Bee Balm (monarda)
Spring Show your pic's ...#2
First calla bloom this year
Unknown lily
Clematis Jackmanii
Unknown gardenia
I love this study in color and texture. The border garden is full of interesting shapes, patterns and subtle color variations.
Leawood, that is a beautiful shade garden. I"m working on mine this year. Planted some hydrangea in the back with some hostas and bleeding hearts in the one corner and drawf gardenias in the front. I still have a pretty large bed, but I'm leaving some room for more hydrangea and possibly some coral bells.
Actually, it's shady in the morning, but this bed gets a lot of sun in the afternoon - full sun from about 1-6 pm. I do have a large shade garden with coral bells and hostas under the large walnut and oak trees on the south side of my house.
I planted these sun-loving chartreuse coral bells in a concrete planter and leave them year-round.
love all your hostas. I though coral bells were shade-loving plants. You should plant some "stepables" in between those pretty slates.
That's a great idea - the 'stepables' that are there are certainly persistent! LOL.
LeawoodGardner,funny thing I just bought 2 stepables,Coral Carpet (sedum album),sunshine(veronica repens).Cant wait to plant them.Maybe today!!
Beautiful columbine,noid
late yellow tulips,love how they get blushy.
Stray Shasta Daisy
Just started blooming
What a beautiful pink peony!
I love the brilliant blue color of this spiderwort - blooms in the morning and fades when the sun hits it.
Wow. Sorry about the out-of-focus photo - I guess my eyes were kinda fuzzy when I took it.
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Leawood,Thank you, I will take more pictures of my peonies,i have a 25 ft row of them,just starting to open up.I like that spiderwort,does it like shade ???
Went to Schreiners Iris's and saw their display garden a few days ago. besides beautiful Iris, the columbine, poppies,and lupines, rhodies were wonderful! (everything I saw was lush and fantastic)
Some of their Lupines! These were breath taking!
BeaHive,those are grand,are those yours ???
Lovely photo of Schreiners , it must have been the perfect time to get to visit them.
The Orientail poppies were huge.
BeaHive ,i see now,Wow beautiful gardens, lucky you ,is it near you??
huggergirl..wish they were mine and that was my yard..but no. Their gardens have given me much inspriration for next season. Out with my front lawn to make room!
The columbine there were tall and just loaded with blooms. They were everywhere! Fantastic!
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The lupine are fantastic,I just planted some seed,iam hoping.
Schreiners is located in Salem OR about 15 miles from here. A short drive to paradise!
These Rhodies, which I call "Tutti Frutti" as I do not know the true name are so pretty.
I would love to have an identical patch of the Iris called "world premier" in my garden. It was stunning.
Close up
beaHive,YUMMMMY,Tuti fruiti,OMG,those pictures are beautiful,your makin me crazy,thats a goog thing ,LOL
These are called "lightshine" . beautiful!
These peonies were just getting started. The flowers were the size of grapefruits.
Hope to get back there this week. Had some issues with my camers and need to do some retakes!
This Iris is called " Spot Starter" and one of thier new intros. I will have to wait on this one until the price goes down in a few years.
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Edith Wolford
I love that World Premiere. It's so hard to find a true blue flower. I hate to give up rose space to an iris, but I may have to get that one.
Gosh those are lovely photos! Happy Memorial Day weekend. Took this along my front driveway. Red yucca, blue sage and a white desert willow with my neighbors flag flying in the background. I had never noticed the color combo before this!
My sweet peas are blooming.
And little yarrow that a friend of mine gave me last year is going gangbuster!
