By Mother Nature, who else?
I knew we were supposed to have a chance of thunder storms all weekend. When I got up we still had had no rain. I hoped I get outside and do a bit of planting before the rain, as well as take a few pictures.
Just as I got out side with the camera, there were a few drops of rain. No problem, I started snapping pictures... within five minutes it was a drenching downpour!
Oh well, I did get a few good pictures, and I really need to get caught up on my indoor seed starting. The only problem is I keep hearing chuckling coming from somewhere...
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| The raised bed, daffodils at their peak with tulips starting. |
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| 'Obdam' daffodil. |
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| 'Thalia' the "orchid flowering" daffodil. |
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| Tulips, daffodils and 'Woodside' columbines in the front. |
Great photos. Thalia is a beautiful daffodil. Hope you get a chance to take more pictures soon. Happy gardening.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andi, Thalia is a jewel. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a little drier for picture taking.
DeleteGorgeous flowers! Mine are only now starting to get blooms so still have to wait few weeks to get best of them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenny, I'm sure I'll be drooling over yours when mine have passed.
DeleteYour beds are so pretty with all of your spring blooms. Those Thalia daffodils are just beautiful Ed. I hope you get a chance to get into the garden this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lona, daffodols and tulips multiply very fast here. I really need to start dividing the daffodils as some clumps are more foliage now. I'm hoping this fall I can find some interesting ones like yours!
DeleteLovely photos.
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Thanks Lis! I'd have a lot more but the heat is really reducing bloom time for them.
DeleteYour flower beds always look so pretty, it makes me wonder what you do when the spring bulbs have finished flowering. Do you leave them in place, or do you "heel them in" somewhere else and replant the beds? I need to put some in my back yard, and maybe along the front porch, where they would be visible. Right now, all my daffodils are on the east side, between the house and the neighbor's hedge, and nobody can see them! If I plant out front, I'd almost have to do the heeling in method.
ReplyDeleteGranny that's the beauty of photographs! I don't post pictures while the foliage is looking ratty and maturing. I leave them where they are and count the days until they are yellow enough to remove. The columbines fill in when the tulips are done so they are not so bad, but the daffodil ribbon along the driveway looks ratty far longer than it looks pretty. The joys of gardening...
DeleteMy aunt taught me the trick of digging the bulbs as soon as they had finished blooming, and just putting them into a hole in the ground in a remote unseen area of the garden, then covering them (with foliage above soil level) and leaving them until the foliage died back. She'd then dig and dry them for replanting in the fall. Extra work, but it made for pretty beds with no dying leaves. If I do clumps along the front I'd have to do that, as there would be nothing to hide them after they blossomed. The planters would then hold the blossoms for summer (or the tomatoes and basil if I decide to go that route). Right now the entire bed is full of violets, just for the green all summer. I'm going to dig them out and replace with a couple of dwarf mugo pines, so some spring bulbs would add much needed color. Bad area for gardening, it gets all the junk falling from the nearby pine trees.
DeleteI'll try that with some daffodil clumps that are in a now too shady area. Nothing to lose flower wise with them.
DeleteThe only thing I wonder about is after replanting you can manage to get that full, mature clump look...
You dig a flat bottomed hole as big as the desiredclump and lay the bulbs in quite close together. I was always taught to "naturalize" the planting by dropping a bunch of bulbs on the ground and planting them where they landed! I'll be going for the clump method :-)
DeleteVery nice pictures Ed, your flowers look great!
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