Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Monday, April 07, 2008
Catching Up, Part 2
Is this a lame excuse for a blog post?
I dodged the raindrops today and took these photos. I posted them on Picasaweb, but haven't gotten around to writing anything about them except the captions. I'm not sure what I think of embedded slideshows - comments welcome!
11 Comments:
Wow, your epimediums are blooming already! I bought several different kinds last year and all of them didn't bloom so I'm hoping all survived and will bloom this spring. I am especially interested in seeing 'Shrimp girl' since I have yet to come across a photo of the flowers. None of our Japanese maples show even a hint of budding leaves yet.
I'm guilty! On occasion I've gotten lazy or didn't have enough time to minimally label some photos but I published them anyway. Being an extremely visual person I don't mind seeing photos only without any annotation.
Great slide show, I am going to have to figure out how to do that, you are using Picasa?
How can blooms ever be considered a lame excuse? More floral eye-candy! The slide show has its advantages, but I can see it would not be a thing you'd want to use if you had photos called for a comparison.
I love the colour of your Sango Kaku Maple is gorgeous, as is the Euphorbia robbiae. It's amazing to see how far advanced spring is there - your Mertensia is already in bloom. This afternoon, I was looking at the dead foliage from mine of last year and I get the feeling it will be several weeks before I see new shoots appearing.
It's definitely not a lame excuse for a blog post in my books. I like the slideshow format - especially since I can stop it and look at a particular photograph for as long as I like.
Lame post? I think not. It's sharing something beautiful. My lame post last week was of rocks painted like boobs in a garden from France - with no commentary - 'cause I'm sure I would overstep some boundaries not already crossed by the photo!
Not lame at all! A lovely post of images, very refreshing and inspiring. We're trailing way behind, but spring HAS finally found us, at least briefly.
Ki: My 2 largest clumps of epimediums are blooming, but the others are just budding. Unfortunately, the 2 that are blooming are the old lost-label ones. The Sango Kaku maple is the only one with much leaf development so far. I'd like to see your Shrimp Girl too - the name is intriguing ;-)
I'm feeling a time crunch lately, with gardening activities increasing. The rain has been a big help, in more ways than one.
IGW: The slide show is a feature of Picasaweb. When you're signed in and looking at the main page of one of your albums, there's a link on the left side labeled "Embed Slideshow". That opens a popup window that gives you the code to paste into a blog post.
MMD: That's a good point about not using the slideshow for photos for comparison. Hey wait, how about 2 slideshows? Nah, I don't think so. I hope to get back to writing more very soon.
Kate: I'm sitting here right now looking at the Sango Kaku out the window, and the leaves are just sort of a suggestion of yellow on the coral branches. I think I get as big a kick out of watching foliage emerge as looking at flowers. It seems like a very short time ago that the bluebells here were just little bumps on the surface of the soil. They grew really fast once they got started.
Jim: This I gotta see. I'm sure my spouse would like it too ;-) I'll be right over.
Jodi: I'm so glad you're seeing signs of spring. I think our winter birds are on their way to spend the summer with you - I haven't seen a junco all morning.
Judging from your pics Spring has certainly sprung in Northern Virginia. Love that pic of the Euphorbia, very pretty. I don't see a slide show as a poor excuse for a blog, on the contrary I liked it a lot. :-)
Yolanda Elizabet: The euphorbia flower stalks have elongated a lot in the few days since I took that photo. Glad you liked the slideshow!
I am drooling over that coralbark maple! (Can you imagine that underplanted with zillions of Virginia bluebells?!)
Blackswamp Girl: Great idea! I may try that. I was going to move my few bluebell plants to central Virginia under a dogwood tree, but I think the dogwood blooms too late to create the effect I had in mind.
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