I was just saying on my gardening blog what a beautiful Spring it’s been here in Toronto and how well my garden is doing!
It looks like I didn’t lose any plants during the winter, which is a good thing since our winters can be quite harsh and it’s not uncommon for me to lose at least one rose if not more.
Right now the tulips are the stars of the garden. I have at least 7 types in bloom right now, with more to come by the end of May. The Daffodils are also blooming well, whereas the hyacinths and Glories of the snow are just about finished for the season.
One Spring flower that I always enjoy seeing each year are the Muscari or Grape Hyacinth. They’re tiny plants, only about 8 inches tall, but their flowers are so lovely and colorful.
The flowers are purple, but they almost have a deep blue tone to them in this photograph, don’t they?
The majority of my tulips are white, but I also have several vibrant purple, orange and yellow tulips scattered throughout my garden. What I don’t have are very many red tulips. Here’s a picture of one of my lovely red tulips:
Perhaps next fall I’ll buy more tulips bulbs and try to get more red ones. They certainly look beautiful in front of spring green plants.
How is your garden or yard doing this Spring?
What beautiful flowers!
An Arkies Musings
The spring hasn’t been so good here.
I love spring, and this one is fantastic….
But in our Country (India), it’s not so great!! However i really loved the image posted above really nice. I don’t have word to describe the beauty of flower.
Looks good. Slugs ate my Hyacinth flowers and they didn’t come out that well. Now looking foward to my primulas.
Adam I’m sorry to hear that you lost your Hyacinths to slugs! You must have a bad infestation. I haven’t seen any slugs yet but I’m sure they are coming.
Some tips on keeping slugs at bay …
1. Stir up the earth in your garden beds in the spring. This helps to expose the slug eggs/ larvae and causes them to die from the exposure.
2. Don’t put mulch down until early June (at least here in this Zone 5b area, might be earlier in your area)
3. Add used coffee grounds to the soil or apply around the base of plants troubled by slugs. Each year we make several trips to coffee shops and ask for their used coffee grounds. Most will give them away to the public as they are just throwing them out in the garbage anyway. Some will even take a bucket from you and fill it up throughout the day. We add the coffee grounds to our garden beds, especially around slug troubled plants like Hostas and we also add the coffee grounds to our compost container as they help make a rich compost when they break down.
As you can probably tell I’m not into using pesticides to get rid of slugs and other bad bugs. in fact here in Toronto they’ve banned most pesticides and herbicides so it’s a good thing I’ve been gardening without chemicals anyway! LOL
Hope this helps a bit!
Thanks a lot for the suggestions. We do drink a lot of coffee and have a ready supply of ground coffee grounds.
Makes me feel like growing some flowers too 🙂
I’m affraid it’s a bit too late to start growing flowers. But at least thanks to the fact that it’s spring and all that I can take a walk through the park and it looks amazing!
Wow! That photo of your grape hyacinth is beautiful. My garden is starting to come in nicely. Unfortunately we had several boxwoods not make it through the harsh Chicago winter. But the daffodils look glorious and brighten my day whenever I see them. Thanks for the helpful tip of using coffee grounds 🙂
I have also Muscari in my garden, Really everyone like it.
sadly, my only memory of “gardening” is when I killed my roommates plant that she had had for 15 years by placing it under our heating vent. oops!