Cool! I like the live preview feature. Olympus was the first to introduce that. I'm so used to looking at the monitor that i would find it awkward going back to looking through the lens. The one I want also has this feature. Have fun!
Spring Blooms!
thanks.... not easy when i been using a point and shoot for so many years... the screen is very nice.... better than my last camera
Yes, I'm sure the transition takes a while. It will be worth it though!
bbrookrd....do reticulated Iris naturalize in lawns well? I planted 20 this fall and noticed one coming up this afternoon. Like to mix more of them in with the crocus next year.
David_Paul, I have them blooming only in beds, but the ones that I have had for more then a year have been increasing, albeit slowly. It will take a few years to know for sure. I would ask over in the iris forum. I am a mad planter with not much knowledge. Patti
I'm so jealous! We still have lots of snow on the ground and high banks. The path out to the bird feeder that DH snowblowed is showing grass though!! Eleanor
It's snowing here right now.
David_Paul,
Yes they do, I have them popping up in the most unexpected places. After they are done blooming they grow really long leaves. If you want them to stay naturalized you won't be able to mow the grass until the leaves stop growing.
oh I have nothing like that coming up yet! sometimes I think I am in zone 3!!!
amazing pics Victor. I especially like the first heleborus. That would look incredible blown up.
Thanks, Anita. How long do the RI bloom??
We still have snow and ice, too. So don't feel bad.
I know the blossoms and blooms will arrive eventually. I just have to have, what's that called, patience???????
And after theirs are all gone, we will have ours, right Candyce?
Thanks pollyk! This is the first time I grew any iris. Nice plant! As I won't mow until late May, think I'll get lots of them for next year.
This is from a Van Engelen Iris reticulata mixture:
Another view:
Beautiful shade, David. Please let me know how long it lasts.
Wow! Both of my firewitch dianthuses have buds on them!!!!! My 1st buds.
Lots more green shoots popping up all over too - including (finally) some of the snow crocuses. They didn't get the memo about how they're supposed to be 1st, i guess. Lots of green leaves on my boring coreopsis. Lots of green leaflets on daylilies. Geen leaves on the purple asters. LOTS of baby liriopes. Dave, you said you want some, right?
It looks like 2 of my annual dianthuses are still alive... is this possible? Should i not have pulled the 4 or 5 others in the fall? It's funny, i had one on each side of a bench, one is alive, the other just dead twigs. Hmmm.
Victor, I had Iris reticulata since last year. If I remember right, they were spectacular, but brief.
Not as long-lasting as crocus?
Trying to remember... I don't think so. Patti, do you know?
OK Victor, I can say that some new ones that I planted in the fall (30 for 7.45 Iris Reticulata 'Purple Gem') began blooming by March 2nd as that is when DH returned from FL trip and saw them up. They are still in bloom today in the new area along the new stream. I have some other new ones out today ('Harmony') , but no pictures yet, as I have taken to bed with this raw weather, body hates this kind of weather. Fingers still work. So I will monitor their bloom length for you. The other one I posted was Iris reticulata 'Clairette' (12.00 for 50) and it was planted in the fall of 05, so this is the second year. I will do a head count tomorrow. I still have several others to bloom yet. ('Spring Time', 'Natascha', 'Marquerite' 'Pauline' 'Pixie' 'J.S. Dijt' and 'Cantab' and a hundred no names Here is 'Purple gem' on Friday.
Thanks Patti - stay warm!
someone say something nice about my firewitch buds!
i am a very stressed woman. i need a pat on the head.
Amy, None of my Dianthus have buds yet. I will shout for you. Patti
OH, great photos. Interesting that as far south as I am, we are in the same zone for blooms, just not for snow. I have the same blooms as you now, but have had only a dusting of snow. Anyway, it is so good to see SPRING!!! It isn't dark here yet, and I should get out with my camera, but geesh I don't want to put on shoes and the ground is wet...so maybe tomorrow.
Great show, thanks.
thank you, patti.
i feel noticed.
: )
Oops, Amy...I got caught up looking at photos....sorry...HoooRaaaay!!!! for you.
Amy, congratulations on your firewitch buds!!!!
yeah signs of life... time for spring cleaning.... yippee!!!!!!
pussy willow showing off
Yay!!!
Oh now that's a spring pic for sure, love those little pussy willows.
Oh, Allison, pussy willows! That's my "tree" goal this year. Had one at my childhood home and do miss them.
oh I am in zone 0... no signs yet... just inside the garage the roses are waking up.... oh I am so jealous!!!!
All your roses are building up the energy to bloom their little hearts out for you, Kassia. No need to feel jealous. Yours will be all the more precious when their time comes.
Thanks Pirl... it's so nice outside today... I just hope it melts the rest of the snow. I think my street is the only one that still has snow in Framingham!!!!
Get out the hair dryer and do what has to be done!
I did a quick walk around and took a few pictures, but I was being blown away. Back inside. Danfordiae iris up and about to open. But it is not raining or snowing. Patti
It is super windy today, huh?
Gusts from the north at 33 MPH. Good day to start cleaning up, downstairs, in prepration for seed starting though I have already started 36 dahlias and more from cuttings.