What's looking good in April 2017

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more basket ideas I been working on and starting to get a bit more colour in the garden:)
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I couldn't resist Little Man and just commented on him in a totally unrelated post. I'm sure i couldn't get my Polly, Pollyanna or unfortunately Pissy Polly :confused:for a while but now perfectly trained thank heavens:)(y) so now Perfect Polly, to sit still for a photo shoot like that.View attachment 18625loves a cubby

Other side of the World and you got the same laundry bag as me :D

Some more Celandines with Dog's Dickie leaves poking thru :)
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Found these pretty little flowers walking in the woods yesterday. I have no idea what they are, except pretty. :) I think I like them as much for the leaves as the flowers! :LOL:

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Still don't care for the bush, but the flowers are pretty
@vette-kid, I think it's a shame to have a plant in your yard that you don't like. :( I also know how many pollinators love that plant, so I want you to keep it. :cautious: :LOL: I've done a little reading about pruning a lantana, and I found this:
Tackle pruning lantana several times throughout the growing season. In regions where lantana is winter hardy, shearing plants lightly following flowering promotes stem branching and a future flush of flowers. Prune plants at any time they outgrow their growing space. You can safely remove up to one-third of a lantana plant’s overall size at any one pruning.
http://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/flowers-and-plants/lantana-care-growing-and-pruning-lantana
Maybe if it wasn't so big and straggly, you'd like it better? :unsure: While I trust HGTV's advice on how much you can prune, I still recommend you start a thread. (I don't know much about lantana, I would want advice on how to prune it! (y) )
 
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(I don't know much about lantana, I would want advice on how to prune it! (y) )
I have been growing Lantana for a number of years. It grows as a weed here but also in people's gardens. When it gets to big, or strops making flowers, i just whack it down to size. Then i give it some composted sheep poop, water it. They respond well to a little bit of fertilizer from time to time.
 
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I have no idea what they are, except pretty.

I do not see the color, but the outline of the plant reminds me of a Erythronium dens-canis. The beginning of flowering. :)

What do you feed her @Larisa?

Every week I use a plastic tank with warm water to put my orchids there for irrigation. I pre-add fertilizers to this water. 1 week - special fertilizer for orchids, 2 week - manure in granules. I take fertilizers in a smaller quantity than recommended in the instructions, but every week. Orchids grow and blossom well! :rolleyes:
 
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The Senecio confusus, Mexican Flame Vine (Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides) is beginning its climb up the arch once again after being seriously cut back for a transplant. This year it is planted between the 2 ladders of the arch so it can grow up each side. I thought i had lost it in the transplant and i was happy and relieved when it decided to grow, and now it is starting to burst into bloom. I wish i could send the fragrance.:)
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The Senecio confusus, Mexican Flame Vine (Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides) is beginning its climb up the arch once again after being seriously cut back for a transplant. This year it is planted between the 2 ladders of the arch so it can grow up each side. I thought i had lost it in the transplant and i was happy and relieved when it decided to grow, and now it is starting to burst into bloom. I wish i could send the fragrance.:)
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Stunning Beverly. It must be a spectacular sight en masse.
 
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Stunning Beverly. It must be a spectacular sight en masse.
It has only reached 3 rungs on the right side and 2 rungs on the left. It started forming buds before it made it to the first rung. So even at just 3 rungs, it is impressive for its size. In the past it has climbed with foliage only and the blossoms were mostly at the top. Maybe the time of year makes the difference, i am not sure, but i sure would like to see blossoms top to bottom and hopefully falling through the 2 open rungs at the very top. No telling and it is not giving up any secrets:rolleyes: It is next door to the Plumbago:)
 

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