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25 Thursday Apr 2013

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cutting garden, DIY backyard, fall bulbs, favorite cutting flowers, flowering bulbs, gardening with children, home, life with kids, spring flowers, White Flower Farm

Flowers

We are so excited to have flowers in the back yard!  I have wanted a cutting garden of my own since I worked designing wedding bouquets years ago.  Our garden is just starting out this spring, but we were able to do a bit of cutting from the bulbs we planted in the fall.  I am in love with these checkered Fritillaria and the Hyacinth and Daffodils smell wonderful.  We purchased our bulbs from White Flower Farm in Connecticut and the resulting plants have been strong and vibrant.  We are trying to stick to a blue/purple/white/cream color palette.  Although this scheme has morphed a bit as Chris recently purchased some giant yellow sunflower seeds, some of the tulip colors are slightly different than the catalog image, and Chris’ parents are giving us some beautiful pink peonies from their yard.  We are looking forward to figuring out the flowering schedule and filling in with new plants every season.  This is what has come up and bloomed in the garden so far:

*Narcissus Cheerfulness

*Narcissus Manly (Huge blooms!)

*Fritillaria Persica Adiyaman

*Fritillaria Meleagris (I love this!)

*Hyacinth Blue Eyes

*Hyacinth Miss Saigon (These smell wonderful)

*Tulip Backpacker

*Tulip Champagne Diamond (So beautiful!)

Happy Spring!

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Back Yard Progress: Blooms

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by jeannerondeau in Projects

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Arbor Day Foundation, backyard bees, DIY backyard, fall bulbs, German Beer Garden bench, home, living with kids, outdoor space DIY, outdoor space for kids, spring flowers

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We have flowers!  The first of our fall plantings started to bloom this week.  It seems the squirrels left the bulbs alone over the winter and the spring flowers have all started to show themselves.  Our Hyacinths were the first to open, quickly followed by a couple varieties of Fritillaria.  (These seem to be overshadowing our Hellebores in the back, so we will keep an eye on placement this first year).  The Lilac, Lilies, Peony, and Viburnum are sending out green leaves.  The only casualty seems to be one Hydrangea that we transplanted in the late fall.  An abundance of wild violets has returned to the newly-cleaned-out lawn space.  Ada and I have been transplanting them to the designated garden space before our sod arrives in a couple of weeks.  Our three-foot Japanese cherry tree arrived via post office from the Arbor Day Foundation last week.  It was a bargain at under $18 with shipping!  We planted it as our first tree as a family and it has already shot out bright green buds.  This is all quite a learning process, as neither Chris nor I have had a real garden of our own before… This post shows some of the before photos from the previously terrifying back yard – (I found a dead rat back there on our first walk-through of the property).  Our backyard bees are arriving in May and will take up residence in the far corner of the yard.  Chris found these German beer garden table and benches yesterday, which we are considering for use on cement patio.  We can hardly wait for the girls to have a real yard to play in!  We are slowly making progress and looking forward to perhaps even relaxing amongst all the projects outside this summer.

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