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Subject: what's blooming ? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 02 Jun 02 - 09:57 PM Hey folks! I haven't been around for awhile but thought I would let you all know what is blooming in Northern Minnesota. We seem to be about a month behind here. Plants like Marsh Marigold, Trillium, Bellwort, have just started,the Self-heal,and Violets, along with Lilac,Chokecherry,and the Crabapples. I would already be done with the Asparagus by now, and I've only cut twice so far. Most of my herbs seemed to have faired pretty good this winter, but like everything else, a very slow start. Also the Rhubarb is slow. So what's going on everywhere else? Rustic P.S. Just got my garden in this week-end. Happy planting to all! |
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Subject: RE: what's blooming ? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 02 Jun 02 - 10:33 PM Hi RR, check out the Annexe where we've had an ongoing thread on this topic since April. |
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Subject: RE: what's blooming ? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Jun 02 - 02:19 AM Nice Annexe, how do I get to post to it? I had 3 pyrocantha blooming like crazy (firethorn) until last Wed, when the wind and rain got it... but the dogwoods are out, two of my white roses (Iceberg and Swan Lake), although I've lost 2 other roses, a forsythia (thanks, neighbour!) and 2 broom bushes. Me Bleedin' 'arts are doing nicely as is the Bastard Service tree, the Bloody Cranesbill is in bud and I've got a nice patch of blue flax still flowering despite the bracken making it's way across the garden like the sprawl of the Roman Army. The pond has more plants in it, a cinqefoil and some more flag iris, the duckweed is spreading due to a heavy downpour, which washed it out of its basket (memo to self, must get a duck) and the pondweed is still there. A recent trip to a garden centre saw a sign for 'pond molluscs, 45pence each', which gave me a quick calculation of approx. £4,500 in my pond. Any one want some watersnails? Does anyone know of aquatic life I can get that eats watersnails but not daphnia? I have thousands of each, but don't want to get a fish that would clear the lot and make the water green. I'm toying with the idea of a newt or two..... Anyway, everything in my garden (except the flax) at the moment is white, the bleeding hearts having all dropped last week. Incidentally, my father in law calls them 'naked ladies in the bath'. If you take a flower and turn it upsidedown, gently pull the two 'hooks' apart, you'll get an old fashioned bath with a white lady standing in it..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Jun 02 - 03:00 AM Liz-To join The Annexe you need to register, but this is easy-just click on the thing that says register, then type your name and make up a password, any other info you give, such as your birthday or email address is completely optional.there is a profile page were you can say a bit about yourself (hobbies & interests etc).you can customise your own settings as well, ie if you don't like the religous stuff, just press skip, and you will not see it again.Check out the FAQ, if you have any problems you can email help@jonbanjo.com. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Hrothgar Date: 03 Jun 02 - 05:50 AM The spectacular flower here at the moment is a shrub called Euphorbia, one of the group that includes poinsettias. It is a shrub about six to eight feet high and up to ten feet in diameter, and it is covered by a mass of white bracts that look like flowers. Superb, and if I didn't have a policy of planting only Australian native plants, I'd have a couple of them (I think euphorbia comes frm Madagascar or some such place). |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Hrothgar Date: 03 Jun 02 - 05:55 AM ... but next month the Brisbane silver wattle (acacia podalyriifolia - that's why I prefer its common name) comes on, and it has heavily scented masses of yellow blossoms. We do it tough in midwinter, don't we? |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: katlaughing Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:39 AM Sheesh! Sounds gorgeous, Hrothgar! I remember my brother tring to grow an Euphorbia, as a houseplant (we do that kind of thing here); can't remember if he was successful or not! LtS, try a red-ear slider (turtle). We couldn't keep snails in ours' aqaurium, to keep it clean, because he always ate them. He will probably munch on the plants, too, but one turtle couldn't take out "thousands" of them.:-) This is the first time in over 20 years that we've actually been without a turtle. They are fun pets. I have two old fashioned, very aromatic rosebushes in bloom, a red one and a yellow one. They are just beautiful. Also have some cosmos which I recently planted. Out on the desert, last week, I noticed huge clumps of cacti in bloom with brilliant yellow and fuschia coloured flowers. My irises are almost done. I know there's other wildflowers I can't remember the names of right now that are blooming, too, a couple I can remember are the wild geranium and the columbines, Colorado's state flower. Inside I have some rare (for here, at least) plants which are blooming including two different varieties of claradendron(sp), plumbago with beautiful powder-puff blue flower clusters, and a couple of others, including an orchid. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bobert Date: 03 Jun 02 - 11:40 AM Kat: You're going to hate me fir this but I have an entire bed of Hyothger's Euphorbia. I had it in another bed and it bacame so invasive I dug it all up and moved it to a new bed which is about 30 X 20. The only other thing I put in the new bed is a date tree which had overgrown its area. Sonn as the May Aples die back the the Euphorbia will start seeding and then take over. If you don't want the seeds, ya gotta cut the light green blooms back before they go to seed. Rustic Rebel: Down here in the mountains of West Virginia out spring wild flowers are for the most part gone. The toothwart, shooting star, dutchmens britches, bleeding hearts, trout lilly, bellwart, lilly of the valley, blood root have all bloomed. The rhodos and azaleas have just finished up. We are kind of between blooming. The columbine is in bloom and we have some real unusual ones that grow wild here on the mountian that I have dug up and moved. My lavender bed is just starting to show because I cut it way back in March (6 inches). Oh yeah, I have some real unusual trillium that I get from a nursery in Noth Carolina. If ya' like trillium, PM me and I'll get you the name of the nursery. Well, I just remembered. We still have a few camilias, irises and peonis in bloom. Our gardens are more woods than most folks so we have lots of different kinds of ferns and unusual evergreens. Nice thread. Hope someone doesn't crash it and chastise folks for talki' gardening.... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: DancingMom Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:10 PM My herb garden is running amok this year. Oregano, yarrow, nasturtium, oregano, chamomile, thyme, lavender, rosemary, OREGANO, rosemary, sage,lobelia, and oregano. The tiger lilies are blooming,and the hollyhocks are forming fat buds that will burst out in a profusion of burgundy. It's been a beautiful spring. