Gardening Flowers & Foliage

Another sign of spring here -





I hope they survive the mid-20's tonight.

 

My rhodos are 12’ tall and growing despite the biblical drought.

 

Big Leaf Magnolia

 

Baby's Breath

 

Mega cluster

 

My tiger lilies have green leaves and my lilac have sprouts of leaves..

 

the roadside garden is colorful.

 

Bleeding hearts are at their maximum showing

 

Pink dogwood is pretty

 

No flowers yet, but I think this will be a nice spot. Our son has about 12 bee hives so far. We ordered 16 lbs of wildflower seeds... Used a hand spreader and the SxS to plant Tractor and drag to cover About 1/2 acre or so planted with lime and fertilizer too. We also built Miz Carol a new 14 x 14 bulb bed. It will have tulips and bearded irises in it.

 

A walk around the yard....

2 different azaleas








Ground phlox


Spirea

 

the rhododendron is in the wrong spot. It doesn't get enough sun but this is the most blooms I have ever had on it.

 

Garden Pictures from 5/20/2025

Creeping phlox




Small rhodie


Lilac

 

Very pretty, how is the bloom progressing this year?

 

Ah, spring in New Hampshire. Where a week ago the high was 42* and the pellet stove keeping the place warm. Then cue a couple of days in the 90s and humid, the cue a couple of days after that with frost.

the blooms have all been progressing at approximately the same as any other year. I do mis the crab apple tree that I had taken down last fall. For the last several years it has had a blight that made it shed its leaves in late June. It would flower in spring, but it was old and declining so I did the humane thing.

Yesterday was a nice day (after lows almost to the frost point) and it was in the low 60s. So things are changing quickly with the azaleas and rhodies (I have no idea why it made that first picture so small, I'll try again on another post




This one filled in with even more flowers than what I posted yesterday

 

More pics



This is the crimson King maple taken on 5/7/26. When the late afternoon sun hits the young leaves it is fire


This is 5/22/26 in late afternoon where the leaves are a beautiful golden bronze with the late afternoon sun

 

Yellow roses very fragrant




Siberian irises are just opening


And early daylilies

 

The wildflowers are beginning to come up good. I can recognize a few, some are probably weeds too...lol

 

Around my house I let certain areas go until I can tell 100% what the plants are, weeds and all. I've been surprised a few times when what I thought was a weed turned out to be some native wildflower that blooms and then makes more seeds for next year.