Whoa that's a lot of veggies Rita!!

Went to a wildflower sale at the nature center and picked up some, bleeding heart, maraschino salvia, red lobelia, Carolina jesamine and forgot the milkweed oh well guess I'll have to go back

Mostly tomato seedlings as I got totally carried away with buying tomatoes.

I have a lot growing in the cellar, but mostly cherry & pear......have to get a few plants of the 'big boys'!

Yeah, you need a slicer!.

I have tried so many different tomatoes and honestly I always come back to those Big Boys and Better Boys as my favorites.

Good to know! I was thinking of getting those this year. I didn't start any seeds this year. I am feeling defeated from getting tomato problems every year! I want to go with a good disease resistant one.
I have been busy trying to get my veggie garden in order and spreading the 3 yards of compost instead of mulch this year.. Lots of maintenance this year.
I am a little disappointed that 2 of the 3 lily tulips blooming I planted from J Scheepers are not what they are supposed to be and the one that is right is a puny little thing. I ordered Perestroika http://www.johnscheepers.com/t... and the 2 wrong ones look like blushing lady. Hopefully when the rest bloom they are right.

Those are very pretty....I have also ordered tulips from Scheepers that are small.....they looked like full-sized in the photo, but are really tiny......

So I realize none of the tulips are Perestroika, it is really funny that they are these two tulips from the Temple of Beauty photo on the website. http://www.johnscheepers.com/f... I have ordered many bulbs from J. Scheepers and I have never got mislabeled bulbs before this. Hope it was a fluke!
Perestroika is my fave and I was really looking forward to it, so no matter how beautiful they are I would be disappointed. If I had to pick I prefer the Blushing Beauty.

Nonetheless, they are beautiful! I used to order from Sheepers many years ago. Always sent top quality bulbs!

Has anyone ever had rodents eat Lilium rubrum bulbs before? I had a huge patch near my pool for a few years and it looks like something dug the area up and there is literally one sprout! All my others Lilies are up already! I am so sad.

I found some better pics of the Tulips.

not sure if my lily bulbs were eaten.. pooped out.. or rotted.. but over the years I lost a bunch

I lost my entire clump of Time Zone lilies this winter....I believe it was chipmunks.....there were holes in the area....pretty tulips even though they were mislabeled.....

Meredith, you have a lovely home and yard/gardens! looks peaceful and serene!

Chippies ate some of my lilies

luvsgrtdanes said:Chippies ate some of my lilies

I was just told a fox trotted across the backyard. Perhaps sniffing at home of Mr, Chuck & get chippies while he is around.

They can be cute but so destructive. I was planting my raised bed and was finding all kinds of tunnels.

they live in our stone wall (ok with me) & in a hill above an extension of the driveway (not ok). A few dwarf iris on that hill, & a cute Peppermint Twist ground phlox.

Voles & chippys will eat your lilies.

I ordered a few more items.

Yuki Cherry Blossom Deutzia 1 gal. Shrub

Anemonella thalictroides 'Cameo'

Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum 'Black Sea'

Epimedium x rubrum 'Sweetheart'


These came in this week:
TOH PEONY 'JULIA ROSE'
GERANIUM HIMALAYENSE PLENUM

I love epimediums Pixie.
Those new plants sound intreaguing.
I am off to a garden center to buy
OP PlumPudding
Coreopsis Creme Brulee
look for epis and tomato plants.
Tomatoes will stay in the house until next week.We are due for frost tonight.