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By Chive I think she’s got it!

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This is a photo of Chive buds and new Chive flowers that I took about two weeks ago. The chive flowers are actually beginning to wain now, but there’s still a few left.

I love growing Chives. They are one of the first plants to make an appearance each spring, often showing their green stems by the end of March. It’s not uncommon for us to be able to pick chives and use them in our cooking – salads, marinades, on top of foods – from mid April right through until the first snow fall in November or early December.

The flowers are just a lovely bonus! I love the buds before the flowers develop and bloom – they look a bit like garlic sections or tiny onion bulbs. Then the beautiful full petaled blossoms open and often stay around for two or three weeks.

Do you grow chives or other plants from the allium family? Edible or ornamental?

Check out the beautiful Hosta photo that I’ve got on Tricia’s Musings!

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Hyacinth Macro

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Many of the regular readers of this site are gardeners, or gardener wannabe’s. Everyone seemed to love my close up photo of the coral colored Hyacinth in one of my recent posts.

I bet you didn’t know that I took it a step further and got even closer. Hyacinth flowers are each less than once inch wide, perhaps as small as half an inch wide. Here’s an extreme closeup of one single hyacinth blossom:

Coral Hyacinth

I got as close to the flower as I could and used the zoom function on my camera. Once I downloaded the photo to my computer I cropped the photo until I got the image you see above.

Interesting? Too close?

Delicate yellow Hollyhocks

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Surprisingly, this is one of my husbands favorite flowers in our garden. I don’t think that when I started the garden that I expected him to be overly excited about any of the plants – well maybe the ones he could eat like the strawberries and the raspberries, which he does enjoy.

The first flower that he got excited about was the sunflower. Now we MUST have sunflowers every year. Then when the hollyhocks came along and started to bloom that too was another must. I remember one year it wasn’t looking like any would bloom. He was so disappointed, but then one did grow some stalks and bloom.

Now I make sure there are some new seedlings growing every year so we always have hollyhocks. Remember they are a biannual flower – growing in the first year and blooming in the second. So I must always have a crop growing each year so that my husband can have his hollyhocks.

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