Last summer the Spiraea Thunbergii "Ogon" (Mellow Yellow) played a dramatic role as backdrop to the delicate surly Aquilegia Black Barlow. This without missing a beat as an important architectural shape in the border subtly greening through the season away from its sharp lemon spring hue. . ..

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This spring's forsythia in bloom
After the winter my forsythia looks usually looks like the picture below, that is, with only a bit of bloom at the bottom where there was snow cover. . . .

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This my first Daffodil ever. It's the Rhine Wine that I bought from the Chicago Botanic Garden sale last year. I love it! All the plants below are ones that I thought were goners. This first one is the Red Twig Dogwood. You may remember it and the others that follow from last year. They were my Charlie Brown Shrubs. I swear I thought all these were dead. . . .

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Mellow Yellow® Thunberg Spirea
Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon'
(spy-REE-ah) (thun-BERG-ee-eye)

These were blooming so well at work that I had to take a couple of pictures. They are very early blooming for Spirea and I guess it flowers early in general. After the flowers fade the foliage is a nice goldish-green and the fall color is lovely. This shrub seems pretty tough and it can get pretty big. However like most Spirea it can be sheared to keep it smaller. . . .

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Washington Gardener Enews Vol. 4, No. 4 — April 15, 2008 is now out and archived here.


In This Issue:
When to Prune Spring Flowering Trees and Shrubs
Magazine Excerpt: Elevated Edibles
April To-Do List
Spotlight Special: Garden Splendor
Reader Contest: Leesburg Flower & Garden Fest Passes
Local Gardening Events

Pictured here is my arch - moved from the backyard framing my pond entrance to the side yard -- to be covered soon in Clematis 'Sweet Autumn' and a yellow climbing rose , whose name escapes me right now. To the right you see the last of my Forsythia blooms still hanging on.

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, pruning, shrubs, trees on 2008-04-17, 06:33:12

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Ah, Spring!

Realization of the day:
I have no idea what this is but I love it.

It was here when I moved in, and is definitely my kind of plant: it flourishes in our crazy Missouri climate, requires no special treatment (or even attention), doesn't grow quickly enough to need pruning or shaping, and is never bothered by disease or destructive insects. . . .

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Carol at May Dreams invites garden bloggers to show what is blooming in their gardens on the 15th of each month. We were under a freeze warning last night which brought back memories of last year's awful freeze. I covered a few plants but fortunately the temperatures stayed above freezing. I took these photos after I got home from work today.

The most spectacular blooms right now are on the Chinese Snowball (Viburnum macrocephalum). This shrub is 12 years old and is about 15 feet tall. The blooms are huge. I still haven't figured how to prune this baby.

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When we first bought our house this forsythia bush was so large that you had to push your way past it. It was so large and out of control it was created an obstacle. Our roommate in a fit of rage severely pruned it back. Despite being blown to bits it has grown back every year and has continued to grow larger and larger needing frequent pruning. In a few weeks these yellow flowers will be replaced by bright green leaves.

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In Creative Homeowner's Gardening For All Seasons, it states that the "Common lilac is a good phenological indicator".


"Phenological indicators are natural timekeepers" supposedly better at telling us when to plant rather than going by the calendar or last frost dates. . . .

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me: "Hi Mr. Public Works Director, you left a note on my door saying you won't dispose of the shrubs that we removed from the front yard. . .

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I've got two soft cuttings of Jostaberry that have been sitting in water for a few weeks. They just began to sprout roots and the buds swelled up and have begun to burst with green.

I decided it was time they get a pot in the incubator...which is just my small area where baby plants stay until they are big enough to get a permanent home in my yard.

So, what is a jostaberry? Glad you asked. It's commonly thought of as a cross between a blackcurrent and a gooseberry. Here's what that online encyclopedia says (it's actually accurate this time).

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The more color the better.

Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick, or the Contorted Filbert or Hazelnut, (Corylus avellana 'Contorta') has never been hard to find in better garden centers, but is it by no means a common landscape shrub. Prized for its corkscrew-like stems it’s at its best in the winter and in early spring before the leaves emerge to hide its interesting stems. During the rest of the year it is a plant that simply fades into the background, unnoticed until the next winter. . ..

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I marvel at the fanciful pronunciations of plant names I sometimes indulged in before becoming a more diligent student of botany. I used to pronounce "cotoneaster," for instance, as if...

