First echinacea bloom of 2008!
This is supposed to be Ruby Star...but I am not 100% sure it is. Not that I really care, as long as it is pretty and grows!
First Bloom!
Wow - you're so much colder than we are (zone-wise) but apparently so much earlier!
I am very close to the edgeof zone 5-6.
Still . . . .I haven't seen anyone poking their head up! (Either that or I weeded it out - oops.) Most of them are back where I can't reach. But the poppies bloomed today in the rain!
Nanny, That's a beauty!
Looks like Ruby Star to me. I have one plant with a head on it.
Nanny......looks nice to me whatever it is.....
Paul from Alabama
It has darkened up a little now so I am sure that it is Ruby now!
My Summer Sky was looking so nice with stems full of buds...then we had a torential downpour of rain wednesday evening and broke some stems and the new growth on my butterfly bush was beaten off too. Grrrr!
White Swan is getting ready to burst out!
nanny, your got you some nice healthy leaves and buds there.....
Paul from Alabama
Thanks! I am very pleased, with the echies anyway, so far this year!
My first bloom this year is Merlot, but only because I bought it with buds 6 weeks ago.
Weird how that is.....I think it takes a couple years for some plants to settle into their flowering cycle and even then things can change a bit.....and the difference in geography, I just deadheaded a Mango Meadowbrite yesterday and bigcityal just seeing his first bloom....I ain't looking for my first bloom, I'm looking for some rain........:)
Paul from Alabama
Nice Al!
Summer Sky has recovered from it's rain beating and is full of buds now!
Finally getting buds on mine - now, I don't feel like such a loser.
Loser?...You ain't a loser, you live in Massachusetts, about a month behind us down in here in a place where heat and humidity are King......The South.......:)
Paul from Alabama
Thank God, I was worried!
Carrie of the North (cousin to Nanook of the North on my father's side)
LOL!
I just got back from outside.....ain't a nanook in sight here.....they must have left when the glaciers receded during the ice age.......:)
Paul from Alabama