" .. We didn't plant it but the seed must of come in the mulch we bought.!
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Wow, spectacular flower, Lucy, I never heard of them or saw them before.. Rather magnificent
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Yesterday, I spent time in the yard, started getting some mulch down. I haven't mulched all the flowerbeds in one year since my son graduated high school in 2011 and we had his graduation party in the back yard (the party was lovely). This year, I want that "tended to" feeling again for all the flowerbeds.
The thing is, I flower gardened for years up until I was diagnosed with bc, which was the year ds graduated. After the graduation party, I did not do anything in the yard for well over three years. Shrubs were overgrown, weeds and vines took over, you can imagine, and dh would wack them back with the weedeater and hedgetrimmer, but I lost desire to get out there. Then, one spring my interest was simply renewed. One thing that happened, we'd had a rough winter and numerous shrubs and small evergreens died and needed removed. Dh wrapped a cable around them, tied it to the back of the truck and we pulled them out. (It was so easy and fun). Somehow, their removal opened up new possibilities and I saw the yard in a different light and the creative side of me wanted back out there. I'm having more fun and it's more satisfying than ever.
Here's one of the mulched beds with a couple of knockout roses, two purple azaelas, a red azaela in the middle along with a bit of lamb's ear.
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