Finally spring is starting. Here are some pictures of today. Butterflies are enjoying some sun and fresh nectar after long winter sleep.
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April 21, 2013
Spring start
Finally spring is starting. Here are some pictures of today. Butterflies are enjoying some sun and fresh nectar after long winter sleep.
May 16, 2012
Nice to be back home
Isn't it nice to come back home after a few days long trip in May and notice all the changes in the garden? Just in 5 days garden has changed remarkably. Most of the tulips were still in bud when I left but now many are flowering. My first time attempt to plant tulips in color combinations seems to work well. Here are couple of examples.
Perennials are growing very fast, they look different every day. Foliage is freshly green and soft on touch.
When I left 5 days ago there was not a single flower open on rhododendrons. Today 'Cunningham's White', the earliest of my rhods, is in full bloom. I especially like the combination of pink flower buds and white flowers.
May 1, 2012
Spring is speeding up!
Just a week ago spring felt very slow, but during last days things started to change quicker and quicker. One of my hosta beds is bursting with intensively growing spring bulbs.
In this mix of Hyacinths I planted several bulbs that I saved from last year together with some newly bought. All of them are blooming fine except for 'Odysseus', the beautifully peachy colored one in the back of the mix. Its flower spikes are very prone to falling, which makes it difficult to appreciate the beauty of the flowers.
I can't stop admire the brightest color of Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Show Winner'. Here comes a close-up of the open flower.
Fritillaria meleagris are growing in that spot for a 3rd season and multiplying steadily.
Wood anemones Anemone nemorosa are wildly growing in the garden and popping up everywhere.
Maidenhair Fern Adiantum pedatum is amazingly beautiful perennial in all stages of its development. Now it looks like this.
Leaves of the oldest Astilbe growing in my garden are deep red this early in the season. The name of this variety is probably 'Erika', it was bought without tag and is waiting to be identified for sure.
It's very exciting to watch hostas coming up in the spring. How well did they overwinter? How well did they feel last season? How much did they mature? Here are two favorites that obviously increased since last year.
April 23, 2012
Slow spring 2012
Spring is so slow this year. After a few weeks of unusually warm weather in the beginning of March spring took a break and getting pretty late. But today it was sunny and warm for the first time during last weeks. My young dahlia plants spent first night and day out in the greenhouse.
One of my garden beds is filled with early flowering bulbs and today they were happy to meet sun. I used my chance to take some pictures.
Perennials look very pretty when just unfurling from the winter sleep. Leaves are fresh and strongly colored.
One of my favorite minis 'Cat and Mouse' shows 6 buds ready to unfurl. That's a nice increase from 3 shoots last year.
October 31, 2011
Last weekend in October
It's hard to believe but I'm done with planting in the garden for this year. On Sunday I planted last spring bulbs. For the first time I'm trying Iris reticulata, they should be early bloomers together with Chionodoxa forbesii and crocus followed by Anemone blanda and Мuscari armeniacum. Since we built a fence I finally could plant crocus, tulips and hyacinths without worrying for them to be eaten by roe deer. So I planted tulips 'Queen of the Night', I'm curios if they are really as dark as in pictures. My favourite spring bulbs are hyacinths. Yellow 'City of Haarlem', burgundy purple 'Woodstock' and dark violet blue 'Peter Stuyvesant' were planted together, we'll see if they fit each other.
From Germany we brought some new additions to my small collection of Garden Phlox. Last year I planted my first Phlox paniculata 'Bright Eyes' and it bloomed great. So I decided to get more phloxes. So for next summer I'm looking forward to see blooming of P. paniculata 'Tenor', 'Rainbow', 'Watermelon Punch', 'Tequila Sunrise', 'Strawberry Daiquiri', 'Piña Colada', 'Junior Dream', 'Pünktchen' and 'Uspech'.
May 4, 2011
Snow in May
The winter tried to come back to our garden on May 3rd. It was snowing and cold. Luckily temperatures were not going below zero and all emerging perennials and flowering bulbs survived fine.
As for my dahlia plants I had to wrap the greenhouse with them with several layers of fiber cloth to protect from cold.
Зима попробовала вернуться в наш сад 3-го мая. Пошел снег и резко похолодало. К счастью, не было заморозков и все начавшие вылезать из-под земли многолетники и цветущие луковичные не пострадали. А георгины я укутывала в несколько слоев лутрасила в их тепличке.
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