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Spring is here – the garden is coming back to life

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Peonies, rhododendron, hosta, lilies, daylilies …

West side

In about two months one small area of my garden, near the patio, will look like this. The Rhododendron will be blooming with it’s large cherry red flowers, the hosta leaves will be in perfect shape as yet untouched by nasty slugs, and the peonies (karl Rosenfield) and day lilies will be preparing to bloom.

Spring, late spring and early summer are the time of year that I think I enjoy the garden the most. Almost every day there is something new to look at. During that time of year the plants are growing fast, and a plant that didn’t have flower buds one day suddenly seems to develop tiny flower buds almost over night.

A few of the plants in my garden have started to show signs that they are waking up. I can’t wait until several more plants come back to life and start to grow.

Who else is excited now that it’s spring?

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A clump of crocosmia

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I just realized that whenever I talk about this lush red flowering plant, crocosmia Lucifer, I always show close up of the flowers. I thought I’d show you what a clump of crocosmia looks like when it’s in full bloom.

This isn’t the best photograph. The red is just so vibrant that it sometimes takes on an orangish tint in photographs. My new camera is much better with photographing reds than my old Pentax is. Obviously I took this photo with the Pentax, not the Sony.

This plant is very easy to grow. It blooms at least once a year, often twice. The clumps of crocosmia are 3.5 to 4 feet tall.

One clump that I have growing has spread so much in the last three years that I think I’ll divide the clump sometime this spring.

I often grow white flowers like fragrant Nicotina or Datura in front of the clump of crocosmia. The combination looks very nice together.

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In the daisy patch

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Rudbeckia fulgida Goldstrum

What is nicer than a patch of daisies?

Actually this “daisy” is Rudbeckia fulgida Goldstrum.

I was just reminiscing about growing sunflowers and how they alway make me remember great hot summer days whenever I see a photo of one. I feel almost the same way about these flowers, except there’s a slight tinge of regret as well.

You see these flowers often bloom well into September and October, and while they are very pretty and add some color and life to the garden when other plants have stopped flowering, they always remind me that that a cold season will be upon us soon.

No matter how this flower makes me feel there’s no denying that I’m longing for spring and summer to hurry up and get here. I’ve had enough of winter and dull colors. I want to see the light greens of spring, and smell the scent of a spring shower.

What is it? 10 more days or so and it will be spring? I can’t wait!

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Scentsational rose, Scentsational blooms

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scentsation Rose's Scentsational blooms

This is a photograph of one of the many roses that I grow in my garden. This rose is called Scent_Sation and it’s a hybrid tea. It doesn’t really have much scent, but what it lacks in scent it makes up for in prolific blooms.

Once this baby gets going sometime in June each year it’s pretty much in a constant state of bloom until October or November. I believe that this past year it still had blooms on it into December since our winter was so warm. Of course those blooms weren’t doing much and looked kind of raggy but it was interesting to see.

Now, after the recent snow and ice storm, all of the roses and other plants growing in my garden are covered in a heavy layer of snow. The weather is warming though and I’m sure that many of the plants will peek out from under their snowy cover soon.

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Pretty Petunias

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Petunia

As the month drags on I’m longing more and more for Spring and Summer to hurry up and get here.


My petunia’s last year were just lovely. I often grow red and purple ones because the birds like them best. Particularly Hummingbirds (red petunias) which I’m trying to entice into my yard each summer. I do however purchase or grow a large number of white flowers as well because they accent the colored flowers and in the dark of the garden you can still see white flowers.

As many of you who have read this site for a while, or my gardening blog know, I do seem to enjoy gardening or being in my garden at night. Evening dinners or get together’s on the patio, watering the flower beds and lawn at night so my noisy stalker elderly neighbor doesn’t see me and slow me down … heck I’ve even been known to pull out a spot light and do some planting at 11 pm. So yes, my garden is to be enjoyed and worked in as much during the day as at night and the white flowers sure light up the place in the evening.

What can I say. I’m either a crazy or an extreme gardener. Take your pick.

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