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Sjoerd
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Hoorn, the Netherlands
Some of the flowers in bloom at the moment...23 May '06 10:58 am
The spring flowers are finally beginning to open-up now. They are mostly aquilegias, but there are some other things as well.
I can see some buds forming on other plants now...so all we need is some warmth and the good times will begin to roll.
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These are also numerous, but nice to look at none the less.
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This lovely and delicate yellow thing is something that I am really proud of. This is it's third year and it's still going strong.
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You can look right into it. It's as lovely inside as out, I think.
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This is the Lonicera with the varigated leaves. Oh...if only you could smell it!
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Cleopatra's Needle is inching-up daily. I'm a bit worried, though cos the wind's wuite strong now.
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Variegated lonicera?23 May '06 7:13 pm
Lovely pics, Sjoerd! Every year I promise myself more aquilegias, especially the McKanna hybrids. I guess I better start doing something about it...
What is Cleopatra's needle? And please show us more pics of the leaves of your lonicera... it looks like something really special. Is it a named cultivar?
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Wowow!23 May '06 9:09 pm
Sjoerd!....your macro shots are lovely with great floral details and amazing colours, especially the very dark purple aquilegia with its contrasting center (I've never seen such a remarkable beauty before!). You're so blessed, not only with all the beautiful plants in your garden, but shared too with its other inhabitants attracted to it! 
Thanks for sharing and keep them rolling in... 
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Aquilegias' Love!24 May '06 4:14 am
Aren't they adorable darlings these Aquilegias!! The artistic skill and imaginative creativity of The Artist, IS incomparable! I have all my life been positively mystified by the artistic forms and colours of Aquilegias! And in my heart , they always represent female beings!
Thank you for the experience, Sjoerd!
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Sjoerd
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Hoorn, the Netherlands
24 May '06 1:05 pm
Jack: the Lonicera is the "Lonicera periclymenum Harlequin". It was such a pittiful and totally dried-out specimen when I got it from a garden center, the price was reduced because it looked like it wouldn't make it actually. I don't know if it is something really special, but I am quite taken by it. I will send more fotos of the leavs when the sun shines again.
Cleopatra's Needle is "Eremurus stenphyllus". I am not sure anymore which colour it is, It has been in the ground for a few years now and not doing much at all.
Liza and Jacqueline: The aquis are such lovely things...they seed-out so easily, and I just let them come up wherever the want, more or less. I'm really glad you both like them as much as I do...the variations are sometimes renarkable. Thanks for your sweet words.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
a question24 May '06 3:55 pm
The sweet bloom of lonicera are known as 'honeysuckle' here and the scent is beautiful .There is also lonicera nitida ,which is a bushy hedge -no resemblance to Sjoerd`s climber.
I have a question about Aquilegia - this is the first year I have grown it ,and now in Autumn it is yellowing and seems to be dying off. I read that it self -seeds ,which would be lovely .Is it dormant now ? Will the clump have new growth in spring ,or is it only grown from seed ? (I have tried talking to it)
Dixie
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Sjoerd
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Hoorn, the Netherlands
Will it come back???24 May '06 10:32 pm
Well Dixie, I think that it may depend on the type. It does self-seed exceedingly easily, but I have some plants that come back each year. They die back and lie dormant all winter. I don't know how many years these plants will sucessfully "come-back", but 2-3 anyway.
If you have the sort that ís perinneal then look for new growth early in the spring. If you are at all worried that the dormant roots might freeze, cover them with brush or a little bit if mulch----and mark their location with a cane, stick or something so that you don't dig it up next spring. I say this because there will be no sign of them what-so-ever come springtime. I learned this the hard way. 
Success, Dix...
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Sjoerd
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Hoorn, the Netherlands
Lonicera "harliquin"26 May '06 11:51 am
Ok Jack... here are a few Lonicera fotos that I promised. I have made some from close-by and some from a bit of a distance. These should give you a better idea of how the variegated leaves look. I hope that you enjoy them.
p.s. I would suggest that you klik on the pic to see it in a larger format because it will be somewhat sharper.
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Sjoerd
nominate your own title
Hoorn, the Netherlands
More Flowers Coming Into Bloom26 May '06 12:19 pm
I went out to the lottie today to do a little work and take some fotos in between the showers.
I hope that you enjoy seeing them.
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An Oriental Poppy. It's a perinneal. It was just bursting out!
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A closer view of the Bulgarian show-onion (literally translated).
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Rain droplets on this bloomed-out flower. The plant's name is: Geum rivale "Lionel Cox", I think.
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Absolutely....26 May '06 5:51 pm
stunning shots of your beauties! Such rich colours too! The first pic of your poppy really draws my attention because of its lovely formation and it seemed to be capped under a mini turban (a headdress usually worn by the Sikh community in my country)! 
Thanks for brightening my day, Sjoerd!
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