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Category Archives: Flowers
Visiting ducks and other changes in the garden
Okay- she’s not the duck but she is the cutest visitor in my watergarden! (My daughter who loves her Shamu and water.) This momma duck and her little babies just appeared for a few hours this Monday morning. She quacked … Continue reading
Adorable Anemones!
The Anemone Bulb, also known as windflower bulbs, form a large and versatile group of plants. Anemone flower bulbs grow with lots of very colorful petal blooms, either like daises or like poppies. They symbolize unfading love! Both Anemone blanda … Continue reading
Spring’s Final Chapter for 2011
Last look at Tulips! My garden has been changing alot over the last month. New blooms as other blooms fade. Fuller flower beds. Each week ( for the last month) I bring home more Dahlias, Gladiolus and other bulbs to … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Gardening 101, Spring, summer
Tagged allium, bulbs, design, fall bulbs, garden, iris, pond, purple, Spring, summer, tulip, tulipworld, water garden
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Beautiful Beards of Iris and other beauties
Iris symbolize eloquence and deep sentiment An elegant favorite of many gardeners, the Bearded Iris are truly magnificent additions to the late spring garden. Producing multiple blooms per stem, these flowers are abundant in beauty and vibrancy. With their swordlike … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flowers, Gardening 101, Spring
Tagged bearded, dutch, flower bulbs, iris, perennials, planting, reticulata, rhizome, siberian, Spring
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Purple balls of Allium
Allium (Flowering Onion) Allium species and cultivars- most are purple .. the best color of all! 🙂 And they are hardy in zones 3-11 and do well in sun or shade! What a great addition to all gardens. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Spring, summer
Tagged allium, bulbs, deer, deterrents, flower bulbs, garden, moles, perennials, purple, rodents, Spring, squirrels
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Fields of dreams… tulips (& types)
Tulips are probably the most well-known spring blooming bulbs. Tulips add a large spectrum of vibrant, gorgeous colors to your garden and a long bloom time if planted accordingly. Ranging from short (6”) to tall (32”), Tulips provide varying heights … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Gardening 101, Spring
Tagged apricot beauty, Best Tulip, double early, double late, fall, flower bulbs, flowers, gardening, golden apeldoorn, green, lily flowering, orange emproer, parrot, perennials, pink, purple, single early, single late, Spring, tips, triumph, tulips, tulipworld
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More Spring blooms…
Last night, (after church, daughters soccer game 1 hr away, and and dinner with my parents), I was able to come home and walk around the yard and see what’s changing. I pulled a few dandelions for my rabbits, and … Continue reading
Life is hard, but there is hope
So much for the storms in the south settling down. I will not complain about the weather again. A tornado hit my good friends home last Wednesday in Cleveland, TN. She is in the hospital, their youngest child is dead … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers
Tagged bulbs, calla lily, colchicum, flowers, new beginnings, purple, radiata, Spring, storms, tulips, warm weather, water lily, weather
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the skinny on flower bulbs
Bulbs are easy to grow, provided that you stick to some essentials. Probably no other plant group gives as much variety and pleasure to the gardener with so little effort. The unique thing about bulbs is that they need little … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Gardening 101, Spring, summer
Tagged allium, begonia, bulbs, calladium, canna, chionodoxa, colchicums, corms, crocus, cyclamen, daffodil, daffodils, dahlias, fall, flower bulbs, flowers, fritillaria, garden, gladiolus, hyacinth, iris, muscari, oxalis, perennials, rhizome, Spring, tuber, tulips, tulipworld
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New growth, new blooms!
Everyday- when its not raining- I take walks around to see what new flower bulbs are sprouting and now blooming! Even though its often gloomy and dark because of all the clouds and so many days of rain (what is … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Spring, Urban Gardening
Tagged allium, bulbs, chionodoxa, daffodils, flower bulbs, flowers, frittilaria, garden, hyacinth, oxalis, tulipworld
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