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: CarolC Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:50 PM The honeysuckle is going crazy here right now. And I'm loving it. The air is quite heavy with the honeysuckle fragrance. One of the things about June that I love around here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Deda Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:58 PM My chives, oregano and sage are all going gangbusters. I have so many purple flowers on my chives that I fear I'll spend next spring just pulling up volunteer chive plants. The lilacs have all gone back to green within the last week or so. My rose bush hasn't begun budding in any serious way yet, and my yellow lilies have an exuberant number of shoots coming up but no flowers yet. I have a nice crop of lettuce, arugula (aka rocket) and radishes and baby spinach -- I eat fabulous salads. Tomato plants and Zukes& Cukes are all just green now. We've been suffering drought here in Colorado but, oh so thankfully!, as I write we're getting a wonderful and very welcome, long-prayed-for rain, a really good drenching. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Robin2 Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:05 PM This is a great thread! Just came home with three plants of "Heavenly Bamboo"... Has anyone else tried this plant? I love the story behind it. It was planted in China at the main entrance of Buddist altars. If you had a bad dream, you were supposed to tell it to this plant, and it would take your dream to Buddha. Very delicate and showy. Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: artbrooks Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:12 PM Cactus, and 273 things that I am allergic to. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: katlaughing Date: 04 Jun 02 - 12:09 AM Ah now I feel like an idiot, Bobert! I just went to my fav. place to shop for tropical and sub-tropical plants, esp. when I lived close enough for 3D visits, Loggee's Greenhouse and refreshed my memory about Euphorbias. Doh! I had a very old "crown of thorns" up until about 3 years ago...inside plant only and about 30 years old...always bloomed. Now, I know there may be other subspecies, so please let me know if that is different from the one you all have. Your woods sound gorgeous regardless. Oh, Robin, I was expecting some feathery looking bamboo and I find it's not related to bamboo at all!*bg* Still it looks very pretty and I love the legend. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Mudlark Date: 04 Jun 02 - 12:17 AM Here in California we're droughty, so the green was even more than usually short-lived. Still, there are poppies blooming along the roadsides, some fields of lupine left, and an occasional blaze of hot pink prickly phlox bursting from a cut bank.
In the garden lettuce is still abundant, but sure to bolt in the growing heat. Summer stuff struggling to survive against the hoards of earwigs this place is plagued with. Sometimes being an organic gardener seems like an oxymoron A bright spot is the circular fish pond. The water lilies are all in bloom, as are the water hyacinths--great color combination, especially with orange fish darting about...and the lizard tail and cattail plants are doing especially well this year. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Jun 02 - 01:07 AM We've had pretty good rainfall in Northern California, but I had a big disappointment when I spent March in San diego. I've always wanted to see the spectacular desert wildflower display at Anza Borrego State Park, a vast area east of San Diego. I called their wildflower hotline, and they said not to bother coming. They had half an inch of rainfall all winter, and the flowers just didn't come out at all this spring. After I got married in January, I moved to my wife's home in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a 45-minute drive northeast of Sacramento. We're at 2,300 feet (700 meters), on a west-facing ridge that gives us spectacular sunsets. Next door is a mile-square wooded area, with a creek running at the bottom of a steep ravine. The area has great trails, and it's full of wildflowers. We had trilliums early in spring, with subtle, dark flowers that were almost black. Then we had an unusually big crop of brodaeia, a very delicate blue flower. We also had lots of larkspur, a dark blue delphinium. We had a few sprinklings of star tulips, which are a vivid gold; and some delicate five-spots. We also had a nice crop of wild iris this year. The strawberry-like flowers of mountain misery cover a whole hillside in the ravine, with two dogwood trees at the bottom of the trail. The tiger lilies are growing well, but won't bloom until about July. We have lots of trees in blossom right now, particularly buckeye, lilac, and mock orange - the deer brush has already blossomed and gone. That's just our woods. The American River Canyon, 1,200 feet deep, is just across the highway. If you click here you can see some of the wonderful wildflowers of our canyon. The canyon's wildflower season is more-or-less over for the season. Our last hike there was about three weeks ago - we still saw lots of poppies and lupine, and monkeyflowers everywhere. We'll follow spring higher into the Sierra through the end of August. I think I'm glad I moved here. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Jun 02 - 01:22 AM It poured with rain last night and now all my pyrocantha blossom is in the pond. Still, the lavenders have perked their heads up and are about to burst into 4 shades of purple and white. I despair of my honeysuckle ever flowering because of the plague of greenfly it attracts, and I miss my yellow broom. If your neighbour asks to come your side of the fence to fix it, make sure you watch him... mine actually dug out 3 bushes and stomped on 4 other plants, plus he pulled the ivy up from the roots rather than away from the fence. And I think he's cut some rather major roots on the Bastard Service tree, because it's not looking at all happy. LTS LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: gnu Date: 04 Jun 02 - 04:52 AM Apple trees are full here but are in danger from frost which may persist for another few days. Joe... what beautiful flowers. And in March ! For an idea of our March flowers in New Brunswick, Canada, check this space out : [ ]. