Showing posts with label Perennials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perennials. Show all posts

Monday, June 9, 2008

Buds, Buds, Everywhere!

We have had a very unusual, cold, wet spring. As a result, all of my plants have been getting a slow start. I have many rose bushes just full of buds, sitting there, waiting to open. It is making me so impatient! The following bush is the English Rose, Pretty Jessica, just waiting to wow me with hundreds of flowers:

I have had some peonies start to open. Here is a hot pink beauty for you:

The biggest ladybug to visit my garden yet:

My baptisia finally in bloom after three years!

This is my monster antique rose, Reine des Violettes (Queen of the Purples). Just so you have an idea of how big she is, this is an eight foot pillar wrapped with Reine's long limber canes. When she finally blooms, she is going to be spectacular!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Spreading the Love


Gif and Marci came by today to take advantage of the suckering nature of my dogwood bushes. I was able to give them three small starts of Bailey Red Twig and Isanti dogwood, and two small starts of variegated dogwood. Today was clear but really too windy and cold to really enjoy being outside yet.