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Apr. 16th, 2005 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianPlanted 3 Pam's Choice foxglove (white flowers with deep red insides), 3 Apricot Delight foxglove, a Christmas Fern (all on Thursday night - auger drill and a digging fork made short work of it), and a Lavender (just used the auger - took longer to water it than it did to plant it).
Also located all of the bleeding hearts we planted last year - these were transplanted from my mom's yard, and include both dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding heart, sometimes called dwarf bleeding heart, a native, threatened in PA) and dicentra spectabilis (bleeding heart, or old fashioned bleeding heart). The astilbes are showing signs of life, as is the butterfly bush.
The snow crocus are pretty much done - we had most of them make a showing. Five out of 10 of Rachel's Queen of the Night tulips are forcing their way up, but I think they're still a ways away from flowering. More of the 3 different varieties of muscari (grape hyacinth, muscari dark eyes, and bicolor grape hyacinth) are showing foliage and signs of flower development (I think - this is the first year we've had them). One out of 15 English bluebells has poked its way out of the ground. Been dry for more than a week or so, and that, along with this being their first season of growing in our yard, might be contributing to the slow growth. Than again, I have no clue what their normal schedule would be under the best of circumstances.
The native red maples (or Norway maples - I haven't been able to differentiate, and I am waiting on leaves to do the leak-milky-sap-when-stem-is-broken test to verify) are flowering, and the forsythia are just starting to open up flowers along their bottom edges, and showing signs of things starting the rest of their lengths. The kiwi are starting to bud out nicely, and should start making use of the trellis fairly soon. The elderberry we just planted earlier this Spring are showing signs of growth as well.
Also located all of the bleeding hearts we planted last year - these were transplanted from my mom's yard, and include both dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding heart, sometimes called dwarf bleeding heart, a native, threatened in PA) and dicentra spectabilis (bleeding heart, or old fashioned bleeding heart). The astilbes are showing signs of life, as is the butterfly bush.
The snow crocus are pretty much done - we had most of them make a showing. Five out of 10 of Rachel's Queen of the Night tulips are forcing their way up, but I think they're still a ways away from flowering. More of the 3 different varieties of muscari (grape hyacinth, muscari dark eyes, and bicolor grape hyacinth) are showing foliage and signs of flower development (I think - this is the first year we've had them). One out of 15 English bluebells has poked its way out of the ground. Been dry for more than a week or so, and that, along with this being their first season of growing in our yard, might be contributing to the slow growth. Than again, I have no clue what their normal schedule would be under the best of circumstances.
The native red maples (or Norway maples - I haven't been able to differentiate, and I am waiting on leaves to do the leak-milky-sap-when-stem-is-broken test to verify) are flowering, and the forsythia are just starting to open up flowers along their bottom edges, and showing signs of things starting the rest of their lengths. The kiwi are starting to bud out nicely, and should start making use of the trellis fairly soon. The elderberry we just planted earlier this Spring are showing signs of growth as well.
