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| I've got candytuft, irises, snow on the mountain, salvia (early?!) baptisia and a miniature rose blooming right now. What about you? |
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| My yard is small, so I do not have many bloomers at this time. Still, it is a lovely time of the year! Clematis 'Pink Flamingo'
Lilac 'Josee'
Tree Peonies!!!
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 5b/6a N CT (My Page) on Mon, May 2, 11 at 6:37
| Mostly bulbs so far and altho' the candytuft is covered with buds, just a single bloom has opened. Periwinkle Euphorbia polychroma 'Bonfire' Songbird Blue Columbine
Crown imperial Brunnera/Siberian bugloss 'Jack Frost'
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| Beautiful photos alina and gardenweed. Those tree peonies are making my mouth water. My clematis is blooming too, it's Miss Bateman. |
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| Not much. We have had a very wet, cool, dark and dank spring. Everything in my yard is a good 10 days to 2 weeks behind what was happening at this time last year. That is good, because a lot of the early tree blossoms froze last year and there was very little fruit. Right now, my tulips and grape hyacinths are at peak, while the daffs and windflowers are about done. Euphorbia polychroma will get a little brighter yet. The Amelanchier (serviceberry) tree blossoms are at peak today. Just wish it would quit raining and the sun would come out so the bees could get busy pollinating. |
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| Gazania, the rain is over the top here, too. My lavender hedge looks like it's in danger of rotting out from all the damp. Seems like we're getting one sunny day every 10 cloudy ones. May as well live in Seattle. |
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| Tulips and daffodils are blooming together along with phlox subulata and heath. Lenten rose, pulmonaria, epimedium are in bloom, and the double bloodroot just finished up. Trillium, primrose, anemonella. 'Ogon' spiraea, magnolias, amalanchier, pear, forsythia and some azalea. And a new plant for me from last year Lathrys vernus spring bush pea. I bought one last year and it fell over on the car ride home and all the stems broke so I lost all the bloom. It is more than making up for it this year. Alina, I am a huge fan of tree peonies. I just can't get enough of them! Yours are beautiful! |
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- Posted by on_greenthumb (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 11 at 10:34
| Hellebores, Chindoxia and Hyacinth.....LOL and the crocus' are just finished. Forsythia is blooming (but I don't have any) Hoping that the daffodils start soon in my yard - all the neighbours have seemed to bloom already. My Rhododendron is just about to go |
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- Posted by pam_whitbyon 6 (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 11 at 12:47
| Lenten roses, daffs, tulips and hyacinths. I've yet to see one grape hyacinth and even my unwanted wild violets don't seem as prolific as they were this time last year. I love my hellebores. They stay flowered for a long long time. Here they are:
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| Pam, I love your hellebores too! I have a seedling from a Tazmanian nursery given to me by a Gardenweb member, and I hope to see it in bloom next year. Pasque Flower and a NOID Brunnera seedling started the blooming season here. Next, Leopard's Bane and Maiden's Blush Lilac started opening, and late last week, my first SDB Iris, Golden Violet opened. Also blooming in the iris family is a NOID SDB Rebloomer that looks like Flower Shower, Baby Blessed, and Plum Wine should be open any day. I see new buds coming on all of my SDBs now. I have a late daffodil, Salome, and tulips both still blooming. I love this time of year, but I wish the rain would stop. Enough already! Linda |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 11 at 17:01
| Roses, myosotis (forget-me-nots,) hydrangea, verbena, amaryllis, pink oxalis, several kinds of clover, spiderwort. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 11 at 17:02
| ya know.. i really get a hate on for all you braggarts .... its been so cold in rural MI .. that we are still waiting on the redbuds.. and the hyacinths are still blooming.. the hosta are still one inch pips ... and the lawn is still brownish ... and the maples are just putting out pollen ... we are working on being about one month behind ... of course the upside to that.. is that i am not worrying about frost or freeze damage like i usually do .. lol ... thanks for letting me vent.. your gardens look wonderful ... ken ps: i dont really hate you'all ... |
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 First Clematis I have not killed. Betty |
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| Betty, that clematis is a keeper! Ken, we may be envying you in late July when everything here is baked to a crisp and you'll have lots looking fresh. We head up to New England in August and it takes two days to drive there but when I get there it's six weeks ago, flowers wise. Makes me bitter every time. |
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- Posted by hostaholic2 zone 4 MN (My Page) on Tue, May 3, 11 at 23:23
| Ahh well, I appreciate knowing someone can be afflicted with reverse zone envy. It makes me feel so much better when I wake up to temps of 27 and ice in the birdbath! Thank you! |
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| Nothing! Well, not quite. My daffs and hyacinths are basically finished. One of my columbines just started to open. Everything else is bulking up and getting ready. One thing that is in bloom - creeping charlie. Yuck. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, May 4, 11 at 14:51
| ken, your posts crack me up. Keep 'em comin! I love it when people have a sense of humor about their garden. leafy has a good point, how often will you get above 90? Every day for 6-8 weeks? Please rub it in later when you are comfortable in your flower-filled yard and we in the south are panting, frying, can't go outside without heat stroke, 88 degrees at 7 AM. hostaholic, I've lived in central OH, and now in extreme lower AL. The grass IS always greener... LOL! I didn't move in regard to gardening and although I miss them DEARLY, I prefer gardenias over lilacs. You can't have it all. The differences are fun, though, for example, up north they grow a grass lawn and pick out or kill the weeds. Down here ya grow & mow weeds and call it a lawn. It's all good! |
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