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: DancingMom Date: 04 Jun 02 - 09:49 AM Beautiful pictures Joe! Thank you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Jun 02 - 02:05 PM After Grandma Offer died in 1959, Grandpa left Detroit for California and had a whirlwind romance and got married. It all sounded very romantic to me (at age eleven), but my parents were appalled. Grandpa sent back the most beautiful pictures of California wildflowers. After I moved to California in 1973, I wondered where to find those carpets of wildflowers I saw in Grandpa's pictures. It took me all this time, but I finally found them in the canyon of the North Fork of the American River, half a mile south of my home. At the peak of the season, the steep, 45-degree walls of the canyon are covered with vast carpets of golden poppies and blue lupine. If you look closer, you may find as many as twenty other varieties of flowers in blossom at any given time. The season lasts from February to mid-May. Oh, and there are lots of unmapped waterfalls flowing into the canyon in spring. Here and there, you come across old gold mines and other remnants of the Gold Rush. The North Fork of the American River starts not far from Lake Tahoe, and flows through the Mother Lode, close to the route of the Donner Party and the Transcontinental Railroad. It joins the Middle and South Forks at Auburn, and flows through Sacramento to the Sacramento River. You won't catch me in a canoe on the North Fork, but the kayaks and rafters love it. Canoeing through Sacramento is wonderful for those of us who like our rapids on the calm side. Grandpa got an annullment and moved back to the Midwest, but he kept his adventuring spirit until the day he died. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: katlaughing Date: 04 Jun 02 - 02:34 PM What a great story, Joe and how wonderful that you've finally found your spot! Mudlark, you might try hooking up a mixture of "Orange Glo" to your garden hose and spraying where the earwigs go with it. Aine swears by it in keeping all kinds of creepy-crawlies out of her garden and, off her pets, including fleas. I have used it where we knew some bugs congregated and I've not seen any since. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bobert Date: 04 Jun 02 - 09:07 PM Yeah, Joe, thanks fir the wonderful tour through your wildflowers. I only have two of them here. The larkspur which is an absolutely beautiful flower and the falso solomon's seal, of which I have tons. We also have the solomons seal which looks very similar but the flowers are different and the leaf paterns are differnet. As for your bugs, Mudlark, if Kat's Orange Glo doesn't work and you have already tried horticultural oil and it didn't work either then use Bayer's Rose and Insect Spray. And if you have a shrub the the Japenese beetles just won't leave alone, then Advanced Tree and Shub Insect Conrtol WILL do the job, but it is expensive. But it last for an entire year since you are treating the roots. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: E.T. Date: 04 Jun 02 - 10:02 PM Well, we almost didn't have an iris show - up to Thursday the 30th I had only one in bloom - then it was high 80's and humid and everything rushed through the next two days and did a week's worth of blooming. Still have lily of the valley in bloom - it usually finishes around mid-May so i feel we're about two weeks behind here in mid-Michigan. (heck, we had hard freezes the third week in MAY!) Lost a lot of the cherry crop. Trilliums and early wildflowers are past, but the dame's rocket (aobut 5', purple and white) and poppies are out with the middling iris. Currants and gooseberries have fruit set and the raspberries as well. my plume poppy got frostbit but fortunately seems to be coming back fromthe roots. It's obviously a "runner" but fortunately it isn't TOO speedy a one. It has a wonderful leaf about like a bloodroot, white underneath, and very loose lacy red/pink bloom on end, sort of like tamarisk or thalictrum. First daisies are out. I'm still planting all the things I got from plant swaps and grew from seed (leadwort, pink coreopsis etc) and tried some sisyrinchum and lewisia for a steep slope. Haven't died yet! My hope is that I have six germinated seeds for BLUE TIBETAN POPPY. The MSU beal garden hasn't been able to get them to grow to flowering but I have two that have their second leaves so I'm hoping. Evidently its too wet here summers. I have a nice spot I'm saving for them where I can't get anything to grow because its' too dry. We'll see. Elaine/ET
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Hrothgar Date: 05 Jun 02 - 01:03 AM Liz, if you want some broom, it's a noxious weed here. Looks very spectacular when it flowers, though - usually around November here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: katlaughing Date: 05 Jun 02 - 02:21 AM ET, "Blue Tibetan Poppy?" Wow! I am in a very dry environment...where does one get seeds? Also, I have found seeds for Dame's/Sweet Rocket, but wanted to buy some plants. Was told they are considered an invasive plant, here in Colorado, and so are not sold anymore. Evidently they take over native habitat and also cause problems for livestock. I read somewhere that one could put the flowers in a salad and eat them, so I am wondering about the harm to livestock. I love their fragrance and also they are so pretty. I have the perfect spot for some, where the scent would come in through a window in the evenings. I am going to start a related thread...What's Your Fav. Seed Catalogue/Company? Hope everyone will enjoy it, too.:-) Thanks, kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Pip Freeman Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:24 AM Some lovely gardens here. Do join us on the Annexe and share them on our "Whats blooming" thread---going since April. Lots more threads on gardening there, eg Tips for a lazy gardener, Bluebells, growing tomatoes. Hope to see you there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:25 AM Hi. Since my first post, the lilacs are finally blooming. The columbine are starting,and I saw some wood anemone, which are usually one of the first to bloom in the woods. Joe, those pictures were great. I thought the ground cone and the scorpion weed are beautiful. I have never seen those before.Thanks for the pics. I also noticed the fire-weed popping up.Those you can eat like asparagus when young, or left to grow they reach about 6' tall and full of vitamin C. Regretfully, I've been working so much I haven't been able to get out to see more this week, and I have much to do in my gardens. I still want to plant seeds of many herbs, and having a hard time this year finding the time. This week-end I'll be going to the Chisolm blues fest, so I'll be putting off my garden again.(oh well! Some things just take precedence, like dancing and music and NOT WORKING!) Peace, Rustic |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Celtic Soul Date: 05 Jun 02 - 06:44 AM Pollen...and lots of it! Ah-CHOOO! I read in the Washington Post recently that the pollen count is considered high if it's above 90, and in recent history here in the DC area, it's been past 2000! Other than that, as with CarolC, the honeysuckle has been growing like mad. I only wish my allergies would calm down some so I could smell it. ;D |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Pied Piper Date: 05 Jun 02 - 08:06 AM Hi Rustic Rebel your small holding sounds great; wish I had a garden. I live in a tower block in Manchester UK, fortunately I have a South faceing balcony and have grown tomatoes (Gardeners delight) and even runner beens on some years;though they needed watering 4 times a day. Over this side of the pond global warming has lead to wild flowers blooming much earlyer, and I saw some frog sporn in late February (very early, its usualy late March). All the best PP. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: RichM Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:18 PM In Ottawa, each spring we have a Tulip festival, founded by the late Malak Karsh, a world renowned photographer.
