Comments on: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day—March http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462 Austin gardener/designer chronicles the creation of her own gardens and showcases others with eye-catching photos in award-winning blog Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:22:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kylee http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25342 Kylee Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:55:49 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25342 Pam, you've got a beautiful array of blooms, many of which I've never heard before. I think it's mainly due to our very different climates. I love the bulbine's flowers! <em>Bulbine is a tender, succulent-like evergreen here. If we were to get a pretty hard freeze, I suspect I might lose it. But since that rarely happens, this clump has been happily expanding for several years. Light freezes don't bother it a bit. ---Pam</em> Pam, you’ve got a beautiful array of blooms, many of which I’ve never heard before. I think it’s mainly due to our very different climates. I love the bulbine’s flowers!

Bulbine is a tender, succulent-like evergreen here. If we were to get a pretty hard freeze, I suspect I might lose it. But since that rarely happens, this clump has been happily expanding for several years. Light freezes don’t bother it a bit. —Pam

]]> By: Robin http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25154 Robin Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:17:41 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25154 I'm a little late for your Bloom Day offering, but so glad to see it now on this rainy, dreary day. Beautiful post, Pam. <em>Thanks, Robin. I was late posting this month, so a late visit seems entirely appropriate, and I'm glad you stopped by. ---Pam</em> I’m a little late for your Bloom Day offering, but so glad to see it now on this rainy, dreary day.
Beautiful post, Pam.

Thanks, Robin. I was late posting this month, so a late visit seems entirely appropriate, and I’m glad you stopped by. —Pam

]]> By: Nancy Bond http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25142 Nancy Bond Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:25:21 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25142 Wow, such wonderful color! The tangerine crossvine is beautiful! Lovely blooms. <em>Thanks, Nancy. It's one of my favorite sights in spring. ---Pam</em> Wow, such wonderful color! The tangerine crossvine is beautiful! Lovely blooms.

Thanks, Nancy. It’s one of my favorite sights in spring. —Pam

]]> By: Trudi http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25134 Trudi Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:17:04 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25134 It is a pleasure to look at your blog and enjoy the lovely cold climate spring flowers, very good fotos. <em>Thanks, Trudi. But I'm sure you meant warm-, not cold-climate flowers. There can't be many places hotter than Austin, except maybe central Australia. ;-) ---Pam</em> It is a pleasure to look at your blog and enjoy the lovely cold climate spring flowers, very good fotos.

Thanks, Trudi. But I’m sure you meant warm-, not cold-climate flowers. There can’t be many places hotter than Austin, except maybe central Australia. ;-) —Pam

]]> By: Yolanda Elizabet http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25132 Yolanda Elizabet Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:19:55 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25132 What a lovely and colourful contribution to GBBD. It's amazing to see how your spring flowers (except for the dafs and grape hyacinths) are so very different from mine, knowing that we both garden in zone 8. My colombines and irises will flower somewhere in April so I'll have to wait at least another month for that. Great pics as usual! :-) <em>It just goes to show how greatly climates can differ, even when they share a zone designation. But that's what keeps things interesting here in garden-blog land. Thanks for commenting, YE. ---Pam</em> What a lovely and colourful contribution to GBBD. It’s amazing to see how your spring flowers (except for the dafs and grape hyacinths) are so very different from mine, knowing that we both garden in zone 8. My colombines and irises will flower somewhere in April so I’ll have to wait at least another month for that.

Great pics as usual! :-)

It just goes to show how greatly climates can differ, even when they share a zone designation. But that’s what keeps things interesting here in garden-blog land. Thanks for commenting, YE. —Pam

]]> By: Kathy http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25048 Kathy Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:18:51 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25048 I love that long spurred yellow columbine. Do you know what is different about Hinckleyana from the straight species? Does it like dry or well drained soil? <em>I believe its flowers are bigger. Here's <a href="http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/flowers/columbine.html">a site</a> with more information about it. And yes, it needs well-drained soil and some shade, but it likes a bit of extra moisture in our climate. ---Pam</em> I love that long spurred yellow columbine. Do you know what is different about Hinckleyana from the straight species? Does it like dry or well drained soil?

