Came across some Trilium while scouting for an easier route to move today’s cut from And I’m not sure what this is growing in the brook by the bridge MikeInMa helped me with. Anybody know?
That is cool that you came across the Trillium. I'm unsure what the yellow is but obviously it likes wet feet. Purple Hyacinth not yet to full bloom, but its a lot further along than at the beginning of the week. Hope it likes the 2-8" of snow we have coming. First year for this Dappled Willow (Sauce Hakuro Nishiki). I abused it horribly last year leaving it in its pot for several months, and I wasn't consistant with watering it. When I picked it up, I really didn't know what I would do with it. This corner of the shrub garden is moist to wet. I dug up a couple of hollies that had died and now it looks like it is happy. Lilac is getting some buds.
Because of the sunshine for the past couple of weeks, my lilac is coming into bloom and it is going to be gorgeous. My rhubarb is doing good as I packed steer manure around it and now the rain is watering it in. tulips are blooming and my rosebushes are getting buds. My favourite tulips are planted in a barrel with a yellow rose. Now they are blooming, I have something, probably a bird, eating out the bottom of the flower. Lost one so far. Last year they all were lost to it. Would hummingbirds go after the base of a flower?
That doesn't sound like hummingbird damage - unless your hummingbirds are just plain weird out there in the west. If it is a bird, the only thing I could think of is birds going after insects . Slugs like tulip flowers and leaves. I'm unsure what kind of animal would only go after the base of the flower but not the whole thing. in general, deer like to eat the flowers, squirrels and chippies like the bulbs, and rabbits like the foliage.
If deer around here have access to flowering tulips, there is no flowers left. It is like candy to them. Our town redid one of those ornamental beds with lots of tulips and put up a fence around them until they have finished blooming. It is the only way to protect them.
Here are some pics from this AM. Chives and Garlic, white and blue Violets, Forsythias, Young Lilac flowers, the bed with Rose Campions, Daisys, and Black eyed Susans. And since we only to have two colors here the woods, brown and very little green, other than the Pines and Spruce, here are our resident colorful friends.
Those yellow flowers by the brook are Marsh Marigolds, at least that's what I've always known them as. Very early spring flowers before the trees canopy out, You see them a lot trout fishing.
The forsythia are looking good. Mine always looks like cr*p because it tries to take over the world and I have to wack it down by mid summer - even if I have cut it down in the spring. I love the pop of color from the cardinal and blue bird!
They are both here, with their mates as they nest in the yard. They provide us with amusement all day long working out back.
I was surprised yesterday. Have some dewberries (earliest blackberries to ripen) growing under a canopy in our yard...
NH mountain man , Do you have any nesting bluebirds? I've had two pair pass through checking out the nesting box and move on.
Yes, last year we had one pair nesting in the box right between two of the 3 gardens. We had five Bluebirds overwinter with us, and two pairs are currently nesting with us in boxes. Prior to three years ago, we had NEVER even seen one here, and we watch all the birds year round as we work outside. Now, they are everywhere. We are so happy to have them.
So cool, you have berries, we don't even have leaves. The Red Maple buds are just starting to open small flowers, it will still be a good 3 weeks before we get leaves on most trees. Especially the Oaks.
It was so shocking last year when we went to Dennis's GTG in mid Michigan first of May. We left GA in shorts and 85°, lots of flowers already bloomed. When we got to Ohio, the dogwoods were just turning white, had bloomed about a month earlier in GA, got to the GTG, maybe 40° and colder, trees just budding. Glad we had our flannels.
