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Title: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 18, 2009, 12:52:08 pm
This year's garden will have a new twist. Many varieties of plants have been multiplying at a phenomenal rate - to the point where I don't know where to put 'em anymore. And of course, Bryan and I are constantly acquiring new varieties. Sooo ...

 I will be selling plants this year! Been potting plants all of last fall, and propagating others over the winter.

Bryan thinks I should advertise on Craig's list, but I'll let him handle that part of things. I've prepared a poster which I intend to plaster throughout my neighbourhood, seeing as I've been on a 5 walks a week kick for about a month now (lost almost 15 pounds in the past 6 months - 5 more pounds to go), I can just put 'em (the posters) up in 5 dif'rent areas near home.

This weekend is the first where the temperatures have reached 20c (68f), and even though I've caught my first cold in over a year, I'm out there doing spring-time improvements to the garden (and finding yet more plants to pot up).

AND, though I missed taking pictures of the few crocusus that came up this year ... I also took a few pictures today ... so I'm starting up a new photo thread for 2009.

Hope you enjoy your visit(s) to Mon jardin 2009.  :)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 18, 2009, 01:01:00 pm
Expecting 4 varieties of these daffodils (jonquilles) this year.

This first one, the 'peaches & cream' variety, is in the front yard nearest the sidewalk

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-18-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on April 18, 2009, 01:13:01 pm
This year's garden will have a new twist. Many varieties of plants have been multiplying at a phenomenal rate - to the point where I don't know where to put 'em anymore. And of course, Bryan and I are constantly acquiring new varieties. Sooo ...

 I will be selling plants this year! Been potting plants all of last fall, and propagating others over the winter.

Bryan thinks I should advertise on Craig's list, but I'll let him handle that part of things. I've prepared a poster which I intend to plaster throughout my neighbourhood, seeing as I've been on a 5 walks a week kick for about a month now (lost almost 15 pounds in the past 6 months - 5 more pounds to go), I can just put 'em (the posters) up in 5 dif'rent areas near home.

This weekend is the first where the temperatures have reached 20c (68f), and even though I've caught my first cold in over a year, I'm out there doing spring-time improvements to the garden (and finding yet more plants to pot up).

AND, though I missed taking pictures of the few crocusus that came up this year ... I also took a few pictures today ... so I'm starting up a new photo thread for 2009.
Hope you enjoy your visit(s) to Mon jardin 2009.  :)

YAY!! I LOVE your flowers! and your flower pictures!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 18, 2009, 02:38:56 pm
2nd variety of daffodils, a double bloom variety. Like in the other picture, they're the first ones to peek through.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-18-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on April 18, 2009, 02:44:04 pm
lovely.

I can almost feel the leaves!!

I have never seen these before in real life.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 18, 2009, 08:38:34 pm
puny 'grape hyacinth' are the only other plants currenly showing (some) colour. They're really small and certainly not yet vibrantly painted.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-18-03.jpg)
This area, right under the front picture window will display later this summer, the shoefly and the sunflowers among other.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 24, 2009, 08:06:35 pm
There's not much happening in the garden lately. Been a week since my last pictures and only today can I say that progress is finally occurring in the flower growth. Temperatures have had trouble reaching 10c (50f) all week - until today. We're expecting some 27c (81f) tomorrow (or Sunday) bur the lows will continue to reach single didget (below 50f) the low.

Here's a progress picture of those grape hyacinth from my last picture posted.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 24, 2009, 11:25:36 pm
Third and the most common variety of daffies. Got these growing in at least 3 areas of the front yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 25, 2009, 12:01:45 pm
It's 'shorts' weather out there at noon - 23c (73f) swealtering degrees!

Been out watering and feeding the garden. The folks from the condo behind my place have been picking up the garbage along the fence. I've aloso been to an 'environmental' day event where I was able to acquire a new composter (valued @ 65$) for just 15$ - no tax. Now I'm off to Canadian Tire to pick up a couple a hunderd peat pots (2 and a quarter inches) for just 0.66$ a dozen.

In the mean time, here's another daffy clump - picture taken yesterday.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on April 25, 2009, 04:21:25 pm
a chilly 72 huh?

83 here... ;D ;D

and MY garden is busting out!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 25, 2009, 08:01:21 pm
Sure it was 'just' 73 but we all know who likes the cooler weather in the summertime. B'sides, I got to wear my shorts for the first time this year.

By the way, you should post more pictures in your garden thread.

Forgot to mention that I met my local city counselor at the environmental day event this morning. I had taught (PhysEd) to his kid a number of years ago (kid's now in grade 9). Met him again a few years back (could be as long as 6 years ago) when he came a knocking on my door while campaigning. Odd thing, in addition the fact that he remembered his kid use to attend one of my classes, he actually remembered I lived on Glenhaven! He actually mentioned the street name!

There was quite a storm coming through about 3 hours ago. I scrambled to bring in some of the plants from the stoop. Some were even blown out of their pot.

Anywho, here's another view - one week later - of the double bloom daffies in the back yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on April 25, 2009, 09:42:54 pm
Sure it was 'just' 73 but we all know who likes the cooler weather in the summertime. B'sides, I got to wear my shorts for the first time this year.
and you didn't take any pictures!??  :o :o oh come on....we wanna see them legs...show em off for us!!

Quote
By the way, you should post more pictures in your garden thread.

Forgot to mention that I met my local city counselor at the environmental day event this morning. I had taught (PhysEd) to his kid a number of years ago (kid's now in grade 9). Met him again a few years back (could be as long as 6 years ago) when he came a knocking on my door while campaigning. Odd thing, in addition the fact that he remembered his kid use to attend one of my classes, he actually remembered I lived on Glenhaven! He actually mentioned the street name!

There was quite a storm coming through about 3 hours ago. I scrambled to bring in some of the plants from the stoop. Some were even blown out of their pot.

Anywho, here's another view - one week later - of the double bloom daffies in the back yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-05.jpg)

I am working on the pictures...I had to be absent for this past week with my mother so the weeds made an outrageous inroad!!!  >:( >:(

I bet a lot of people know about your house, Roland, it is the kind of display that people talk about!!!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 26, 2009, 09:21:59 am
There was quite a storm coming through about 3 hours ago. I scrambled to bring in some of the plants from the stoop. Some were even blown out of their pot.

Here's how powerful that storm was ...

(http://www.citynews.ca/images/2009-04/apr2509-portperrylarge.jpg)

Course this was far from Toronto, but Port Hope is in Southern Ontario.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on April 26, 2009, 09:27:23 am
Here's how powerful that storm was ...

(http://www.citynews.ca/images/2009-04/apr2509-portperrylarge.jpg)

Course this was far from Toronto, but Port Hope is in Southern Ontario.

holy schmoley!!! :o :o :o
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 27, 2009, 10:01:01 am
Next to last picture I took 3 days ago - The hyacinth are nowhere near as 'full' as one of my neighbour's (many block away), but they looked better when I watered the garden this morning. Gotta take the camera out again today.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 28, 2009, 10:47:20 pm
One last (now 4 day old) picture. View towards the house. south side of the front yard. A couple a bi-coloured daffies and a few meager hyacynths. I tried to take pictures of another tiny flowering plant growing in the back yard - but none of my efforts turned out clear. Tried again yesterday - I think they've come out just fine. But that's tomorrow's post.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-24-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 29, 2009, 04:26:52 am
And here it is. Bryan assures me that this is lungwort.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 29, 2009, 10:21:11 am
Here's my first tulip from 2009. It has been joined by another half dozen since this photo was taken 2 days ago.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 29, 2009, 07:31:30 pm
It doesn't look like I'll have pictures of the 4th variety of daffies this year. They were really small and mangy.

