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| It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood; What's blooming in your garden? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 25 2008, 11:09 AM (283 Views) | |
| sue | May 25 2008, 11:09 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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We've had a great spell of non-rainy days, and my rhodos are looking happy.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What's flowering where you are? |
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| DivaDeb | May 25 2008, 11:14 AM Post #2 |
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oh...I love them so much!!!! my most favorite color!!! |
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| kenny | May 25 2008, 11:15 AM Post #3 |
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Wow!
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 25 2008, 11:16 AM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Very nice.
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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. - Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | |
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| DivaDeb | May 25 2008, 11:44 AM Post #5 |
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In Kansas, we've had some storms so my flowers are a bit beat up. Today, I have iris:![]() peonies: ![]() ![]() and one of my favorite things, I don't really know what they are, we call them "marsh mallows" ![]() Soon, we're going to have LOTS of cherries! ![]()
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| Luke's Dad | May 25 2008, 12:05 PM Post #6 |
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![]() Ahem, I WILL be expecting a Fed Ex shipment from you within a few months.
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| DivaDeb | May 25 2008, 12:34 PM Post #7 |
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you're certainly welcome to as many as you can pick, we'll even provide you with a ladder and a basket :lol: They're *GREAT* and that little bitty tree produces like mad. We pit and freeze tons of them every year. |
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| sue | May 25 2008, 01:44 PM Post #8 |
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Lovely flowers, Deb! And I am quite envious of your cherry crop. We have a big old cherry tree in the back yard, but all the crows and ravens and jays pick off the little green cherries long before they're ready. We used to get some great cherries off it years ago, but for some reason the birds have gotten very piggy.
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| Jane D'Oh | May 25 2008, 03:18 PM Post #9 |
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Oh your gardens look lovely. I'll have to get out my camera tomorrow. We got our leaky hoses set up today so that will help with the watering. I love this time of year. |
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| DivaDeb | May 25 2008, 03:33 PM Post #10 |
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We've had awfully good luck with that tree. It may be because it's right next to the house and we have cats. They sit at the windows and doors and chatter and cluck when birds are around. I can't wait for your pics, Jane! I knew you'd be around in this thread! |
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| Bernard | May 25 2008, 03:40 PM Post #11 |
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Oh, sue, the Rhodendrons are gorgeous! I would love to have some, alas I haven't got the room. I love your peonies, DivaDeb, I can smell 'em just looking at 'em. It just happens I was out pixelating the garden yesterday morning. I'm afraid I can't match that first rhode, but let me go dig up the pics... |
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| Bernard | May 25 2008, 03:50 PM Post #12 |
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I'm still planting:![]() My new Siberian Iris. The camera did not capture the spectacular deep deep purple color of this iris. It has quickly become one of my favorite flowers: ![]() The Clematis which I moved last summer. For many years my neighbors where getting the show, I moved it to where I can enjoy the flowers too! ![]() My potted Hibiscus. This one is new. I also have a red one that's been around for a few years: ![]() The last of the Bleeding Hearts: ![]() Overview of the west end of the backyard: ![]() Columbines: ![]() The first of the Cranesbills: ![]() Honeysuckle, close up. This was a dissappointment. When I was a kid we had a Honeysuckle tree and the blossoms smelled like heaven. This vine doesn't have any scent at all: ![]() Waiting and Hoping. I put this in last year while it was in bud and they blasted. I'm really hoping I'll see (and smell) a peony blossom this year: ![]() Getting reading for warm weather eating. One of the bushes in the background is a type of Jasmine my landlord brought back from Poland. It will be in blossom very soon and the fragrance is un-freakin-believable. I'm told if you bring sprays of it indoors and sleep in the same room with them you'll wake up with a headache!:
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| DivaDeb | May 25 2008, 04:35 PM Post #13 |
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Bernard!!!!!!!! ohhhhhhh what a lovely collection. I would love to get a snootful of that Jasmine when it blooms. It's all so lovely...YEA FOR WARM WEATHER AND BLOOMING THINGS!!!! |
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| sue | May 25 2008, 05:05 PM Post #14 |
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Oh Bernard, I love those irises. Those deeply coloured ones are one of my favourite flowers, I think they are just spectacular. Unfortunately my attempts at growing them have been less so. I'll take some pictures of my honeysuckle vine when it flowers....and you'll have to pretend you can smell them. The fragrance, in late evening, is something wondrous. My vine is a mess, and in serious need of pruning, but we have hummingbirds nesting in it (we think), so are keeping our distance.I love my rhododendrons; they are the perfect plant around here. They can survive, and bloom like they did this year, with absolute neglect and zero maintenance. Imagine how gorgeous they'd be if I did anything. I have 14 of them, all 20 yrs plus, so well established.
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| Tav D | May 26 2008, 10:41 AM Post #15 |
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Roses in my garden taken May 25.............![]() ![]()
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| DivaDeb | May 26 2008, 10:42 AM Post #16 |
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ROSES...Tav...where the heck do you live? I won't have roses for a long time. Brrr |
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 26 2008, 10:44 AM Post #17 |
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The roses are out here too, and they're beautiful. Some people have bushes with so many roses on they're bent right over form the weight. They smell nice too. Yours are beautiful, Tav. |
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| Tav D | May 26 2008, 11:21 AM Post #18 |
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Deb, I live in San Diego. My bushes will bloom almost year round except during the hot summer months. This past January one of my red bushes put forth a couple of gorgeous blooms. I cut back my bushes in March every year and let them grow new stalks. These blooms just appeared in the last week or so. |
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| DivaDeb | May 26 2008, 11:26 AM Post #19 |
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oh...you live in Paradise :lol: |
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| Mikhailoh | May 26 2008, 11:40 AM Post #20 |
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One of my adages (original, too) is never marry a woman who will not sit on the porch and have a cherry-pit spitting contest with you. She just won't be any fun. I love cherries and they just started coming in. 3 pounds week in my house. We have peonies, rhodos, and the blue spiderwort just started in. |
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| dolmansaxlil | May 26 2008, 02:22 PM Post #21 |
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I don't have a garder, being an apartment dweller with a black thumb. But I did take this pic of a lovely tulip from the gardens in Niagara Falls.
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The fragrance, in late evening, is something wondrous. My vine is a mess, and in serious need of pruning, but we have hummingbirds nesting in it (we think), so are keeping our distance.
I have 14 of them, all 20 yrs plus, so well established.



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