The Amen! of nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Homes Sr.
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| Azalea |
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| Same as above, Salmon? |
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| Lavender |
Is this Azalea salmon? No? It was last year when I bought it. What happened? As near as I can figure out we put Aluminum Sulphate on it. We were putting Iron on them to make the leaves green and Aluminum Sulphate raises the acid and azaleas love acid. We put it on the Hydrangeas to change color never thought that it might change the color of the Azaleas. I am hoping it will not change all of them. I have one in my front called lavender, which is my favorite color. I hope it was not changed. You know we learn by trying different things, sometimes it turns out fine sometimes not. We learn by making mistakes, if this Azalea stays this color fine, if it goes back to salmon, fine. Now we know no more Aluminum Sulphate on Azaleas. One year we fertilized them before they bloomed, mistake, new growth very few blooms. If you read my blog you may learn something not because I am smart but because of my mistakes! Ha! After awhile I should know quite a bit because I make a lot of mistakes. My Camellias are still blooming. They have been since the end of November. The ones that have finished blooming you can trim up, fertilize and put iron on them to make the leaves pretty and green. Transplant any plant that needs to be moved. Carrel moved a Hydrangea and two roses all are doing good. Plant Gladiola bulbs in two week intervals from now to May. We can leave ours in the ground here.
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| Red Camilla |
My red Camellia is a late bloomer, there are different types. I want the early type, but it is nice to have some blooming now. I really like this full one. November through February is when we need blooms more than any other time. March we have Spring blooms (some of my daffodils and Hyacinths have bloomed) this has been a crazy year. Usually the roses start in April, it would not surprise me if they bloomed in March. Some of my Gerber Daises are budding but some bloomed just about all winter.
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Old Iris
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Carrel moved these Irises out of his flower bed and planted them in my back yard against the fence. I am going to move some of these to my front flower beds. They smell good and are neat don't get so heavy they fall down and they bloom earlier than the others I have. I also need dark purple in the front beds. It is a while before any of the others bloom.
Red with yellow
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| Red with yellow |
Does this Daffodil look pink? I order pink, they said they sent me pink. Brecks is bad about this. Last summer I ordered one purple Phlox they sent me two, that was nice. I ordered six mixed Phlox, they sent me twelve, that was nice. I thought they would send them in the fall in containers. They sent them in the summer bear root. All of them that lived are purple. Some one there can not read. I am going to call them about these daffodils, and order any thing that matters what color it is from Parks seed.
I hope you enjoyed reading this blog page. Thank you for watching my garden grow and bloom and hope you will grow one of your own. Happy gardening to you from me. Juanita
We went shopping Saturday, March,17,2012 for flowers, of course. What else would any flower lover buy between now and May. Carrel finally understands you don't just have roses in your yard but try to have many different plants blooming at different times, so you will have color all year. I really wanted him to buy a red one like mine because they bloom from late November to the end of February, he chose this one and would not listen to his Wife. He also bought the Debutant like mine. It is a lovely pink and it looks a little like a carnation. When it was in bloom I thought about the song "White Sports Coat and a pink Carnation" with Jim Reeves. Of course I spent the most money as always. I want my yard to have flowers every inch. 
Well maybe not that close, my favorite are Gladiolas. A very nice friend from face book sent me some bulbs. I am going to get out early in the morning and plant them. I want them to bloom in the summer when everything gets a little dull. I am well pleased that Carrel is finally planting to have flowers all year. One of my purchases was a Gardenia, they smell so good. I bought several smaller flowers. A six pack of Tobacco plants, one red Carnation, and planted most of them around my roses.When I look down in between my roses I want to see flowers and not just pine straw. We went to our favorite nursery Selmans in Eudora. I want to plant some bright red Azaleas. A friend across the empty lot has one in her back yard and I can see it from my door. I also bought five purple cascading petunias, to hang from my Shepperd's hook. I have ordered the passion flower vine but they have had to put it on back order. I hope I get it soon so it will bloom this summer. One of my Parks order came in Thursday with ten 'Salvia greggli 'Furmans Red'. They looked great on their site, the picture showed a humming bird drinking nectar. However unless the flower is bigger than what they were when they arrived, I don't know how the humming bird will find them. I was not real happy. But I need a red flower to put in this bed that will feed the humming birds and draw them to my feeders. I do not want to plant so many annuals. It is getting a little hard on us in our "golden years.'
This is a tobacco flower, at least that is what Liz at Selmans told me her Mother called it. They come in red and yellow. 
We went shopping Saturday, March,17,2012 for flowers, of course. What else would any flower lover buy between now and May. Carrel finally understands you don't just have roses in your yard but try to have many different plants blooming at different times, so you will have color all year. I really wanted him to buy a red one like mine because they bloom from late November to the end of February, he chose this one and would not listen to his Wife. He also bought the Debutant like mine. It is a lovely pink and it looks a little like a carnation. When it was in bloom I thought about the song "White Sports Coat and a pink Carnation" with Jim Reeves. Of course I spent the most money as always. I want my yard to have flowers every inch. 
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