OC 's 07 Perennials

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Mar 30, 2007 3:03 pm

Joy loves them so OC ordered some last fall and planted them for her. The Red and White one you See, got hit by our last freeze. It was just coming up. Lost several on either side of it but still really happy with the ones that have bloomed. Just got to get Joy to let me ride out and take a few more pictures of them.....OC

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Mar 30, 2007 3:08 pm

But still pretty.....A Red Anemonae...Planted it years ago and it comes back every Spring................Sure sign that Spring is definitely here.....

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 01, 2007 3:24 pm

Theses are in the front yard where the Anemone was, in fact right behind hem. We are starting to get really dry here again. Keep calling for rain but never seems to get here.

Please enjoy - WHILE THEY LAST OC

Libby · Post by **Libby** » Apr 02, 2007 11:46 am

I love that single red flower, OC! It makes a beautiful portrait photo.

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 05, 2007 3:25 pm

to go with the Red & Yellow one OC posted earlier... Enjoy. With 30* called for tonight, won't be there tomorrow.....OC

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 07, 2007 11:55 am

OC moved these beauties from the front yard under the Forsythia bush to the back yard several years ago and this is the first year they have put up.......Since the ones in the front yard come back every year OC guesses That they are perennials...Shot with OC 's 300 mm lens set on Macro.....

Enjoy

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 11, 2007 10:43 am

Have a whole bed of these planted in front of my container rack in the back yard. Havn't been back out this week, but hope to Friday to see what's left. This Bed was really startig to put out......

Had a really nice warm = 50* rain during the night and it is continuing today. That should really start getting thngs back to normal - as normal can be now...OC

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Apr 11, 2007 5:13 pm

Oh Coot, love the red and white parrot!

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Apr 11, 2007 9:05 pm

Oh man....I too, love that Parrot......Your doing great with that camera......I don't have to scroll back and forth to read....

Keep up the good work!! I have no idea how this year is going to be in the garden...we have been having SNOW and rain and they say we could get hail ....So John, keep us in beautiful pictures! I love the frames, too!!

Thanks for sharing!!

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 13, 2007 3:02 pm

These had been hit by a 34* night, so the next day OC went out to shoot what left. Almost waited too long for these..

Double Daffs sure are pretty. OC has some pure chalk white one that grow in the front yard. They had just sent up pods when the freeze hit. They didn't make it..

Please enjoy - OC sure did

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 16, 2007 11:09 am

OC really Had some beautiful Tulips this year, but they never stood a chance. Lost most of them as thy bloomed, rest never made it all the way up. BUMMER

Please enjoy OC and Joy sure did.....

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 16, 2007 2:09 pm

OC sure hate to see them go this year, They sure were pretty. Have no idea how many the Squirrel will leave me for next year. The was part of the bed that bloomed..

Enjoy OC and Joy sure did......................

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 18, 2007 12:54 pm

All four pots on OC's deck and many of the Cannas in the yard had put up nice foliage Pre- Freeze. This is one of the pots and the ones in the yard look just as bad. Not a good gardening season for Coot....BAAAAAAAh

This time with picture he hopes

Looking at it large scale, it seems Mr. Roscoe had planted an acorn in the Canna pot. The tree is growing better than the Canna.

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Apr 18, 2007 9:19 pm

Hi Coot!!

Nice pictures except that last one...

I will be outside tomorrow and I hope I didn't lose too much either.....

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 29, 2007 3:24 pm

Seems to be over with many thing beginning to regenerate.
On Easter Sunday all my Cannas were lying on he ground dead, Elephant Ears that had started leafing out and had turned black. While OC was waiting on Joy to go to church this morning, he took a morning "tour" Cannas and Elephant Ears are really coming back.

This is what they looked like this morning. (this was one of my beds that had been cleaned 2 weeks ago. WEEDS !!!!

OC saying thank you Lord...........

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » Apr 29, 2007 8:52 pm

Wow OC! You took very nice pictures of spring beauty!

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » May 01, 2007 1:09 pm

Appreciate those kind word Even if they are not deserved. This plant is a Coleus OC got from his Mother YEARS ago. She called it her wild Coleus, because it came back every year. Actually OC thinks it is a Palisandra, which sends out shoots and re-seeds itself. It stands heat beautifully if kept watered and will grow really tall, like most Coleus....

Enjoy OC 's hand-held shot....Tripod on the way....

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » May 04, 2007 12:00 pm

but must have been on another group. When I planted this Dianthus last year, I thought it was an annual, in the summer it died back, after I broke my collarbone and couldn't water it anymore. But low and behold, it SURVIVED the freeze that killed everything else, and seems to have multiplied. You can bet I will plant some other colors.......OC thrilled at his surprise.....

(Taken without his tripod)

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 04, 2007 12:41 pm

Nice pic, OC!!

Some dianthus are listed as annuals, others as perennials. I've had some of the ones I bought as annuals come back another year or 2 sometimes even with our cold winters.

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » May 05, 2007 2:51 pm

OC was looking at it this afternoon through the window, can barely see that far, and with three days of rain on it it seems to have really grown. The next time Michael comes to help me and we are out their planting the new hosta I got, can we dig up the clump and divide like I do Hosta ? Would LOVE to split it up.....Thanks OC

Hallson Gardens

OC 's 07 Perennials

Thanks Renaldo

Not as oustanding as the tulip

Last of the Daffodils

Red & White Parrott Tulip

Wild Violets

Lamb's Ear before freeze

Double Daff and Yellow Tulip

Last of the prefreeze tulips

Last of the pre bloom Tulips for OC

Unforunately, one dead canna

Damage from the freeze that hit OC so hard

Thanks everybody

Oc thought he had posgtedx this one

Glad to know that Reynaldo