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Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 5:40 am
by alice44
January 26
Daphne
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Hellebore
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Smaller Hellebore with lighter flowers
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Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:32 am
by alice44
January 27
Camellia
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Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:54 am
by Liis
alice44 wrote:January 27
Camellia
Camellia? Outdoors? In WINTER? :shock:
Alice, please, please say that you are kidding.
I only ever see camellias when I go to the Mediterranean greenhouse of the Botanical gardens. And potted in garden centres, dying the moment they get into central heated rooms.
The Lady of the Camellias (Dumas & Greta Garbo) would have been terribly expensive in upkeep here indeed with her posies of camellias ...

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:59 am
by alice44
Liis it is Spring, I started a new thread :whistling: (but in support of my contention the woman down the street was doing her gardening in a short sleeved t-shirt this afternoon -- I was wearing a coat while walking)
That bush is the earliest to bloom. I would say it generally blooms in winter. I have a hedge 20 feet tall of a variety of kinds of camellias -- often it is so rainy that the flowers get beaten to pulp.

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 11:07 am
by alice44
January 29
Daffodil Buds from up the street
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Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 11:36 pm
by Liis
alice44 wrote:Liis it is Spring, I started a new thread :whistling: (but in support of my contention the woman down the street was doing her gardening in a short sleeved t-shirt this afternoon -- I was wearing a coat while walking).
Today I dug 1,75 metres of dumped snow off where some snowdrops are expected to come up. Sometime.
alice44 wrote:That bush is the earliest to bloom. I would say it generally blooms in winter. I have a hedge 20 feet tall of a variety of kinds of camellias.
Arrggghhhh, aoowwww ...
alice44 wrote:-- often it is so rainy that the flowers get beaten to pulp.
Thanks, some consolation ...
I have a rose like that . No immediate pulp, that is, but you have to slit the utmost petals after a rainy period, or it won't open, just rot.

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 9th, 2010, 5:44 pm
by NancyM
Lovely pictures, Alice.

It's nice to know that Spring is somewhere! Some friends on Vancouver Island (north and west of Alice) report snowdrops, daffodils, spring iris, primroses , etc etc

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 16th, 2010, 11:29 am
by alice44
February 12
Hellebore
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The smaller petaled Camellias are just about ready to bloom.
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Hellebore from my neighbour's garden
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Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 16th, 2010, 2:09 pm
by Fleur
Alice, what a beautiful color

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 16th, 2010, 4:41 pm
by Kuremari
wow, that Hellebore is amazing!
i had one (with white blossoms) once...but it got lost somewhere :puzzled:

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 11:24 am
by alice44
Kuremari wrote:wow, that Hellebore is amazing!
i had one (with white blossoms) once...but it got lost somewhere :puzzled:
The dark hellebore is from down the street (I think she has a prize winning garden) -- the two in my garden are much lighter.

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 11:26 am
by alice44
Two more flowers from my garden

I think they were taken on the 20th
Daphne and Daffodil
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Lung Wort
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Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 12:47 pm
by Kuremari
thanks for these pictures - they are like soul food, lucky you, with spring and all... :rolleyes:
all we have here, is more snow every day...

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 6:15 pm
by macdoum
Lovely pics,lovely plants Alice. :wave: :2thumbsup:
We have..Snowdrops and Hellebore too. Tulips and Daffodils are on the way.
No wonder, our weather has gone from -6° C to 15° today. Kraazy weather. :puzzled: The snow has all melted of course..I did like that lovely white everywhere,but then I don't have to adventure out unless strictly necessary. :mrgreen:

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 12:02 am
by Olga
:wave: Alice, beautiful and moving pictures! They remind us here that some of those same flowers will be blooming here too, one day when the snow has gone.. after 10 weeks or so..

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 7:07 am
by alice44
Never ending Spring by traveling the world.



This year late Jan/early Feb. was 7degrees Fahrenheit warmer than last year -- my gas bill says the average temperature last year was 38f this year it was 45F.

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 9:06 pm
by Kuremari
...and my gas bills are almost twice bigger than last year :cry:
of course last years we had no proper winter too
but it is lovely to know that Spring is somewhere ! :D

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 10:41 pm
by Fleur
I do really feel like spring all the way back. :loveshower:
Beautiful flowers

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 7:08 am
by alice44
Camellia
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I need to look up the dates -- I am on two computers and....

Re: Spring in Oregon

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 7:09 am
by alice44
Camellia Hedge

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