Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

[wtg]

Shades of green in wtg's very shady garden. With a flower or two thrown in.

Hosta 'June' (foreground) with @adagiom 's favorite anemone invader:

Past prime, Virginia bluebells, anemones, and Hosta 'Golden Tiara':

Various hostas, plus a primrose that I don't recall the botanical name of:

Pulmonaria, more hostas and anemones, and a mushroom sculpture (present from my Mom, years ago - there are two others of different sizes in my yard):

Future gooseberry jam:

[Bernard]

You are way ahead of us, wtg. We are at the daffodil stage.

[wtg]

Nice daffodils, @bernard !

Meanwhile, I am finishing up swapping out my old cedar garden beds and installing the metal ones. I had two cedar ones, a 3x8 and a 4x8. The 3x8 still has some life left in it:

There's a good bit of rot in the bigger one. That lower part of the post is hanging on by a thread. But I figure someone could make it into a 4x4 bed if they can't figure out a way to compensate for the rotting post...

I put a free listing up on craigslist and someone is coming to get them tomorrow!

[AndyD]

Neighbour's azaleas

[Bernard]

Ugh. The lilac has a bunch of buds in formation, the flowers on the Rhododendron are just emerging. I just checked tonight's weather: low of 27F. Probably going to kill all the buds.

[AdagioM]

@wtg Your anemones are pretty! Ours are pink, but they don’t bloom until later, and they bloom on very tall stems above the foliage.

[wtg]

@AdagioM The stems on mine got longer, so they are dancing well above the foliage.

I do love the way they look and they seem to be both disease- and rabbit-resistant. However, as you've noted in the past, they do tend to invade the garden. I cleaned out an area of "volunteers" a couple of years ago. And I started deadheading the remaining plants to prevent the seeds from forming and re-populating the garden.

Seems to be working.

[Bernard]

Update. The good news is that the Rhododendron buds and flowers survived last night's freezing temps. I don't know about the Lilac because the buds are still quite small, only time will tell. Fingers crossed.

[AndyD]

Last year MrsA and daughter#2 went to Amsterdam and now we have

[Steve Miller]

Kim planted Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Hydrangeas in the bare flowerbed in front of her house. Digging wasn’t easy - turns out there is a big stump in the center of it and lots of roots.

Does anyone have experience with stump killing? We’re told it was a Wisteria and it’s starting to come back.

[Steve Miller]

Today’s task is to clear out some of the carnage from the last winter. They each have a tiny bit of growth at the base but I’m informed that they’re not coming back.

Japanese Maple - the first one I planted:

Weeping Atlas Cedar:

Not shown is a small lace leaf Japanese Maple that I was learning to shape with bonsai wire. Nice shape but not coming back.

They were all rated for zones a lot colder than mine. Not sure what I’ll replace them with.

[wtg]

@Steve-Miller said:

Does anyone have experience with stump killing?

I always dig stuff up if it's smallish. Larger trees have been ground out by the arborist.

Wisteria is pretty tenacious. I'm guessing that both manual labor and glyphosate will be required.

[AndyD]

@Steve-Miller, sad losing those. I recall asking a professional gardener how to check if unsure a bare branch and whole tree was dead.
He simply snapped each near the end then nearer the trunk. Dry is dead, sappy or green alive.

[AndyD]

Wisteria can be a vigorous pain... I'd drill into and add poison to the very short stump.