What's looking good in April 2017

[Daren]

more basket ideas I been working on and starting to get a bit more colour in the garden

 

[zigs]

I couldn't resist Little Man and just commented on him in a totally unrelated post. I'm sure i couldn't get my Polly, Pollyanna or unfortunately Pissy Polly for a while but now perfectly trained thank heavens so now Perfect Polly, to sit still for a photo shoot like that.View attachment 18625loves a cubby

Other side of the World and you got the same laundry bag as me

Some more Celandines with Dog's Dickie leaves poking thru

 

[vette-kid]

Still don't care for the bush, but the flowers are pretty.

 

[MaryMary]

Found these pretty little flowers walking in the woods yesterday. I have no idea what they are, except pretty. I think I like them as much for the leaves as the flowers!

Still don't care for the bush, but the flowers are pretty

@vette-kid, I think it's a shame to have a plant in your yard that you don't like. I also know how many pollinators love that plant, so I want you to keep it. I've done a little reading about pruning a lantana, and I found this:

Tackle pruning lantana several times throughout the growing season. In regions where lantana is winter hardy, shearing plants lightly following flowering promotes stem branching and a future flush of flowers. Prune plants at any time they outgrow their growing space. You can safely remove up to one-third of a lantana plant’s overall size at any one pruning.
http://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/flowers-and-plants/lantana-care-growing-and-pruning-lantana

Maybe if it wasn't so big and straggly, you'd like it better? While I trust HGTV's advice on how much you can prune, I still recommend you start a thread. (I don't know much about lantana, I would want advice on how to prune it! )

 

[Beverly]

I feed her well.

What do you feed her @Larisa?

 

[Beverly]

Still don't care for the bush, but the flowers are pretty

The pollinators love the flowers too @vette-kid Maybe you would like the Trailing Lantana better. The flowers are beautifully fragrant.

 

[Beverly]

(I don't know much about lantana, I would want advice on how to prune it! )

I have been growing Lantana for a number of years. It grows as a weed here but also in people's gardens. When it gets to big, or strops making flowers, i just whack it down to size. Then i give it some composted sheep poop, water it. They respond well to a little bit of fertilizer from time to time.

 

[Larisa]

I have no idea what they are, except pretty.

I do not see the color, but the outline of the plant reminds me of a Erythronium dens-canis. The beginning of flowering.

What do you feed her @Larisa?

Every week I use a plastic tank with warm water to put my orchids there for irrigation. I pre-add fertilizers to this water. 1 week - special fertilizer for orchids, 2 week - manure in granules. I take fertilizers in a smaller quantity than recommended in the instructions, but every week. Orchids grow and blossom well!

 

[MaryMary]

I do not see the color, but the outline of the plant reminds me of a Erythronium dens-canis. The beginning of flowering.

@Larisa, yes!! I image searched it, and that is exactly what it is!! The flowers are white. Thank you.

 

[Beverly]

The Senecio confusus, Mexican Flame Vine (Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides) is beginning its climb up the arch once again after being seriously cut back for a transplant. This year it is planted between the 2 ladders of the arch so it can grow up each side. I thought i had lost it in the transplant and i was happy and relieved when it decided to grow, and now it is starting to burst into bloom. I wish i could send the fragrance.

 

[DeborahJane]

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Gosh Daren, your garden is lovely and the stand with the hanging baskets is a great idea.

 

[DeborahJane]

The Senecio confusus, Mexican Flame Vine (Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides) is beginning its climb up the arch once again after being seriously cut back for a transplant. This year it is planted between the 2 ladders of the arch so it can grow up each side. I thought i had lost it in the transplant and i was happy and relieved when it decided to grow, and now it is starting to burst into bloom. I wish i could send the fragrance.
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Stunning Beverly. It must be a spectacular sight en masse.

 

[Beverly]

Stunning Beverly. It must be a spectacular sight en masse.

It has only reached 3 rungs on the right side and 2 rungs on the left. It started forming buds before it made it to the first rung. So even at just 3 rungs, it is impressive for its size. In the past it has climbed with foliage only and the blossoms were mostly at the top. Maybe the time of year makes the difference, i am not sure, but i sure would like to see blossoms top to bottom and hopefully falling through the 2 open rungs at the very top. No telling and it is not giving up any secrets It is next door to the Plumbago

 

[MaryMary]

Well, that's it for the tulips, this year!

 

[Beverly]

Well @MaryMary two lips are better than none and they are very pretty.