However, the double bloom daffys are growing in the front yard as well this year (I thought they were strictly in the back yard ...)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-04.jpg)
(yes ... there's lots of yellow out there this early spring)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 30, 2009, 06:16:30 am
Largest bunch of daffies, (same as in response 8, 4 days later, new angle) near the sidewalk. Possibly my last daffodil picture this year.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 30, 2009, 04:01:55 pm
Time for a bit of a change in colour. Bryan tells me that this plant is a bergenia. It's been growing in our front yard for many years but I don't think I've posted a picture of it in previous years. I've seen it growing in other yards in the neighbourhood.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 01, 2009, 06:19:10 am
Here is picture of a couple of slightly fuller hyacinth

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 01, 2009, 04:18:23 pm
Just took 15 pics from the garden. Guess you can say things are happening - on this, the 1st of May.

Starting with this lovely surprise. It came up last year (or was it two years ago) as a strictly white tulip. But this year, it's coming out as I had originally bought it, a bi-coloured tulip. Bryan had taken a picture of it years ago, the first year they were planted, and I have posted his picture on a previous thread, but this is my first photo of it.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 01, 2009, 07:12:58 pm
The red tulips have been moved. They are now along the neighbour's driveway (along with a couple a other varieties, as I recall.

It'll take a few years before they come out in full force.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 01, 2009, 07:18:59 pm
they are still beautiful! such vibrant colors...I bet all your neighbors love your yard..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 01, 2009, 10:51:44 pm
I've got more tulips to post (tomorrow), however, here's an update on the bergenia.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 02, 2009, 12:18:16 pm
T'is the season to be tuliped ...

Bi-coloured yellow(orange?)/red. These were missed in the great tulip migration of last summer

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 02, 2009, 08:50:19 pm
Bryan was over today, preparing the vegetable garen, among other things. As noted in the other thread, I potted 25 lamb's ear in 4 inch pots. And Bryan left late this afternoon (returning tomorrow) with a small bouquet (including daffies, bergenia, lungwort and grape hyacynth) for his niece and a half dozen of these (actually darker - near purple) tulips growing in the back yard. The tulips are expected to blossom as cut flowers.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 02, 2009, 10:58:09 pm
Bryan was over today, preparing the vegetable garen, among other things. As noted in the other thread, I potted 25 lamb's ear in 4 inch pots. And Bryan left late this afternoon (returning tomorrow) with a small bouquet (including daffies, bergenia, lungwort and grape hyacynth) for his niece and a half dozen of these (actually darker - near purple) tulips growing in the back yard. The tulips are expected to blossom as cut flowers.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-06.jpg)

good thing I am not your neighbor, you would always find me out there fondling the blossoms...they all look so velvety and soft..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 03, 2009, 06:51:46 am
Update on those grape hyacynth growing under the living room picture window ...

Apparently some of them (the nearest one in the picture and the two behind it) are double bloom grape hyacynths. Bryan even showed me similar pictures off the net. I'll try and get a closer picture soon.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 03, 2009, 10:51:55 pm
The flox is coming along just fine too. I have two varieties (colours), and one of them (this more purple variety) is now found in 3 areas. I seperated the largest patch last year. So now I expect THIS to be my largest patch now.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-08.jpg)
(Yet another photo taken 3 days ago, on the first of May.)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 03, 2009, 10:55:47 pm
beginning to look lush...
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 04, 2009, 05:46:58 pm
Gonna run out of those pics I took on the 1st of May. Truth be told, not much has opened up in the past 4 days.

Here's another early pic of the blueberry swirl tulip and it's immediate neighbours.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 05, 2009, 05:03:49 pm
Here's a first picture of the violas under the apple tree (surrounded by a tire). They were just starting to bloom (5 days ago) and I'd already removed about a dozen plants which I'd poted for sale. They too are beginning to flower.

Took another dozen pictures again today, though there's really not much new out there ... just more and larger of the same.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 05, 2009, 09:16:11 pm
One last picture from 5 days ago. I just took another 24 pics today. (more actually, but they were deleted)

Yet another view of the lungwort.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 05, 2009, 11:58:41 pm
One last picture from 5 days ago. I just took another 24 pics today. (more actually, but they were deleted)

Yet another view of the lungwort.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-01-09.jpg)

I dont remember seeing these before! they are so colorful!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 06, 2009, 04:59:38 am
New pictures - from May 5

Let's start up with the bi-coloured (red/white) tulips - semi open

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 06, 2009, 10:40:31 am
A few hours later, the colder weather and cloudier skies closes em somewhat:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 06, 2009, 06:45:13 pm
Sam thing with the orange/red tulips. First, open (and a little frayed)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 06, 2009, 11:17:24 pm
And a few hours later, the 'closed' view

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 07, 2009, 09:42:42 am
My only truly pink tulip:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 08, 2009, 12:16:31 am
A more recent picture of the violas 'round the apple tree in the back yard:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 08, 2009, 12:21:55 am
A more recent picture of the violas 'round the apple tree in the back yard:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-11.jpg)

love the violets.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 08, 2009, 04:58:35 am
They're violas - and here's a dif'rent variety of viola - this patch in the jungle by the stoop

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 08, 2009, 07:34:33 am
They're violas - and here's a dif'rent variety of viola - this patch in the jungle by the stoop

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-10.jpg)

they are speckledy!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 08, 2009, 11:05:30 am
One last look (prob'ly) at the yellow tulips - main flowerbed - which will need a lot of tending to this year.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 08, 2009, 07:56:36 pm
It's been warm (over 20c (70f)) so mon jardin's blooming. I'll have new pics soon - but first - got over a dozen older pics to post.

Here's an update of the yet unidentified flox-like plant.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: retropian on May 08, 2009, 10:08:01 pm
I'm so glad you post these pictures. :) I grew up outside of Montreal and now live in Phoenix AZ. I still miss the spring bulbs and preparing the vegetable garden for planting and seeding. Your pic's make me wistful for that. The desert here has its own beauty, and can be quite spectacular when in bloom, but I do miss tulips and Daff's, Lilac's and Iris's. Sigh.

OOps. I meant to post this to your "Mon Jardin" thread!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 08, 2009, 10:47:13 pm
Hope you don't mind reptopian, I moved your post on the correct thread. Thanks for the lovely comment. In 'My Great White North', there's a thread by the same name with a whole summer's worth of pictures - from 2 years ago. Last's year's effort was a bit of a disappointment - it's called 'Tiptoe thru my tulips.'

So far so good for this year's thread ...

The ground flox are doing very well. This variety I now have in three areas of the front yard, though my latest patch has been mostly decimated - I sold em off. Still got two healthy patches of this colour though.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-14.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2009, 01:23:46 am
And the bluer ground flox

BTW, I mowed the front lawn this evening (first time for '09)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-13.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2009, 06:46:19 am
I'm feeling quite spring like this morning. I have two varieries of Iris up (and a third is likely to show tomorow). The front yard's looks cleanly mowed (though it still need some trimming) and the weather is warmish.

Here's An update picture of the lungwort.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-15.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2009, 03:38:46 pm
I really like this Dwarf Iris. Photo is 2 days old and I do believe another one is almost open. But this first one's already looking raged out there so I may not have a picture of more than one of em at a time - unless more come up.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-07-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2009, 06:47:25 pm
OK, back to slighly older (4 days ago) pics.

The apple tree won't do much this year, but the pear tree is blooming beautifully.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-16.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 10, 2009, 03:55:02 am
The Begenia is still giving off colour - with a smaller shoot joining the older one.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-18.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 10, 2009, 12:14:42 pm
Here's a close up of the double bloom grape hyacinth. Mima tells me they're known by a dif'rent name, but I didn't write it down, so it's not currently available.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-20.jpg)
Int'resting how, at least on this plant, the buds form a spiral
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 10, 2009, 12:53:27 pm
my irises didnt' bloom again this year. Produced lots of leaves but no blooms.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 10, 2009, 05:23:12 pm
Last weekend, Bryan spent two days here preparing (among other things) the vegetable (read tomato) bed. Out went the rhododendron  and the dwarf lilac. The lamb's ear got moved to the corners (or part of the potted plant sale). What we're left with is a much expanded area for tomatoes and herbs (the beans are going elsewhere this year). The flowering bulb plants (iris & tulips) are to be moved come late July.
 
