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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on April 23, 2025, 10:53 pm Now that the Kaufmaniana tulips have kicked off the tulip season, other varieties of tulip, are beginning to chime in. Here is a SINGLE EARLY tulip: https://photos.app.goo.gl/n82SsEscpifQxNRo7 Now that Daffodils have begun blooming, in my yard, here is another type. Previously, I showed a solid yellow trumpet daff. Here is a bi-color type, with a peach trumpet and a white perianth, along with some blue Squill: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FmicBHSYHhPjTCXv8 The STRIPED SQUILL, Puschkinia scilloides, is now chiming in: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BsKtefo1PhLn7L9R8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/CKf7RJsLtjEBhnwT8 Previously, I posted a pic of some Pink Glories of the Snow. Here is a pic of the BLUE form: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4JnM1upuvfd9BHPV6 The WHITE form of SQUILL, is also blooming, now: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iGpQ7vccLciDxRrf8 Here is a pic, from last week, of my ALABAMA SNOW WREATH, Neviusia alabamensis, already leafing out, while my Needle Palm, still had its protection on. Funny how hardy the Alabama Snow Wreath, also a southern native is, by comparison. The Snow Wreath needs zero protection, here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WEh3rT1N1LWRNNyd6 - NEW PLANTS - Here is a pic of a few plants, I got from Logee's. In the pic is a dwarf fruiting MULBERRY 'Issai', and an AUSTRALIAN TEA TREE, Melaleuca alternifolia. The mulberry will stay potted to control its size, and keep it from getting invasive. This variety will fruit well in a large pot.... https://photos.app.goo.gl/MmDLVvsLRyqy5fFg9 These plants came from Forestfarm. pictured below, are a Father David Sophora, Sophora davidii, ana a Japanese Skimmia, Skimmia japonica... https://photos.app.goo.gl/pSHsVKY1Fr2SZeps7 Here's a pic of a new cactus, I picked up, at Home Depot. I was lucky to buy it, already in bloom, along with a bunch of developing flower buds. It is a Rebutia miniscula. This cactus produces alot of offsets... https://photos.app.goo.gl/szEV6iiW8g4Q1aux7

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on April 24, 2025, 6:32 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" I like your cactus buy. I have a question about the tulips. I have quite a few that have been coming up leaves only for a few years now, is this normal or are the old or planted to deep? I need to start posting pics to show what is going on here.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on April 24, 2025, 8:19 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, you have a lot of different spring blooming bulbs, beauties , all. I hope the dwarf mulberry does well for you. We had wild mulberries around when I was a kid. I loved them as did the birds. Tebutias are beautiful little Genus of cacti, I hope all your new plants grow and hope they all do well .

Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Alvin, z6 on April 24, 2025, 10:36 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks for the comments! Recently, I posted a pic of my little Carolina Jessamine, that made it through my z6 winter. I know of NO ONE growing this plant, here, in Michigan. So, I don't know what I'm seeing, right now. While I was out in my yard, I spotted something on my little plant. Are these flower buds? They seem larger than the leaf buds (never formed flower buds) that my former 'Pride of Augusta' double Carolina Jessamine would have... https://photos.app.goo.gl/fEmrB4WhDRAZeMEn9

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on April 24, 2025, 10:50 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Hi, Mark. Although tulips are perennial, they either start producing smaller and smaller blooms, or die after about 3-4 years. The ones that live longer than that, often need to be divided, to keep flowers a normal size. Critters are also responsible for "disappearing" spring bulbs, too. My next door neighbors, on both sides, now have a few unplanted spring bulbs, that got there, either from my plant seeds, or bulbs that were transplanted there, by squirrels. So, that said, I think it is normal for tulips to bloom, and then not bloom anymore, after a few years. I plant Some Dutch bulbs almost every year. I didn't plant any, last fall, but likely will, this upcoming fall. I doubt that your bulbs were planted too deep. In fact, in the Far North, places like Minnesota or North Dakota, it is recommended that the normal 6 inch depth, be increased to about a foot, simply to help the bulbs survive the brutal temps these places get to, in winter.

Re: Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on April 25, 2025, 5:36 am, in reply to "Uh oh, Fred.." They look like flower buds to me, but I don't own one.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on April 25, 2025, 5:38 am, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks Alvin, the area of tulips not flowering, I started with 2 plants. Now I have over a dozen plants but no flowers.

Re: Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Alvin, z6 on April 25, 2025, 9:01 am, in reply to "Re: Uh oh, Fred.." Mark, if they are flower buds, this means that a normally winter bloomer, in the South, blooms in April, up here. If they are flower buds, and open, I'll post another pic.

Re: Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Fred SC on April 25, 2025, 9:09 am, in reply to "Uh oh, Fred.." Kool, Alvin. I hope you get bloom!

Re: Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Alvin, z6 on April 25, 2025, 12:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Uh oh, Fred.." I hope so, too, Fred. 'Margarita' has already proven to be a hardier form of Carolina Jessamine, in my garden, than 'Pride of Augusta'.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Lloyd IA on April 25, 2025, 5:01 pm, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, you always have so much going on in your garden. You gave me a start when I saw the picture of your Mulberry. I know it is a totally different species than our invasive mulberry, which is as close to immortal as you can get. Spreads like wildfire from seed in both full sun and hidden deep within the shaded shelterbelts. Laughs at herbicides even when fully drenched way above label rates for glyphosate, Mec Amine, etc. You can burn the leaves off this way multiple times but it just regrows. Farmers pull them out of the ground with their loader buckets. I have found that cutting them down just as the sap is heading to the roots in the fall, and painting a 50% straight glyphosate (undiluted Roundup) on to the freshly cut trunk works. Perhaps decades of herbicide treatment has created a monster. I am sure yours will behave itself and be beautiful.

Re: Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Fred SC on April 26, 2025, 4:13 am, in reply to "Re: Uh oh, Fred.." Margarita is a newer one? People here take this vine for granted, as it is wild like honeysuckle. I love the intense yellow bloom and it being evergreen . I wish the blue form. Of Thunbergia was hardy here . It is do very beautiful in bloom. I also like Cross vine . Have you grown it? It grew wild in Kentucky .

Re: Uh oh, Fred.. Posted by Alvin, z6 on April 26, 2025, 11:30 am, in reply to "Re: Uh oh, Fred.." I haven't grown Crossvine, but I do have a Trumpet Vine, Campsis radicans, growing up one of the big Siver Maples, in my backyard. It is a similar vine to Crossvine, but hardier, I think. I haven't seen any blooms on it, in summer. Maybe too much shade, or too high up to see. Yep, Magarita is a newer strain of Carolina Jessamine.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on April 26, 2025, 11:42 am, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Yep, Morus Issai is a newr strain of mulberry. There are several types, including Pakistan and everbearing. I agree that common mulberry is very invasive. In fact, there is a big one, in my next door neighbors yard. However, the fruits are too high up, to pick. This doesn't stop birds from getting to them to eat, and later, splatter my windshield with their purple poop. I have to remove mulberry seedlings, from near my fence, every year, because birds perch oh the fence, and poop out seeds. However, I do like the fruit either fresh, or in muffins. By growing in a container, I can better control the plant size, and keep fruit within picking range. Mulberry trees also respond well to pruning, which won't stop them from fruiting.

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