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Post by braided-rug on Sept 10, 2005 17:04:51 GMT 10
Very soon we will be planting a heap of mixed sunflowers. I am very pleased to have them.
Today our tulips have little flowers. They haven't opened up but they are there, which is really exciting, I wasn't sure if they would flower this year.
We also have ornamental pears with buds, or at least one tree has some. The bluebells have started flowering. We have a line of grape hyacinths which look great and very happy near the mailbox. The lily is going great and the iris had purple buds.
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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2005 23:20:55 GMT 10
Ah br, sounds like spring to me. I just asked you in another post of the autumn pictures if you seasons were opposite ours. I see that they are. We are about to enter autumn here.
Don't you live the ornamental pear trees. In our former home we had a line up the drive way of several Bradford Pears. It was lovely in springtime.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 11, 2005 11:07:49 GMT 10
This is the first time I have had ornamental pears and the first flowers, we have three. Your driveway sounds good.
The former owner was just here collecting for charity, I've never met her before, and didn't actually know it was her until my daughter said.
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 9, 2005 15:49:53 GMT 10
I have a new plant today, it looks like a holly. I think maybe it is a agarita, the flowers seem the same. home.att.net/~larvalbugrex/agarita.htmlIt would be great, I wonder if it is possible to make barberry candles with them? It should love it here as it is hot and dry in the summer. |
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Post by lucie on Oct 10, 2005 1:30:03 GMT 10
It's very nice, BR!  |
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 12, 2005 22:34:13 GMT 10
Our sunflowers are up! I thought with all the rain and cold that there was a possibility that they had rotted.
I am assuming that they will grow very quickly from now on.
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 15, 2005 12:01:23 GMT 10
 This is a photo taken yesterday. The garden is new so looks a little bare. I have planted white alyssum around the edge and the coreopsis should fill out quickly now. The roses should be out this week or next. The middle one is new and I have no idea what color it is. The others are mostly a deep red. |
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Post by ellise on Oct 16, 2005 5:50:21 GMT 10
Looks lovely br!
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 27, 2005 15:55:22 GMT 10
The tulips are all finished, the rain and wind took them off. The middle rose has a huge pointy bud, wonder what it will be like. The garden itself looks lush as we have had rain. There are a few roses out today, heaps of buds, boy are roses slow to start. The leaves are on the trees.
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 2, 2005 21:53:50 GMT 10
It is like I am in rose heaven atm. They are everywhere today. There is still a purple one and two new surprises to come out, the others are covered in flowers. Mostly they are red or pink.
That would be the main flower out atm, plus some grannys bonnets.
Just imagine the above picture with red and pink, even over the neighbours fence, and pretty leaves on the crepe myrtle, with no tulips. There is straw on the garden and the callas are up. What a difference two weeks makes. May have to take another photo.
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 5, 2005 22:27:12 GMT 10
After going around the back yard tonight you would think I hadn't been out there in ages, worse thing is it is probably true, not sure though.
We have a pretty pink penstemon nearly out, flowers on the tomatoes, lovely flowers on a perennial, all in time for my Mum's visit. She hasn't been here for the perennial at all and it is an unusual flowers.
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 7, 2005 13:56:55 GMT 10
Today our little red flander's poppies are up. Should add a nice red to the place.
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Post by braided-rug on Dec 9, 2005 11:34:11 GMT 10
The buddlieas are flowering, that makes me happy! The honeycomb one and the purple one. The rock garden with the california poppies and heartsease is still pretty, a little wild, waiting for the seeds to set. It even has a self-sown camomile now. I have a pic in another thread. The daylillies are a beautiful dark reddish color.
One day soon maybe the sunflowers will flower.
The new climbing roses with the pretty tiny pink flowers are growing, maybe they will make it to the arch.
A little pink flower on the new cecile brunner, that may be all I get this year. Some of MIL's mystery plants are starting to flower, very exciting!
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Post by braided-rug on Dec 17, 2005 8:39:54 GMT 10
My first sunflower is out...and its colored!!!  |
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Post by braided-rug on Dec 23, 2005 17:31:21 GMT 10
I have a flower on my pink coreopsis, haven't seen that color before although I beleive Ellise has one. Very pretty, and stripey.
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