The 2002, 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Tulip Festival was a resounding success thanks, first and foremost, to all those residents and visitors who came out to celebrate Tulipmania with us.
An expanded Canadian Tulip Festival and 18 days of tulips in full bloom have the organizers of the 50th Anniversary celebrations calling the 2002 Festival a great success, attracting more tourists and visitors than ever before in spite of unseasonably cool weather as well as rain that washed out one day. I feel however, that the cool weather was ideal for tulips. I've never seen such a gorgeous profusion in my 60 years here.
Plans have already begun for next year's event when the Canadian Tulip Festival will celebrate "G'day Australia – Tulips Down Under" from May 2 to 19, 2003.
An expanded Canadian Tulip Festival and 18 days of tulips in full bloom have the organizers of the 50th Anniversary celebrations calling the 2002 Festival a great success, attracting more tourists and visitors than ever before in spite of unseasonably cool weather as well as rain that washed out one day.
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: katlaughing Date: 05 Jun 02 - 05:15 PM Thanks, Pip, for the reminder about the Annexe gardening threads, too. I think it is really wonderful what Jon has done with the whole thing. These spring blooming threads and, later, the autumn harvest threads have been sort of a tradition around here for the past few years. Not in the same way, though, as the specifically oriented ones on the Annexe. Those have been a lot of fun to read, too. kateverythingscominguproses |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: greg stephens Date: 05 Jun 02 - 06:01 PM I have got some dandelions, and the first willowherb has just flowered as well |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Llanfair Date: 05 Jun 02 - 06:12 PM What wonderful flowers, Joe, you are lucky to live where you do. The paeonies are just finishing in my garden, and the Welsh Poppies are beginning to flower. I am beginning my annual battle with bindweed and slugs, but I have allies for the slug wars this year......3 ducks!!!! Tomatoes and cucumbers in the greenhouse, peppers, squashes, peas and more tomatoes in the polytunnel, and most of the veg patch planted up. I've had a VERY busy weekend!!!! Cheers, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 05 Jun 02 - 06:12 PM Central Alberta, near the Rocky Mountains. Spring flowers 3 weeks or so late because of cold weather. Tulips out now, pasqueflower and windflower (Anemones). Of course the lovely dandelion. In sheltered spots, crocus, daffodils and some of the wee blue-flowered bulb plants. Even the willowherb (we call it fireweed) is only about a foot tall. Some species Iris showing buds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: SINSULL Date: 05 Jun 02 - 06:40 PM Robin2 - Be careful where you plant your bamboo. If it takes, it will spread and root itself for life. We had to cut it down and pour illegal poison (even Drano didn't kill it) when it established itself at one end of a formal garden. But it is spectacular in the right place. I am looking at lilac trees across the road from my home. Huge purple lilac trees. In NY these would have come and gone by now. The iris are up but not blooming yet. And the dandelions have taken over the world...fortunate, since it is the preferred diet of Momma Groundhog and her three babies who have taken up residence under my porch. She is working on shaping up the cats who flee in terror at her chattering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Hrothgar Date: 18 Jan 03 - 06:10 AM Buckinghamia celsissima, the Ivory Curl Flower. Australian native that has been planted on many of the footpaths (sidewalks) around here by the council. Generally up to about ten feet high and about seven feet across. Masses of creamy flowers, rich, heavy scent (which upsets some people's allergies) especially in the mornings when I'm out for a walk. Some grow about 25 feet high around here, and in ideal conditions in the wild they can grow to 70-80 feet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Jan 03 - 06:14 AM Some winter flower beginning with V whose name escapes me today.... a few remaining fuschias that the frost didn't kill off and my rosemary bush. The dogwood 'Midwinter Fire' fills one corner with orange, yellow and green, the pyrocanthus from next door fills the other end with orange and red, and the hollies are full of bright red berries with gold and silver leaves to them. Oh, it's verbena. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 18 Jan 03 - 08:46 AM ...and in Nelson, NH USA, there remains two feet of snow on the ground. The temperature this morning holds steady at -8 degrees F. But the tulips on my table are lovely! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: nutty Date: 18 Jan 03 - 10:03 AM Saw my first crocus today ......... Nothing exceptional in that????? Well ... this is the North of England and the appearance of the crocus is about a month ahead of normal. Winter will come eventually I'm sure (probably be like 1947 and start in April or sometime like that) but up till now we have escaped the worst of the snow and bad weather that has been causing chaos in the South |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: *daylia* Date: 18 Jan 03 - 10:28 AM And in Ontario right now what's blooming is that it's too bloomin' cold! Crocuses already nutty? Lucky you ... around here they don't show their pretty little heads till April! daylia |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: JennyO Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:26 AM Frangipanis in Sydney. Just LOOOOOOOOVE that fragrance! Jenny |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: jimmyt Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:32 AM We have panseys sticking their heads up out of a rare snow here in north Georgia, plus the Camellias red and pink are starting to bloom profusely here despite the winter wind Temp in the 20s |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: CarolC Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:33 AM We've got pansies and some other ornamental flowers all over the place here in Columubs, Georgia (USA). They seem to bloom here in people's gardens all year long, despite the below freezing tempuratures we've been having at night lately. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: CarolC Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:34 AM We cross posted jimmyt! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: leprechaun Date: 18 Jan 03 - 01:01 PM Oops. I thought this thread was somebody asking about the definition of a mild British epithet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: mg Date: 18 Jan 03 - 10:27 PM in Long Beach Washington..at least one pink fruit tree, some azelias bloomed around Christmas time..some purple plants like geraniums that bloom all year..probably still pansies out..skunk cabbage is starting to grow but not bloom. