The 2024 Garden Year
January 19, 2024 January Our year started with snow, ice and frigid temperatures in mid-January. Our temperatures stayed below freezing for almost a week. I think it was the most consistent cold that we've experienced since moving here. Fortunately, it was a dry snow so there wasn't too much damage. Once again, we almost lost the azara and I'm afraid there would have been some breakage if I had not kept knocking the ice off. February 14, 2024 February In past years, it seems that inclement weather seems to hit around Michael's birthday in mid-February. After the January snow and ice, this month was actually quite tame. Nothing exciting to report - mostly birdwatching . Early flowers like hellebores, cyclamen and crocus begin to bloom in mid month. March 3, 2024 March I got into a walking routine which I'm happy to report I am continuing this year. You get to the point where you feel guilty if you miss a day. I do miss days occasionally but I'm learning that ...
Looking good! We could use some rain here too. Even if it does rain you can get some nice shots of water droplets on the flowers.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I hope the rain is deep but not destructive Phillip.
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful! It's amazing to me that your garden is at least a week ahead of Atlanta!
ReplyDeleteYour roses are very nice and I see we have the same culitvar of iris, 'Unknown'. Some rain here will be welcome, strong storms will not be.
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ReplyDeleteWow on the clematis and the Lady Banks roses! Things are really looking great there! We are expecting peonies blooms today!
Gibralter is a doozey, love the orange color. Lady Banks is a stunner. She looks so elegant spread out there. I hope youget some much needed rain. We need rain too.
ReplyDeleteI've been hemming and hawing about what new variety of clematis I'd like to get. Now I don't have to hem or haw anymore. I want 'Josephine'. I saw it on one website, but I was leery about how the blooms would compare in real life to a catalogue picture. Now I see they're just as awesome :D Thanks!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blooms, all. I hope you are getting rain. It moved in here during the night, much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteYou have so much going on in your garden this time of the year. I'm jealous :). All your Iris are great I really like the first one with the two shades of purple. I bet the rose that is creeping into the rose of Sharon looks great when they are both blooming ? If they bloom at the same time that is... You have a great collection of roses. I have none in my garden yet but have been intimidated as to where to start... and which ones looks like what etc when full grown.
ReplyDeletePhillip, your garden is stunning! Lush, bright, bursting with gorgeous blooms....fantastic! You should be very proud of it! And you are a great photographer!
ReplyDeleteRaining here in Tupelo which is much needed! Your garden is beautiful. Are you having a garden tour this summer as you have had before? I would love to see be there.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how many gorgeous flowers you have! I love pretty much everything. At least you didn't get a late frost. We had one yesterday morning and 50% of all Magnolia flowers are now brown mush.
ReplyDeleteLove the beauty bushes but they really look awful after they've finished blooming. Those clematis are really nice. I've never seen one like that before.
PS. Done university... YEAH!
So very glad you captured these beautiful views before the rains arrived! I felt the same way Phillip, eager for rain to wash the pollen away and nourish the plants, but sorry to see the blooms disappear...We don't have gentle rains in the south! It's pouring now!
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your garden looks great! i hope the weather was kind to you today.
ReplyDeleteA sigh of contentment. My Cl. Old Blush has started blooming, but no other roses yet. They have buds. My iris are starting too. I don't have any as beautiful as yours though. That first one takes my breath away.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning! Love that orangey azalea - how unusual!
ReplyDeleteThe irises are gorgeous!!!! The clematis is definitely doing its job, and doing it well! It rained here all day today! Severe thunderstorms and wind! Hope it didn't get to rough up your way
ReplyDeleteGood luck with getting some rain, Phillip - nothing like scattered showers to drive one nuts! Some parts of Austin racked up a couple of inches recently but my corner has had 3/10 in two weeks - hope you do better!
ReplyDeleteEverything is still beautiful in your garden - heard 'Fortune's Double Yellow' is super thorny, but what a cool, buffy-peach color!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
You have the loveliest garden. Always a delight.
ReplyDeleteI want to tour your garden! Amazing place you have there.
ReplyDeleteThe rain is starting here and we really need it, too. The ground was so dry. I mulched the garden with compost and sowed zinnias and cosmos seeds to take advantage of the rain.
Beautiful, beautiful pictures. The iris, the Beautybush, Clematis and the roses are all gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI found myself looking at each photo thinking "wow, I should comment on that one". Then another great one would come along! Those irises, and everything else, are so pretty. I do hope the horrid rain and wind didn't cause any damage. For us it was a very strong storm yet mercifully brief. The only plants affected here were the irises which were laying down after the storm. I've now propped them up with stakes but I don't have as many as you do.
ReplyDeleteLovely Irises and roses! Of course, I should be partial towards the Clematis - she's extra lovely.
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are always so clear and bright. I can't believe how far ahead your garden is. It'll be June before many of the same flowers are blooming here.
ReplyDelete'Josephine' has buds on it, but the vine is not looking so great. I hope it eventually looks as good as yours.
I love all your varieties of iris.
As ever, perfect photos.
ReplyDeleteI've thought about buying rosa mutablis. I think 'mutablis' is given as a name to flowers that go through a number of changes in colour. I'm growing nicotiana mutablis which opens white, fades through to dark pink.
The beauty bush is exactly that; a beauty.
If I get over to the states, I'm knocking your door for a garden tour.
I love looking at your pics! They remind me of what I'll see here in a few weeks.
ReplyDeleteMutabilis is indeed stunning. As a lover of orange, I find joy in Azalea "Gibraltar" -- we're pushing the zone for azaleas here and don't get as many cool colors as you do!
ReplyDeleteHi Phillip, we got a little rain too but not nearly enough.
ReplyDeleteLove your clematis. My motto is "no such thing as too may petals and ruffles, more is better." Doesn't it interfere with the dish's reception? It must not our you wouldn't be growing it there:)
Marnie
Love the photos. Your favorite iris is also mine! I am getting just as into iris as I am into roses. I think I have to have one of each kind!
ReplyDeleteNice, I just took a shot of my iris, just minutes before the down pour!
ReplyDeletebeautiful flowers
ReplyDelete'Fortune's Double Yellow' looks pink to me. I gotta stop smoking that stuff.
ReplyDeleteSome great looking blooms.
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