Some of my plants and trees in spring

[yuccaman]

I took some pictures outside and it was cold windy and wet. 4 days with 21C and 20C. and the other day 19C. This made the trees grow their leaves and some trees already like poplar almost have a summer look. Maples, weeping willows, poplars, lilacs, peaches, and some flowering trees. They have small leaves but are very green. The grass is great. Good spring so far. The pictures were taken at outside temperature of 6C or 7C. a big cooldown from 20C to 5C in just 8 hours. Its been very humid






Peach trees, pic below

peach tree 2

cherry tree, pic below

Peach flowers

lilac

manitoba maple. The tree in the middle with big spring leaves. The poplar in my yard has buds only with tiny leaves.

poplars or alders with medium sized green leaves


Reply me if you like them

[DesertZone]

Very nice pics and a well kept yard

[yuccaman]

Im glad you like them. I did alot of work to get my yard great. The yuccas I have are adams needle, golden sword. They had great time in the warm summer like weather.

[Jay-Admin]

Great pics. Looks like you have your veg. garden all ready to go.

[Alchris]

Very NIce. My yard is still in clean up mode. My 3 arctic white roses survived as well as most of the roses around my gazebo. The jury is still out on the large single petal yellow rose. Unfortunately 4 of the 12 3' arborvitae I put in last year are pretty sickly and most of my blueberries don't look like they made it. It looks like the Stellar's Jays picked every bud off of my weeping pussy willow( There is no sign of life).

Allen

[yuccaman]

Your right. Im going to put in carrots, patatoes, cucumbers, raspberries. Thats all for now but maybe more. I used to live on a farm in florida and I would grow palms and sell them. But not in my area now. I liked all the native palms. We had and the rainforest look. I might move back to florida In Augest. I have more photos to share on the next thread. Allen the rhododendron I have is a p.j.m and its very cold hardy. It might work in your area. My pussy willows were chopped do to the birds. The chewed it, took the buds of it, rabbits chewed its bark. Thats why I got rid of mine

[Alchris]

When I got serious in my search for Rhododendrons, I found quite a few evergreen tree varieties that are supposed to survive in Zone 4 as well as some shorter varieties. P.J.M. is on my list as an alternate.

I'm hoping to find some of the R. maximum varieties--roseum, purpeum or album--. They are a little taller and hardier than the R. catawbiense varieties. I'm hoping to get them 6' tall in the medium term. My front yard is almost all deciduous. I am hoping to get my hands on some of the 3' Finnish evergreen varieties. A few of them are hardy to -40. those and the new Yuccas will sure add some early spring green. The local nurseries haven't got any of their stock in yet.

I don't have any formal vegetable garden. The potatoes go in where the weeds are the worse-probably in front of the rock where the 'non suckering' pastel yarrow suckered and I am still trying to kill it. My neighbors recognize the Russian Blue variety's foliage and flowers, so I will have to find something else. I am going to keep my tomatoes back from the sidewalk and try those 'brown' varieties this year. Last year the yellow tomatoes disappeared on me and were replaced by red tomatoes in little baggies. The pink lettuce and multicolored swiss chard should be safe along the sidewalk. I am going to try to convince my grandson to grow white pumpkins, but he is change resistant. I imagine that we will be growing Giant pumpkins this year(I talked him out of it last year). I don't have to worry about the rabbits. The neighbors feed them.

When one of my neighbors identified the trachys I have been hardening off in the front yard as ' that's a palm, right' he didn't even raise an eyebrow. They are finally getting used to me. My neighbors are first generation european immigrants in their 50s to 70s combined with 2nd generation couples just starting their families. The Babbas and Nannas just love having kids around. It is hard to believe that we live in a city of 1MM.

Allen

[Wes North Van]

Nice looking yard. Very neat and tidy. It looks quite large also.

[yuccaman]

Thank you That forest is very huge but in the photo it looks small but its so long. Its about a mile long. Tree types, Eastern white pine, Alder, Poplar, Red oak, Eastern hemlock, Very little Aspen, Juniper, Sugar maple,Paper birch, scotch pine,These are all the tree types I know in the forest.