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WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH

Office Girl wants a gardening question. Ok. What flowers are coming up in your area and what is your favorite of them?

Posted - April 1, 2019
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  • 6098
    Thank you Sharon!  On our property we still have quite a number of crocus up, some scilla, and forsythia and red maple flowers on the verge of blossoming.  Should have some dandelions and violets very soon.  Next door there is a yellow flower out I am not familiar with, some snowdrops still as well as a southwestern (nursery) witch-hazel bush in lovely yellow bloom. This post was edited by officegirl at April 1, 2019 3:26 PM MDT
      April 1, 2019 10:38 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    No problem.  I like to talk about everything and I am happy to discuss all the things non-political that you may want to discuss.

    My god.  You have all the flowers I have not seen in forever.  

    Mostly around  here are the things that live no matter what heat hits them.  Of course there are loads of cacti and Roses manage to thrive and Bougainvilla.

    The rest manage to live a few months and then the heat hits.  I love flowers and wish I could grow more varieties. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at April 1, 2019 3:27 PM MDT
      April 1, 2019 10:42 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Northeastern.  Not too far inland from the ocean.  I have had a garden since 2012.  My very first since I  never owned land or a house before.  Not the greatest but enjoyable. Started out as a rain garden but later extended it to include some non-native plants. Plowed up half our front lawn for it.  Started work for the season just last weekend - cleaning up , pruning, and laying some topsoil down. Drought my greatest discouragement.  Last year enough rain but was ill prepared for it .  Think I perhaps watered only once or twice all fall.  Love leaves as well as flowers. 
      April 1, 2019 10:55 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I envy anyone that has a garden.  I grew up with a back yard in Illinois that had such great soil you could grow anything.  I miss that so much.  I wish I could grow my own food.  If anything makes me sell this house and move someday that will be it.  I need DIRT to grow things again.    I just have a small strip around my property of crappy soil that is mostly sand.  And we cannot grow whatever we please because it is run by an Association.
      April 1, 2019 11:11 AM MDT
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  • 34479
    We have the yellow Easter flower and some kind of a purple flower coming up right now. I like the purple one.

      April 1, 2019 10:42 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    LOL.  It might be the crocus that Office mentions.  I don't know.  There are loads of purple ones.  
      April 1, 2019 10:44 AM MDT
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  • 34479
      April 1, 2019 10:48 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    YEP CROCUS. ... or close enough....

    I had those guys when I lived in Chicago.  They are so pretty and so delicate they do not last long enough. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at April 1, 2019 3:27 PM MDT
      April 1, 2019 10:50 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Crocus!
      April 1, 2019 10:56 AM MDT
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  • 46117
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    I did manage to plant a few rose bushes.  I have these.  
      April 1, 2019 11:11 AM MDT
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  • The cherry tree in our front yard is blooming today!  It's amazing and I love it.
      April 1, 2019 11:36 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I had a crabapple tree in my backyard in Chicago.  It never was used for the fruit but we loved the pink blossoms, probably a lot like your tree, but you have a better MUCH better fruit to enjoy.
      April 1, 2019 12:31 PM MDT
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  • Ours is an ornamental cherry tree ... it would be nice if we could eat them.  :)

      April 1, 2019 1:40 PM MDT
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  • I hate gardening because I’m no good at it,  and it gives me an inferiority complex.  

      April 1, 2019 11:37 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    It's okay.  You are in the majority.  No one gardens any longer here in the USA.  I mean there are gardens, but it is not common and expected like when I was growing up.  Everyone had yards back then.  
      April 1, 2019 12:58 PM MDT
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  • Morels are popping up.  Should start to  see fiddleheads, crocuses,and ramps in a week or two.
      April 1, 2019 11:47 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Ramps?  
      April 1, 2019 12:32 PM MDT
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  • Or wild leeks.  Not leeks like you but in the store,  they are native wild onion that's kinda garlicky.
      April 1, 2019 12:37 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Are you calling me A LEEK?  I don't know how to respond to that. YOU BIG ONION YOU.
      April 1, 2019 12:59 PM MDT
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  • a ton of lilacs but also pink lady slippers which are my fav 
      April 1, 2019 12:40 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Both Awesome.  

    I am a big Lilly of the Valley fan too.


     
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    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at April 1, 2019 3:29 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    That is not a lily of the valley - that is a lady slipper orchid.  

    This is lily of the valley.

    This post was edited by SpunkySenior at April 1, 2019 3:29 PM MDT
      April 1, 2019 3:21 PM MDT
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  • 44659
    None yet. We still had snow yesterday. I expect the crocuses to poke through soon. We do have an indoor Christmas cactus that blooms twice a year.

      April 1, 2019 3:32 PM MDT
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