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Feb 03 - 01:08 AM Here in the Sierra foothills, we've had flowers since mid-January. Right now, there are flowers everywhere. We have lots of violets and daffodils, and a spectacular almond tree that's full of white flowers. No wildflowers yet, but they'll come soon. I suppose we'll have one or two snowstorms by April, but the snow rarely stays on the ground more than a day. The flowers survive it quite well. Down in Sacramento, it's foggy most of the time. Twenty miles above us (at 6,000 feet), they have ten feet of snow. I think I'm living in a perfect place, 2,300 feet above sea lever. -Joe Offer, Colfax, California- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Alice Date: 10 Feb 03 - 01:12 AM snow, snow, snow, snow, snow |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Feb 03 - 02:50 AM I just got back from Point Reyes National Seashore, just north of San Francisco. We saw twenty varieties of wildflowers in bloom. No whales this time, but lots of seals, sea lions, and huge elephant seals. I took my sweetie and stepson on a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge today. It was a beautiful view, but she turned green from the car exhaust fumes. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Metchosin Date: 23 Feb 03 - 02:56 AM Beautiful sunny day here on Vancouver Island today....lots of Japanese Cherry blossoms, snowdrops and a few skunk cabbage....such a sad name for such a beautiful flower. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Feb 03 - 03:10 AM The ornamentals are in bloom--Japanese flowering quince and saucer magnolia. In the "weeds in the lawn" category, the little mint called "creeping charlie" is looking very nice (or at least it was, until I mowed this afternoon). Red squirrels also seem to be "blooming." I poked at a spot of grass under the eave of the house (is that the sofit?) and had a couple of elegant little tails and a few feet poke through as I pulled out lengths of dried grass. Seemed real odd--rodent tails, but clearly not rats. And they were lethargic (turned out their eyes aren't open yet, and their tails have no hair yet). I figured out what they are when one fell out, and I found it on the lawn before I mowed over it. Idiot naturalist that I am, I figured I have so damned many squirrels in the attic already I might as well poke this little fellow back. I got some gloves and picked him up, only to have him go off like a whistling teakettle, announcing to the world that I must be trying to eat him. ;) I tore a few pieces of cardboard and poked them through the hole to prevent their falling out by accident again. Once they're grown and the weather is warm I'm going to have to circle the house and cover these holes (and put up a firm mesh over the attic fan). I hope to have a special relationship with these guys this year. It's karma. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Penny S. Date: 23 Feb 03 - 08:14 AM Kent. UK. Snowdrops, Iris reticulata, primrose Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: black walnut Date: 23 Feb 03 - 08:25 AM Toronto: Snow drops. Snow flakes. Snow piles. Snow drifts. Pretty white snow growing higher and higher toward the grey and snowy sky. Sigh.... My father-in-law had a very bad stroke a couple of weeks ago. He's lying in his hospital bed and the only words I could understand were "Bulbs up? Bulbs up?". Double sigh.... ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bobert Date: 23 Feb 03 - 08:54 AM Well, with 2 fett of snow, not much outside but inside we have one amaryllis with two big white blooms. First time it's bloomed in the three years we've had it. Talk about a shy plant. Heck, ya gotta baby the danged thing all year, store it in the basement and then move it from one window to another every day to get them to bloom. Also have a few dark red blooms on a Christmas Cactus. The pale pink one bloomed a few weeks ago. Speaking of indoor plants, the P=Vine went to the Richmond (Va) Plant Show on Friday and brought back the latest indoor rave: A year 'round maiden Hair Fern that some one has hybidized. Purdy neat. Also, if anyone has a source of the outdoor Maiden Hair Fern that is not "fan shaped" and is hardy, I'm interested. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: SINSULL Date: 23 Feb 03 - 09:21 AM Gee Bobert. I forgot about an amaryllis that I had stuck in a box in plastic. Found it blooming beautifully in the dark thought a bit bent. No babying there. Try abuse next year. Nothing is blooming here - snow, sleet, rain. But I have a pot of gorgeous daffodils brightening up my life in the kitchen. I am waiting to see what is planted outside before I do any digging or planting. I need snowdrops and crocuses for reassurance. Waiting... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: jimmyt Date: 23 Feb 03 - 10:19 AM crocus and daffodil just noticed today. Camilia for the last month SHould all break loose within a few days if the weather keeps creeping up here in North Georgia |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: CarolC Date: 23 Feb 03 - 10:38 AM Still pansies. And yesterday I saw some daffodills. I also saw some kind of purple flowering tree, but I don't know what it was. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a redbud. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Feb 03 - 11:35 AM My garden always has a flower in it, I planted it up 4 years ago just after my dad died, and I made sure I had a plant for every month in it. Got early purple primroses, rosemary, crocus and verbena in it at the moment.... daffodils, elephants ears and violets blooming in others. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Feb 03 - 01:12 PM I didn't mention where: Edgecliff Village, surrounded by Fort Worth, Texas. This morning I found a lone early coreopsis in a cluster planted next to my front porch. I sat out there in the sun with my cup of tea and surveyed the various sprouts. I think the Salvia greggi may bloom early. My redbud may have died, there are no bud swellings on it now--it was never a healthy specimen (it was planted in the heat of last summer, though it got enough water). