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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2018

    *Blessings2011* *JBeans* *stellamaris*, welcome to the thread.

    I am enjoying the photos, chitchat and information!!!

    Our red japanese maple has survived 35 frigid Winters. I'll post a photo when the stunted tree leafs out.

    ;o)

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2016

    What a sweet legend!

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited March 2016

    Hi, Teka!  I sure wish this board had "LIKE" buttons! Love the pussy willow legend....

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2018

    Thank You!! :o)

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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited March 2016

    Dh and I had a walk-about the azalea trail at Callaway Gardens. I love photographing their plants and flowers to get ideas for my garden.

    Scottie

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2018

    Such lovely colors!!

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited March 2016

    Scottie - beautiful! You have cardinals in Georgia?

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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited March 2016

    Blessings, we have lots of Cardinals here. At least two pairs live in my yard year round. Probably because we have too many bird feeders. I miss our annual humming birds though.

    Scottie

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  • TwoHobbies
    TwoHobbies Member Posts: 2,118
    edited March 2016

    Scottie, those are breathtaking I so miss spring in the south with the azaleas and dogwoods. We lived near Greenville, SC for a couple of years.

    Our grass is greening up, daffodils have their buds, neighbors crocuses are in bloom but nothing like the beautiful photos I've been watching here. We removed our old crab apple tree yesterday. It was planted too close to the house and had many dead branches and barely bloomed last year. I will miss those spring blooms though.

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  • woodstock99
    woodstock99 Member Posts: 338
    edited March 2016

    thanks everyone. We inherited the potted maple when we bought this house but have always had at least 1-2 wherever we have lived. Winter in Dallas can be mild or sometimes with bouts of cold, snow and ice so we have wrapped potted trees as too heavy to move and they all have survived. Lovely to see everyone's gardens and scenery. Joyful Easter to those who celebrate. May peace be with you today and always.

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2016

    Blessings, that is a clever use for the birdbath! I may try something similar. I have a birdbath that I'm not quite sure what to do with as we have an outdoor cat so I don't want to attract birds to water. I will have to see if I can find something suitable to perch on it. Besides, the past few years I've become enamored with garden sculptures, ones that speak to my soul. So you've given me a good idea.

    Balthus and Jackie, beautiful Japanese maples. I have one in my backyard too and love it. It isn't leafed out yet. It's lovely, but not nearly as lush and heavily branched as others I see around town. Not sure why, because we have great soil and its in a good location. I even tried fertilizer specifically for the type tree but it didn't do anything for it.The beautiful maroon color of the leaves is such an eyecatcher, and I love the yellow leafed one you have too, Jackie.

    Cute little poem about pussy willows.Teka.

    Scottie, the walk in that garden looks like it was breathtaking. My,my, I just loooove spring.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    Scottie- you have a great eye- beautiful collection of photos!

    Happy Easter to all!

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    More proof of life: I went outside to plant out some sweat peas and realized that what I thought was just leafing out of the wisteria are beaucoup blooms! A late cherry not far behind. The owners told me it fruits prolifically. And I witnessed a nice reblock of the wisteria in September last year! Oh joy!

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  • woodstock99
    woodstock99 Member Posts: 338
    edited March 2016

    My DH & I are rejoining the Cooper Fitness Center as birthday gifts to each other. My birthday was a few weeks ago (turned 63) & his is next Sunday - the big 60! It's pricey but close to home & work & the grounds are incredibly beautiful. We belonged about 12 years ago & dropped out but we both need to be back at a gym and know we will commit to going at least 3-4 times a week. We did a one mike walk today. So not my garden but a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Dallas. Hope everyone had a good day wherever you are

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  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 3,044
    edited March 2016

    Ladies.. I have so enjoyed reading your stories of how "spring has sprung" .. and seeing all your beautiful photos of buds and blooms, and reading your legend Teka.

    My hubby gave me a set of 20 solar garden lights ( instead of an egg for Easter) and I had great fun placing them around the garden.. Mostly up in the pots. I love them!!

    It's Monday here , but I hope you're all having a wonderful Easter.!


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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2016

    Balthus, not hard to get a one mile walk in when you're surrounded by such beauty!

    Happy Easter to all

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    We have a lot of northern flickers in the garden right now. I thought they were some kind of dove, but a friend straightened me out. Hear them celebrating!


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    Not my photo. Interesting, they look also something like downy woodpeckers. Just beautiful I think.


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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2016

    They are in the woodpecker family. One year we had 2 males on telephone poles about half a block apart drumming their little hearts out. It was a real racket. So far we've only heard light drumming.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    Wren- thank you for that tidbit! Everything makes more sense now. 🙏🏼

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  • JBeans
    JBeans Member Posts: 388
    edited March 2016

    Thanks for the welcome Teka.

    The pussy willows will be out here soon - I just love them. What a lovely story.

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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited March 2016

    One of my native azaleas. This one did not bloom last year.

    Scottie

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    Love native Azaleas! Beautiful color. Is it fragrant? The natives often seem to be while the commercially available hybrids are not.

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  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 3,044
    edited March 2016

    Scottie.. The azaleas are very pretty.!

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2016

    Ahhh, azaleas. Love them, too. They offer so much, beautiful flowers in the spring, evergreen leaves in the winter. I also like that they are slow growing and don't need trimmed every year like many other shrubs

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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited March 2016

    Divine. . .other than my encore azeleas, mine are finicky. The purple formosa's require bi-annual trimming and the native azaleas lose all of their leaves in the winter. Jackie. . .I'm not sure if they are fragrant. I've mostly been avoiding being outside with all of the pollen this year. I'm hoping my other native azaleas will bloom because they are still bare.

    Scottie

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  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 3,044
    edited March 2016

    Here's a photo of an Emperor Candle that just come out in flower. Its our "suprise plant" .. We didn't plant it but the seed must of come in the mulch we bought.! image

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2016

    Wow, spectacular flower, Lucy, I never heard of them or saw them before.. Rather magnificent

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2016

    Yesterday, I spent time in the yard, started getting some mulch down. I haven't mulched all the flowerbeds in one year since my son graduated high school in 2011 and we had his graduation party in the back yard (the party was lovely). This year, I want that "tended to" feeling again for all the flowerbeds.

    The thing is, I flower gardened for years up until I was diagnosed with bc, which was the year ds graduated. After the graduation party, I did not do anything in the yard for well over three years. Shrubs were overgrown, weeds and vines took over, you can imagine, and dh would wack them back with the weedeater and hedgetrimmer, but I lost desire to get out there. Then, one spring my interest was simply renewed. One thing that happened, we'd had a rough winter and numerous shrubs and small evergreens died and needed removed. Dh wrapped a cable around them, tied it to the back of the truck and we pulled them out. (It was so easy and fun). Somehow, their removal opened up new possibilities and I saw the yard in a different light and the creative side of me wanted back out there. I'm having more fun and it's more satisfying than ever.

    Here's one of the mulched beds with a couple of knockout roses, two purple azaelas, a red azaela in the middle along with a bit of lamb's ear.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    Divine- I'm so glad you found your joy in the garden again. I love the pic of the mulched bed. It is beautiful and serene. You have a good eye.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited March 2016

    Lucy- WOW!!! What a bonus in that bag of mulch! Quite avolunteer!
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