Gardening, anyone?
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Okay, well I am cheating a bit here, but my friend back east has the most spectacular amaryllis blooming I have ever seen.
Have you ever seen one of these?
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Magiclight ..Love your pansies !!!
Jazz ..Wow ..What a gorgeous Amaryllis ! Amazing !
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Jazz...Oh my, so lovely and to think that those dull looking little plants sold months ago become such beauties. I feel fortified waiting for spring - such beauty awaits.
Sorry for all you northeasterners as you move through your latest snow storm if you have to be out and about on the roads.
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Starting my leeks this week! It will be 10 weeks before they go out to the garden.
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Teka: Where I live pansies are a winter flower that can stand the freezing temps at night but revive in the sunny days. Petunias thrive in the summer heat and last well into our fall.
The potato leek soup sounds delicious though I've never made it. My only recipe calling for leeks is a walnut leek bread - yummy with lots of butter!
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Jazzy, beautiful flower. We are in total spring mode here. Everything is either blooming, growing or both. This is the first b year in a long time that my Japanese Magnolia blooms have not wilted in a deep freeze right after they opened. Wishing everyone spring weather soon.
Scottie
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Just like last year I am so jealous of you southerners seeing signs of spring, but thanks for sharing it with me! All I have is my hibiscus which seems happy in thr window.
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Scottie ..Love your Japanese magnolia blooms ..
Two Hobbies ..Great photo of your Hibiscus ..A beautiful splash of colour ..
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We are getting lots of snow here in the northeast. The old timers call it, "Nature' Fertilizer." I prefer to call it "water for next summer's gardens!'
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Love the hibiscus. I got one one year and babied it thru the gray winter. The leaves got small, but when I put it back outside for the summer they got big again and it bloomed. I think I'll get another one this year.
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I'm spending the spring thru June getting in shape for more surgery in July. So might as well kick off the spring planting this weekend. It's supposed to be 70s. That way I can enjoy the garden even more in July while recovering. Time to hit my favorite nursery for ideas on what to plant.
Scottie
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I have white blooms!
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Beautiful, Jazzy girl!
Last summer I planned too big of a garden and started hundreds of seedlings. Then, it all became too much for me while I was doing rads.
Gardening is basically the only thing that cures my blues and provides opportunity for necessary weight-bearing exercise.
What are everyone's favorite seed companies? For my northeast climate, I have loved Johnny's for ove 30 years.
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There's a seed company in WA that specializes in things that like our cool climate. The name is Territorial Seeds and they test everything in our climate before stocking it. I have also had good luck with Johnny's. I got a catalog at the garden show last year from Hudson Valley Seed Savers. They had a lot of unusual and hard to find seeds. I was impressed that they had milkweed, which is needed by monarch butterflies.
We had a dream trip to France once and saw Monet's garden. I bought a calendar that had a photo taken each week at the garden, beginning with bare dirt and a cat in January. I saved it and every few years I pull it out and change the photo each week. We are on the same latitude as Paris with a similar climate, so our flowers tend to bloom at the same time. The garden was worth the effort to see it. It had a fence of espaliered apple trees that was amazing.
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I love to look at the catalogs but I also usually buy at the greenhouse. Luckily we have a lot of good options around. In the spring I love to go out on my lunch hour. I am getting the bug todsy. Its been 60 for two days but of course its not going to last.
Oh my thats is a beautiful amaryllis.
Wren I always wanted to go to Monets garden Thats a dream.
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Blooming at the yoga retreat center this weekend
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Jazz..Oh my, a retreat..envious but so happy that you had the experience and shared the images. Lovely white blooms to come home to.
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This orchid began to bloom last Friday. Its coloring does not show true in the picture. Its blooms are purple.
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icietla...Lovely..I love orchids and tried to grow them years ago. Now just but them on occasion.
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WOW!!
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Beautiful orchids!
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Thank you, Friends.
I love all the flowers, and I love to see the pictures you all put on of them. These days I can grow only rather low-maintenance plants, but I do admire all the others.
Those purple blooms are my first orchid blooms in about two years. Their last bloom season -- about a year ago -- I had a couple of breast surgeries, and I guess I let my orchids get too dry. They all suffered bud blast then.
Another one started opening a bloom today. If there is bright enough sunshine tomorrow, it should finish opening tomorrow. I will show you then.
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Lovely orchids.
I just ordered 3 Lilac bushes from Groupon. I have never ordered plants from them but the look really nice and will ship 3-4 feet tall. I love plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. My spring planting frenzy has officially begun.
Scottie
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Thank you, Scottiemom11. Your lilacs should draw lots of butterfly and hummingbird visitors. This is one of those time windows when we in the South can order plants from some faraway places -- not too cold now, and not too warm yet to have plants in shipment.
This bloom finished opening this morning while I slept. In a few days it will look less yellow and its reddish parts will show a little more reddish. This plant always puts on two bloom spikes.
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Just stunning!
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We went to the Flower & Garden Show today. The huge convention center was full of gardens and people selling seeds, bulbs, trees, and all sorts of garden aids. My daughter calls it "flower porn" because they have every spring bulb and flower in mass quantities. It's not fair to have it so early. Still very gray and soggy - too soon to start gardening.
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Gorgeous photos. !!! I love orchids. !!
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We had fun yesterday converting what was a coleus garden , into this ...
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lucy...cute hiding frog is wondering where are my coleus? Cactus and succulents need much less attention.
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Wren- I bet that show was great. Give me some flower porn anytime.
My amaryllis is still going, two more blooms left. The other day I turned around to see the light shining through a couple of the flowers and captured this with my phone camera.
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