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Tuesday, April 29. 2008

Our Dicentra (Bleeding Hearts)

Our Dicentra is beginning to bloom right now, even though it's another late spring up here. The plants begin to bloom as soon as they are out of the ground. No plant shoots up as quickly, and it's almost too early to enjoy their brief period of glory.

More about Bleeding Hearts here. The wild, native woodland version is white.

 

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Ours isn't up yet. We've still got just tulips, last of the funky exotic daffodils, grape hyacinths, peony shoots about 12 inches high, roses leafing out red, dayliliy shoots eight inches high, plum and nectarine trees blooming, apricot past bloom, cherry about to, apples a week or two away.

Planted lots of caladium bulbs last week in a shady bed for those heavenly leaves, squirrels dug up the lot, along with most of my lilies. Grrrr!

About to order some of the cheap roses (lose a couple every year in a yard that floods regularly) from Wayside today.
#1 retriever on 2007-04-29 18:53 (Reply)
My sons' have penny farms as well. We noticed that they grew once when we were camping in upstate NY. Now they pop up at home with proper care.
#2 Glenn (Link) on 2007-04-29 23:43 (Reply)
I have several small plantings of tulips. The same plants with the same blooms have been opening bright and beautiful every morning for the past 3 weeks! It must be the cold nights we are getting with the mild days. Dafs are all gone, primrose almost finished, Bleeding Hearts still here as usual ;-)
#3 apple pie on 2007-04-30 11:48 (Reply)
Our dafs and narcissi are coming into their peak now.
#4 BD on 2007-04-30 15:18 (Reply)
Wild onions have taken over my bird sanctuary.
#5 Meta on 2008-04-29 11:26 (Reply)
Hey Meta... I didn't know they put onion seeds in bird food, that must give the birds some awfully bad breath.
#5.1 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-04-29 18:12 (Reply)
I pulled tons of them up last spring and my hands smelled like onions for two days. pee u. That's what I get for being too lazy to go for my gloves. I need some napalm.
#5.1.1 Meta on 2008-04-29 20:50 (Reply)

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