Front Beds The Lamium, Penstemon, and foxglove is blooming and looks good. This is a limited time look. After the blooms fade, the Lamium gets patchy, the Penstemon and Digitalis brown and die – big YUCK! The newer Lamium still looks good into September but I’m sure that won’t last. The daffodils and tulips are [...]
Read the rest of 6/3/09 What’s Blooming?
Front Beds The front bed is overgrown with the dying tulip and daffodil greens. I am looking for ideas to hide it. I’d like to cover it with something big, leafy, and with purple foliage. The Japanese maple finally got its first haircut of the year. Columbine Aquilegia sp., – note the bee on the [...]
Read the rest of 5/23/09 What’s Blooming?
FRONT BEDS Lamium and Penstemon mostly Totally overgrown Japanese maple, hopefully it will be cleaned up by next week Potato that is to be put into a potato condo Peony Penstemon sp. “Husker Red” The deciduous azaleas are blooming Lilac (Syringa sp.) – my favorite are these dark purple kind VEGGIE GARDEN You can see [...]
Read the rest of 5/9/09 What’s Blooming
FRONT BEDS Lamium sp. in the middle, Penstemon sp. in the back, English bluebells in the front Foxglove, Digitalis sp. Peony and tulips Under the magnolia tree Peony The purple magnolia, which as of 5/2/09 is almost completely green and the white magnolia is fully green FRONT YARD FRONT SIDE The forsythia is changing from [...]
Read the rest of 4/19/09 What’s Blooming?
Narcissus in it’s many forms. FRONT BEDS I gave this Magnolia sp. (I think it’s a saucer magnolia) a pretty severe hair cut and almost took out the power line. Up close. A purple Magnolia that blooms later. Tulips Grape hyacinths (Muscari sp.) and Fritillaria meleagris (Snake’s Head Fritillary, Checkered Daffodil, Frog-cup, Guinea-hen Flower, Leper [...]
Read the rest of 4/7/09 What’s Blooming?
FRONT BEDS Overviews: you can see peonies, daffodils, violets, summer snowflake, and tulips (not in bloom). Pink Viola. A different type of Narcissus. Yellow and orange daffodils are a rare treat in my garden. As can be seen, there are large clumps of white and lots of all yellow. My hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) flowers are [...]
Read the rest of 3/22/09 What’s Blooming?
FRONT BED Forsynthia sp. Snow Drops (Galanthus nivalis) – starting to decline now Summer Snowflake (Leucojum vernum) Beard Tongue (Penstemon sp.) Peony (Paeonia sp.) Primrose (Primula vulgaris) Hyacinth (Hyacinthus sp.) in Dead Nettle (Lamium sp.) Short daffodils White daffodils Some daffodils (Narcissus sp.) are blooming, some are not quite, and the tulips (Tulipa sp.) are [...]
Read the rest of 3/12/09 What’s Blooming?
Daffodils poking up and I few tulips too. Spring crocus. Bees already – in February?!? In my snowdrops.
Read the rest of 2/19/09 In the Yard
Spring is on the way, and with a beautiful sunny day today I was able to get out and do some gardening! A photo of my shade garden, it looks pretty bare, albeit sunny. In the forefront (right) you can see a rhody branch that broke off and I tossed. Other than that not a [...]
Read the rest of 1/19/09 Yard and Garden