Here's an early view of that area. Also in the picture you see my new larger composter. The garage is just out of the picture, on the left.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-22.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 10, 2009, 08:17:18 pm
Last weekend, Bryan spent two days here preparing (among other things) the vegetable (read tomato) bed. Out went the rhododendron  and the dwarf lilac. The lamb's ear got moved to the corners (or part of the potted plant sale). What we're left with is a much expanded area for tomatoes and herbs (the beans are going elsewhere this year). The flowering bulb plants (iris & tulips) are to be moved come late July.
 
Here's an early view of that area. Also in the picture you see my new larger composter. The garage is just out of the picture, on the left.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-22.jpg)

drinking a lot of Sprite huh?  ;D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 10, 2009, 11:51:56 pm
Actually I've cut back lately. The price of 'no-name' pop has invreased by 50% in the past couple of years (0,79$ to 1,19$). So I've cut back. Plus the aspartame is not great on muscle mass (it accelerates muscle wastage - a problem that is already inherant with my condition - not to mention getting older).

Those bottles are used as cloches to protect the tomato plants against frost, so I've been saving them for over a month.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 10, 2009, 11:57:22 pm
Here's a second variety of dwarf iris - photo taken yesterday - after the hail storm had done it's damage.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-09-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 10, 2009, 11:59:01 pm
Actually I've cut back lately. The price of 'no-name' pop has invreased by 50% in the past couple of years (0,79$ to 1,19$). So I've cut back. Plus the aspartame is not great on muscle mass (it accelerates muscle wastage - a problem that is already inherant with my condition - not to mention getting older).

Those bottles are used as cloches to protect the tomato plants against frost, so I've been saving them for over a month.

ah! I thought maybe they were for watering, I know some people put two liter bottles with holes punched along the sides in their garden to cut down on water use, they go out and fill the bottles and the water seeps out slowly, uses way less water then just a sprinkler and encourages root growth.

How do you turn your compost? that looks like an upside down garbage can..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 10, 2009, 11:59:48 pm
Here's a second variety of dwarf iris - photo taken yesterday - after the hail storm had done it's damage.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-09-03.jpg)

AFTER? that isnt' so bad at all
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 11, 2009, 12:20:00 am
How do you turn your compost? that looks like an upside down garbage can..

I don't actually. Byan sometimes puts a pichfork in there to allow some air in among the setling compost. One thing for sure ...emptying out the old composter allowed me to discover there were a LOT of worms working in there.

AFTER? that isnt' so bad at all

The worse damage was done to my coleus. I just picked up those branches and put em in water. They'll grow roots and make all new sell-able plants (lemon = lemonade). Some of the tulips lost some of their petals and a few stems were broken off. And you can see in that yellow dwarf iris picture that the leaves appear to have been bruised.

I've also gotten a second iris (of the blue/green variety), but the first one's already started wilting away - won't be able to get a good picture of the two of them (though there may yet be more dwarf iris opening up). You can see the old one in behind the yellow dwarf iris picture.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 11, 2009, 06:31:08 am
Here's an attempt at a picture of both green/blue dwarf iris - post hail storm.

Wonder if some of those buds have opened up today ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-09-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 11, 2009, 04:48:50 pm
The Queen of the Night tulips are coming up all over the place. This may not be a great picture of em, but it's in an area I didn't expect - between the garage & the house. (note the dbl blm buttercups, in the background, are beginning to show too)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-09-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 11, 2009, 04:51:03 pm
Here's an attempt at a picture of both green/blue dwarf iris - post hail storm.

Wonder if some of those buds have opened up today ...


They have!  :)  :D   :o ;D You just wait & see!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 11, 2009, 08:02:45 pm
They have!  :)  :D   :o ;D You just wait & see!

tease
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 11, 2009, 10:17:42 pm
Here they are.

Last year I don't think I got even one.

The year before, I believe I got just one: I figured it was because it was the year in a new location.

Three years ago, I may have had 2 - but NEVER have I seen more than 3 of em since we got these beauties maybe 10 years ago.

There will have been 7 or 8 of em this year!  ;D

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 11, 2009, 10:52:54 pm
they ARE beautiful..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 05:49:12 am
Part grape hyacinth/ part dbl blm grape hyacinth? I do believe I detect a spiral patern again.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-05-21.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 10:41:28 am
Looks like this is going to be a dud year for apples, however, the pear tree has beautifully blossomed.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-09-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 07:45:57 pm
I was looking for pictures from a few years ago - and it may be that the plants are a little earlier this year.

Here's the main Queen of the Night tulip bed

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 12, 2009, 08:14:21 pm
I was looking for pictures from a few years ago - and it may be that the plants are a little earlier this year.

Here's the main Queen of the Night tulip bed

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-01.jpg)

how many bulbs did you originally start with, Roland??
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 08:24:32 pm
how many bulbs did you originally start with, Roland??

Of the Queen of the Night? I think two dozen. But that was over a decade ago. I remember they fit on the right (south) side of the steps - where the variegated grass (and calla lilies) now are located.

I remembered when I was a child that my grandparents had tulips in their garden (supposedly) brought back from Holland after WWII (my dad & his 3 brothers participated in the European theatre) - and there was one, yup, just one 'black' tulip. Bryan made a point of getting them for me.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 08:26:14 pm
BTW, here's an update on tHIS picture from last year. (phote date 08-05-12)

And this after just last week seperating a clump of dark red daylilies and speading em (some 15 plants) out at the bottom left of this picture,

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/jardin08/08-05-12-05.jpg)

as well as seperating some lovely 'Stella D'Or' daylilies (some 20 of em) and placing em in that area to the centre of this pic.

There might not be much of a show this year from this area - but next year - look out.

In the meantime, if I may paraphrase a song Spike Jones released in 1949: "Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny an Iris?"
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 08:29:52 pm
Well here's the same location picture, exactly one year later (photo dated 09-05-12)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-12-06.jpg)

Guess when I said 'There might not be much of a show this year from this area - but next year - look out.' I wasn't exagerating.  ;D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 12, 2009, 08:48:26 pm
Here's this evening's view of the main Queen of the Night tulip flower bed. A better picture, I believe.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-12-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 12, 2009, 11:46:01 pm
Here's this evening's view of the main Queen of the Night tulip flower bed. A better picture, I believe.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-12-05.jpg)

OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Roland!! can I have a big file of this for my background??!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2009, 12:07:11 am
OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Roland!! can I have a big file of this for my background??!

Done.

You're right ... it IS a stricking picture. Thanks. Looks almost painted.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 13, 2009, 12:09:02 am
yes. I like the one open one near the left bottom...SHOWOFF... :laugh: :laugh:

all of them are too perfect to be real..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2009, 12:19:06 am
Well, as I've complained many times before, the camera (and in this case, possibly the sunset) reddens the petals. There's only one pink tulip there and it's the slightly larger tulip right in the middle of the picture. (It's been the only pink-among-the-nearly-black since my original 24, never multiplying, never getting removed.) The one that's 'showing off' in the foreground (left corner) is actually a purple tulip and the one in the upper right hand corner is a blueberry ripple (also called Rembrant) tulip. But in that light, the colour dif'rences are merely shades.

Too perfect? I like that ....
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2009, 12:47:03 am
Taken two days ago - the main patch of purple tulips, just west (a little downhill) from the main black tulip patch.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2009, 05:27:17 am
The White Bleeding Heart got seperated and 2/3 of it got potted. All are still visible in this picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2009, 02:43:47 pm
a close-up of the white bleeding hearts:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2009, 07:19:38 pm
My beloved bi-coloured dwarf iris - again  ;D

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-12-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 13, 2009, 08:13:52 pm
My beloved bi-coloured dwarf iris - again  ;D

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-12-01.jpg)

man they ARE putting on a show arent' they!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 14, 2009, 12:15:58 pm
the 'speckeld' violas are also growing in a patch in the back yard:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-11-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on May 14, 2009, 12:25:06 pm
What a spectacular garden! Just beautiful.  :-*
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: magicmountain on May 14, 2009, 08:54:05 pm
Thanks so much for showing us around your lovely garden Roland.

