Beautiful blooms, Debra. My Clematis are still in bud form and my scream iris has not set a bloom stalk so I will enjoy yours. smiles Your photos always make me feel cheerful. I think you somehow attach your garden emotions to them.

Thank you.


Missed these.

Haircut on the Liriope seemed to work.



Love the texture of the Japanese Maple leaves.



Scream stands out against Penstemon Dark Towers foliage, even on an overcast day.

Thank you, Bonnie. They never fail to help me feel better.

Lovely bright colors in your garden Debra! Enjoying your pics!

Great photos Deb! You have a beautiful garden!

I nearly broke the "thumb's up" button going through this thread.

that Japanese Maple.

Thank you, everyone.

quietyard said: that Japanese Maple.

Ditto that.

lovemyhouse said:
NOID Clematis I got two years ago from mamajack. Hoping she is coming to see me tomorrow and I will find out if she can identify it for me.

Gorgeous and bright bloom!! A couple of possibilities for popular ones are:
Clematis 'Barbara Harrington'
Clematis Bourbon™

Maybe @pirl will have some ideas too! Keep taking pictures of it as it ages as it can change it's looks too and give more clues that way.

Thank you, Sue.

Pink Champagne is my first thought:



Maybe Dr. Ruppel:

Might be Pink Champagne, Arlene. After Sue's post, I had a "duh" moment and went back through mamajack's Clematis sale threads. Her daughter's new dog romped through some of her Clematis last year, the tags were lost, and she sold those as NOIDS on a later sale. I will take more photographs as it ages.

It was the third one to open here, last year.

Omoshiro was first and Guernsey Cream was second, so if you have those it would make it easier to identify. Niobe bloomed after Pink Champagne.

Not Dr. Ruppel... I was also thinking Pink Champagne..

These flowers are what I should have to work with tomorrow making up vases and a bouquet for my sister. The Taiyo tree peony bloom will be the center of the bouquet, with blooming Thyme instead of baby's breath. Have a box of four inch high salt and pepper shakers (to glue to the back of the glass plate flowers) that will work really well as vases for the tiny flowers. Cut samples of the small ones to test overnight, seeing if I can make up some of the vases today, instead of trying to make a bunch tomorrow. And they should be good. Almost all the larger ones are single blooms or stalks and I will cut them tomorrow.

Debra the garden is lOOking beautiful for sure.
Like Bonnie, I too got a tree peony seedling from a friend a few years back. It was so small, I enclosed it with a home made cage to protect it. It had a couple blooms in 2013 and several in 2014. Looking forward to see what it is going to do this year.

Debra we cross posted. Can't wait to see the finish product after you get caught up.

Made the small 'vases' and like most of the results. A good photograph would be difficult given the lighting, but this one shows them okay. Not a square picture, so you will have to click on it for the full image. Not sure if I want to tie yellow ribbon around them. Saving the soft, pale green satin ribbon for the bouquet tomorrow.

Lovely! Such a taste of spring!