Fertilizer Friday - Flaunt Those Flowers!

It's Fertilizer Friday so be sure to go over and visit our hostess Tootsie after you leave here and see what's blooming in everyone's gardens! And while you’re there why not join in on the fun. I got a surprise in the mail - Sweet Bay sent me 3 Yarrow plants. She had them all potted up so nice they’re ready to plant. They didn’t seem to be phased by travel in the least! I can’t wait to see them bloom next year!
A close up of this beautiful heart - don't ya just love it? Hope it blooms as long as they say!.
The other day I was reading Catherine’s post over at A Garden In Progress and she said she hadn’t been to a nursery for a while and wanted to go. Then she came back and showed all of her new flowers. This made me think that’s what I wanted to do. Life has been so stressful around here lately with running back and forth to the hospital and then over to my parents house after they brought Dad home that I haven’t done anything fun for myself. So I promptly left her post and headed for a nursery too! Since not much new is blooming in my gardens I’ll show you what I bought that day – and it’s all Catherine’s fault that I got these beautiful new flowers but it’s also her fault that now I have a truckload of work to do planting them! ;-) The Mums I bought last week are still waiting to be planted to so I’d best get busy.
A new Dicentra Bleeding Heart, Burning Hearts is suppose to bloom from March to September.!
And then I found these Lilies that weren't named - just Hybrid Lilies. They were definitely screaming my name with their beautiful wine color - they're actually a bit darker than shown.
A new Chocolate Creeping Jenny. Is this gorgeous? And it's evergreen! My other Creeping Ginny is fairly young so I don't remember if they are normally evergreen or not.
I fell in love with the dark foliage on this Euphorbia Blackbird. Next I want the other Euphorbia with the light green foliage and huge stalk. Can't remember the name of it.
Matrix Sunrise
Catherine's Littlest Gardener had a beautiful Winter Pansy and I decided I wanted one. I've always thought Pansies were gorgeous but thought they were annuals and I had other annuals I bought so didn't get them. When I heard these bloom all winter and were perennials I decided I had to have some. This one is Rose Blotch
Pink Shades
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What's Happening In My Gardens

I think since I have so many plants coming now I’ll just do half. I don’t want to bore everyone with too many little sprouts and tiny blooms all at once. They’ll get bigger cause we’re getting sun this weekend to make everything grow.

I was very excited to see some new growth on my Hardy Fuchsia Santa Claus. I already had spotted some on Double Otto. Now I have 2 more to check on and hope they come back. They are on the graves of our two little dachshunds Prissy and Schatze. Up there I have Phyllis and Brutus. Phyllis has the slightest bit of growth starting to show so I'm pretty confident that Brutus will too. They are in a lot of shade up there so they take a little longer to bloom. But this was their first year so I was especially anxious to know if they made it through our harsh winter. I've also planted Columbines around our two little friends graves and they are doing well. We lost Schatzee last year and I wanted to make changes to the flowers up there.
Hardy Fuchsia Santa Claus

Another plant I was concerned about was not having seen any Hostas yet. Guess I was needlessly anxious about them because they are all peeking through in three different places. One we moved last fall and it wasn't looking good then so I'm happy to see it's back.

The Calla Lilies are finally peeking through and there's a viola that popped up next to them. I eventually plan on having Callas line the whole front of the house to cover the foundation and they will make a nice backdrop for other flowers.

My Japanese Painted Fern is also showing now.

Around the corner from them still in a shaded area I have Brunnera Jack Frost he's getting bigger but his leaves are still a lot smaller than usual when it's blooming. Usually they are around 6" long or more but this year are only half that size. Hopefully he'll be full size soon.

Pulmonaria Smokey Blue

Jacobs Ladder Blue Pearl

Dicentra Spectabilis or Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart

The Columbines in here are looking good and so is my Heuchera Plum Pudding - just a wonderful wine color with silver in the foliage.