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: gnu Date: 23 Feb 03 - 01:45 PM Snowblowers are popping up everywhere !!! Ariens, MTD's, Hondas, a virtual myriad of bright red and orange and yellow and green. It's really quite a display. Their fragrant odours of gas and oil gently permeate the quaint wind gusts that whip the snow and sleet against any exposed skin such that you can't help but feel alive. Ahhhh, Mother Nature.... the bitch ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Metchosin Date: 23 Feb 03 - 01:47 PM so sorry gnu....why don't you get you and that boat of yours out to the wet coast? |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Nancy King Date: 23 Feb 03 - 02:54 PM Looks like those of us in the US mid-Atlantic and northeast will either have to wait a while or do some traveling to see any outdoor flowers. I figure on another month before we even get crocuses here in the DC area. But my favorite houseplant is doing fine, thank you. It's a cape primrose (otherwise known as streptocarpus -- such an ugly name for such a beautiful flower...) and it blooms almost year-round. This year it only took one month off: the last flower of 2002 faded in mid-December, and the first one of 2003 appeared in mid-January. Can't ask much more than that. It cheers me immensely. Looking forward to warmer days, Nancy |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: maire-aine Date: 23 Feb 03 - 03:04 PM My Christmas cactus only puts out one flower at a time, but it just finished with a bloom. I was expecting that, given a few days of sunshine, my heather plants would be blooming soon. Of course, that was before 6 inches of snow got dumped on them. I'm not aware of anybody else around here that grows heathers or heaths (Royal Oak Michigan, north of Detroit), but they really do put on a great show-- especially the Springwood Pink and Springwood White, with big mounds of pink and white buds, right in February & March when you really need them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Hrothgar Date: 24 Feb 03 - 05:27 AM I have some outdoor maidenhair that's hardy, all right, Bobert - it's as tough as goats' knees. It has been suffering through the drought conditions over the last six months or so, so I trimmed back all the dead foliage a week or so ago. I timed it perfestly for the rain, heat, and humidity that we've had since then, and it has come back bigger and brighter already. Those new leaves on maidenhair, while they are still that light, soft green, are beautiful. Now, if you can talk your plant quarantine people into something ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Penny S. Date: 24 Feb 03 - 09:51 AM Coloured polyanthus, (well-bitten), and miniature daffodils. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Janie Date: 24 Feb 03 - 11:35 AM Hillsborough, NC Camelia's (frost nipped), pansies, crocuses. early Daffs and reticulated iris in bud. (Last year was so warm the early daffs had finished by now--this year things seem to be back on schedule.) Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Janie Date: 24 Feb 03 - 11:38 AM Oh yeh--in the wildflower department---common speedwell, chickweed, wintercress, purple deadnettle, the occasional stray and sheltered violet, a dandelion or 3, and a little bit of henbit. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Sorcha Date: 24 Feb 03 - 11:41 AM At -15F, nothing. Ver'damn cold here today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 03 - 11:53 AM I think our dandelions will be shrivelling back to their basal rosettes after the temperatures in the teens we had overnight. Yet it was warm enough on Saturday to mow. Typical Texas weather. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Burke Date: 24 Feb 03 - 02:22 PM No snow drops or snow birds. Snow showers, snow flurries, snow storms, snow banks, snow blowers, snow plows, snow shovels, snow rakes, snow bunnies. I recall there was a name for cars buried by snow & snow plows, but I've got CRSS. It's snowing as I type. We had half a week of above freezing, a morning of pouring rain & my roof is still not clear. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Feb 03 - 03:01 PM Blueberries, camellias, blueberries, saucer magnolias, blueberries, redbuds, blueberries, various crabapples and pears. Oh! Did I mention blueberries? Reason for the emphasis on blueberries: We have hundreds of wild blueberry plants on our property. We have little shrubby ones, medium-sized bushy ones and huge tree-like things that take a ladder to pick. Some have little tiny berries and some have berries as big as the hybrids that they sell in the grocery store. Some bear as early as May and some keep bearing through September. If we wanted to work really hard at it, we could probably pick fifty gallons of blueberries over the season. Last year, we were visited by extremely un-Florida-like weather over the first weekend in March. It rained. The rain froze. It sleeted. It snowed. It killed all the cute little blueberry blossoms. Instead of tens of gallons, we got maybe two quarts of berries. Pitiful. This is a plea to the Weather Gods to LEAVE MY DAMNED BLUEBERRIES ALONE THIS YEAR! Thank you for your indulgence, Bruce |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: open mike Date: 24 Feb 03 - 03:35 PM outside: daffodils, daphnia(so sweet!) , star magnolia, vinca(gotta rip it out before it takes over, but the flowers are it's only good part!), violets, flowering quince, azaleas and soon the forsythia, and willow catkins are fluffing out, bay laurel and tanoak and indoors, paper white narcisus, hyacinth, christmas cactus and another succulent called gypsy earrings..does any one know what this plant is? I only know it by gypsy earrings.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 14 Apr 04 - 09:20 PM We went on our favorite hike yesterday, the Windy Point trail in the canyon of the North Fork of the American River, just below Cape Horn on the Transcontinental Railroad. Usually, this area is spectacular in early April, but I guess we didn't get enough rain this year. The poison oak is lush, healthiest I've ever seen - but the flowers are unremarkable. Last weekend, we went hiking in the wooded ravine next to our home, and saw over twenty varieties of wildflowers in blossom. Here's our list: brodeia, scarlet pimpernel, buck brush, wild cucumber, wild mustard, buttercup, dogwood, larkspur, blue-eyed grass, ceanothus, Sierra Nevada pea, star tulip, Hartweg's Iris, baby blue eyes, fivespot, ginger, popcorn flower, trillium, fawn lily, manzanita, mock orange, mountain misery, miner's lettuce, hound's tongue, pine violet, poppies, vetch, dandelion, lupine. We also saw a new sign posted on one of the trails next door:
