Flowers 2010

[Eric]

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Eric they are great when do we get to see the rest of the garden?
I have an old stoneware sink with white ones, they are just starting to go over it has got unseasonally hot here. They are bulbs from a Christmas present last year, I put them out in the garden because the smell is, although lovely, far too pungent for the house. I've three Belfast sinks stepping down into the lower garden, one has a honeysuckle growing over the shed, the hyacinths which will have sweetpeas following behind, and one usually full of winter pansies, but a certain little guinea pig made a feast of them. Cooper has been shouted at so many times now he knows his name!

well this weather around here is up and down so I'm hoping to have it done this week. last night it was snowing and got really cold 30*. I covered what I have done in hopes this cold system didn't kill them.

Flowers are my new hobbie, it helps me relax after 60+ hour work week LOL

As soon as I get this whole deal done I will snap a few shots.

[twisteroo]

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I like flowers that come back every year on their own. I used to plant dahlias, but the bulbs kept multiplying, and I'd have to dig them up and store them every year. I ended up with too many of them and too many flower beds and finally just gave up on them.
Now I just grow things I can eat, or smoke. I mean tobacco, I grow tobacco sometimes just to prove to people that you can grow and make your own cigarettes even though I don't smoke.

[Rhubarb]

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I like flowers that come back every year on their own.
Now I just grow things I can eat, or smoke. I mean tobacco, I grow tobacco sometimes just to prove to people that you can grow and make your own cigarettes even though I don't smoke.

A lazy gardener (if there ever is such a thing). Virtually all the garden runs itself, including the grass. We have a lawn mower but haven't used it for about 15 years, because the guinea-pigs keep it the right length and 'fertilised'. We have mostly bulbs or ornamental bushes, like St John's Wort and heathers. The lily have been doing really well until 2 years ago when I found lily bugs had moved in! I'm onto them this year
We grow cabbage in the flower bed and runner beans as a screen. They both started life as garden flowers before it was discovered they could be eaten, so we have continued with the idea, and mix flowers and veg' together, it looks great.

My grandad grew tobacco and rubbed it in with his favourite to 'stretch' it a bit further. I remember having to walk down a hallway to the bathroom with a ceiling of leaves overhead and potatoes in boxes and carrots in sand.

[Eric]

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well today me and My Family took the day off and drove over 200 miles today. we saw all sorts of beauty from our great state of west virginia and I got TONS of ideas for projects for our home.

anyhoo, at valley falls we ran into these flowers and we just loved them. Sadly no one there could tell us the names as we want them for our yard. So I will post a pic of them in hopes yall can help a man out.

   

[LH]

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Those are Tiger lillies I have them all over my yard anywhere you look they are like weeds.


Here is a quick pic that I just took. they close up at night and it is getting dark so this one was just curling in. The leaves that are next to it are other weeds and not the leaf of the plant. I like them because they bring in pollination bugs that help my vegetables. It's always good to mix your veg's with a few flowers.

[Eric]

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wow thanks. I know it may sound odd to ask, but what part of the country ( world ) do you live in? and do they do well in climates that receive snow?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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LH is in New Hampshire so he gets plenty of snow.

I've got tiger lilies in my lily bed with some other lily varieties and some Irises.

All you need is a few to start you off and they spread like wildfire.

[twisteroo]

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There is a patch of them right around the guard rail across the street, the grow wild and grow like hell too. They survive the cold, snow, road salt, etc, etc.....
They are just pretty weeds I guess.

[Rhubarb]

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A weed it a plant in the wrong place- that was my grandads saying. Everything including weeds have a use and one persons weed is anothers dream.
I have forgetmenots at the bottom of the garden and I encourage them because they grow fast and cover bald patches around the soak away. They are wild flowers along with the buttercups, I like both.
Grape Hyacinths on the other hand also are getting out of hand and I never planted them, and I dig up so many bulbs every year to hopefully get rid of them (and give them to my mum, who loves them).

[Eric]

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well I thought we had a section to post outdoor type stuff in but I must have missed it so I will post this in my flower thread. man here in the Hills this early to have Nice tomato's is rare ( atleast for us it is ) As you can see by clicking here we have a few in this box.

I am excited, cause my peppers are gettin' there and now the tomato's are to!