That said, a few of these pictures are not in the rock garden, but I'll tell you which ones.
All these photos are staged. Not that I moved anything around except the camera, but I did work at trying to get a nice angle to capture the most different colors in one shot.
This one is the donkeytail (yellow) with pink moss phlox behind and above it. One grape hyacinth and one violet snuck into the corners.
I showed you this same view a few days ago, but it's much better now. The Erlicheer daffodils are in full bloom, and more of the grape hyacinths have opened.
Still in the rock garden... I purposely left a lot of common violets because they can nicely fill in spaces both with spring color and greens later. They are starting to bloom, and so is the moss phlox behind them. I used to have four colors of moss phlox- blue, white, this pink, and a candystripe one. So far all I'm seeing this year is pink, but it's early yet.
One more picture from the rock garden. Even though there is bare dirt between these two plants, I'm calling this a huge success. In the lower part is 'Firecracker' Sedum that I showed you more than once last year. The sedums are just starting to fill in and get their summer colors. This will spread even more as the season goes on, but the whole plant has only been in place for one year.
Above it, with the little purple flowers is a rock cress. I bought and planted a little 3" pot of this last year while holding my breath. It should be a perfect rock garden plant, but I have previously killed a couple of them. But look at it! I know there is nothing for scale, but it has definitely grown, even though it didn't look all that happy last fall. And, much to my surprise, it's blooming! Maybe it will even get more blossoms, but I took a picture now so I wouldn't miss it. As these two plants fill in the space better, there won't be that ugly stripe of bare dirt.
Now we will move to other garden spaces. This is in the front flower bed, and again I've shown you part of this already this year. However, now we have not only common blue primrose, with the 'Blackberry Wine' corydalis behind it, but we can add the yellow cowslip primrose, the tall one behind the corydalis. I moved all the primroses again last fall, so I'm pleased they tolerated it well.
Here's a daffodil that I'm not sure is a favorite, but I have lots of it, and I do enjoy the fact that it's a little different. This is Narcissus delnashaugh. Before it opens it looks as if it's going to be yellow and white, and then develops this peachy color. I show you this most every year, but it's very reliable.
And the last for today is another favorite of mine. This is the pure white Mt. Hood daffodil. They are also quite large.
I spent a lot of today getting ready for something that will happen tomorrow and Friday. I'll be blogging early tomorrow, and will tell you what I'm doing then!
Other than that... you know the drill. I edited, I wrote one of my columns, I did errands, I puttered.
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3 comments:
Everything looks great and so healthy. You've come a long way from where this was at a couple years ago.
Ann- thank you! That means a lot to me
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