Saturday, March 31, 2012

Bloomin' Garden

Our first flowers of spring have appeared.  Everyday I like walking through the garden, taking a look at the progress made by our plants.  I snapped these photos yesterday.


Clockwise from top left:
1. Chocolate rhododendron: This is perhaps the only rhodie flower/foliage combination I like.  Matt and I picked this up from a neighbor who was having a plant sale.  Matt loves rhododendrons.  I prefer them without flowers.  I know, I'm strange.  (Update: It's possible this is not a chocolate rhododendron.  We got two rhodies from our neighbor, but I don't know which is which!)
2. Oregon grape: A native.  I know this is not a picture of the flower, but look at that color!
3. One of our plum trees: I'm hoping the other two are going to bloom soon.  Otherwise, no plums.
4. Red Flowering Currant: Another lovely native.  I can't wait until  our red flowering currants are mature.  I've spotted a few around town and they're spectacular this time of year.
5. Our neighbors' evergreen clematis

What do you have blooming in your garden now?

4 comments:

  1. I'm loving your new blog, Amanda! It makes me long for a garden of my own...someday. We do have a beautiful camellia bush blooming right now, as well as some freesia, and our rosemary bush has some lovely little purple flowers.

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    1. Camelia's are lovely! I hope you'll have space/time for a garden at your new place!

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  2. It looks lovely. I love the color of the oregon grape. I might not have a garden, but what I do have is water cress growing on my windowsill and some chili plants that are being pre-sewn. Also, I got small part of a BANANA plant from work today. That one will obviously live inside and wont carry any bananas, but I still like the thought and look of it.

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    1. That's neat, Fanny! I've noticed a lot of banana trees around here too. The climate doesn't allow for them to actually bare fruit, but they're nice to look at!

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