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Offline Sheriff Roland

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #20 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.

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2009, 06:19:10 am »
Here is picture of a couple of slightly fuller hyacinth

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #22 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.

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #23 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.

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2009, 07:18:59 pm »
they are still beautiful! such vibrant colors...I bet all your neighbors love your yard..

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2009, 10:51:44 pm »
I've got more tulips to post (tomorrow), however, here's an update on the bergenia.

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #26 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

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #27 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.

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #28 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.


good thing I am not your neighbor, you would always find me out there fondling the blossoms...they all look so velvety and soft..

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Re: Mon jardin 2009
« Reply #29 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.

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