The saturated colors of mountain flowers are legendary, but are they worth an anxiety attack? We search for a flatter alternative.

Originally posted by Julie

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Marsh marigolds, cowslips or caltha palustris are lovely yellow blooming plants that grow in shallow water near marshy or swampy areas. A few years ago we ventured into the swampy, mucky area close to our house to dig a clump of these lovely flowers. The plants grow 45 to 60 cm. high and the flowers are about 4 cm. across.

This post was written by Crafty Gardener for publication only on my personal blog, The Gardener Side.

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Purple Wave Petunia

I worked outside most of the day yesterday and somehow hurt my back. It was probably when I dug out the three arborvitae and carried them across the yard and replanted them. I forget that I need to ease into the gardening season. My time is more limited right now and I wanted to get so much accomplished. I did get a lot done, but boy did I ever pay for it today. . . .

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Just a little followup... A few years ago (ancient history in the blog world), I showed a Fritillary meleagris with an unusual flower; rather than the typical tight bell, the flower was more open, with very heavy, leathery substance to the petals, and a more pronounced "snakeskin" pattern. This particular bulb seems to continue blooming "true", as shown at top, with a typical meleagris shown below.
There are named clones of Fritillaria meleagris sold commercially; the ones I've seen offered are all named after mythological figures (Mars, Aphrodite, Jupiter, Saturnus). My bulb isn't special enough to make me think it's anywhere close to being worth naming, but I like it.

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The Red Tulips glows in the evening light as the sun shone down.It has been the nicest day of the year with twenty two degrees C temperatures.I spent some of the day in the garden potting on 136 Busy Lizzies, and moving the plants around to catch the light. . ..

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I feel like I'm always blaming my garden successes on serendipity... but maybe I don't give myself enough credit. I admit that I bought these 'Queen of Night' tulips on a whim because I was entranced by their beautiful moodiness... but made a conscious decision to plant them where they would fill in space in the spring garden, and play off of the light green emerging foliage of the goatsbeard and switchgrass. . .

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Posted by Blackswamp_Girl Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, spring on 2008-05-07, 05:33:14

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As I enjoy the blooming spectacle being put on by the flowering trees in my area, I can't help but think of what can be a false dichotomy between "ornamental"...

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This is the time of year is all about reuniting with my perrenials. There's the thrill of seeing who's returned. More than that, there's the thrill of seeing which plants are really succeeding.

Take for example our Star of Bethlehem plant. It came to our garden, via another's garden, two years ago right about the time I was starting this blog. I reported on how unpromising its prospects looked.

Then last year I was tickled to discover that it indeed found our little plot worthy of its roots. It not only returned, but also graced us with a few flowers.


And now, be it ever so humble, this year it's decided there's no place like our garden.



I can hardly wait to see what next year will bring.

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Here's an easy project to help you make your mom a beautiful card this Mother's Day

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Gardenworks
This weekend saw me putting in some time in the garden~ getting more things in order, trimming up the things that had dead sections on them from the drought last year (a lot of damage...), and tidying up the borders a bit.
Also, buying plants! Here are some I picked up at a quick trip to the local grocery store.

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Crinum x Menehune

I did end up buy the plant from eBay. This picture is from the entry, although this is a mature plant and I bought a seedling. It was really reasonably priced for such an unusual plant and I am very excited. I'll keep you posted.

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Posted by Wicked Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2008-05-07, 05:15:34

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I am a firm believer of bringing the outside inside. For a few years now I have brought bouquets of flowers to work for the reception area. Unfortunately, my new boss is highly allergic to aromatic flowers. This means that Brian gets to get the showy bouquets of fancy flowers! Here is the one that I made of lilacs and hosta leaves. 

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I had a very good shopping day yesterday. I needed a new camera for the up-coming trip. We have been looking at different cameras for well over two years and just weren't finding one that fit us. One trip to the National Camera Exchange got me the camera I was looking for: Coolpix P50.

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Posted by Sylvana Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2008-05-06, 06:57:09

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I had a very good shopping day yesterday. I needed a new camera for the up-coming trip. We have been looking at different cameras for well over two years and just weren't finding one that fit us. One trip to the National Camera Exchange got me the camera I was looking for: Coolpix P50.

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Posted by Sylvana Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2008-05-06, 06:57:09

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The petals of the flowering 'Kwanzan' cherries are rapidly falling with warmer weather settling in so I decided to post this before it is too far out of season. So many things are blooming now, I'm falling behind.

Yesterday it looked like light pink snow falling when the wind picked up a bit. The pictures were taken about a week ago. They are of the purple leaf mutation 'Kwanzan' and the normal one. I thought the purple leafed 'Kwanzan' was so lovely, we bought two to grace the front of the house. They seem to be less robust than the normal one and because of that much more graceful.


Purple leaf mutation of the 'Kwanzan' flowering cherry. . . .

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The petals of the flowering 'Kwanzan' cherries are rapidly falling with warmer weather settling in so I decided to post this before it is too far out of season. So many things are blooming now, I'm falling behind.