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I'll post my backyard Pink Hawthorne today and the Pink Hawthorne that is growing in the front tomorrow. The difference shows what a good pruning can do for your garden. The Pink Hawthorne in the backyard

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A new addition to the garden is a perennial shrub. It is adorned with beautiful blooms which are white and magenta with a yellow stamen.

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TOPIARY

This is my new "ballballconeballballcone flower bed" with Buxus that I planted last autumn.This picture is not a black and white photo, it's March... I thought that the winter was gone but oh no. I know ....it is pretty with snow but I'm so fed up with the winter and I want my garden to be in colour - lush and green! Come spring and make it green!Now and then, oh I really do prefere my garden in colour.

TYRA

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{{{This post was written for my website A Southern Garden}}}

This shrub is blooming beautifully in my garden today!

Alabama Snow Wreath. . .

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Shrubs are my new fixation, especially those with 3 to 4 seasons of interest. But shrubs can be expensive and you want to make sure you give them every chance...

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Even though I enjoy every minute I spend working in the garden, I have great appreciation for plants that don't require contsant attention. I talk a lot about my...

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Why do some of my trees and shrubs suffer winterkill some winters and not others? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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A combination of garden shrubs that I've always thought is way underutilized, is weigelas and old fashioned roses; in fact now that I think about it, I've never seen it mentioned anywhere. Not fancy enough, I guess.

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The azaleas are still blooming away, although it is quickly approaching the end. I hate to see them go, as they are so colorful and cheerful!

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Arctostaphylos pajaroensis "Paradise"
This is my favorite manzanita. The soft grey-green leaves are beautiful year-round, while the large sprays of small pink flowers in winter are spectacular. The new leaves come in deep red!

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When should I prune my lilacs? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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I am working all weekend, two long days. Here is the Lilac Tree buds yesterday thinking about opening. The strong gusts of wind stopped by last night, as though someone had switched them off.
The birds will keep an eye on my garden, and the bird seed when I'm out today and tomorrow. Enjoy your weekends wherver you are.

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This is one of those shrubs that obviously has two spellings of the name - one perhaps an Americanization of the true latin but with constant use it has been taken as a legitimate alternate spelling.

Now that it is in flower I am noticing the shrub in many older gardens and along a few hedgerows. Clearly it was popular in the early part of the 20th century and hasn't really come back into vogue, which is a shame.

The flower is definately sweet smelling and it has been in bloom for almost two weeks now and still going strong. The leaves are looking a bit drab though. The books say the bloom come out before the leaves, but in the south the leaves persist through the winter and are still there when the bloom arrives.

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{{{This post was written for my website A Southern Garden}}}


Winter Honeysuckle
Lonicera fragrantissima. . .

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Evergreen from a distance, that turned out to be...



American holly (Ilex opaca). . .

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Though spring is a ways away yet, there are some things you can do to bring a bit of it along a little sooner. One winter, I forced some Narcissus bulbs and loved their sweet white blooms. But Romie absolutely hated their smell and asked me not to do that again, so I haven't. . . .

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Sometimes that’s not a bad thing. (I’m not talking about Superbowl Sunday chili binges and consolation snacks for sad Patriots’ fans.) Deliciously spring-like temperatures and the weekend’s warming sun have started plumping up the buds - some fit to burst.

This willow in the nursery (labeled Salix ‘Mt. Aso’) couldn’t wait another moment to bust out its fiberoptic glow plugs and the witch hazel (Hamemelis x intermedia ‘Diane’) has begun uncreaking its crimps like an arthritic yogi. . . .

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Two fruity and flowery shrubs (at least) go by this name, both of them fine enough to give anybody pause.

Originally posted by Julie

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Several things this week. The first is that the cold of this past week isn’t going to hurt perennials and bulbs. They’re dormant and underground now, covered by a good bit of snow. So you can relax on that score. The second thing to understand is that broadleaf plants such as Rhododendrons are not going to be very happy with cold weather but they’re not too badly upset by cold and cloudy/stormy weather. . . .

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Could you use of little breath of spring about now? By February, most spring blooming trees and shrubs have had enough of a cold dormancy period. You...

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If I had a bigger garden, I'd plant more weigelas; I'd have rows and mounds and groves of them, blooming in white, red, and pink... everywhere you'd turn in May, the cardinal shrubs would be cascading with flowers... if I had a bigger garden.

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Common Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)

A neat shrub/groundcover of trailing habit (2-12″ high), and with flowers resembling those of the Arbutus, but much smaller. The leaves are entire, dark green in color, and about an inch long, and obovate or oblong in shape. They are alternately arranged on the stems. Fruit globular, of a bright red, smooth and shining.

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