Comments on: April Blooms: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/ Hardy plants for hardy souls Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:48:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Two things I learned while weeding today http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-55375 Two things I learned while weeding today Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:20:26 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-55375 [...] long. So it’s nice to get the upper hand for once. For a little while.Seedlings!My favorite purply-plum hellebore has sprouts! This hellebore looks gorgeous when [...] [...] long. So it’s nice to get the upper hand for once. For a little while.Seedlings!My favorite purply-plum hellebore has sprouts! This hellebore looks gorgeous when [...]

]]> By: Pat http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15949 Pat Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:23:46 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15949 Just got back from Washington, D.C. The poor cherry blossoms there have the same fate as the daffodils here. And residents tell me it's not the snow that spoils the blooms--they are hardy enough to withstand the blanketing--but the wind is the real culprit, and they had plenty of wind when we were there. earty Just got back from Washington, D.C. The poor cherry blossoms there have the same fate as the daffodils here. And residents tell me it’s not the snow that spoils the blooms–they are hardy enough to withstand the blanketing–but the wind is the real culprit, and they had plenty of wind when we were there.

earty

]]> By: Kathy Purdy http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15940 Kathy Purdy Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:22:58 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15940 All--I have to agree that that plum hellebore was the best free bonus plant I ever got. Annie--The first two photos in <a href="http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2006/05/24/heirloom-narcissus/" rel="nofollow">this post</a> show that same bed of daffodils in full bloom. All–I have to agree that that plum hellebore was the best free bonus plant I ever got. Annie–The first two photos in this post show that same bed of daffodils in full bloom.

]]> By: Oldroses http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15932 Oldroses Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:21:23 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15932 I just read the story of your crocus bank. I admire your patience planting so many bulbs so precisely! I love the color of your hellebores. I just read the story of your crocus bank. I admire your patience planting so many bulbs so precisely! I love the color of your hellebores.

]]> By: Chigiy Binell http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15925 Chigiy Binell Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:09:56 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15925 What a beautiful little ocean of crocus. I love the hellebores. I hope they're wrong about the snow. What a beautiful little ocean of crocus. I love the hellebores.
I hope they’re wrong about the snow.

]]> By: Brooke Heppinstall http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15899 Brooke Heppinstall Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:29:34 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15899 Hahahaha! Finally, there's justice in the climactic cosmic arrangements! It's so nice to hear non-subarctic gardeners complaining about snow in 'hate-pril' (I love that moniker!). I thought winter and sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures would never quit. We've blown completely through the wood pile and the gas bills on the greenhouse furnace are killing me. Of course, in another 15 years I'll be sitting pretty with waterfront property enjoying zone 5 garden while you're all moving to higher ground. And I won't have to shoot any polar bears to keep them out of the garden because there won't be any left to bother about. See, this is what 'climate change', 'global warming', or just generally ignoring mother nature does to normally cold-hardy gardeners. But, 'hate-pril' is almost over, will someone please pass the Prozac? Brooke ps...yes, Kathy. I admit I grew up in South Miami. Been in Alaska since 1970. Airline brat. www.dirtdivasgardening.com Hahahaha! Finally, there’s justice in the climactic cosmic arrangements! It’s so nice to hear non-subarctic gardeners complaining about snow in ‘hate-pril’ (I love that moniker!). I thought winter and sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures would never quit. We’ve blown completely through the wood pile and the gas bills on the greenhouse furnace are killing me. Of course, in another 15 years I’ll be sitting pretty with waterfront property enjoying zone 5 garden while you’re all moving to higher ground. And I won’t have to shoot any polar bears to keep them out of the garden because there won’t be any left to bother about. See, this is what ‘climate change’, ‘global warming’, or just generally ignoring mother nature does to normally cold-hardy gardeners. But, ‘hate-pril’ is almost over, will someone please pass the Prozac? Brooke

ps…yes, Kathy. I admit I grew up in South Miami. Been in Alaska since 1970. Airline brat.
http://www.dirtdivasgardening.com

]]> By: Kim http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15894 Kim Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:20:53 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15894 "Crocus bank" conjures up such lovely mental images that I can't help but wish I had an area planted that heavily with crocus myself. :) Sorry to hear (via The Red Scot) that you are indeed getting snow. I hope it doesn't do too much damage via the weight, and that you finally get some sunshine to convince snow to stop peeking and come right on in. “Crocus bank” conjures up such lovely mental images that I can’t help but wish I had an area planted that heavily with crocus myself. :)

Sorry to hear (via The Red Scot) that you are indeed getting snow. I hope it doesn’t do too much damage via the weight, and that you finally get some sunshine to convince snow to stop peeking and come right on in.

]]> By: The Red Scot http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15893 The Red Scot Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:48:12 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15893 Ahh, it appears that the weathermen were right. We've received 8 inches of snow so far, and it's only 10:00! I guess the daffodils will have to wait a little longer... Ahh, it appears that the weathermen were right. We’ve received 8 inches of snow so far, and it’s only 10:00! I guess the daffodils will have to wait a little longer…

]]> By: Annie in Austin http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15889 Annie in Austin Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:53:50 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15889 What quantities of bloom potential are in that daffodil photo, Kathy! I love to see things that have some substance to them, and hope you all make it through another bout with hate-pril. If anything happened to the wonderful plum Hellebore it would be hate-pril, for sure. What a beauty! Annie at the Transplantable Rose What quantities of bloom potential are in that daffodil photo, Kathy! I love to see things that have some substance to them, and hope you all make it through another bout with hate-pril.
If anything happened to the wonderful plum Hellebore it would be hate-pril, for sure. What a beauty!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

]]> By: Tracy http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/comment-page-1/#comment-15888 Tracy Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:18:50 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/04/15/april-blooms-garden-bloggers-bloom-day/#comment-15888 It looks like you're about 2 weeks ahead of us. The crocus, hellebore, tulip and daffodil foliage is up, but no buds or blooms yet. Soon, soon. It looks like you’re about 2 weeks ahead of us. The crocus, hellebore, tulip and daffodil foliage is up, but no buds or blooms yet. Soon, soon.

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