Yesterday it looked like light pink snow falling when the wind picked up a bit. The pictures were taken about a week ago. They are of the purple leaf mutation 'Kwanzan' and the normal one. I thought the purple leafed 'Kwanzan' was so lovely, we bought two to grace the front of the house. They seem to be less robust than the normal one and because of that much more graceful.


Purple leaf mutation of the 'Kwanzan' flowering cherry. . . .

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Evergreen Candytuft
Iberis sempervirens
(eye-BEER-is) (sem-per-VY-renz)


Here is another plant that I can’t really grow because the deer love it. There has been a little patch growing on the Estate in some cracks in the rock work. If it sticks head above the rocks it gets munched. It has kind of adapted to that and flowers below the rocks but hasn’t been able to spread. In general it likes soil that is average and it has be well draining. . . .

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Evergreen Candytuft
Iberis sempervirens
(eye-BEER-is) (sem-per-VY-renz)


Here is another plant that I can’t really grow because the deer love it. There has been a little patch growing on the Estate in some cracks in the rock work. If it sticks head above the rocks it gets munched. It has kind of adapted to that and flowers below the rocks but hasn’t been able to spread. In general it likes soil that is average and it has be well draining. . . .

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This poor little Trillium decumbens (Trailing Trillium) made the mistake of growing in an area with an overabundance of grasshoppers. It looks a bit frazzled. I feel the same, when thinking about everything I need to get caught up on in the coming week. . . .

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Posted by Rurality Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2008-05-06, 06:44:09

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This poor little Trillium decumbens (Trailing Trillium) made the mistake of growing in an area with an overabundance of grasshoppers. It looks a bit frazzled. I feel the same, when thinking about everything I need to get caught up on in the coming week. . . .

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If you are having one of those days, here you are: Flowers from the garden over the last week:

Irises in the front garden. . . .

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Posted by Wicked Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2008-05-06, 06:43:19

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If you are having one of those days, here you are: Flowers from the garden over the last week:

Irises in the front garden. . . .

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Last April my beautiful Betty magnolia was frozen in the bud and I wasn't able to enjoy her beautiful blooms.

This April has passed without a hard freeze and so Betty has now graced us with her beauty for more than a week now. The purple you see behind Betty are my neighbors Lilacs. . .

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Posted by Carolyn gail Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, trees, weather on 2008-05-06, 06:38:54

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Last April my beautiful Betty magnolia was frozen in the bud and I wasn't able to enjoy her beautiful blooms.

This April has passed without a hard freeze and so Betty has now graced us with her beauty for more than a week now. The purple you see behind Betty are my neighbors Lilacs. . .

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Posted by Carolyn gail Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, trees, weather on 2008-05-06, 06:38:54

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Wordless Wednesday

It looks like someone got creative when they were trying to come up with an idea for their extra petunias! . . .

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Posted by A wildlife gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2008-04-30, 06:23:53

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I'm serious.

Come and visit.

Come and visit us and swim in our rat infested pool.

Ignore that last comment.

It really is lovely here.

Especially if you like small, furry mammals.

Ignore that one as well.

Please.

Here are some of the nicer things that we see everyday. . . .

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It may be a cold spring, but in the cloche, it's another world. The borage is blooming. It will be a long time before we see blooming borage in the world outside the cloche. . . .

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Posted by Petunia's Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, tools on 2008-04-29, 06:29:29

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April 28, 2008

The two plus weeks of unusually fine spring weather turned cold yesterday afternoon and t-shirt weather turned to sweaters and sweat shirts. It started raining when I left here this morning at 5:15 and by my return home tonight the buckets along the path had well over an inch of rain. Currently it's 44 degrees and the wind comes and goes in gusts . Despite all those days of 65 and above, I can still see snow covering the lower astilbes. It is truly an interesting spring. . . .

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Posted by George Africa Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2008-04-29, 06:28:51

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Today was a busy day in the garden. We put the black mulch down, and did all sorts of tidying. Also planted some pansies in containers. (It's still a bit early for a good selection of perennials, but plenty of pansies everywhere.)

Pansies



This is the earliest we've ever put down mulch, I think. It seems like the black mulch has been really good for the garden. My husband said he thinks the black mulch helps things grow faster, and I told him it was more likely the warm front that was stalled over our area giving us many days of T-shirt weather in April, when it's usually much cooler. . . .

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Posted by Karen Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2008-04-29, 06:28:23

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It's overcast and 53 degrees right now, which is probably as good as it's going to get today. I started moving rocks around to the new beds but I got sidetracked by a few bloomers. So instead of working on the new beds, I took some pictures. I don't know if we'll see a frost so better shoot the flowers before they are mush, since the lows have been in the 30's.

Large tulips that we bought from Brecks 9 years ago.

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The pride of my garden, the jewel of my yard, the magnolia tree in my back yard that is bigger than my house has burst forth in a brilliant explosion of herbavarian sexuality.There is no grander sight than an ancient magnolia in full and unfrost scathed bloom. And I can truly use the word ancient here. . .

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I enjoyed seeing the use of flamboyant tropical plant material in this ancient Japanese art. . .

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