Down a little farther where a little more sun comes into the bed is an Armeria loaded with blooms.


Down that side of the house are also some other plants I started and planted last year that are showing green. A Weigela, Abelia, Red Valerian, Sedum Linda Windsor, Sedum Autumn Joy.I was concerned about my Spirea Little Princess because she looked brown and pretty lifeless but she's got new growth on her so I can relax now.
Spirea Little Princess

My Flowers Are Finally Blooming . . .

We’re getting a jump on the weeding around this place. This shady side area started out to be a fern garden and then I started adding other things. A friend put in Calla Lilies and in front of them she put a green with white trim Hosta and it looked so good – almost like it was one flower because the white in the Hosta matched the Calla so well. I don’t know if you can see it in the picture or not but what the nursery sold me as 2 of the same Hostas are not looking alike and didn’t last year either. One is a lot bigger and has more of a yellow cast to the trim. Not to mention they are a lot bigger than what I had wanted. So I think I’ll just get a couple of smaller ones and put these somewhere else. In this garden I have a couple of ferns, Callas, Hardy Fuchsia santa claus, New Zealand Brass Buttons looks like a little fern groundcover and Saxifraga London Pride in the front right corner. It’s bloom has a long stem sticking up with this tiny little flower but after taking the picture and looking closely I couldn’t believe how beautiful it is – like someone took a brush and spattered paint all over it.
I never would have expected to see a bloom like this on Saxifraga London Pride Around the corner in a still shady bed are 5 Heucheras (3 different kinds), 2 different Columbines, 2 different Bleeding Hearts, Jacobs Ladder, Heathers, Armeria, Jack Frost, Hardy Orchid, Pulmonaria, Hardy Fuchsia Double Otto and 2 Hostas. I put my new Heuchera Snow Angel in an old tub I found at an estate sale to give it added height behind Heuchera Plum Pudding, who is behind Jack Frost but hopefully will be taller when full grown. If not I’ll have to move it over a bit. I had Bob divide up the Callas and line them all across the bed to give a green background through the summer. It should look great when it fills in.
Bleeding Hearts
Wild Bleeding Hearts
Heuchera Snow Angel
Heuchera Plum Pudding
Jacobs Ladder
The Columbines are blooming and first is my newest one Winky Rose.
A front shot
Cardinal Song
Purple/wine colored Columbine with white center.
Front shot.
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I thought this Purple Columbine was 3 ½ to 4 feet tall so I just measured it in full bloom and it is 45” tall.
A closer view.
A wash tub with Columbine Clementine Rose and some Creeping Charlie blooming.
Columbine Clementine Rose
Creeping Charlie blooming and he smells sooooo good.
Looks like I'll have to do more tomorrow because there is still more blooming for a change!

It's Fertilizer Friday . . . Flaunt Your Flowers!

It's Fertilizer Friday - let's see what's blooming . . .
It's Fertilizer Friday so be sure to go over and visit our hostess Tootsie and see what's blooming in everyone's gardens after fertilizing every Friday! Join in on the fun while you're there too.I just got this Beauty Berry Profusion less than a month ago and it needed some TLC and it has little berries on it already. I was really surprised!
This is another Campanula I have. It's a small one about 10" tall but the bloom is big like my tall Peachleaf. It's called Carpathian Harebell Blue Chips.
I believe this is Clematis Jackmanii - it was given to us and blooms like crazy.
Hot pink Ice Plant - Delosperma something.
The Lilies are blooming - they made it without a nibble!!!

A new dark one - I did a swap with the neighbor and she didn't know the name of it. A beautiful dark one.

Lychness

Malva Zebrina or known as a small Hollyhock
Red Hot Pokers
My bloomin' stairs filled with Wolley Thyme didn't bloom in every stair. Hmmm what to do. I have another set on the other side of the yard. We lined them up with the 2 stairways coming off of the deck for easier access to the upper yard.