Sunday, April 21, 2013

COOL, CALM APRIL

camellia 'april dawn' was frost burned this spring

but still put on quite a show...


magnolia 'leonard messel' had its most floriferous year...

i don't take photos of it because the neighbor's house behind it is the wrong blue...

various daffs from the garden...

magnolia 'ruby' on the left, still showing storm damage from 2  years ago, cherry on the right...

ruby has spectacular large flowers...

the potager... gearing up... camellia on the left, dwarf peach on the far left... i'm about to move the dwarf alberta spruces into the pots (the larger spruces went to good families...) i'm going to put tomatoes in the center this year.

dwarf peach...

survivor! a lone tulip has escaped the hungry deer...

colton before his spring shearing...

colton & luna after colton's shearing...

a buckeye from my brother... who sent me bunches of plants this spring! thanks, bro!

orange clivia my sister gave me, with yellow clivia my brother gave me & orange star my mother gave me in the background...


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now that is a happy clivia! The magnolia that Mike gave me years ago is FINALLY blooming; it has 2 flowers! but by now it is 20-30 feet tall and the flowers are way above my head! I took some iPhone photos and will send them.

-Sis

Sophie Munns said...

lovely seeing life return to the pottage after the winter's harshness Em!
Busy busy at your place... the doggies looking ready for the oncoming summer and all the beautiful blooms.

Gorgeous sharing of plants in your family!\S

RobinL said...

Lots of prettys in your spring garden, especially that gorgeous camellia. I finally saw my first camellia while visiting Florida recently, our climate is not right for them. But they sure are pretty!