What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?
 

Here's my front planter with a Suebelle white sapote tree in the center.

The bulbs showing off are: Anemones, Crocus (sativus), Dutch Iris (mauve queen), Ixia, Muscari, Narcissus, and Sparaxis. Also currently blooming are Scarlet Flax (Linum grandiflorum rubrum) and Mexican Heather (Cuphea hissopifolia).

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i have daffies that have bloomed. have a lot of green stuff pushing out but no other flowers yet. i have a huge amount of buds on my weeping black cherry tree( there were not this many last year) and my pink dogwood has leaves opening( maybe flowers this year) i think my kwanza cherry tree croked due to lack of rain last year.( im waiting a few more weeks to see if i did croke) i have a crabapple tree( i got for free at the lawn and garden show) that has leaves now, btw its in the house. and new leaves all over my roses. but no flowers as of yet.( that bites!)

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daffodils, crocus, hycinths, other spring bulbs and some small little plants, like Hepatica.

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Dapne odora Aureomarginata, Daffs of several varietoes, Spring Beauties, Rue Anemone Thalictrum thalictroides, Grape Hyacinth, Spice bush, Alabama Snow Wreath Neviusia alabamensis, jasminum nudiflorum,

Zac

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Bloomings are:
Oroblanco , seedless kishu, calamundins, page mandarins, Washington Navel, Pomello, cllemenules, satsuma mandarin, satsuma plum, plout, apricots, Prince Ranier Cherry,

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Sometimes it is hard to decide to graft when the tree is in bloom. But I did graft anyway. Here's my late bloomer. Already the Japanese and Russian plums have shed petals and have fruitlets. The cherries and the nankings are in full bloom right now. The peaches and nectarine flowers are already waning. The European plums and the Native american plums are still at budswell. This plant alone have more than 10 prunus species or prunus hybrids grafted together, including almonds. It will have apricots next year. Perhaps within 2 years after some of the pluot plant patents have expired, I will graft those also.

So far it has several sweet Cherries, Japanese Plums, European Plums, Russian Plums, White Peach, Yellow Peach, White Nectarine, Yellow Nectarine, and one each of Almond, non-patent Aprium, non-patent Plumcot, non-patent Peach Plum hybrid, Cherry plum hybrid, and a couple of Nanking cherries.

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the blooms are beautiful! i love trees that flower. thanks for posting this.

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mskitty, you're welcome!

Here's one of my most beautiful flowering nectarine. Aside from fantastic fruits, the flowers are enchanting. Sometimes I just stare at them for hours doing nothing. Arctic Glo White Nectarine. This bloom is more than 15 days old. The blooms opened in March 1, and it still looked good yesterday. Very showy, big and long lasting flowers. There are other flowers of other peaches nectarines that are double and very showy. I might get those next year for double purpose duty, ornamental and fruit production. We can have both worlds too.

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they almost look like azelias. and no i cant spell. lol. they are very pretty i love vivid colors. pastels are nice, but the other colors just pop.

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This is supposed to be manzano apple. It survived this winter and lost all of its leaves and was surprised that it is now pushing out bloom. This was neglected three year old banana. I'm beginning to doubt that this is the real manzano apple. I have a bigger mother stem last year but that one was toppled over by the strong wind. This once daughter pup decided to bear blooms for the mother.

I'll wait and see if this is the real manzano apple.

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Joe, my favorite peach is double-blossom "Saturn" -- not to be confused with the "Saturn donut" peach sold at grocery stores and some nurseries. Here's mine from Dave Wilson nursery on Nemagard rootstock. The blossoms are just about spent now and there are 2-3" leafs poking out just about everywhere. Immediately surrounding the tree are daisies that come up every year.

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Wow! Nice big yard you have Richard! Thanks for the pics!

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As for me, the mother plant is a plout and I have grafted many other plouts, apricots, and plums ( sse the tags) and all of them are blooming.

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Joe: My next want to grow bananas is a manzano. Do you think it will survive here in Salinas? I used to have one a TC that I ordered but it did not survived. perhaps if I buy a bigger one it will.
But so far I can not find one even at we be bananas.

