Took some pics today during the middle of the day....

Nice Marilyn !

Very beautiful, Marilyn!

Fantastic plants!

Love the Daffodils and Dicentra.

Beautiful pictures everyone I Love that gold leaf bleeding heart Marilyn

Almost everything except lilies are popping up here right now. Last year was my first to try many different kinds of agastache, and it looks like they all over-wintered just fine. I also added about a dozen small to medium sized clematis plants last year, and they're all growing like crazy! Perhaps this will be the year that I'll get some perennial growth growing up my tunnel arbor.

What is the white blooming plant 4th one down on the left? You have some very healthy heuchera! Beautiful!

Thanks everyone!

When I started doing this yesterday, I had comments and plant names next to each pic, but something happened and I lost it all, so I just posted pics.

I didn't post all the pics from yesterday...

This first pic is of 3 Agastache 'Blue Blazes' from HCG. I planted these last year. They're really big compared to all the Agastaches I have growing! I have 3 Agastache 'Summer Love' that were planted the same time and one of them is between BB.


Agastache 'Tutti Frutti' planted the same time. Nice looking!


Agastache 'Ava' is planted in a V formation in this pic. The Agastaches planted around them are 'Raspberry Summer'. All Agastaches were planted the same time.


Closeup of Daffodil 'Sir Winston Churchill'

The Daffs are 'Geranium' and 'Sir Winston Churchill' and I can't remember the yellowish Daffs right now.

The first pic from yesterday's post is Dicentra 'Valentine' that I planted last year. Happy to see it come back.

Shannon, Dicentra 'Gold Heart' is wonderful and beautiful! If I had to choose one Bleeding Heart, it would be that one! I've had it a few years.

Springcolor, I don't remember what the name that one is.

Think I'll go and take more pics before the rains comes.....

Beautiful, Marilyn!
Hope you have a chance to put them in the database!

Just planted some Clematis and babied some bruised semps from the hailstorm...

Yikes, Janice!

I hope they'll be okay.

It's a wind chime day here. I'm out planting stuff and things are blowing away faster than I can get after them.

Thanks, Chelle!

Kind of windy here, as well.

I hope everything is ok Janice.

Yes, I added some pics to the db. Took more pics today and will add to the db later.

Heuchera 'Root Beer' planted last year.


Shannon, I took another pic of the one you were asking about. Maybe it's Spring Beauty. The second one is cropped of it.


Trillium luteum







Heuchera 'Ruby Bells'


Trillium


Heuchera 'Plum Pudding'

Thanks, Marilyn!

Love your Trillium! and the Root Beer heuchera

Some of the semps with the larger leaves really got bruised from the mothball sized hailstones we got last weekend. They sure got pelted.
But some are unscathed, thankfully.

Glad I got photos of them for the database BEFORE the storm.

Happy you're ok Janice!

Thank you, Marilyn.

Here is my idea about spring bulbs I just got recently. Look at this area here standing in the driveway looking at the slope uphill were the daylilies are planted in the straw mulch. As they grow you can't even really see the straw between them as the daylily leaves just cover it all up. I want to add some daffs along in there at the very bottom of the rows of daylilies along the driveway. You can see I have daffs up top in the garden up top of the slope and not all those daffs are even blooming yet. I am thinking of doing a trench at the feet of the daylily rows at the very bottom and putting lots and lots of daffs along the driveway. Then I will have more spring bloom and they will be gone by the time summer comes and the daylilies bloom. But they will be at the bottom along the edge of the driveway.






To give you an idea of how the gardens all tie together here I am standing looking at the top garden. The daffs you see are the ones you can see part of in the very first picture. Then that all wraps around looking more left towards the front yard pond. Daylily slope would be right from this area, especially right towards the first of those two pictures.

That'll look great! If you don't cut back the dead/dying DL foliage this fall, you'll be able to see where your DL clumps are... you could just dig holes for the daffs between the clumps, too. I put a lot of daffs into a perennial bed last fall that way... shovel out a big clod of dirt, plant 5 or 6 bulbs in the hole (or just 3 if it's a little scoop of dirt LOL), then put the dirt back down.

Jill, I got this idea about doing the trench at the bottom when it suddenly hit me that I had room at the bottom there that was otherwise wasted. And I bet I could get a really lot of daffs along in there. As to putting them between, I have thought of it. But now before they grow, it looks like there is room but later after they leaf out all the room betwen them seems to dissapear. Still, I keep thinking about it. Remember all this is on a rather steep slope. I just want it to look pretty. In the summer when the daylilies bloom it looks fabulous but right now it looks ratty and in need of something blooming along there for spring color.

That method, you described were you dug a hole beween plants and stuck about 5 bulbs in is one I was using in another daylily bed in my backyard. I put in 50 tulips that way, 5 in each hole. I just dug holes betwen daylily clumps. After I was done I realised I could have used lots more bulbs as I had lots more spaces left. So will just mark were I already put some this spring and get more bulbs to add in the fall there.

I just keep on working on the gardens here and am really focused on adding lots and lots more bulbs!

Really beautiful Rita!

Well, it look much better there abit later in the year when things green up. But at least there are some daffs along in there for some spring color now. I have lilies up top along in there also which look great during early summer.