I believe its flowers are bigger. Here’s a site with more information about it. And yes, it needs well-drained soil and some shade, but it likes a bit of extra moisture in our climate. —Pam

]]> By: kerri http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25041 kerri Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:43:24 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25041 Thanks for this wonderful tour Pam. The crossvine is spectacular indeed! How creative to do through the rainbow of colors :) I love the salvia greggii and hope to add some of that to my garden. That hymenoxys just goes and goes doesn't it? Your blooms are laughing their heads off down there. I think I'm beginning to hear giggles from the snowdrops up here :) <em>I guess the</em> Salvia greggii <em>would be an annual for you, Kerri? It grows so quickly and blooms for so long that it is surely a great choice for a summer annual up north. ---Pam</em> Thanks for this wonderful tour Pam. The crossvine is spectacular indeed! How creative to do through the rainbow of colors :) I love the salvia greggii and hope to add some of that to my garden. That hymenoxys just goes and goes doesn’t it? Your blooms are laughing their heads off down there. I think I’m beginning to hear giggles from the snowdrops up here :)

I guess the Salvia greggii would be an annual for you, Kerri? It grows so quickly and blooms for so long that it is surely a great choice for a summer annual up north. —Pam

]]> By: Mr. McGregor's Daughter http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25040 Mr. McGregor's Daughter Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:41:14 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25040 It's too bad you can't recall the name of the Bachelor Buttons. I've never seen them in that color & I really want it! Everything looks so beautiful! <em>It grows more like a small, airy shrub than like the individual bachelor's buttons that are commonly grown from seed. I'll have to keep looking until I find out what it's called. ---Pam</em> It’s too bad you can’t recall the name of the Bachelor Buttons. I’ve never seen them in that color & I really want it! Everything looks so beautiful!

It grows more like a small, airy shrub than like the individual bachelor’s buttons that are commonly grown from seed. I’ll have to keep looking until I find out what it’s called. —Pam

]]> By: Annie in Austin http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25032 Annie in Austin Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:39:13 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25032 What a lovely rainbow! We're still under rain warnings so your post is timely, Pam - did you get anything in your neighborhood? It's kind of hard to fit flower color to the standard color names though, isn't it? Like having only a small box of crayons. We need the peach! The magenta! The blue-green and the lavender, too! Annie at the Transplantable Rose <em>So far, about an inch of rain, Annie. And yeah, I fudged on the rainbow order, plus I wasn't quite sure where to put white, since it's made up of all the colors in the spectrum. ---Pam</em> What a lovely rainbow! We’re still under rain warnings so your post is timely, Pam – did you get anything in your neighborhood?
It’s kind of hard to fit flower color to the standard color names though, isn’t it? Like having only a small box of crayons. We need the peach! The magenta! The blue-green and the lavender, too!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

So far, about an inch of rain, Annie. And yeah, I fudged on the rainbow order, plus I wasn’t quite sure where to put white, since it’s made up of all the colors in the spectrum. —Pam

]]> By: Frances http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462&cpage=1#comment-25029 Frances Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:48:32 +0000 http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=462#comment-25029 Wonderful, Pam, and definitely worth waiting for! You have so many things going on, I love the rainbow order, that's new to me. You have to have a lot of blooms to be able to pull that off, and you do and you did! That bulbine will always be my favorite flower in your garden, I love it's perkiness! Frances at Faire Garden <em>The bulbine should be in full flower for you at Spring Fling, Frances. See you then. ---Pam</em> Wonderful, Pam, and definitely worth waiting for! You have so many things going on, I love the rainbow order, that’s new to me. You have to have a lot of blooms to be able to pull that off, and you do and you did! That bulbine will always be my favorite flower in your garden, I love it’s perkiness!

Frances at Faire Garden

The bulbine should be in full flower for you at Spring Fling, Frances. See you then. —Pam

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