BS: what's blooming ?

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!

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.

click here.

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

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 [e-mail].

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).

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ?
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:12 PM

Cactus, and 273 things that I am allergic to.

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

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.

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-

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

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 : [ ].

Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ?
From: DancingMom
Date: 04 Jun 02 - 09:49 AM

Beautiful pictures Joe! Thank you.

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-

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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. 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.

However, I think the weather was the reason this year's display of tulips (all over the city, public AND private) was the best I remember in 60 years living here. I also like to think it's the tulips' final tribute to Malak, who died last November. For more information see this

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ?
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:26 AM

Frangipanis in Sydney.

Just LOOOOOOOOVE that fragrance!

Jenny

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

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.

Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ?
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:34 AM

We cross posted jimmyt!

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.

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

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-

Subject: RE: BS: what's blooming ?
From: Alice
Date: 10 Feb 03 - 01:12 AM

snow, snow, snow, snow, snow

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-

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.