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If you can wait, I can give you a pup when they come. It should be cold hardy enough for your place. At least the p-stem will survive there, and that's what's needed for a chance at fruiting.

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Thanks Joe, like you said a few weeks ago the winter here in California was great for reaching expected chill hours.

Here's what the rest of my pit fruits are doing -- a grand 'ol Apricot that came with the property is dropping petals now after an enormous fruit set, a Green Gage plum that was solid white a week ago, and a Panamint nectarine that is just starting to show color.

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As for the Pomes I'm currently growing, the Hood pear was solid in white 2 weeks ago but has mostly flushed out with leafs. On the other hand, the Pettingill apple has only poked out a few leafs at the top and does not bloom until April or May -- producing a harvest in the Fall.

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Richaard :
I noticed that your trees are cut on top. I don't do that because I am Leary I can make a mistake. Is there any art of doing it?

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Let's discuss pruning here: http://www.bananas.org/f8/fruit-tree-pruning-4055.html

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Thanks Richard. I just pruned drastically my Italian prunes yesterday although they are now flowering. I know it is not time to prune and lost a lot of flowers but I can wait till next year. It is just getting too tall over 15 feet.

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This is my santa rosa plum that I have grafted many European plums to it. Notice the different size and shape of flowers? It is because they are different cultivars. Imagine I just grafted them last summer. Some are over 3 feet long.

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This is really my first deciduous fruit bloomer, aside from lemons and Calamondins. The Myrobalan Plum. It bloomed around Crhistmas time. Has nice fruits now.

By joereal at 2008-03-18

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i have some muscarri finally pop up, and i have 1 lone bloom.

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Ground must be getting warmer.

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snowdrops and crocus are starting to come up. Daffodils coming up too, but not blooming.
Oh, and it's snowing right now. Indiana sucks sometimes!

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My Senecio confusus has been blooming very nicely for about 2 weeks now, the fragrance is quite nice :)

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Yucca elephantipes (white and amazingly fragrant)
Cannas (bright neon orange)
Callas (white)
Sempervivae (yellow)
Roses of many descriptions
One of my dwarf cavendish bananas
A barrel palm
Three different types of hibiscus
Aloe arborescens
Some african lilies and african daisies
Dandelions - there's no escape! they followed me here!
The fig tree
St. John's Wort
An ice plant of some sort.

It's pretty neat to be somewhere that constant bloom is possible.

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Lorax, the map shows you are near Pichincha Peru. Is that correct?

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Yeeks, no. I'm in Quito Ecuador, which is Pichincha province, but definitely not Peru.

I miss my Loja garden, which was in the south.

Edit - the map should be closer to accurate now.

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Happy Easter. My Easter Lillies didn't bloom but this one did!

This is my latest bloomer White Nectarine.


By joereal at 2008-03-23

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Happy Easter. And here's what's blooming
Multi-Grafted Cherry grown in pots. Yes, cherry can be grown in pots and they can be productive too! Gisela 5 is the rootstock. I'll be assembling one multi-graft on Krymsk 5 rootstock and observe how they perform in pots. My 24-n-1 Cherry Tree is in various stages of bloom at the moment. It is 28 ft tall and I let it be, due to my neighbor's Redwood Tree.


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23

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Happy Easter. And here's what's blooming

Assorted Pears: A collection of 28 cultivars of pears in one tree, some are still blooming and others are still waking up from dormancy while still others have already fruitlets.

By joereal at 2008-03-23


20th Century Pear

By joereal at 2008-03-23

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Happy Easter. And here's what's blooming.

Assorted Multigrafted Apples. Apples have diffent colored flowers too, not only their fruits. I have red fleshed and pink fleshed apples, as well as assortment of skin colors. I lost track on how many apples I've got. But if it is fireblight tolerant and tastes good for the inland Valley growing, most likely I've got them grafted already:


By joereal at 2008-03-23


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By joereal at 2008-03-23

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Happy Easter. And here's what's blooming

A collection of pomes in one tree. The Pome fruits includes Quinces, Apples, Asian Pears, European Pears, Asian x European Pear hybrids, Hawthorns, Loquats, Medlars, and others. The quinces are blooming and some apples are starting to open up. The pears are well on their way to fruit filling, very few petals left to drop.