I wonder if you have seen the TV series Around the World in 80 Gardens - it is well worth watching if it comes your way.

Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 14, 2009, 10:39:38 pm
Thanks folks for dropping in.

And remember ... staring around page 18, I've got the whole summer of '07 in photos in the thread 'My Great White North'. I know it helped me through some bored winter nights.

These iris have since started wilting away, but I did get a bit of a close up on them a coupl'a days ago ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-12-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: sel on May 15, 2009, 05:11:59 am
Very beautiful flowers Roland!
I have a very large garden but no green fingers at all.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 15, 2009, 05:54:55 am
I took this picture 3 weeks ago (April 27)

Can you identify the plant? (hint: the answer's in the stem)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: retropian on May 15, 2009, 06:23:11 am
I took this picture 3 weeks ago (April 27)

Can you identify the plant? (hint: the answer's in the stem)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-04-27-08.jpg)

Rhubarb! Where is the custard?
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 15, 2009, 06:33:24 am
Custard? Is that how you consumed it? Well I guess it's no odder than my use of the 'weed'. I eat rhubarb cake - tastes like carrot cake (or more to the point, spice cake).

Anyways, here's yesterday's photo of the same bunch. Yup! they grow as fast as weeds.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-14-03.jpg)
Guess it's time to start harvesting em
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: retropian on May 15, 2009, 09:21:06 am
Custard? Is that how you consumed it? Well I guess it's no odder than my use of the 'weed'. I eat rhubarb cake - tastes like carrot cake (or more to the point, spice cake).

Anyways, here's yesterday's photo of the same bunch. Yup! they grow as fast as weeds.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-14-03.jpg)
Guess it's time to start harvesting em

Haven't you ever had Rhubarb and Custard pie? When I was a kid we'd (my parents) would make custard with a Rhubarb topping. Just dice up the Rhubarb and cook, or boil with enough sugar to taste and use as a topping. LOL! I'm going to have to make some soon!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: sel on May 15, 2009, 01:46:14 pm
Haven't you ever had Rhubarb and Custard pie? When I was a kid we'd (my parents) would make custard with a Rhubarb topping. Just dice up the Rhubarb and cook, or boil with enough sugar to taste and use as a topping. LOL! I'm going to have to make some soon!

My favourite  Rhubarb recipe is Rhubarb crumble with custard.  I used to know a lady who made the most delicious one, I have never made one myself though.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on May 15, 2009, 02:12:36 pm
I ahve NEVER EVER heard of that!! Sounds cool!

I eat rhubarb cake - tastes like carrot cake (or more to the point, spice cake).

Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 15, 2009, 07:58:05 pm
Kelda, I have posted the receipe for rhubarb cake before. I'll try & dig it up again.

Here's a second height of iris - the medium ones. I only have this variety of the medium iris (purple, right?) but I've got em growing in at least four areas. Lady came in the yard today in response to the big plants 4 sale sign on my lawn and those were the plants that she's interested in. I do have about ten pots of these in the driveway. She said she'd be back tomorrow - on day 1 of the sale.

These are the ones she saw, but you're getting a better view (looking north instead of east).

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-14-01.jpg)
they look much darker without the lense
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: retropian on May 15, 2009, 09:48:34 pm
My favourite  Rhubarb recipe is Rhubarb crumble with custard.  I used to know a lady who made the most delicious one, I have never made one myself though.

MMM. Yes I've had that too! Yummy!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 16, 2009, 12:39:06 am
The buttons - or as I like to call em the double bloom buttercups are starting to show colour - just in time for opening day later today.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 16, 2009, 11:00:10 am
Look what's finally showing up for another year. The lilacs.

They're very scented but oh so high. The flowers are at the 7 to 8 foot high level now.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on May 16, 2009, 12:02:03 pm
Kelda, I have posted the receipe for rhubarb cake before. I'll try & dig it up again.


That would be lovely! Thanks Roland.

I wish I ahd both your green fingers and patience in the garden.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 16, 2009, 06:15:17 pm
I've looked - can't seem to find it - on my computer or using the search engine of BetterMost. But I'm sure I've got it written down somewhere. ...

Now back to mon jardin ...

The seathrift is starting to show as well.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-01.jpg)
Sorry for the quality. Flowers are about the size of a small fingernail.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on May 16, 2009, 07:51:50 pm
oh well never mind - I'll doa  wee google for it!  :-*
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 17, 2009, 12:07:22 am
I do love these double buttercups

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 17, 2009, 07:39:07 am
Last summer Bryan added a new variety if lilac to the garden. They're meant to stay short and they are suppose to bloom (and be scentful) all summer long. They didn't bloom last year - but now ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 17, 2009, 12:27:33 pm
These purple iris are of medium height. I've got them growing in at least 3 areas and in about 10 pots. Bryan is asking me to consolidate them all in one area. - well two - one in the back & another in the flower beds of the front.

This is the first back yard picture (of these iris) - right behind the garage. (from 3 days ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-14-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 17, 2009, 06:42:25 pm
And they're also along the fence at the back end of the back yard. (from 2 days ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 17, 2009, 11:18:50 pm
And soon the large Iris will be blooming - prob'ly the light blue ones (though there might be some yellow ones in there too)

Buds sure are promissing ... (front yard, second row nearest the sidewalk - view looking south)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 18, 2009, 06:49:17 am
Waking up to the double buttercup

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 18, 2009, 05:58:51 pm
Let's revisit one of the two main patches of ground flox

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-06.jpg)
that gash in the leaf (2/3 of the way up the picture) is prob'ly another minor bit of damage caused by the hail storm
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 18, 2009, 09:37:36 pm
And the other variety

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 18, 2009, 10:52:08 pm
it is like something out of a Disney movie or a fairy tale...you can't even see the ground for all the flowers..and they are all one level...like a carpet..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 19, 2009, 02:06:25 pm
The violas, from the other side of the tree ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-15-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 19, 2009, 10:29:57 pm
Not much happening in the yard lately. It's been cold - for May. Made the tulips last longer but slowed down the blossoming of other plants.

There will soon be at least one other variety of iris out and the aliums are begining to blossom - but they're nowhere as large as they once were.

This evening's pic is a revisit, though the plant looks a lot more spread out than before. I was calling it a flox-like plant, but this weekend Bryan remembered the name of it - and I must say, I don't recall it flowering in a number of years.

It's called Silver dollar.

Hard to explain why the name at this point, but when the seed sack matures, I'll post them and the reason for the plant's name will likely become more evident.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-18-02.jpg)
also, you will note the cage ... I caged up the peonies a little earlier this year.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 20, 2009, 07:14:35 am
the bi-coloured dwarf iris are still producing. They only bloom for a couple a days but I figure I'll have had over a two dozen of em this year.  :D

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-18-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Zander on May 20, 2009, 07:53:24 am
Not much happening in the yard lately. It's been cold - for May. Made the tulips last longer but slowed down the blossoming of other plants.

There will soon be at least one other variety of iris out and the aliums are begining to blossom - but they're nowhere as large as they once were.

This evening's pic is a revisit, though the plant looks a lot more spread out than before. I was calling it a flox-like plant, but this weekend Bryan remembered the name of it - and I must say, I don't recall it flowering in a number of years.

It's called Silver dollar.

Hard to explain why the name at this point, but when the seed sack matures, I'll post them and the reason for the plant's name will likely become more evident.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-18-02.jpg)
also, you will note the cage ... I caged up the peonies a little earlier this year.

This is Lunaria annua commonly known as Honesty, Silver Dollar, Money Plant, Moonwort and Bolbonac.  It's called Lunaria after the latin for moon (luna)- your pictures of it later in the year wil make sense of this ;)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Zander on May 20, 2009, 03:29:51 pm
Any plant people here?  This week is Chelsea flower show, see the highlights here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea/
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 20, 2009, 04:04:51 pm
As I said before the alliums are going to be a lot smaller than when we first got em some 5 years ago. As much as a third as large. This is an early picture ... (2 days ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-18-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 21, 2009, 08:09:38 am
I need to get the camera out ... this is my last 'new' picture - 3 days old

My first update on the lilac tree blossoms. A pretty sunny one, hun?

