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Post by rockyraccoon on Apr 11, 2006 1:57:14 GMT -5
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Apr 11, 2006 3:26:39 GMT -5
You've got some great flowers on a fantastic property. Hmm.... I see azaleas (or are they rhodies? I always have a hard time telling them apart since they are so out-of-zone here), I see clematis, but I don't see any magnolias? -- I always associate the spring with magnolias even though they don't grow in my zone 3A area, but saucer magnolias were spectacular in spring when I lived in southern Ontario (zone 5 or 6).
It always amazes me how Spring is not terribly dissimilar across the entire continent. I consider you to be located in the "deep south", while I think of me at 53.5 degrees north latitude as being "far north", yet your daffodils are only three or four weeks ahead of ours. My daffs aren't out of the ground yet, but they usually bloom by the end of April or early May. You don't go though 5 months of snow on the ground, with temps that can hit -40 (although this year we got away with only one month of snow -- freaky!), so why we can play catch-up in the spring is still one of life's great mysteries to me ;D.
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Post by inflight22 on Apr 11, 2006 3:35:08 GMT -5
You sure have a lot more in bloom than here. It makes me hesitate to guess some of these flowers, because ours aren't out nearly this soon, but here goes:
Picture #2 - Clematis
Picture #3 - Gerbera Daisy
Picture #4 - Azalea
Picture #6 -daffodil
Picture #9 - Vinca (perriwinkle)
Picture #13 -Dianthus (probably sweet william)
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Post by inflight22 on Apr 11, 2006 3:44:15 GMT -5
I forgot to add picture #14 - scabiosa.... Hope I'm close on some of these
jj
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Post by Toad on Apr 11, 2006 5:32:24 GMT -5
Looks like your almost in to summer... (sigh)
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Post by joe on Apr 11, 2006 9:04:38 GMT -5
Flowers. I remember flowers. Maybe soon...
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Post by rockyraccoon on Apr 11, 2006 9:40:51 GMT -5
jj you are good.
1st pic - don't know - flowering ground cover i got at walmart many years ago
2nd pic - clematis - it has taken 2 years to get these to bloom and i have 2 varieties but only 1 is showing blooms so far
3rd pic - gerber daisies - i have lots of these in different colors - these are the 1st to bloom
4th pic - azaleas - got to love the azaleas in the south - (i'll go get y'all some more pics of azaleas right now - some people really have a show going on)
5th pic - indian hawthorne
6th pic - daffodils
7th pic - spiarea
8th pic - white and light pink azaleas - i planted a whole section of these and the man farming behind me sprayed them with command and killed most of them - waaaaaaaaa
9th pic - vinca
10th pic - quince
11th pic - a type of honeysuckle
12th pic - wygelia
13th pic - dianthus
14th pic - scabiosa
i really should have a magnolia don......have to put some thought to where would be a good location for that as they get so huge. they make good climbing trees as the branches are low and you can lay down on them. nobody knows you are in the tree as the limbs and leaves go all the way to the ground. wonder how many golfers went by us as kids and had no idea the magnolia tree was full of children? they cut down 1 on the schoolyard that was one of our favorite hangouts - really saddened me to see it gone.
kim
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Apr 11, 2006 11:47:16 GMT -5
Wow! Beautiful garden Kim! Wish mine looked that good!
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Post by akansan on Apr 11, 2006 12:14:35 GMT -5
Every year I get inspired to plan and plant grand gardens. And every year around July, I'm just so busy my gardens get neglected. I love flowers, I'm just horrible at keeping them alive. We stick with rose bushes and other hard to kill plants instead.
I love the azaleas. We had five or six bushes in Maryland, but I'm not really sure they'd grow well here...
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Post by krazydiamond on Apr 11, 2006 14:03:58 GMT -5
what gorgeous photos, Kim! my daffodils are just getting ready to bloom here!
KD
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Post by stefan on Apr 11, 2006 15:08:23 GMT -5
Sweet- Another day or 2 and the daffy's will bloom- the iris are starting to poke up from the ground and my day lilys are all about an inch tall-
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Post by stoner on Apr 11, 2006 16:09:55 GMT -5
Nice pics Kim. And you know I like flower pics. I feel like we're getting cheated this year. We've had the wettest March on record and it's still raining and it's supposed to rain thru Sunday. If I wanted to live in Seattle, I'd move there.
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inflight22
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Post by inflight22 on Apr 11, 2006 21:03:20 GMT -5
Hey, now! Watch the Seattle remarks! We keep it rainy on purpose, ya know. Got enough California transplants here already.
jj
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Post by LCARS on Apr 12, 2006 1:48:38 GMT -5
Wow, you take decent pictures too kim!  Let's see if I have any lying around... Hmmm... Ah! Here we go: Foxglove  Fiddlehead (with authentic lens flares & sun beam)  |
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Post by gaetzchamp on Apr 12, 2006 14:06:43 GMT -5
Ah, now that's cool. Spring can't get here fast enough IMO. You've got yourself a nice retreat, Kimi. I love the black swallowtail, too.
Gaetz
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Post by Cher on Apr 12, 2006 14:48:04 GMT -5
Kim those are all beautiful. *sigh* I can't wait to see things green up at my house. I've got daffodils here at my daughters that just opened and some little blue star flowers all over the yard.
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Post by rollingstone on Apr 15, 2006 2:08:43 GMT -5
i really should have a magnolia don......have to put some thought to where would be a good location for that as they get so huge. they make good climbing trees as the branches are low and you can lay down on them. nobody knows you are in the tree as the limbs and leaves go all the way to the ground. wonder how many golfers went by us as kids and had no idea the magnolia tree was full of children? they cut down 1 on the schoolyard that was one of our favorite hangouts - really saddened me to see it gone. Do you mean the southern magnolia? I've only ever seen one (at least one that I recognized) in a local conservatory. Sure is impressive when it blooms -- flowers the size of pie plates, and such a heavenly scent! I'm pretty sure no kids were hiding in that tree though |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Apr 15, 2006 10:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by rockyraccoon on Apr 15, 2006 13:17:02 GMT -5
oh i've definitely got to get out and get you some pics of some magnolia trees here. they are huge and the branches go all the way to the ground. i'll have to get up inside one and take a pic for you too. because the branches go all the way to the ground, no grass or weeds grown under them so it is nice and clean up inside and nobody can see you in there.
kim
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inflight22
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Post by inflight22 on Apr 16, 2006 1:33:56 GMT -5
Randy, you are a hoot!
Rocky, I'd love to see pics of Magnolia.
jj
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