Gardening Flowers & Foliage

How I spent yesterday.....

 

Those garden kneeler tools, work well!

 

Yes they do, and flipped over they're a good seat

 

Variegated Solomons Seal

 

Another shot of the overflow bulb area, first tulips are opening.

Small daffodil patch by the front step.

 

Our amaryllis are putting on a show...

 

Those are very pretty!

 

Thank you

 

The tulips are starting to show up now. My wife has been cutting the hyacinths that bend over and bringing them into the house for the last week. She’s quite happy to wake up to our house smelling of hyacinths.

 

Tulips I’m jealous but I got daffodils and wygeria is in flower.

 

We’ve learned to line the tulips with daffodils and hyacinths to keep the deer away from them. The first year we had tulips come up, they got mowed down almost immediately.

 

I've never had tulip bulbs survive chippies and squirrels so I gave up years ago.

 

The chipmunks haven’t seen to bother them yet. I try and keep the population in check as well.

Today’s update, more tulips are opening, and the daffodils lining the driveway are starting to openas well. Guessing they are a later variety as they are always last to bloom. There’s 2 red tulips that were in that bunch that are open this year. Last year they got munched as soon as they started to open. What else do you do with several hundred daffodil bulbs dropped off by adopted grandparents…

 

Azaleas are looking nice.

 

tulips are like crack cocaine to deer. I have had to fence in my tulips if I want any to bloom and enjoy. Our town has a patch of tulips on the way into town. In previous years, they have put up a portable fence to keep the deer away. This year the fence didn't get put in place and there is no sign of the tulips.

 

I agree the deer love tulips, and we have plenty of deer here. I get nightly pings on the backyard game camera from them wondering the yard. Found a shed antler that has 5 pts on it 50’ from the house in the brush the other day. Wife found a 4 point shed antler slightly further from the house but same area when pulling honeysuckle out.

We read/heard the daffodil trick to masking tulips somewhere up here. It was one of the times we made a note of it, and said we would try it. So far it’s working, we’ve also put daffodils by our new hosta’s, and they are just coming up, about 2”-3” tall right now.

 

I’ll have to get a picture of ours, it’s not open yet, but not as nice as yours either. The deer mowed it down 3 winters ago and we thought it was dead. We moved it, and fenced it in to try and help it back to life. It’s surviving.

 

I have two of these motion activated sprinklers and they do a great job keeping the deer out of my gardens. You can guard a pretty wide area especially if you know the direction the deer usually come from. Just the sound of them going off scare them away. I'll manage to get sprayed almost every time I go near them forgetting all about them. Scares the chit out me every time.
The one in my front yard has caught the meter reader more then once.

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