Showing posts with label crabapple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crabapple. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2009

Up North, Take 1

We went up to the hunting camp for our "weekend" and Dan made a new friend. He picked this guy up in the middle of the road and brought him back to camp to meet me.


Unfortunately, he wasn't too happy to meet me.


And we got home in time to take some garden pictures. I had given up this cyclamen, but it's doing better with a little TLN (tender loving neglect).


They look droopy because it rained all day, but look how far up out of the windowbox these petunias are coming!


Dan's little crabapple trees look like they're doing well.


My Bordeaux petunias and tuberous begonias.


My precious little highlighter dahlias!


Mom, you asked for a picture of the flowers on my exotic geranium, so here you have it!


That's Vince, my birthday garden gnome, behind some lilies that look ready to bloom.


I think this is a lily. But it's weird-looking.


Kerry sedum, violas, peony, and lemon zest petunias.


Serrated sedum.


I was so surprised and excited to see that my Lysimachia is blooming!


I really don't know what this is.


This is either my Siloam Reds or my Little Italy sending up buds!


This is what I think are my dahlias. Though I don't remember planting any.


My Secret Rose, with a little new bloom and a bud in the foreground.


My Stellas are going to town!


This one is ready to roll.


Another Stella.


This is Happy Returns, getting ready to bloom.


That's Happy Returns in the front, and all three of my dianthus behind. :) Left to right, we have the Unnamed Picotee, Telstar Picotee, and Apple Spice.


My pink Oriental lilies.


My orange common roadside lilies (hemerocallis fulva).


We're making another bed in the corner, and I got three shade-tolerant plants.


Baptisia, called False Indigo.


Helleborus, called Blue Lady.


And my first Astilbe, called Deutschland.


And poor little Ginger couldn't decide what to be more afraid of, the thunder overhead or the meat slicer Dan was using.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Some new babies!

And by babies I of course mean flowers. I'm still so sad that gerbera daisies are annuals. I just love them. These are the "festival" variety -- red and apricot.


These Ultra Rose petunias are definitely filling in the windowbox.


I think it's time to give up the ghost on this poor cyclamen. I just couldn't make it happy. :(


Elphaba has been up on this shelf a lot lately. She's such a little demon.


These guys are crabapple seedlings from Dan's uncle. We're hoping they get big and strong.


I really really like these begonias. They're so pretty!


I think this is a lily, but the stalk looks so dark. I've got my fingers crossed that I didn't let a weed get huge and take over.


In other news, we finally figured out where to put the windchime! Merry Christmas to me! :) Thanks, Mom and Dad!


This little guy is a new addition: a Japanese iris named Imperial Magic. Isn't he beautiful?


I also got one named Pink Lady (I didn't have any pink irises!), but she isn't blooming right now.


This sprout is coming up back in the corner by the windchime, columbine, gaillardia, etc. Not entirely sure what it's going to be.


Speaking of!


The Russian sage is really pretty too.


I love the texture of the sedums so much, so I thought I'd try for some close-ups. This is the serrated variety.


And here's the Kerry sedum.


They're just little paddles. I love them. :)


And the close-ups just kind of continued. Here are my precious little violas. :)


Wee yellow trumpets.


This one came out really well. My little Sarah Bernhardt peony.


I'm pretty sure this dianthus is just called Pink Picotee.


And my Granny dianthus. On both of these dianthus pictures you can see sooo many buds!


And speaking of buds, look at Stella!


I tried several close-ups, but bleeding hearts are so hard to get focused. This one of the white turned out pretty well. :)


My creeping phlox.


The very happy Shastas.