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I'm thinking oriental lily on the tall one.

Thanks everyone.

Holland Dutch Crocus, Professor Einstein Daffodils (the white ones) hyacinths - love the fragrance throughout the gardens. Happy Gardening! :-)

daphne

Eva, what is the pink daylily behind the loosestrife? It is very pretty! Your gardens are lovely.

Dee

I grew Morden's Pink years ago because I was told it didn't seed. It behaved for about 4 yrs and then went nuts. Seedlings everywhere and every bit as invasive as it's wild relative.

Marlorena good suggestion of the begonias thanks. I will try those next year, or this year if the lobelia don't do well. I do like to paint so I'm actually looking forward to it.

After...good luck on your paper...the garden will be there when you're ready ;)

I sure hope my anemones multiple, need LOTS to even notice them. Heres a busy bee showing the true (tiny) size of them lol.

Adorable anemones!

Yep, hurts so good. I'm so sore from constant crouching, bending, lifting, etc. after sitting on my rump for most of the winter :-) Still have so much to do but not too busy to pause and smile at the blooming barren strawberry (Waldsteina ternata) or admire the ruby colored new growth of the peonies.

there is a reason.. things that bloom this early in spring.. are called ephemerals ...

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ken

Well, I have been lazy with the liquid fence, and now my 2 beautiful blooms are gone =/ Leaves are still intact, the blooms have gone missing. Oh deer..... there's always next year!

Was wondering this myself as well... glad to hear I am not alone since I planted five of them last year I was hoping they'd return!

Same here. I planted 2 last year and still wondering if they'll show... My butterfly weed hasn't emerged yet either, so I'm still holding out hope. (Although I haven't had much luck with butterfly weed either)

I don't know where I got it in my head that it was one of those plants that shouldn't be cut back until spring, especially in colder zones. All of your input has been great - I feel a lot more confident using them "front and center" now. Thanks!

Don't feel bad Ruth, I thought the same thing lol.

Yay! Just saw a few tips of my tall one the other day.

Woohoo! That's a great feeling.

I googled it...looks like a beauty!!

I think its Burpee, just a packet of mixed colors - white, lavender, pink, maroon. They are easy to grow and nice for cutting. I don't get the pretty blue color of the perennial types, but the mixed colors are lovely..

Thanks! I saw that at Home Depot. I wish I had grabbed them when seeds were BOGO.

I have been having a monkshood moment for the last 2 years - not only is it vigorous and competent in my utterly unirrigated woodland, (this is proving a stern test for a lot of plants), it also grows easily from seed...and then obligingly seeds around, thereby fulfilling all my criteria for plant choice - none of that rare and special palaver now - I require survival, willingness to reproduce itself and dirt cheap...and monkshoods are certainly fitting the bill as well as having rather good and varied foliage (I am new to the shady foliage club - but intend to still remain hosta free). I am looking forward to a late summer blue finale (when the c.trachelium get going too)

Was overjoyed beyond reason to see that the ridiculously optimistic mertensia seedlings have returned.

I really agree about monkshoods. I've never grown one which was a disappointment.

My favourite two are 'Spark's Variety' for it's beautiful violet-blue colour and Arend's monkshood for being one of the very best fall-performing perennials here.

Also like Campanula trachelium, a very competent and reliable medium-sized garden perennial (regular and white forms).

So now they have changed Dicentra to Lamprocapnos, or at least Dicentra spectabilis? What a mouthful, and rather more difficult to remember.

Grumble, grumble . . . Learning and using scientific names for plants is clearer than common names, but now they are changing the scientific names. I know that much of it is caused by new genetic information, but even so, it's a pain. It makes finding information on a plant more difficult since some of the nurseries will use one name, some another, and some both, making it necessary to search under both names . . . grumble!

Nice photo, Dave!

Almost passed this posting by as didn't recognize the name. Still waiting for my 'Gold Heart' to appear.