BS: what's blooming ?

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: 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: 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: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 03:00 AM

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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

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: 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!