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-18-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 21, 2009, 07:53:12 pm
I need to get the camera out ... this is my last 'new' picture - 3 days old

My first update on the lilac tree blossoms. A pretty sunny one, hun?

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-18-04.jpg)

very pretty!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 21, 2009, 07:54:39 pm
Any plant people here?  This week is Chelsea flower show, see the highlights here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea/

so beautiful! thank you for the link!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 22, 2009, 10:47:00 pm
Finally went out and took some pics today - and some good ones too.

Got a couple of these 'view' pics. The buttercup (or as I like to call em, buttons) are really showing well. A lady came over today to look at my selections and said she'd be back for poenies and those buttons.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-04.jpg)
lush is the w-o-r-d  ;D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 22, 2009, 10:48:22 pm
Finally went out and took some pics today - and some good ones too.

Got a couple of these 'view' pics. The buttercup (or as I like to call em, buttons) are really showing positively. A lady came over today to llok at my selections and she said she'd be back for poenies ant thos buttons.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-04.jpg)
lush is the w-o-r-d
VERY Lush!

and the black tulips look BLACK in that picture!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 12:04:20 am
So you like iris, hun?

Here's the 4th variety from my garden (after the bi-coloured, the yellow [both dwarf] & the purple [medium height])

These are the first of the large (not giant) variety. Pale blues - and there'll be dozens of em. - maybe even over a hunderd.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 12:18:33 am
So you like iris, hun?

Here's the 4th variety from my garden (after the bi-coloured, the yellow [both dwarf] & the purple [medium height])

These are the first of the large (not giant) variety. Pale blues - and there'll be dozens of em. - maybe even over a hunderd.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-01.jpg)

oh I love them!! look at the pattern on the petals! like a painting...just beautiful! they look so fragile on top of those long stems..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 12:19:26 am
Yesterday I put some tomato seedling in the garden. Of the seeds Bryan removed from the juice leftover from the canned tomatoes I prepared last fall, there have been hunderds of seedlings.

I planted 42 of em yesterday evening - and that didn't even use up one eighth (6 of 48) of what I've got. Thought I'd plant em in rows - separating them by an inch or two. The real question is not how many of em will survive. It's whether or not it's too late to start up from seeds.

One thing for sure, they sure look healthy. (picture taken less than 12 hours ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 12:24:37 am
Yesterday I put some tomato seedling in the garden. Of the seeds Bryan removed from the juice leftover from the canned tomatoes I prepared last fall, there have been hunderds of seedlings.

I planted 42 of em yesterday evening - and that didn't even use up one eighth (6 of 48) of what I've got. Thought I'd plant em in rows - separating them by an inch or two. The real question is not how many of em will survive. It's whether or not it's too late to start up from seeds.

One thing for sure, they sure look healthy. (picture taken less than 12 hours ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-12.jpg)

dang...I dont' have any pics of ...wait a minute..I do!!

did you see MY tomato plants??
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 12:26:08 am
Oh, and when I said there'd be maybe as much as a hunderd of the pale blue iris, I wasn't kidding. And that's just in the front yard.
There's likely to be more in the back yard. Not to mention Bryan took maybe as many as 50 plants to his condo last fall.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 12:27:59 am
Oh, and when I said there'd be maybe as much as a hunderd of the pale blue iris, I wasn't kidding. And that's just in the front yard.
There's likely to be more in the back yard. Not to mention Bryan took maybe as many as 50 plants to his condo last fall.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-02.jpg)

 :o :o

now THAT is a stand of irises!!!



(and see in the back? those black tulips really make a statement dont' they??)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 12:30:10 am
dang...I dont' have any pics of ...wait a minute..I do!!

did you see MY tomato plants??

Yes I remember. You said you put them under 6 pages of newsprint. (and you worried about your 'privacy' by taking pictures of your car keys  :P ) 

Were yours from seed? Bryan's grew heritage tomatoes from seed last year. This is my first attemp at growing from seed. And there could be a variety of tomato types in this bunch.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 12:32:06 am
Yes I remember. You said you put them under 6 pages of newsprint. (and you worried about your 'privacy' by taking pictures of your car keys  :P ) 

Were yours from seed? Bryan's grew heritage tomatoes from seed last year. This is my first attemp at growing from seed. And there could be a variety of tomato types in this bunch.

no, I am seed challenged...I get to the stage yours are at and then they die.. :P

so all mine are transplants. I have taken pics since then...when I put the decoy apples out...
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 12:33:22 am
:o :o

now THAT is a stand of irises!!!


Maybe I'll need to divide them again this year ... This is only the second year that they've been placed in the second row.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 12:46:44 am
And here's another 'grand' view of the effect the 'buttons' can have on a flowerbed.

This picture is of the flowerbed right behind the house.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 12:55:07 am
And here's another 'grand' view of the effect the 'buttons' can have on a flowerbed.

This picture is of the flowerbed right behind the house.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-09.jpg)

it is fun how you have flowers that all grow the same size, making a uniform blanket of flowers..then you have these that just grow any height!

makes the garden more visually interesting to me..amazing variety for the size of your yard!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 05:59:19 am
the Dbl Blm Colombine are beginning to blossom. One variety (the one I like calling 'albino') caught the attention of a visiting lady yesterday. Unfortunately, it's growing in a crack in the pavement so there's no way I can pot it up.

The pictures didn't turn out for that one, but the pink ones came out just fine ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 07:26:27 am
oh my god...he even has flowers growing in the CRACKS of the pavement!!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Zander on May 23, 2009, 07:35:11 am
Yes Aquilegia / Columbine like to grow in gravelly soil, indeed the best way to get the seed to germinate is first rub it gentle between two sheets of fine sandpaper.  This creates little grooves in the casing making it it easier for it to absorb water and germinate.  This is why you often find it in cracks, it's the rubbing of the seed case - taught to me by my grandfather xx years ago.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 07:44:42 am
Yes Aquilegia / Columbine like to grow in gravelly soil, indeed the best way to get the seed to germinate is first rub it gentle between two sheets of fine sandpaper.  This creates little grooves in the casing making it it easier for it to absorb water and germinate.  This is why you often find it in cracks, it's the rubbing of the seed case - taught to me by my grandfather xx years ago.

do you have a garden, Zander? Sounds like you know your stuff!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Zander on May 23, 2009, 12:18:23 pm
Oh yes I have a small garden but never enough time (never enough!) you know how it is.  I also hate the hard work involved ;D but I love the results.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 03:30:15 pm
They're small, but the Alliums can still make a pretty picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-03.jpg)
Notice the wee bug (wasp?) hovering a centimetre or two from the nearest blossom?
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 06:56:08 pm
They're small, but the Alliums can still make a pretty picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-03.jpg)
Notice the wee bug (wasp?) hovering a centimetre or two from the nearest blossom?

OH WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a PIC!!! I want a hi res of it!! Pullllllleeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeee??

that is the best bokah I have seen!! you ROCKING the flower pics!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 09:52:29 pm
that is the best bokah I have seen!! you ROCKING the flower pics!

Hunh? What's a bokah?

Thanks for the compliment and I'll be sending the picture shortly.

(Wasn't kidding when yesterday I said I
took some pics today - and some good ones too

Yet another 'view' picture ... from the same behind-the-house flowerbed as the previous 'view' pic. This time I've included a few other small flowers (the specked violas and the lungwort)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 10:01:35 pm
I may be misspelling it...but it is a picture with clear subjects in the foreground and an interesting out of focus background...it is pretty hard to do with an auto camera I understand..
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 10:14:51 pm
Thank you kind sir!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 11:21:17 pm
Close up of the wasp (it's a pretty good camera)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-14.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 11:32:08 pm
Close up of the wasp (it's a pretty good camera)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-14.jpg)

dang it is...what kind is it again?
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 11:41:34 pm
dang it is...what kind is it again?

