Eckie I am not sure as I don't really know my flowering plants but the first one (pale pink) looks like an azalea to me. My Mom has one that is just a deeper pink than that. MikeInMa and hovlandhomestead You guys are killing me with the rhubarb pics. Mine are a lot thinner than that. I think I will be getting new plants for the fall planting.
We have seceral azaleas here, and my mom had them surrounding our house growing up, pretty sure its not azalea, unless its some very odd variety. Its much more bush/tree-ish (if that makes any sense) than an azalea. Might see if my aunt knows, or take a cutting to the local garden center.
Pics from yesterday afternoon A smaller patch of phlox, the red are English primrose and you can see lupines coming up (started from seed - first year was last year) English primrose a little closer A random daffodil that came out of a mixed bag Tahiti Daff Glue Jacket Hyacinth The crabapple is going to be splendid this year, after the last couple of years being very drab. Those are not blooms, they are buds - can't wait to see them open up! Picture taken out the kitchen window.
Can you get a close up picture of those flowers in the first picture? I feel like I should know what it is.
Thanks for the link. I transplanted these plants from a very old bigger plant a couple of years ago. That may be part of my problem.
The branches, leaves and form really look like forsythia. And I found a pink forsythia online, but the flowers dont look quite right...
Some ninebark blooms look very similar (like Wine and Roses), but I'm pretty sure it isn't a ninebark because most have clusters of flowers. Azaleas have smooth round leaves, so I don't think it is that. Ah, process of elimination - that my friend is a Weigala.
My aunt found something about Weigala, but the flowers looked a bit off drom that as well. Could have just been the pic we were comparing to. Thanks bogieb
Weigela That was the word I was looking for when I said Azaleas. I was going to show the picture to Mom and she would have set me straight.
7 bare root beach plums went in this past weekend. They shipped really well. Also planted my small crabapple that I grew from a seed. I hope it won't get shocked being outside. Its growth was looking stunted inside. Hoping for it to take off. The spruce seeds haven't done anything. I plan to put the peat pucks in a small trench under some red pines and let nature take over. Very fussy to start even with stratifying.
Two days after the crabapple budding picture and she is in bloom. I finally got a decent pic of, what I assume to be an apple tree, that is blooming in the swamp. This is 15-20 feet from my property line and I seriously don't ever remember seeing it bloom in the 7 springs I've been here. No, I am not wading thru all the poison ivy and invasive roses to get a closer look for a positive ID
bogieb That crabapple is gorgeous and the white tree (apple?) is spectacular. Our neighbour's old diseased apple tree is starting to put out blossoms now.
Midwinter, what is the potted plant in the first pic? And what are the yellow flowers in the back of the last pic?
The first pic are delphiniums. I can't get them to overwinter, so I just buy them in the spring and grow them in a pot. They rebloom a few times over the summer. The yellow flowers in the back are some kind of daffodil. They have several flowers per stem. I planted them amongst some daylilys that will bloom later. Lots and lots of chives! When I dug out the bed last fall I couldn't bear to throw any away (hoarder) so I replanted them all.
I thought they looked like daffodils. I'm a bit amazed that you have daffs and iris blooming at the same time. Or daffs bloomed probably 1-2 months ago, and the iris are in mid to late bloom now.
