Gardening, anyone?

GmaFoley

Our mountain is covered with daffodils.

GmaFoley

Bleeding hearts - need a new plant - want to grow these again.

Jazzygirl

GMA- so beautiful. Spring is happening your way.

I am still waiting for the fruit trees to bloom, they have looked ripe and ready for a good week now and the weather has been warm too!

GmaFoley

Nope that was for years Passed - I need to find a new plant. The only thing blooming here is:

Yogatyme

Gma, lovely daffodils! I have been trying to grow bleeding hearts for years.....I think I may finally had success! Planted 2 a couple of years ago and they were beautiful last year. Fingers crossed for this year!!

Jazzygirl

GmaFoley

Yogatyme, My DH accidentally rototilled them a couple of years ago and never got new ones. Might go try to find them this year.

Jazzygirl

Red bud blooms

GmaFoley

The robins are out.

Jazzygirl

Suddenly everything is out

GmaFoley

Waiting for these before I start my garden this year. We are supposed to have another snow storm this weekend.

Jazzygirl

The world is a heavy place right now. So something to make us all feel a bit lighter today

GmaFoley

Jazzygirl

Weeping cherry about to bloom

GmaFoley

Not sure what this is but is growing wild in our field.

Jazzygirl

Looks like a wild hyacynth?

Teka

I am enjoying the lovely and fun pics!

March will now feel less dreary. Husband brought daffodils home.

This chipmunk snacking on unsalted roasted in-shell peanuts came throughout the frigid winter.

Yogatyme

It is a yellow world in our part of the state. The pine pollen is everywhere and hoping for a good rain tomorrow. Too bad the covid 19 isn’t as visible!

Jazzygirl

More spring blooms

Teka

Jazzy,

Lovely blooms!

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I am still trying to get rooted X-mas cactus cuttings to live long enough to become plants. The previous rooted cuttings rotted at their base. I now have rooted cuttings living in cactus potting mix. I would love to grow many plants!

Wren44

If they're rotting at the root, I would suspect over watering. I think I've started them by laying the leaf on top of the soil and letting the roots develop that way.

Jazzygirl

Not my photo, but a picture of the poppies in bloom in southern NM from Facebook

Wren44

Wow! That would be worth going to see.

Jazzygirl

I photo of a weeping cherry bloom from my back yard. Unfortunately, the birds have been picking my tree bare of the stunning blooms so I don't think I will have a good photo of the full tree in bloom to share with you. But I think I solved a mystery just because I am home more here in March and figured this out.

Last year, I had noticed that the cherry was not doing as well with the spring blooms. I have lost trees in the past due to bores and one side of the tree did not look healthy. I pruned that back the summer before last and the tree actually never looked fuller and more healthy than last summer. I thought the poor bloom last spring was related to a sickly tree.

Anyways, what I have observed from my bedroom window this March is rosie red finches systematically picking the blooms off. They drop the flowers and seem to be eating whatever is underneath (perhaps the seed from the beginning of the fruit). What changed? I moved the feeder to the back yard a couple winters ago. I need to find a new place for the feeder next winter. Plus I have a family of quail that visit and they eat off the bottom branches too. The struggle is real.

Enjoy the bloom!

GmaFoley

Dozer watching DH rototill LOL

JoE777

The first blooming of my 6 year old lemon tree and first honey bees

JoE777

My 13 year old grandson's cucumber garden.

JoE777

My milkweed disappears as quickly as I plant it or leafs out. Ravenous monarch catapillars are even eating stems.

GmaFoley

We had cold rain and snow around us - No planting for us yet.

Teka

April Fools' Day!

No fooling.

My 1st crocuses in bloom.

Wren,

I also feel over watering.

Jazzy,

I would love to see pics of the family of quail.

Gma,

Dozer soaking up the sun.

JoE,

The monarch caterpillars look ready to cocoon.