After a hard winter ...

16 years ago

After a hard winter there's lots of hard work cleaning up the mess. We're about done with that and now we're starved for color.

Speaking of color, Four nerve daisy bloomed all winter long. Through freezes and sleet it never stopped blooming even once. Amazing! Don't know if it will do that every year though ....

Notice the stock tank we half buried. Should I paint it, antique it? And with what color?

With their upturned faces Mountain laurels always looks so happy ...

This is not the prettiest of the bunch, but it's the first of the hybrid columbines to bloom. This is a probably a third generation mix of a variety named Winkie and Hinkley's columbine. If you want some gorgeous colors plant those two heat tolerant varieties together and enjoy the rainbow hues of their progeny ...

About every three or four years we get a bumper crop of Santa Anna plums. I never spray it ...

Almost always the first and last rose to bloom -- Old Blush ...

But the most colorful and sweetest thing that keeps going and going and going is the 'Mulch Guy' :-) shown here sweeping off a new brick walk he's laying. Ah, retirement is wonderful ...

There are quite a few plants that may not come back. I think the Thyralis is gone for good. The Blue crown passion vine shows no signs of life and it is usually evergreen. Not sure about the Rangoon creeper yet, but I think it is a goner. Well, I am thrilled that I had a couple of years enjoyment of it's fragrant blooms.

I would love to see how your gardens are coming along! Post your pictures on this thread if you want to.

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roselee z8b S.W. Texas
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16 years ago

Here's "Winkie" and one of the colors from the mixture of "Winkie" and Hinkley's columbine:

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rcnaylor
16 years ago
Thanks Roselee. Nice pics.

But, I'm not too sure hope and spring go together in the same sentence in Amarillo just yet. Our high yesterday was 37 with a 27 degree windchill and possible snow is forecast for Saturday. (But, hey, I am a volunteer here, so I guess I can't complain too much!)

Keep those pics where it really is spring rolling.
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carrie751
16 years ago
Not quite Spring here in North Texas either, Roselee, but it is on it's way. You are at least two to three weeks ahead of us. Looking good down San Antonio way though.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks guys!

BTW, I think those plum blooms are from a Santa Rosa plum tree, not Santa Anna ... LOL
carrie751
16 years ago
"A rose by any other name", Roselee ..............LOL>
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
11 years ago
Testing to see how far back we could search old posts and this is the first one that came up. I'm happy to say that the plants mentioned above as 'iffy' on returning after a hard winter all came back ... :-)
PKponder TX Z7B
11 years ago
Beautiful color and I enjoyed your blooms. Thanks Roselee!
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
11 years ago
Wow your garden is so far ahead of mine . My columbine and redbuds are far away from blooming . Things still look darn wintery. I found the winter not Hard but cool and wet for long periods, nut no drastic dips after the first scary November one. We staid in the upper 20's as our low except for one tiny dip to 19 on one night.
phoenix7801
11 years ago
Mara this is a post from years back
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
11 years ago
lol... They are not ahead of me , they are WAY behind me!
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
11 years ago
Laughing ... in more ways than this, Mara!

But I noticed the Mexican Red Bud is showing color. That might be from the recent warm spell and they may get nipped if we have a hard freeze.
Vulture61
11 years ago
I think we are having an "early" spring this year. A lot of my plants are showing growth already. However, very few spring-flowering trees or plants are blooming. Weird.

Omar