Plant of the week

[amid chaos]

..or POTW.
Let's do this every week. What is growing and looking especially lovely in your garden this week?

Mine is like a sedum...very, very low to the ground. What a wonderful surprise to see it shooting up some yellow flowers hardly an inch high.

I have looked for pictures of this plant and was unsuccessful...but pictures of your POTW would be great.

I found it...it's an ice plant.

[Snowwark]

This is an excellent idea Amid! :Pinkbounc

My plant of the week has got to be my Geums . They are in full bloom, the plants are smothered with saucy looking orange blossoms, they look great!! :)

I took some digital pictures of them the other day, and once I master downloading/uploading from my website, I'll post a pic. I just hope that happens before the fall.......:rolleyes:

You know, POTW these days could also stand for - Prisoner Of The Weather!!!!! :p


Kim :)

I almost forgot, here's a link to give you an idea of what they look like. GEUM (http://bioag.byu.edu/aghort/aghort100/geum.htm)

[DixieDreamer]

I think this is a GREAT idea! I am always falling in love with a new plant in the garden - because every week one moves off the stage and another steps on! This week my plant of the week would have to be my bearded iris. My father in law gave me these corms many years ago - and they have been happily performing in my garden ever since. There are two colors present a rootbeer/mauve and a blue with white variety. They are just beginning their display so there is alot of unopened buds promising more to come. :)

Here are some pics I took this morning of them.

Here is the rootbeer/mauve variety. I think this is an interesting color variation - and not one that I have seen much before.

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This is the blue with white variety.

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I look forward to hearing about all of your plants of the week. :)

[Tulirose]

Great idea!!

My POTW (5/19) would also have to be Bearded Iris. They are really the only thing blooming right now for me. Mine are purple and were given to me five-six years ago by a fellow co-worker at a previous job who originally got hers from her mom or grandmother.

Waiting to hear about more POTW!

[Mamu]

Wonderful idea Amid. I seem to be quite a bit behind everyone. Then again it rained every other day and it freezing. We had heavy frost last night. I'm very lucky my property is near water and it's very sheltered. I'm sure lots of people lost their plants last night.

My bluebells are blooming this week.

[shep]

I have 2 right now...My peonies and my Columbine..I Love them both..No pics yet though..

[ryanpatricksmom]

I have two plants that are blooming like crazy! My candytuft is still going strong, and I have a columbine plant that has bloomed several times already.

Alas, except for one small white variety, my azaleas are done for the season.

I'm still waiting on my daylilies, phlox, peonies, and shasta daisies. I just planted a few more perennials this weekend (bee balm, and a few others that I can't recall). I also have a number of baskets hanging on shepard's hooks (that is if they haven't blown away).

[justjulie]

Primrose up and blooming beautifully in this part of the country. My first lilac is almost ready to burst into colour and my hostas are opening up.

Then again, we had ice pellets and frost this weekend so I'm hoping everything stays up!

[crazyforpooh]

have to be my Lilac bushes. I brought a huge bouquet into the house Sunday and they smell wonderful. Atleast the snow didn't totally kill them.

I don't have anything else in bloom except the dandelions I missed with the roundup. LOL

I do have lots of things budding up my, columbines, iris, peonies and more.


This is a great idea it shows how far behind us northerner are in our blooming cycle.

Laura

[TimNDansMom]

My POTW would have to be the Forget-Me-Nots. I have tons of them, but they look so pretty among the fading Tulips and Grape Hyacinths and the greenery of the bushes and the other still growing plants.

[Mamu]

I do not know when the week starts or ends but I do have a new plant blooming today.

My POTW is an Orange Azalea.

When I retired from my last job to stay home and sit my then 1 Grandchild. I was given a party and two lovely Azalea's one orange and one yellow. Every time they bloom It bring back wonderful memories of my former work friends.

[Saffron]

My plant fo the week would have to be my Lillies of the Valley. Everytime I walk out onto the front porch, their sweet frangrance greets me! It's heavenly!! :)

[Mamu]

I think spring has finally sprung because every day is a new week.

Today my bearded iris have opened. I have a sky blue, a pink, a pink and wine, a midnight purple, a mustard, a lemon yellow and a cream colored iris.

I purchased a new pink and salmon for the new perennial bed. I cut all the flowers stems and the leaves into the v point for the first year. Hope it flowers next spring. Will be awaiting it bloom comes the spring of 2003.

The anticipations of a gardener can sometimes be overwhelming. We plan, dig, plant and wait, and wait, and wait hopefully the wait will be rewarding. :)

[justjulie]

I have creeping lamium blooming everywhere - lovely purple flowers creeping around my backyard!

[Mamu]

I have a new plant blooming this week that I have never planted before. It's suppose to be a perennial but in my area I dought it will come back. It's a carrot shaped root so I'll dig it up in the fall and store it for the winter.

The new plant is a Pink Incarvillea and I've planted it in an antique urn. It has pink trumpet flowers. I just love this flower and I will purchase more roots next year. It's only draw-back is its only suppose to flower for 5 weeks.

Incarvillea (http://plantsdatabase.com/go/208.html)

[NHMickey]

I have my ground cover blooming in my Ajuca (SP) and Phlox. Both are nice but with all the cold we have had I don't know when anything else is going to Bloom... My bed of Violets is taking off though...