Sorry to hear about your loss too Mary Ann.

Wow, nice to see some green things, even if they are still somewhat dormant. Nothing but white here, still.

Dee that sounds like some awesome prices for Red Buds anything here is twice the price of the Salem area. I stopped at some garden centers when I was there in 2009-10 and I sure envy your selection. In 2009 I was after Japanese Maples and visited a lady somewhere in the Salem area that had a really nice growing operation it was called Whitman Farms she had any and everything you could want in trees. What made hers unique is the way she grew them if I remember right it was called root control bags. I don't remember the specific's but she grew them in these bags so she could transplant and ship them easy and the growth on those things was amazing in a bag. I bought 8 of the smaller Jap maples thinking I would be lucky if a couple lived but her trees have out performed just about everything else and so far I still have 6 of them alive. She would be worth looking into for a instant impact and her pricing was really good.

Paul That has too be nice to be able to work outside in the garden again and get some of them cleaned up. I am hoping the 1st week in March I can start to do something weather permitting, Today it got really cold outside again wind chills in the single digits and then we have a storm moving our way from the west coast that is predicted to drop 10 to 12 inches on Thursday.I was hoping for a little snow cover but did not want to be buried in it. Spring can't come quick enough.

Polly I got lucky on those 2 trees I have never seen anything else around here like them, so I gambled and bought them hoping they would do well in our area and so far so good they are some of the fastest growing trees I have. With good year around color.

Jan you might try some Crabapples or a Pear tree they are both beautiful in the spring and the pear has really good fall color. The redbuds are my favorite for there bloom but crabapples are a close 2nd. The Pears are normally the 1st to bloom in the spring and the last to drop there leaves in the fall.


Mary Ann I think they will be ok I would try pushing them back in the ground and putting a brick over the ones that are sticking up, I had the same thing happen with one of my beds last year when we got back from vacation in Feb there was no snow cover and I had quite a few with roots exposed completly I went and got compost and covered the ground and a thin layer over the bulbs and put bricks over the ones that were starting to heave and I did not lose anything and most still bloomed. Try and cover them and see what happens they might surprise you.

I will have to look her up and she what she has in JM as I love them and want more.

D

Some pictures from Kaunas (Lithuania) 2013-March-02
Day's temperature ~+ 3°C , Night's - ~- 5°C.

Now Lithuania seems like a Snowland but
we hope it'll became a Springland in one or two weeks



Sleeping Irises:


and awaking first snow flowers:

eco: it looks promising.The Snowdrops are sweet.

Picture #1 and #2 are of a lake, yes? If so -- what is the name of the lake please? Love the Snowdrops!!

Marry Ann,
It's an artificial lake in river Nemunas near our city Kaunas before the damba and hydro power station.
You can read about that here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

Looks like you have a ways to go before spring comes around there in Lithuania. Same here, my iris are not doing much of anything. Not really growing much for spring. In fact they are mostly sorry looking.

Late last summer, about the end of August, I moved an entire Iris Garden bed from my square raised garden to a section over near my garage near the property fenceline. So I am hoping they look really good there. They did have plenty of time to settle in and grow before winter. I needed that square garden for tomatoes as I decided to grow tomatoes and beans there this year. I know, not anywhere near as pretty but yummy to eat.

I took a walk around the garden. Daffodils up all over the place. These are ones I had in my garden, the ones just planted last fall are not showing yet. I find that the bulbs planted the fall prior always break ground later than the bulbs already in the garden from past years. There are even some with flower buds showing. But the iris are not doing anything yet. Still asleep from the winter.

Snow has disappeared from some iris beds, but still covering others. It will be awhile before we see many of the plants.

I heard on the weathernews that we are supposed to get a big storm Wednesday and overnight Wednesday into Thursday. Depends on the track yet as to if it would be rain or snow or a combo of both. The news I just watched said a combo of rain and snow.

I think you will have more than we do because you are south of MA.

What the heck is this?


Is there such a thing as aqua iris with peacock falls?
Looks to me like they cut back on the blue ink when they printed the image.

Probably not a good candidate for the data base

ha ! ha! ha! ha! I needed a good laugh.Trapped in the house surrounded by snow. Spring is coming but not fast enough.

My iris look like this now ....wish I had got the first 2 beds cleaned in the fall.

They show a lot of promise.

As soon as the soil drys out I will get the autumn leaves out of the bed and the iris plants trimmed up.

That turqoise iris is certainly off color. Not true.

I have a new computer and the new OS doesnt support my 15 year old Photoshop program or I would do a color correction.