-Joe Offer, Colfax, California- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Ellenpoly Date: 15 Apr 04 - 07:51 AM The tulips and blooms on the fruit trees are making Regent's Park a Fairyland. If you get a minute, Londoners, try to get up there for a look-see. (Baby herons nesting, and baby swans paddling are also a treat.)It's right up near Cecil Sharp's House, as you must well know, so come early, take a stroll...there's even cafes dotted around the park for you to sit and have an ice cream...You'll see me by the big fountain...wearing ear phones, with a big old grin on my face..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bobert Date: 15 Apr 04 - 09:27 AM Ahhh, the "N. Hamshire garden" thread seems to be a parellel thread but with more current gardening posts... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: John P Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:35 AM The tulips are in and the lilac is coming. The magnolia tree and forsythia are just finishing up. The keria are in bloom, as are the johnny jump ups and the bluebells. The clematis we thought we lost last year is climbing up the fence in an encouraging manner. The bush-with-the-fragrant-clusters-of-tiny-white flowers-whose-name-I-can-never- remember next to the front door and are in full bloom and fragrance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: ranger1 Date: 16 Apr 04 - 09:49 PM I dunno about the cultivated stuff, but in Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, Maine, where I am priviledged to be a ranger, the blossoms on the red maples are starting and the trailing arbutus is budded. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Alaska Mike Date: 17 Apr 04 - 11:39 AM Nothing's blooming here. 17th of April and we just got another inch of snow covering everything this morning. I keep telling myself how much I love Alaska. Come on Spring. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:05 AM Excuse me, but I have to gloat. Monday, January 31, was chilly and grey here in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The garden looked pretty grey, too. On Tuesday, it turned warm - and the high temperature was 70 degrees every day this last week. I didn't see anything in blossom Monday, but there must have been 15 different kinds of blossoms in our yard on Tuesday. Most spectacular is our almond tree, covered with brilliant white blossoms. The hawks are soaring in the air, and I was entertained by a flock of magpies yesterday. Oh, and there were 15 to 20 California quail in our yard, and lots of robins. Ah, it's a wonderful time of year to live in California. It's still a foggy, grey winter in Sacramento, 45 minutes away - but I only go there on Fridays. -Joe Offer, Colfax, California- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: GUEST,Splott Man without a cookie Date: 07 Feb 05 - 06:37 AM The daffodils have been out for about a week here in South Wales. Primroses in the garden since mid January. No signs of snowdrops yet. Anyone else? Splott Man without a cookie |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Donuel Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:20 AM These little white lanterns are still bloomimg. The Hyacinths I had potted indoors have passed. I am thinking of getting a gardenia but I have killed several before. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: GUEST,bbc at work Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:22 AM Still snow & dead grass here. Something to look forward to, though. Thanks! bbc at intersection of NY, CT, & MA |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Donuel Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:28 AM Sounds wonderful Joe but when the weather report could include fire storms for your area, I'd have to make lots of contingency plans. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: LilyFestre Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:55 AM I have a (ONE) sunflower sprouting (in a container) and 6 little tomato seedlings popping up up on my kitchen table. :) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 07 Feb 05 - 12:54 PM *groan* Mild as it's been (into the 40s and 50s F!!) it's still winter, and another major storm is coming this week. Winter's back may be broken, but it's still got that old fighting spirit. Wouldn't I love a trip to the islands just about now? Allison |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Charmion Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:03 PM In Ottawa, the potholes are full-blown on every heavily travelled street and road, especially at intersections and under over-passes. Last week a new one opened at the intersection of King Edward Avenue and Rideau Street; I darned near broke the rear axle dropping into it. The Cyrville Road on the way to Home Depot is like the impact area on a mortar range. The potholes come into bloom every winter during the first major thaw, which usually coincides with Winterlude (the municipal winter carnival) so as to wreck the skating. Proof positive, as if more were needed, that Ottawa is no place for a person of finer sensibilities once the novelty of the first snowfall has worn off. In my case, that usually happens about nine seconds after the first snowfall begins turning to slush and pounded ice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: mg Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:12 PM camelias are almost done..to the brown stage. Rhododendruns are out. Quince blooming like crazy. Some flowering cherry. Daffodils, daisies. haven't seen any croci yet. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:15 PM The Japanese flowering quince has been blooming for about a month now. It got an any early start because we had some unusually warm weather in December. Since then the hard freezes haven't knocked off the flowers. Daffodils have been pushing up, no blooms in my yard, but several at the university where I work. Lots of little weeds in bloom, and dandylions are going strong. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: gnu Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:33 PM I'll dash right to it and get the snowblower out and clear the four feet of snow off the garden to see if there's anything on the go. Although it actually is 6C here today, which is a 30C increase from the last couple of weeks. Ahhh, Mother Nature, the bitch. She's just teasing us with a hope of spring and it'll snow like a banshee within a few days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: open mike Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:43 PM out doors...daffy-dills! daphnia!http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_vast?w3till=50111158_001.jpg (so sweet--intoxicatingly!! (waiting for the day that fragrances can be sent thru web as well as images and sounds!!) daphne odorata... Snowdrops (a bulb) in containers on the porch: calendula, primrose, "million bells", osteospermum, and ornamental cabbage family members... inside--hyacinth, narcisus, Gypsy Earrings (a succulent or bromiliad?) Christmas Cactus, and another house plant that i do not know the name of (it is a viney-thing with a bamboo trellis in the pot. the blossoms are sort of white papery things...(sort of like Bouganvilla)balloon-y shaped with a small red berry-looking bloom sticking out of the center... i wonder if this rings a bell with anyone who might know hwat it is called? i have been told it might be in teh coffee family... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bat Goddess Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:44 PM Mud, mostly. At least in the spots where there isn't brownish black snow or invisible ice. The cats hate it almost as much as winter wonderland. But Tom got me a bunch of daffodils at the grocery store yesterday -- first of the season! (I love that man.) Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Layah Date: 07 Feb 05 - 02:19 PM I never understood seasons before this year, having lived all my life in Southern California where our seasons consist of hot and warm. Now I'm in Edinburgh, and it's amazing to see the changes in the plants. A bunch of little yellow flowers very suddenly appeared when it started getting warmer two weeks ago. Back home I always have trouble with gradens when the seeds say things like "plant after the last frost" and I think, well if we don't ever get frost then when should I plant? The answer, I have found, is whenever I feel like it. I can't wait until the trees get some leaves, they look so naked now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: open mike Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:02 PM osteospermum upon-further-investigation flowering-quince-is-bloom-today |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: GUEST,MMario Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:05 PM Bone-sperm-chysanthemums? |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: GUEST,bbc at work Date: 08 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM I got so tired of the snow & cold that I put computer wallpaper w/ palm trees on all of the library computers. I told my students that we've all gone to the Bahamas & we won't come back till the 1st day of Spring (happens to be my birthday)! They prefer a virtual vacation to none at all. A second to Allison's comment. We are expecting heavy, wet snow Wednesday night into Thursday & they are threatening "accumulation." best, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Crystal Date: 08 Feb 05 - 02:09 PM Nothing is blooming in Aberdeen except some miraculous Roses which appeared a few days ago and seem to have survived the frosts, although they are a little brown around the edges. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 08 Feb 05 - 02:35 PM I have a jonquil almost in bloom! It was showing yellow, so I brought it inside to "force" it to open. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:58 AM We hiked one of my favorite wildflower trails today, the Stevens Trail. It's an old wagon road that crosses the canyon of the North fork of the American River, going from Colfax to Iowa Hill, California. It's about 1,200 feet down from Colfax to the river, a distance of 4-1/2 miles. I've never made it to the river. Last August, the Stevens Trail Fire devastated the area, and I was wondering how the trail had changed. It changed a lot, but it's still spectacular. Many trees are gone forever, but the wildflower display was spectacular. One thing that surprised me was that many varieties were much larger than I usually see. Perhaps the fire left nutrients that made the plants grow unusually big. Whatever the case, it was spectacular. The flower varieties were too many to count - lots of poppies, lupine, and brodaeia (blue dicks). Some Indian paintbrush, and California pinks (which are red), a succulent called Canyon Dudleya, Globe lilies (Chinese lanterns), Iris, Baby Blue Eyes, Balled Gilea, tiny carnations, Sticky Monkey Flower, a magenta flower that may be another Monkeyflower, and one we call Popcorn. We could see kayaks in the river far below us, and freight trains rounding Cape Horn above. Cape Horn was one of the most treacherous spots for the Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad. The trail was steep going back, and I thought I was going to die. Guess I'd better get back in shape. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Leadfingers Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:45 AM Too Blooming much at the moment as I detest Gardening ! My lawn is a Nature Reserve as far as I am concerned !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Leadfingers Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:46 AM Oh and this is the 100th blooming post !
-Joe offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Pauline L Date: 17 Apr 05 - 02:45 PM Joe, that sounds beautiful. Leadfingers, if you live anywhere near me, I'd love to come over and work in your garden. I'm in Montpelier VT now, and the crocuses are blooming. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Bobert Date: 17 Apr 05 - 05:46 PM Linrwn Rose Hellibor, Blood Root, Plum tree, Bleeding Hearts, Tooth Wart, Star Magnolia jus' about done, a few azaleas, camillias, few late daffodilas, Twin leaf, Dogwood showin' a little color, Lilack showing a little color as are the rhodos.... Pulmaneras in full bloom... That's all I csan think of fir now... Bobert p.s. The P-Vine and I have now potted up over 100 of the some 300 plants we are taking with us when we move to Lueay, Va... |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Scoville Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:17 PM The dogwoods were out in East Texas a couple of weeks ago (probably still are). I think it's just after peak bluebonnet season. One of our azaleas is still blooming even though it's just a tad late for them, too (the other one is totally confused and blooms continuously from October through March). |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: open mike Date: 17 Apr 05 - 11:46 PM iris!! lilacs are jsut about done azalea stragglers continue tulips wisteria freesia roses clematis pansy viola violet family thingies /california poppies, lupines (related to Bluebonnets) those magenta ones are probably Mimulus (monkey flowers) Frittilaria--dainty orange lilly like wild flowers on tall stalks and this is not a bloom, but the asparagus are popping up all over! i had them steamed with Hollandaise sauce, and creamed in a soup, now there is another batch to harvest. good for your kidneys. the Chinese Empress trees are going full blast... Palomia trees with huge lavendar easter-lily like flower the fragrance fills entire neighborhoods. fruit trees, apples, cherries, plum, pear, peach, apricot aqnd last as well as least...dandilions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 18 Apr 05 - 02:59 AM I haven't seen anything here yet(Northern MN), but a few small buds on trees and I saw a start of pussy willow today. Everything is so dry around here things are slow to bloom. Some of our early flowers I haven't seen like Marsh Marigold, Bellwort, Trillium, Rue Anemone- soon I hope! Rustic |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Apr 05 - 11:06 PM The iris have it hands down in the yard right now. And salvia greggi are going full-tilt. Whoosh, but there's a lot of color out in my front garden! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ? From: open mike Date: 19 Apr 05 - 12:32 AM i saw oodles of wild trillium last weekend and here Calla lily, vinca and freesia are out. indoors i have a Clerodendrum (Glory Bower) is sending out its little pink paperish balloon-like flowers. The Ranunculus is finished blooming. |
