lavender Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 The Down to Earth Garden Club has cancelled meetings for the next few months. Instead we are trading via email what is appearing in our yards. Most of us have hellebores blooming. Here are 3. Anybody else have anything? Pompeii and steelnut 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Someone who takes better pictures than I do sent me this crocus. The contrast between the orange pollen and the purple petals is incredible. Sanibel, Pompeii and steelnut 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Yellow hellebore. Sort of an odd man out as they are mostly shades of pink, purple and white. Also, one that grew from seed with an edging. These things are like weeds around here and they reseed readily. steelnut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Puschkinia or striped squill sent by a fellow gardener. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Some squill from my yard. They are all Chionodoxa of different sorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Forgot the hellebore Ellen sent me. It is the palest pink that I have seen so far. We started with 3 or 4 different colors and now have quite a few more from seedlings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaman Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Spring is here. They are already mowing grass in Erie. lavender 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 hours ago, jaman said: Spring is here. They are already mowing grass in Erie. I suspect ours will be getting mowed out of sheer boredom. Hope it survives the shelter at home edict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 More stuff is blooming. Let's start with the daffodils. I put in a mixed pack several years ago. They were a nice mix with some blooming early and some blooming late. Also a couple of hyacinths. They don't do particularly well in clay soil. Had to download these from the cloud hense the small pics. My iphone is refusing to send pictures. Driving me crazy. I've tried everything but throwing it against the wall. steelnut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 This odd grape hyacinth popped up. Think it might be Muscari armeniacum 'Blue Spike' There are lots of varieties. This isn't the weirdest but it gets close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanibel Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 That is odd, but pretty. It looks like purple broccoli! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) I grew purple broccoli once. Correction that was purple cauliflower. Had to eat it raw as it changed color when cooked. Edited April 28, 2020 by lavender Poor memory. Sanibel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 Ever see a pasque flower? It blooms around Easter hence its name. I don't have as many as I used to so maybe I'll collect some seeds and try to grow some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 Boredom was alleviated by something I found in the greenhouse today. Once upon a time I bought a white bird of paradise plant. I saw them growing in baskets in Florida and thought I got lucky when I found one at Lowe's. There must be more than one kind as this one subsequently grew to 9 or 10 feet tall and has never bloomed. No it hasn't bloomed yet but it did produce something interesting. Lo and behold when I watered today I found an earthstar fungus growing in the pot. Don't have a clue as to where it came from as I have never seen one in the yard. Maybe the spores came in with the potting soil. Who knows? Isn't it great? Lyndsey33 and Sanibel 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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