The camera? A Canon PowerShot SD800 IS Digital ELPH with Image Stabilizer

All I know is I paid around 400$ for it (I think) some 2 years ago and it wasn't the most expensive Canon available.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 23, 2009, 11:44:31 pm
The camera? A Canon PowerShot SD800 IS Digital ELPH with Image Stabilizer

All I know is I paid around 400$ for it (I think) some 2 years ago and it wasn't the most expensive Canon available.

oh yeah now I recall...you spent the big bucks..

keeute goatee, sir!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2009, 11:58:48 pm
Avatar was taken last summer. Beard's about the same - but I've lost about 15 pounds since then. (down below 170 for the first time in 2 decades)

Last night I posted a row of tomato seedlings. Said the 42 'plants' only represented 1/8 of what I have. Here's the rest. The 42 seedlings came out of those 6 'holes' at the bottom of the picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-23-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 24, 2009, 12:05:31 am
Avatar was taken last summer. Beard's about the same - but I've lost about 15 pounds since then. (down below 170 for the first time in 2 decades)

Last night I posted a row of tomato seedlings. Said the 42 'plants' only represented 1/8 of what I have. Here's the rest. The 42 seedlings came out of those 6 'holes' at the bottom of the picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-23-05.jpg)

you planning on cornering the market on tomatos there, Roland?
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 24, 2009, 10:03:39 am
Look up. Way up.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-06.jpg)
dbl blm columbines
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 24, 2009, 10:09:35 am
so delicate...we don't have columbines here
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 24, 2009, 10:58:19 am
Main Entry: bokeh
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 24, 2009, 04:38:34 pm
Another Iris variety (large size) has opened up.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-23-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 24, 2009, 04:41:32 pm
Another Iris variety (large size) has opened up.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-23-01.jpg)

oh yeah, there are my traditional irises!!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 24, 2009, 09:51:44 pm
Lily of the Valley all potted up with nowhere to go.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 24, 2009, 10:03:51 pm
Lily of the Valley all potted up with nowhere to go.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-08.jpg)

such big leaves for such delicate flowers!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 25, 2009, 05:58:00 am
The Seathrift are doing quite well. (First re-visit of this tiny flowering plant)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-23-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 25, 2009, 04:15:39 pm
The Chives too are just about ready to bloom ... in the jungle.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-22-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 25, 2009, 09:44:29 pm
A pretty decent close up picture of the dbl blm albino Columbine

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-25-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 25, 2009, 09:57:40 pm
A pretty decent close up picture of the dbl blm albino Columbine

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-25-02.jpg)

I dont see how you keep from touching everything...I would be fondling everything to death...
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 26, 2009, 06:59:28 am
1 - blue/green dwarf,
2 - yellow dwarf,
3 - purple medium,
4 - near white large (newly acquired),
5 - pale blue large,
6 - pale/dark blue large

Got my first of these of the season 7 - Yellow Large Iris. Last years fewer than a half dozen of them blossomed. But this year, in addition to the front yard display (in 2 seperate bunches) they've started budding up in 2 areas of the back yard as well.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-25-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 26, 2009, 03:54:24 pm
From yesterday, the second flower bed is pretty much in full bloom. (Bryan took himself a half dozen stems of these pale blue Iris for a bouquet - before this picture was taken.)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-25-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 26, 2009, 09:27:12 pm
A first revisit to the ground lilac.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-23-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 27, 2009, 10:39:57 am
Close-up of the #6 pale/dark blue large iris .

Surprisingly it's growing in the tomato bed (the 4th back yard area for iris) and a soon-to-be-moved flowerbed.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-25-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on May 27, 2009, 01:54:17 pm
gorgeous... youve got a good eye for photography as well as gardening
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 27, 2009, 10:52:43 pm
Thanks Kelda. I do sometimes try a bit harder than I use to.

I believe this is an 8th variety. All Blue (large or giant, I'm not sure yet) Iris.

It too is growing in the soon-to-be-mostly tomato bed.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-26-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 28, 2009, 03:31:39 pm
It's been raining the last couple a days so no new pictures (this one's 2 days old). Also it's been colder so not much has happened out there.

Prob'ly by weekend's end there'll be something new.

In the meantime - a panoramic view of the blue iris in the front yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-26-01.jpg)
a bit over exposed

---------------------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
keep going ... the picture's l-o-n-g
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 28, 2009, 06:07:35 pm
very impressive display!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 30, 2009, 06:39:21 am
the dbl blm columbine

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-29-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 30, 2009, 07:49:20 am
*sneaks in and puts a pic of a pretty flower at my job in here in Roland's thread...*

let's see if he notices....

let's see if he DELETES it!!  :o :o

(http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h2/etexjess/006_1-15.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 30, 2009, 07:50:34 am
and do you notice how MY flower looks all thick and clunky next to his light and fragile looking flowers?  :( :(

it's like HIS are the aristocrats of the flower world and mine are the country cousins no one admits to...


 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 30, 2009, 11:04:26 am
They're 'common' daylilies. I grow em too (and sell em even if nobody's buying em), but I call em 'Old Fashioned' orange daylilies. (Bryan calls em 'gutter' daylilies  :laugh: )

They've yet to bloom here. And yours are a bit thicker (more textured) than mine.

Close-up of the Columbine

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-29-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: injest on May 30, 2009, 09:37:32 pm
well if they aren't moving you could have a 'half off midseason' sale...and still make a tidy profit (that is the benefit of having higher prices to start with)

there was a story in the paper the other day about a fan selling for $1200!!!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 31, 2009, 03:23:08 am
They're already at half price. The other giant daylilies are 7$ a pot while the 'old fashioned orange' are priced at 3$ a pot.

No matter. There's a reason they're not sold at plant stores ... the're pretty common.

Besides, they've yet to be in blossom.

no matter ... 

The chives are blooming though:

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/09-05-29-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 02, 2009, 06:30:35 pm
The first of the (formerly giant) copper/burgundy iris came out today. They're the same size as the large yellow or pale blue iris. Guess they really liked the partially shaded area behind the garage & grew so tall back there.

This one's growing in the middle of the pale blue iris flowerbed in the front yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 02, 2009, 07:32:40 pm
Here's a new posting. They've been growing in the back yard for a number of years, right behind the house, but I've never been able to get a good picture of em.

These common Red Columbine are growing in the front yard, right next to the 'gay paree' peonies (that have yet to bloom).

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 03, 2009, 02:48:25 am
The 3rd back yard Iris flower bed is mostly yellow as suspected. Last years (first full year back there) it only produced leaves - wasn't completely sure of their colour (somebody wanted yellow iris from us - for trading), but this year we KNOW. With a couple of exceptions, it's a yellow iris flower bed.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 03, 2009, 09:32:04 am
a better picture of the chives ... from the jungle north side of the stoop

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 03, 2009, 05:32:44 pm
The purple Lupins are doing well. (main flowerbed, front yard)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 04, 2009, 05:27:09 am
Here's the first picture (this year) of a dif'rent variety of iris. I think they're Siberian Iris growing behind the house.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 04, 2009, 08:06:21 pm
This picture is 2 days old now. This 'group' picture's from the tomato bed. Took 8 more pictures this afternon ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-02-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 05, 2009, 01:50:35 am
re-visit of the purple lupin main flowerbed front yard

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 05, 2009, 03:58:00 pm
And the blue Lupin are coming around as well - in even larger numbers than the purple.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 06, 2009, 05:59:31 am
The main Iris flowerbed (second row) is filling up nicely with the yellow and burgundy/copper iris filling up the space the pale blue iris left open. And it's happening before the pale blue iris runs out of  new buds. (photo from 2 days ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on June 06, 2009, 04:48:15 pm
beautiful!!!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 06, 2009, 08:01:48 pm
Same iris flowerbed, side view - and closer ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-05.jpg)
I really like the lighting on this one

Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 07, 2009, 06:23:26 am
The first yellow daylily is out. (in behind the house)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: retropian on June 07, 2009, 06:27:55 pm
Love the Iris's, one of my all time fav spring flowers. I came across this the other day. Queen of the Night is featured prominently.


