Thursday, April 30, 2009

End of April with new plantings

Whoa, where did this come from! I left the garden for a few days and it went into full glorious bloom.

Ajuga Reptans. Love these electric flower spikes and bronze foliage.

Mini pink tulips just bloomed.

The Fireglow Euphorbia has blooms on, I haven't seen these before now, a photo without sunlight will show them off better.

These tulips just keep opening...amazing.

Some new planted sedum from the roadside sale last weekend.

Ajuga is planted along the entire front of this bed now...in part sun & shade.

A clematis vine! I pulled this sprig out of a crack in the concrete at our old house, it came up with the root attached so I put it here. I forgot about it all winter but it seems to be doing great.

Sweet Woodruff planted in the shade behind the lacecap hydrangea.

A newly planted sword fern and Sweet woodruff ground cover. It would be great if this took over & did some weed control next to this fence.

Marmalade Heuchera Coral Bells in their new home in front of bleeding hearts.

Newly planted Mexican feather grass...and the lavender has survived the winter.

Autumn Joy stonecrop will get 2-3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Planted in front of the peonies, iris, perovskia and grasses.

The other autumn joy stonecrop from the plant sale, across the path from her sister, and nestled here on the sunny side of the flowering pear tree. The daffodils finished their show this week.

This rose sprouted from seed, I believe. I found it growing under an old rose in my garden. It looks to be thriving in it's new spot.

An interesting sedum from the plant sale...love the copper and pink coloring.

Another new sedum planting. Can't have too many of these.

A hot orange Oriental Poppy plant just found it's way into the herb garden.

Three garlic plants, a good companion to roses, as pests will avoid the area & miss out on lucious apricot blooms.

Burgandy Heuchera Coral Bells found it's new home here in front of the rush.

Looking mighty perky.

The Daphne Odora cutting has been hardening off outside this week. I think it might actually make it. The other two cuttings bit the dust pretty hard.

The view entering the back garden from around the side of the house.

A Fairey Cathedral if I ever saw one.

The Sweet woodruff in the front yard, getting the last kiss of sun today.

The peonies are growing well amongst the allium.

The north path...I love this area, so much potential.

I had my way with this Iberis...gunning for more blooms and a pretty mounded shape.

This bulb has cracked the earth wide open. I wonder what it is?

The tulips are huge...they may be done with this show very soon.

This one got so tired it had to rest it's head on the rock. The saxifraga sure is doing cool things with it's flower stems.

Looks like 8 and 1/2 months...ready to pop.

A better look at the Euphorbia in bloom. I like.

I found this tulip decapitated. I bet I fed a cutworm a nice dinner last night.

Is this beautiful to anyone besides me? I'm in love with my compost heap...and I just added silver twigs of Russian Sage and swirly branches of Euphorbia. The Diablo Ninebark on the right is looking dark and lucious too!

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