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Lovely hyacinth

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Purple Hyacinth

I love scented spring flowers, don’t you?

I believe that the Hyacinth is one of the strongest scented spring flowers. They’re lovely scent is so strong that if I have the kitchen window open just a little bit when the flowers are blooming in the back garden I can sometimes smell the scent in my living room at the front of the house!

Hyacinths come in many colors. You can get white, red, blue, purple, coral/peach and several other different colors. Rather than buying packages of bulbs with mixed colors I prefer to buy separate packages of bulbs with specific colors so that I can coordinate them in the garden beds. Placing certain colors beside other spring flowers that they will compliment.

I know the Spring is still a long way off so I’ll have to wait patiently for my hyacinths to bloom.

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Spectacular Toad Lilies in the Fall Garden

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I think the Toad Lily is one of the most unusual flowers that I grow.

In the Spring the plant appears as small sprouts emerging from the ground with several oblong green leaves. As summer passes the Toad lily plant grows to about two or two and a half feet in height in the form of long stalks with oblong green leaves.

To tell the truth it doesn’t really look like much for most of the growing season. However, when many of the other flowers in the garden stop blooming the Toad Lily is just getting started. By late September most years the buds begin to appear and then by early October the Toad lilies begin to bloom with their lovely speckled flowers.

Aren’t they pretty?

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Perovskia little spire

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Well the snow is still here, covering my garden and making it difficult to walk around, but it’s a bit warmer outside today (above zero!) so it’s starting to melt a bit.

Still … I prefer to remember how pretty my garden looks when it’s not covered in snow.

The flowers above are Russian Sage. It’s formal name is Perovskia little spire. I grow it at the very end of my front garden near the walkway and sidewalk. It sends up delicate woody shoots that bloom late in the season. In fact, this photo was taken October 1st and as you can see it’s blooming happily away.

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