Gardening, anyone?
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Vargadoll, Lovely tree, thanks for sharing.
Jazzy, I like the bright colored pots. I could live in the Southwest.
Mommy, A plant with a name knows it's loved.
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Scottiemom- yes, I always add a lot of Black Kow and fertilizer when I plant anything. The problem is that this clay is honestly like trying to dig a hole in a cement sidewalk. I've had clay soil before but nothing like this. We would never have bought if we had known about the blue clay. In order to dig a hole, I have to actually sit there with a sharp trowel and just hack at it little by little. I am a gardener at heart so this has been a hard adjustment for me. Now I grow orchids and I love not having to work at digging through concrete to plant them!! And when we go to visit our daughters in MA and CT, I can work to my heart' content in their flower gardens.
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I told him that talking to plants is good for them.
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Spectacular day at the biopark/botanic gardens today. Here are my best pics from today!
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Simply beautiful !!!
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Jazzygirl- I'll take 2 of each! Glorious photos! The last one of the white peonies melts my heart! My grandmother had one just like it! I lived in her house for 17 years and each spring the plant would bloom just before Mother's Day. My father had got her the plant for Mother's Day 40+ years ago.
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Thank you,more southern ladies for those beautiful blossom pictures. Spring has been slow to come here and I am itching to get out in the yard. Wren when I see Jazzys pics I always think the same thing- maybe I want to move to the southwest. Jazzy, those blue pots make me happy!
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I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I found this cool planter with succulents at a local plant sale this am. Just love it!
Getting ready to re-landscape my front rock garden and pics to come soon after that is done!
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Jazzy, What is the planter made of? In the photo it looks like petrified wood, but that seems unlikely.
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Wren- it is actually ceramic but looks like a drift wood. The ceramic will make it good for outdoors (unlike wood containers....)
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Today's bloom
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Our Wild Irises have been blooming this week - time for yard work. Unfortunately, I am getting ready for my missions trip to Rwanda in August and won't have much time to garden. Pictures come later...
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Hi ladies- I got the front yard re-landscaping done Monday night, including the cactus and succulents, and the nice yellow gourd yucca you see in the foreground. Love the way the rock garden is evolving and hoping that this area will do better this summer. in the increasing heat we have out west. I have a bit more to do with the gardens and pots, but things are really shaping up around here!
Weather has been warm, in the mid 80s here at the end of April. Tells me we are heading into another hot summer.....
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Wild Irises have arrived - time to plant in Oregon.
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GMA- I have never seen wild irises. How beautiful!
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They are smaller than normal irises - you find them in our fields of grass.
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Went on a wild iris hike around my property yesterday. Here are a couple of groups of them.
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GMAfoley- I cannot get over the beauty of the wild irises. How lucky to take a hike and see them! Thanks for sharing these. My purple irises are continuing to bloom and love them. One of my favorite flowers.
I bought this lily recently and decide to put in in a pot and out in the front rock garden vs. putting it in the garden (may help it to survive against a flower eating squirrel that is around). Checked this am and it is doing great!
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jazz thanks for sharing
Beautiful pictures. I love the planter but just keep an eye those succulents will need more space soon lol I had them in a terrarium and boy they grew fast.
I will post a few pictures later but I am glad to share my red maple is waking up lol
I thought he die but he is coming back
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E- yes, I had to keep them spaced for growth. They can get large, especially with the heat in the summer.
Good to see your tree leafing out. My trees are all out now too!
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Love the wild iris. I haven't seen them before. We have the tame kind and they're pretty, but not as much as the wild.
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Still don't know what kind of tree this is.
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GMA- looks like it could be some type of pear?
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Jazzygirl - the blooms do look like a pear tree! That's what I thought but the shape is not like the pear tree around here which are the Bradford Pear trees. Beautiful tree!! Love the wild iris to...I had no idea there was such a flower.
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Finally believe spring is here! Dogwoods are finally blooming! Hyacinths are about done. And asparagus is up!!! Nothing like cutting fresh asparagus for breakfast each morning for the next few weeks!!
Got the gardens tilled and ready for plants as soon as it stops being too cold at night. Maybe next week??
SPRING!!
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It has little red round berries kind of like currants except smaller.
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Ornamental crab apple? Looks a lot like mine.
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I think crab apple sounds right. We had one in the yard growing up and they do have more of that shape, plus the berries that turn in to apples with time.
Blooms due jour from my claret cup cactus. This one is in my back yard and got planted in 2012, and have a new one out front too so in future years, I will have twice the fun!
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Also starting to bloom in a bigger way, my mexican primrose which I planted a few years back and sort of has become invasive.
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Gorgeous! Jazzygirl!
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