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/06/fashion/20090607-street-feature/index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/06/fashion/20090607-street-feature/index.html)

Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 07, 2009, 06:55:43 pm
Been out all afternoon (nearly 5 hours) gardening with Bryan. Usually he can do this every weekend but this was two days in a row for him and instead of napping this afternoon I repotted a bunch of columbine seedling I grew last year. Also, we came back from Humber's Nurseries (I haven't visited them in at least a couple a years) with a half dozen new plants (including a new peonie.)

Speaking of peonies, Bryan found the 'Gay Paree' peonie (a very small plant - at least a year away from it's first bloom) selling for 38,99$ !!!

Bill gave me that plant the summer before he died. It's not in bloom yet but it'll produce a generous number of blooms this year.

In the meantime, the yellow peonies (also aquired from Bill - for the unheard price of 35$ - he claimed to have paid well over 100$ for it as an asian imports) is attracting quite a lot of attention. Even before they started blooming, people were fascinated with the unopened heads. Now people are asking when I'll be dividing the plant. They like it!

First bloom ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 08, 2009, 09:04:53 am
The Ornamental Sage is doing very well in the front yard near the sidewalk.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-03.jpg)
Photo 4 days old
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on June 08, 2009, 09:27:08 am
You know Roland, now you're retired you could easily become a p/t paid gardener.. have ou ever thought of that? I mean your place speaks for itself!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 08, 2009, 12:18:10 pm
You mean WORK ? ? ??  ???

No way.

I water the garden and occasionally weed, pot or generally tend to the garden. I do it when I feel like it (except the watering - I'm pretty regular about that).

I've started selling plants (re: 'the Garden shed' thread) though that's not been as profitable as I'd hoped. Still, it beats working for a living.  ;D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 08, 2009, 12:23:18 pm
Here's a second picture of the supposedly (shall I now cal em ...) Faux Siberian Iris.

Bryan's got a dif'rent variety, much slimmer petals, almost grass like leaves that he claims are real Siberian Iris, but he can't help me with the name of these rather veiny iris.

Maybe they're a cross between regular & Siberian. I'll be posting the other Siberian Iris later this week.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-04-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on June 08, 2009, 12:24:27 pm
You mean WORK ? ? ??  ???

No way.

I water the garden and occasionally weed, pot or generally tend to the garden. I do it when I feel like it (except the watering - I'm pretty regular about that).

I've started selling plants (re: 'the Garden shed' thread) though that's not been as profitable as I'd hoped. Still, it beats working for a living.  ;D

 ;D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 08, 2009, 12:31:56 pm
Here's a close up of the same 'faux Siberian Iris' taken by Bryan his-self with his much-better-than-mine camera.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-06-01.jpg)
Artsy ain't it?
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 09, 2009, 12:10:49 am
The lupins are growing even taller than last year before they seed up ... what with the cooler than average tempetures.

Here are the purple lupins 3 days later. (2nd re-visit)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 09, 2009, 12:02:04 pm
And the Blue Lupin is doing very well too.

At Humber Nurseries this past weekend I picked up a couple of (young) yellow lupin plants. Hopefully they'll be mature enough to produce blossons next year. Don't know where I'll put em though ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 09, 2009, 11:10:22 pm
first re-visit of the Ornamental Sage near the sidewalk, front yard.

The vibrancy of the colour is tempered by the lighting and or the lens.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 09, 2009, 11:18:23 pm
Easterly view of the same Ornamental Sage patch

This is the exact same area that the bi-coloured (green & blue) dwarf Iris were making a show less than a month ago. Also, right behind these, a second variety of Siberian Iris (white) has already started blooming, and another batch of Siberia Iris (prob'ly purple) is sending up shoots - along with a single stem new variety of Iris (gold-ish). All this to say that ... it's a really busy patch.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-04.jpg)
 
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 10, 2009, 06:44:38 am
And here they are ... what Bryan refers to as Siberian Iris.

Petals are even narrower than the faux siberian iris, and the leaves are grass like (long thin). They're markedly smaller flowers as well.

3 patches of these are located in the far back of the back yard and (I think) a couple of clumps grow right behind the ornamental sage (see previous pics).

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: underdown on June 10, 2009, 07:28:49 am

 Gosh, Roland, I haven't been in here before, but what a beautiful thread.  :)

 Do you think you will ever run out of things in your garden to photograph?

 Hope not.  :-\
 
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 10, 2009, 10:56:09 am
Gosh, Roland, I haven't been in here before, but what a beautiful thread.  :)

Do you think you will ever run out of things in your garden to photograph?

Thanks. Based on what happened 2 years ago (My Great White North Thread), come mid-July, the output will ease off to a trickle ... and August is pretty useless.

Most of these plants were also featured in that 2007 thread, but there are always new things (and others that get lost/die off).

Here's a closer look at those same Siberian Iris.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 10, 2009, 01:33:40 pm
And an even closer pic of a single flower.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 10, 2009, 09:52:52 pm
The Poppies are opening up. Since this photo was taken, I have 3 more of em opened up & more are expeced tomorrow.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on June 11, 2009, 05:13:23 am
I loooovvvvve the poppies!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 11, 2009, 06:16:25 am
Well, in that case, here's another artsy pic Bryan took some 5 days ago ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-06-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on June 11, 2009, 06:34:32 am
Well, in that case, here's another artsy pic Bryan took some 5 days ago ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-06-02.jpg)

Oh wow! Look at that - looks at all the creases in the petals - Very good Bryan!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 11, 2009, 04:15:00 pm
In the back northern corner of the yard, there's this Pale Blue Iris with a bit of an anomaly: it's upper petals are virtually white. And it appears to be alone out there (picture was taken 4 days ago and no other similarly odd iris have come up).

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Zander on June 11, 2009, 05:05:07 pm
I would call this a bearded iris, does it have any scent?
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 11, 2009, 06:49:17 pm
The pale blue and the burgundy iris both have stong 'Dr. Pepper' scents. The others, not so much.

Were you talking 'bout the various siberian iris? Not that I've noticed.
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 03:50:12 am
These hadly offered any blooms last year. This year, they're a big feature of the back yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 11:01:20 am
Almost done with posting those now 5 day old pictures and I prepared another 13 from yesterday but I'm gonna start off with the two pics I took today.

First, the white/blue bicoured iris was not a fluke. Got two more blooming this morning  :D

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-12-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 11:03:39 am
And right near that plant, here's a very vibrantly coloured large iris. What colour would you call this one? Royal blue?

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-12-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 11:08:56 am
And yesterday, right near those two I took a picture of this first-time-on-BetterMost Blue (or is that purple?) Edged White (and blue) Iris


The Iris are almost finished their reign in my garden, but oh what a way to go!

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-13.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 11:14:15 am
Just noticed that I'd taken another picture of that 'edged' iris two days ago. However I had not set the 3 pics I took two days ago into photoshop. So I've got some catching up to do.

Including this unusual Yellow (or should I say Golden?) Ridge-edged Iris growing in that very busy north-west corner of the front yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-10-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 02:21:17 pm
The iris area just behind the garage was a bit of a disappointment this year - many of the burgundy iris that grew there last year are doing well in the front yard, but whatever happened to the dark blue iris that made quite a show back there the last 3 years? And last year that's were the 'surprise' lavender iris bloomed. They're a no-show this year. Here's a couple of stems (yup, just two) that gave a decent show some 5 days ago.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-07-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 02:34:25 pm
A coupl'a posts ago, I mentioned a very busy north-western corner of the front yard. I'd already highlighted the (now spent) Purple Tulips, the Dwarf Bi-coloured (green/blue) and Yellow Iris, the Yellow Buttons, the Ornamental Sage. In addition there are a few of the true Blue Siberian Iris, the Ridged Golden Iris and the yet-to-be-highlighted White Siberian Iris.

