My Garden Photos

Eve, that's lovely. And.........I do really like your signature!

Eve, that is absolutely gorgeous!

Erythronium and Dutchman's Breeches

That's mighty pretty.

it's pruning time once again, and today the flowering crabapple up front was done. It gets trimmed back every year.

This is how it looked in May of 2002:


Pruning completed this morning:

Now is the time to place orders for lily bulbs,
and after surfing around the garden magazine
sites I settled on The Lily Nook to place an order
for a couple of species varieties, L.cernuum and L.pardilinum.
Thecatalogue it provides has really
nice illustrations.

Shown here is Pink Perfection as it looked last season:

I enjoyed my peek at the THE LILY NOOK. Do you know if deer will eat lilies?

Hi,Maple:
Since rabbits and squirrels leave them alone, I'll guess that lily plants are toxic.
But starving deer is a problem I'm at a loss to offer a suggestion for.
I've seen the damage they cause--not here, thankfully.
Red lily beetles are another matter-- spray a systemic pesticide(Cygon) on the young shoot just as it leafs out to prevent it from being shredded.
Sice the lily is such a classy flower, setting a few out is worth the risk.

I agree. I have an area in mind...a raised bed. Is the planting season limited? Nevermind, I'll check.

Lily bulbs, unlike tulips and crocuses,
finish blooming at the onset of autumn
and then become dormant when winter
sets in. They're harvested just when the
soil can be worked and put on sale almost
immediately-- in the spring, in other words.

Take note of the availability advisory given by mail-order
suppliers.

The customer should then set his/her lily
bulbs immediately upon receipt,because
they weaken while out of the ground.

The object is to set them out while they
are still dormant. So there is a window of
time to consider. Mail-order firms will ship
them in time for planting.

My first flowers for 2004-- snowdrops-- as of today:


(added) The same spot about three days later.

It's Crocus Time 2004 here. The little brown sprouts are erythronium americanum, Trout Lily.



(added)Trout lilies in bloom.

A delightful spring ephemeral,the puschkinia is now in bloom. It multiplies both by self-seeding and bulb division,and the drift shown here is noticeably larger than what it was last year. The story of this little gem can be found here .

aaaah, spring bulbs!

Geranium

Beautiful Flowers at the Entrance to Work

About four years ago I dumped the seeds from the pod off a tulip plant,
and here's the resulting clump of flowers. Each flower is subtly different,
discernible only with close scrutiny:

Carmine Primula denticulata,or drumstick primula.

Every flower bed should have space for a generous clump of primulas.