Thursday, March 28, 2013

More Spring Bulbs!


Crocus


Trumpet daffodils with Orcas pear tree
Muscari aucheri 'Blue Magic'

Trumpet daffodils with foxglove and Oriental poppy foliage

Trumpet daffodils with Rescue pear and Frost peach trees

 Tête-à-Tête daffodils with hellebores and foxglove
Ice Follies daffodil
Purple crocuses with columbine and forget-me-nots

Tulipa Greigii 'Calypso' in Full Bloom


 

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tulipa Greigii 'Calypso'


Calypso tulips in the afternoon sun

The greigii tulip family is known for its beautiful variegated leaves.

In the morning, before the petals began to open


Saturday, March 23, 2013

Hollywood Plum Tree Blossoms


A sure sign of spring!

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

March Vegetable Gardens

Lots of new seedlings this month along with overwintered flowers, herbs, and vegetables
Growing in these beds right now:
Spinach, kale, chives, chervil, rosemary, sorrel, rhubarb, snow peas, snap peas, shelling peas, radishes, onions, rudbeckia, violas, forget-me-nots, poppies, hyacinths, daffodils, and four kinds of tulips


Square foot garden bed with a large trellis ready for Schweizer Riesen snow peas
Growing in this bed right now:
Snow peas, lettuce, beets, radishes, arugula, chives, sorrel, strawberries, oregano, sage, poppies, lavender, primroses, sedum, grape hyacinths, and two kinds of tulips

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Blooming Bulbs!

Tête à Tête daffodils, Jeanne d'Arc crocuses, and Early Harvest Kaufmanniana tulips

Tête à Tête daffodils surrounded by emerging Forget-me-not foliage
Purple crocuses, daffodils, and Forget-me-nots
Tête à Tête daffodils, primroses, and foliage of bluebells and euphorbia
White and purple crocuses, Tête à Tête daffodils, white hellebore flowers, and red Skimmia berries
Crocuses and daffodils
Crocuses, daffodils, and columbine
Crocuses and columbine

Purple crocuses and foliage from emerging tulips
Crocuses and tulips in the front strawberry bed

Red Showwinner Kaufmanniana tulips and purple crocuses in front of early foliage from Pink Impression tulips


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Crocuses and Daffodils!


Jeanne d'Arc and Remembrance crocuses along with early Tête à Tête daffodils

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

February Flowers and Foliage


Purple crocuses along the back yard perennial path

First yellow crocuses in the front center garden bed

A single white hellebore, waiting for company

A lovely cluster of rose-colored hellebores along the pond rockery

Hellebores, moss, daffodils, and primroses   

Overwintered dinosaur kale, starting to perk up again

A bed of overwintered chervil, waiting for a trellis full of snow peas and a backdrop of orange Ballerina tulips

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Winter Flowers


The first of the yellow crocuses
Snowdrops (Galanthus)
Iris reticulata


Friday, February 1, 2013

Winter Growth


First crocuses sprouting up

Spanish bluebells

First of the early orange Emperor tulips

Young shoots of overwintering Egyptian walking onions

New and expanding growth of Patty's Plum Oriental poppies!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy New Year!


A frosty evergreen huckleberry
First blooms on an overwintering primrose

A cluster of frosty 'Autumn Joy' sedum

Azalea with a touch of frost

Winter spinach on New Year's Day

Surprise harvest on New Year's Day: the radishes were hiding in the cabbage bed, found a few stray carrots in another bed, and the green onions are still holding their own...