Ths is the first of two pics of that area. View looking South.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-05.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 02:42:21 pm
I guess that's how I do it (or should I say, Bryan does it) - the often asked question about so much variety in a relatively limited amount of space. More than one plant can share an area if they have dif'rent blooming 'seasons'.

In this view, the Blue Lupins, the Seathrift and the (as yet unfeatured) Yellow Peonies can also be seen, as they are a little further up the hill. (Easterly view)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2009, 09:27:06 pm
The poenies are starting to open up. This Yellow Poenie's been getting a lot of attention - was getting lots even before it started blooming cause of the unusual buds. Some people were even wanting to leave me their phone number for when I'd be dividing the plant - even though I told em I'd not likely divide it until the end of next summer.

Anyway It's been in bloom now for over a week, but I wasn't able to take a good picture of em (I didn't even care for Bryan's pics). This one's not bad ... (photo taken yesterday)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 13, 2009, 04:12:31 am
The Sarah Bernhardt too just opened up. This is the peonie that produces HUGE (8 to 10 inches) blossoms last year, and some 5 dozen of em so I divided the plant. The potted sibling (I still have about 5 of em - sold just 2 of em) are not producing blossoms and the ones I left in the ground are not going to produce 12 blooms this year - and they look to be smaller - but they're just as vibrant and scentful.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 13, 2009, 11:35:22 am
This beauty is called Gay Paree. I always suspected Bill of inventing this odd name. Especially since he lived in Paris Ontario and he was gay. He gave me this Poenie the summer before he died and I kept it in the pot outside over winter. As you can see it survived quite nicely. All this I've told before on other thread(s). What's new is that a Jr. version (very young, at least a year away from it's first bloom) of this plant was for sale at Humber's Nurseries for 38,99$. Oh wait, maybe I've already told this part of the story too ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on June 13, 2009, 11:36:43 am
This beauty is called Gay Paree. I always suspected Bill of inventing this odd name. Especially since he lived in Paris Ontario and he was gay. He gave me this Poenie the summer before he died and I kept it in the pot outside over winter. As you can see it survived quite nicely. All this I've told before on other thread(s). What's new is that a Jr. version (very young, at least a year away from it's first bloom) of this plant was for sale at Humber's Nurseries for 38,99$. Oh wait, maybe I've already told this part of the story too ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-01.jpg)

wow! That's gorgeous!
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 13, 2009, 09:24:45 pm
A splash of yellow behind the house.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 14, 2009, 07:13:38 am
The very regal White (with a dash off yellow) Siberian Iris in the busy North-West corner, front lawn.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-10-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 14, 2009, 06:08:43 pm
A few backyard pics. In the foreground of this one, the soon to be non-flower bed (for herbs, stinging nettle, peppers and tomato plants), a cluster of blue, yellow and burgundy iris along with the now spent tulips. In the background, behind the apple tree, the yellow iris bed. Behind those, along both fences are a variety of other iris and a few other plants: columbine, mint, dogwood, medow rue ...

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 15, 2009, 06:31:30 am
And here's the Yellow Iris flower bed, prob'ly the best pic of em for this year. It's been (finally) warmer for a coupl'a days so the blooms are fading faster now. This may well be the best pic of that bed for this year.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 15, 2009, 10:59:59 am
Back to the front yard, and the Pale Pink Poppies. This pictures is 4 days old. There have been near two dozen of these (and 5 red ones) in the front yard (as well as a dozen in the back yard). Bryan took some fascinating close-ups of these yesterday. I'll be posting some of his artsy pics on the other thread in the days to come, including some of this flower.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 15, 2009, 08:30:14 pm
They have a dif'rent name (saw em at Canadian Tire last month) but I don't remember it. We call em Virginia Blue Bells. Just sold some this weekend and gave a whole bunch of em away to the lady who gave me the ferns a number of years ago.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-11-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 16, 2009, 08:11:26 am
The peonie are doing competition to the poppies (as the iris are on their last leg - for this year).

Here's the Gay Paree again.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-15-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 17, 2009, 04:24:36 am
This picture is a coupl'a days old now. It's a sidewalk's view of the ligher shaded poenies on the south side of mon jardin. Of course there are more blooms open now and though it's not as eye-grabbing as the iris bed was, or the north-west corner still is, it's competition.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-15-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 17, 2009, 08:32:22 am
I'll be away for a week and therefore will only be occasionally posting already photobucketed pics for the duration. Hope this lovely flip side of a minor Jimmy Rogers keeps you in good stead until my return.

(BTW, here in Toronto, in 1961, this song reached #6 staying on the air for 12 weeks on the CHUM AM)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTunBdFDqY[/youtube]
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 18, 2009, 08:36:43 am
Took this picture trying to underline just how large that royal blue iris is by showinganother (yellow) iris in the same picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 18, 2009, 08:42:46 am
And again yesterday morning, before leaving town, I tried to highlight it's size by putting my massive masculine hand in the picture.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 19, 2009, 08:25:42 am
For the first time evah, a roasebush survuved to it's second summer in mon jardin.

It's an old-fashioned yellow rose bush. (This photo was taken 4 days ago)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-15-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 19, 2009, 08:27:40 am
And after just two more days, there were a lot more open blooms.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-10.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 20, 2009, 09:04:06 pm
Before I left on Wednesday I did the rounds & took pictures of most of the poenies.

Here's the Double Bloom Pink Poenie that I thinned out last fall (along with the Sarah Bernhardt).

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 20, 2009, 09:09:57 pm
The first of two near white (pink?) poenies that'll get thinned out at the end of this summer.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 20, 2009, 09:13:15 pm
And the second near white poenie. All three (plus the Sarah Bernhardt) are on the south side of the front yard.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-03.jpg)
(The yellow iris at the bottom of the last picture is the same bloom as the iris at the top of this one.)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 20, 2009, 09:18:03 pm
On the north side of the front yard there are three peonies plants: the Gay Parer, the yellow Japanese Peonie and this dark red peonie (right behind the very busy North West corner)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 21, 2009, 07:41:49 am
Took this rather busy poppies photo just before leaving TO (now 4 days ago) - for all you poppies fans.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 22, 2009, 09:33:26 am
I'll be back on the road tomorrow (back to TO) and I still have a few pics in the can.

This (previously called) Virginia Blue Bell started blossoming generously the morning that I left town last Wednesday.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 22, 2009, 09:46:03 am
Nicotinia(?) is one of the few annuals that we buy for the garden. They're very fragrant (especially in the evening) and this is the second year we plant 'em near the stoop in the front yard. Last year's nicotinias were white.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 23, 2009, 04:55:27 am
Ever wonder why it's called 'Ornamental' sage? Well here's the regular variety ... not as pretty, not as plentiful and a lot more leaves. (plant is in the Tomato/Herbs bed - back yard)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2009/jardin/juin/09-06-17-14.jpg)
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 23, 2009, 05:03:05 am
I'll be on the bus in about 5 hours (and arriving in the capital in about 17). One of the last picture I took before I left (nearly a week ago) was that of the Evening Primrore (previously refered to as English Primrose). There were just a bloom here and there when I left town ... expect there'll be blankets of the stuff by now.

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Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 14, 2009, 04:29:37 pm
I will continue posting pictures from my garden on a new forum: http://gardenshed.smfforfree.com/index.php

Hurry! Hurry! Who will be the first to register onto my new site?  :D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on August 02, 2009, 05:58:20 pm
Nicotinia(?) is one of the few annuals that we buy for the garden. They're very fragrant (especially in the evening) and this is the second year we plant 'em near the stoop in the front yard. Last year's nicotinias were white.

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pretty pretty pic there Roland.


Sorry I havent been a long here lately. Will go check out the new forum for more pics!  :D
Title: Re: Mon jardin 2009
Post by: Kelda on August 02, 2009, 06:02:03 pm
my fave from there....

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