2022 flowers & garden

I was planning on playing in the dirt today. I wanted to move a dozen or two lycoris bulbs that I never got around to last year. Unfortunately, they are doing a controlled burn (2407 acres) upwind from us, and there is smoke everywhere. 😢

Maybe I'll get to it next week.
 

I left a few for other people. Only a few, though. And spent the rest of the afternoon planting them. There are more to plant, but I'm bushed. It's supposed to rain all day tomorrow, dammit, but starting Saturday we're in for at least four days of sunshine so they'll get planted then.

I told DD we had to go back because I still had $66 left of what I'd budgeted! I dunno why she declined...
 
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I played in the garden today and dug another new flower bed. It's populated with purple phlox, diamond frost, white begonias and lavender allysum. When they grow up and fill out, they'll be really pretty.

After last week's haul from the garden centers there are still more left to plant. Maybe after work tomorrow...I'm still thinking about where they want to grow.

@Trila Your garden is breathtaking!

This fall I'm going to put in more daffodil bulbs in our front garden. There's a big section edged in monkey grass and inside of the monkey grass there are daffodils but not enough of them. Inside the ring of daffodils there are iris. Lots of them. Lots and lots of them. It's a big section that stretches way out since we're the corner lot of a cul-de-sac. I don't see them because I'm in back...so only coming and going unless I walk around to admire it...but DD can see it from the window in front of her desk upstairs.
 
Georgiagranny said:
I played in the garden today and dug another new flower bed. It's populated with purple phlox, diamond frost, white begonias and lavender allysum. When they grow up and fill out, they'll be really pretty.

After last week's haul from the garden centers there are still more left to plant. Maybe after work tomorrow...I'm still thinking about where they want to grow.

@Trila Your garden is breathtaking!

This fall I'm going to put in more daffodil bulbs in our front garden. There's a big section edged in monkey grass and inside of the monkey grass there are daffodils but not enough of them. Inside the ring of daffodils there are iris. Lots of them. Lots and lots of them. It's a big section that stretches way out since we're the corner lot of a cul-de-sac. I don't see them because I'm in back...so only coming and going unless I walk around to admire it...but DD can see it from the window in front of her desk upstai
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Thanks @Georgiagranny ! I have been planting, digging up, and replanting for many years....trying to spread everything around. That pix is the edge of my "bulb field". Other than planting, and don't do anything to it....no weeding, watering, etc. I let it go natural! There will be other flowers later in the season.
 
How I wish I could grow flower gardens again! After moving into a condo, now I can only manage a few pots on the little deck (north) and even less on the front steps (south).

I used to have a really nice perennial border between the woods and the lawn, and a smaller annual area around the patio, also azaleas and rhododendron. *sigh*.

At the very least, I will have a large pot of basil and one of rosemary in the front. Maybe New Guinea impatiens and some coleus on the shady deck.

I'm looking forward to all of your gardens!
 
Since its almost Bluebonnet time, reminds me of when my mother came to live with us and we build this big joint...she so wanted to plant Bluebonnets and that's when we learned the hard lesson that Bluebonnets grow where "they" want to, not where "you" want them to.

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I'm enjoying every post on this thread!😀

My small bed of tulips are growing rapidly, visibly and daily, despite all of the recent and ongoing weather changes, back and forth, between cold, very cold, and not-as-cold. ;) 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

I enjoy envisioning how large and colorful, the blooming flowers will be, near my window!(y):giggle:
 
@Liberty...ahhhh, green-up time in the Texas desert! I loved it. That picture makes me kinda homesick.

It's spring here, and the azaleas and dogwoods are in bloom. My garden has more flowers blooming than not, and I'm impatiently awaiting the ixia and the mystery bulbs that DD discovered in a pot on her patio. We have no idea what the mystery bulbs are, but they were healthy so they got planted.

Remember the forget-me-nots? Um. Still not planted. Sigh. I'll get to 'em one of these days.

Today I planted a euphorbia and some freesia bulbs. My freesia seem to have "frozia" a couple of weeks ago. In the middle of the two pots of freesia, I planted a diamond frost because my mind's eye says they'll look pretty in the middle of the riot of color of the freesia.

There are still six Dusty Miller plants waiting for a home just as soon as the right spot is decided on.
 
RadishRose said:
How I wish I could grow flower gardens again! After moving into a condo, now I can only manage a few pots on the little deck (north) and even less on the front steps (south).

I used to have a really nice perennial border between the woods and the lawn, and a smaller annual area around the patio, also azaleas and rhododendron. *sigh*.

At the very least, I will have a large pot of basil and one of rosemary in the front. Maybe New Guinea impatiens and some coleus on the shady deck.

I'm looking forward to all of your gardens!
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I will gladly share my gardens with you! 🌺🌼🌸 I do my best to make my gardens as independent as I can, so there won't be much work for either of us....just enjoy the outcome!
 
I am starting to feel better, and actually went outside for a bit this morning. I filled some old plastic bowls with dirt. My project this year is to try starting my flower seeds in the house. Hopefully, in 10-20 days I'll start to see things growing.

While outside, I was happy to see that my little mini daffodils are starting to bloom! They are only about 1/2 inch in diameter....

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Everything except the dianthus and an ornamental blue fescue has been planted. This dianthus is peach-colored and different that any I've seen so I'm thinking hard about where it should be. Leaning toward a pot instead of in the ground.

There's already a spot for the blue fescue where there was one that died. Died, I tell you! Don't know how that happened.

Anyway, there's a big silver pot toward the corner of the front yard where I planted a half dozen bright red geraniums. Also planted lithadora and Dusty Miller in another big pot in back.
 
We had such a beautiful day...I actually went out and played in the dirt for a bit! Even though the late freezes have made the flowers thin this year, it was still pretty. The forsythia bushes and the redbud trees are blooming...I love how they look together!!!💖. My peonies have stared to come up! Even the dianthus that I thought had died is getting some green leaves! Oh, and the Mexican Plum trees smell so nice!!!!

My indoor seeds are doing better than expected! This is the chickery, just 7 days after I planted the seeds....IMG_20220404_105927.jpgI

Other seeds that are coming up are: cockscombs, bachelor buttons, and purple conenflowers. The only thing that isn't sprouting is the mini sunflowers....but those seeds are very, very old.
 

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