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A Pair of Plants

On Saturday while I was working out in the yard, I saw that my front planter freesias were blooming! Woo hoo!

And right next to the planter are my pots of tulips, which are also blooming! Yay!

Since I was so productive, and still had lots of day left, I went to some garden centers. I’m looking for a Japanese maple. I didn’t find one, but I did find a dwarf gingko. I love gingkos, and with a dwarf, I can keep it in a container in the back yard. Excellent!

I also got a syngonium. I was holding off, because there are so many varieties, and I am restricting myself to one. This wasn’t going to count, because the tag said “nephthytis”, and that’s not a syngonium, so I got it! But then when I got home and looked it up online, I found out that nephthytises ARE syngoniums. Shoot. My choice has been made. I was planning to get a ‘batik’, but instead I have a ‘pixie’. Still, I like this one. I’ll be curious to see what happens to the white areas as the leaves mature.

Sad Sequel

I got home while it was still light out yesterday, so I could go out to the back yard and check on my dianthus. All the flower buds were dried up.

I’m not sure what happened. Maybe they got too cold and got burned? Maybe our sudden burst of warm weather came to quickly? I don’t think it’s a lack of water. The soil was moist.

How disappointing. Hopefully it will set some more buds. It’s early in the season still. There’s time…

Fragrant Flowers

I’m experimenting with various plants in my back yard to see what I like and what grows here. One plant is a dianthus called “Duchess of Westminster”. I have only grown annual dianthus plants before. This is a perennial, honest-to-goodness carnation. I got it from my favorite mail-order plant place, Logee’s. They describe it as being a good bloomer, and having a strong fragrance. Nice!

I received it in the spring of last year. I planted it in a pot and gave it a nice, sunny location. It grew a little bit, but didn’t flower. Dang.

But the other day I went out and saw this:

Yay! Blooms! I can’t wait for them to open so I can smell them. Mmm…

Spring Sprouts

My neighbors have a plant in front of their house that looks kind of like a banana tree, but it has flowers on it that look like bird-of-paradise.

They’re giant flowers!

Things are starting to sprout and grow here. I think spring is starting. Even my untended, overgrown flowerbed has things blooming in it. Calla lilies! They’re beautiful, but they reproduce like crazy. It makes them seem like weeds to me.

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