Those colors are beautiful. Nothing like that around here yet, but I planted some pots. My lupine, lilly's, yarrow, coneflowers and bee balm are really getting going in term of foliage, but no blooms yet.
I also have a wild rose bush transplanted from up north. It is beautiful. Lupin and yarrow were transplanted as well and have really taken hold, along with a couple poplar and four black spruce to help us feel more at home down here.
Forsythia finally got into full bloom. The creeping phlox is loving all the rain we have been getting - since it is an evergreen the colder temps don't bother it. On another note, the rhodies in the state have taken a real beating unless they were in a protected area or covered (or you were in an area blessed with a lot of snow and no February thaw). These get a lot of wind and the back side isn't any better than the front. The State Extension says to wait and see if they come back before pruning out the damaged areas.
They do. I just let them rot basically and a new crop grows all winter. I'm contending with weeds now...used creek rock as a base but the weeds are hard to control. So I spot spray with round up, I'm sure I've accidentally taken out a few foxgloves
Have some larkspur's blooming in the back and several crops of raspberries coming along mixed in with them.
Those foxgloves are beautiful! I have some yellow FG's that are pretty short - or at least I've had them for the last couple of years. Will have to wait for a while before I discover if they have come back.
Fox glove are a biennial so only bloom every other year. Kare has planted then so some bloom every year, also if you don't dead head them they will self seed. Kares yellow ones are short also maybe a foot to a foot and a half tall. Some of Kares blooms from last summer. Daffidils have gone by mostly for this year. Maple tree blooms are always one of the first blooms. Sugar Maple. Apple tree, Have just opened this year and the bees are really working them. Lilics are about a couple nice days out yet this year. Al
Polar Pansys are always one of the first blooms we see after the Maple trees. Another of our Maple tree blooms. W White Daffidils bloom a bit later than the yellow here. Quince is going full out gang busters this week. Al
Kare's Twisted Weeping Lavender red bud tree. Bleeding hearts red going by. Another Polar Panzy bloom. Flowering Almond, soon for 2019. Al
Woods pholx. they grow wild in my woods. White Bleeding heart. Red Bleeding hearts. Wild Geriaunm also cover our woods. Our single deep Purple Lilac. Kare has a lot of white lilacs. Al
Snow ball bush. Snow On The Mountian with hail stones. Emgering poppy. Varigated Wegulia. Wine and roses Wegulia. Clamites. Jackman I believe. No guess on this one. Kare has some where near 3200 SQ FT of Prenniel flower beds . Clamites climbing on the back grarage wall and the east side of the honey house. plus flowering shrubs scartered thru out the yard. Al
Polar Pnasys, there are many colors to chose from if you visit the right nursery or and lucky to find some here and there. Advice on Varieties of Pansies Al
I was lucky enough to se these spiderlings climbing a strand of silk from the soil in the pot to about 1/2 way up the this maple seedling before branching out to different parts of the leaf buds. It looked to me as if they all followed one strand. Unfortunately I didn't think to go in and grab the camera (pictures taken on macro setting) until they had made the climb. If you look close, at the bottom leaf sheath, there is a laggard on top of it. Mom (I assume) was circling the bottom of the pot. I Googled to see if mom perhaps laid that one strand of silk then continued on back down to the pot. But no sources I looked at mentioned it. However, it's the only thing that makes sense to me since there was just one strand of silk and they all went single-file up it. I do know that at some point they will form a parachute and drift off in the wind. Mysteries of nature