I have 7 types of quinces on this tree. It also has 7 types of apples, 1 crabapple, 4 Types of Asian Pears, 6 European Pears and 2 Asian x European Pear hybrid all on the same tree. I used to have a hawthorn and loquat on this tree but they died, long term incompatibility problem, but I will find a more suitable interstem later to make them long lasting. Already I have grafted some good candidate interstems unto it and should be ready next year.

Note that the new grafts are already pushing out and some are even blooming already.


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23

Smyrna Quince in bloom, part of the Pome Tree.

By joereal at 2008-03-23

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A glorious spring in your yard!

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Alpinia zerumbet, aka shell ginger. It rained, so we get flowers for all of about 48 hours on the canes. They smell fantastic, even though they're short-lived.
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my tulips look like their fixing to bust open(early spring variety), all of my muscari has bloomed, i have hycinths opening and my ornamental plum has buds all over it. my weeping cherry tree looks like it might bloom before the end of next week, and my climbing roses have lots of nice leaves. my peony's are getting tall, my bee-balm is spreading like wild fire, and my iris' are getting tall and the leaves are looking great. found baby leaves on my purple cone flower, and my white and pink dogwoods are finally opening their leaves.when my dogwoods are in full bloom i will plant my tomatoes and strawberries outside. my solomons seal is finally popping their heads up( i really love that plant) and my pop-ups are about 1 ft. tall. need to cut the grass but till the flowers start to bloom im not cause of the honey bees. oh and i have lots of dandylions in bloom.LOL! they are staying in the yard also because of the honey bees.im not thrilled with having the dandylions in the yard but the bees are. so they stay.

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Prince ranier cherry as of 4 4 08

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The rootstock is an asian pear but all of the branches had been grafted withsome other pears that are more superior in quality that I got from several friends of mine.

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Stella cherry

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JoeReal - one of the few things I miss from the UK is the spring blossom - thanks for posting those pics - just gorgeous.

Now - what do I have in bloom atm - well squids of heliconias of all sorts, torch ginger, red ginger, phalanopsis, dendrobiums, palms, passieflora vitifolia and edulis, anthurium, begonias, lemon, lime, small flowered roses, plumeria. Just taken the machete to the passieflora especially the edulis as they were taking over.

Miss tulips though!!!
Cassie

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Ooops! Sorry Benny!! :) You know how I am!

Cassie

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here you go cassie. tulips for you.

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Tulips!!!! and my favourite color - how did you guess?

Cassie

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the pinkish ones and a few other colors(yellow and one fushia) are the only ones i have in the yard at this present time. i just dug up about 15 and gave them to a friend of mine. wish you lived a little closer, you could of had them.

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Haha! I used to have lots in my English garden - variegated parrot tulips, tall red and yellow ones and cute little dwarf ones - now I get my fix by reading Dutch bulb catalogues.

Cassie

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when i move back to fl, i will miss my peonies and glads. the only way i can have them is if i live close to jacksonville. but i want to be farther south. i could put them in pots and then in the freezer, but they have to have 45 days of almost freezing (so they say) to get blooms.and yes the tulips will be in the freezer mix. i love parrot tulips. my mom has some coral- orange ones. finally afer 3 yrs of BEGGING i got some.

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Well - these are not strictley in my garden but are everywhere and just gorgeous - the local name is Carolina, and they have realy girly flowers.









The ground underneath is covered in pink tassles and the people who have them near pools curse them. I would love to have one!!

Cassie

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large flowers!! I dont think they are hardy ?;)

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those are lovely. and i like girly flowers. and manly trees. LOL! the pink is such a brite shade, it contrast well to the stems. are they native to the island? they almost look like a momasa