Pink and blue Primroses, of the variety "goodole", bought at Genardi for 99 cents a couple of years ago.
White primroses, same story. They're evergreen- you can see the old tired leaves below the new growth. Did you know in Philadelphia there's a club devoted to JUST the Primrose? They meet in the conservatory at Fairmont Park. You could probably attend a plant society meeting every week of the year in Philadelphia, but I only belong to three plant societies and STILL they have meetings on the same day occasionally! As President of Garden State Daylily Growers Club (New Jersey affiliate of the American Hemerocallis Society) I wait until I know the schedules of Delaware Valley Daylily Society (Phildaelphia area), Delaware Valley Hosta Society, and Tristate Hosta Society (NJ, NY, CT) before I schedule New Jersey Daylily meetings. And this year, DVDS changed their November meeting to the same weekend as GSDG AFTER both schedules were published. So I'm changing the NJ date so our overlapping membership doesn't have to run a marathon the first weekend in November. "The best laid plans...."
Daffodils in the flower bed next to the porch, which mother nature thinks is "a prairie meadow lacking only grass, and she's trying to correct that oversite." I'm paraphrasing- the quote can be found, attributed to the correct author, on Katie Cook's blog
www.gottagarden.blogspot.com at the bottom of the right column. Anybody who remembers the weedkiller that will kill grass but not daylilies, and/or knows of a source in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, please leave a comment. This is a good time to remove the grass, but the only way I've been able to get it out of the daylily clumps is to dig up and separate the clump.
On a brighter note, aren't these cute? I needed a "point" of reference to show how tiny these are.
Finally today, the week of unseasonably warm weather has caused the magnolia tree to drop its protective bud sheaths, so if we get a freeze in the next month plus (frost free date for Philadelphia is after May 1) the tree won't bloom. This amazingly only happens about two of three years, so we get a great show about every third year. I'll post photos if frost holds off. This tree is more than 60 years old, as am I, which is about the only thing that keeps me from cutting it down.
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Pink and blue Primroses, of the variety "goodole", bought at Genardi for 99 cents a couple of years ago.
White primroses, same story. They're evergreen- you can see the old tired leaves below the new growth. Did you know in Philadelphia there's a club devoted to JUST the Primrose? They meet in the conservatory at Fairmont Park. You could probably attend a plant society meeting every week of the year in Philadelphia, but I only belong to three plant societies and STILL they have meetings on the same day occasionally! As President of Garden State Daylily Growers Club (New Jersey affiliate of the American Hemerocallis Society) I wait until I know the schedules of Delaware Valley Daylily Society (Phildaelphia area), Delaware Valley Hosta Society, and Tristate Hosta Society (NJ, NY, CT) before I schedule New Jersey Daylily meetings. And this year, DVDS changed their November meeting to the same weekend as GSDG AFTER both schedules were published. So I'm changing the NJ date so our overlapping membership doesn't have to run a marathon the first weekend in November. "The best laid plans...." 
Daffodils in the flower bed next to the porch, which mother nature thinks is "a prairie meadow lacking only grass, and she's trying to correct that oversite." I'm paraphrasing- the quote can be found, attributed to the correct author, on Katie Cook's blog www.gottagarden.blogspot.com at the bottom of the right column. Anybody who remembers the weedkiller that will kill grass but not daylilies, and/or knows of a source in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, please leave a comment. This is a good time to remove the grass, but the only way I've been able to get it out of the daylily clumps is to dig up and separate the clump.
On a brighter note, aren't these cute? I needed a "point" of reference to show how tiny these are.
Finally today, the week of unseasonably warm weather has caused the magnolia tree to drop its protective bud sheaths, so if we get a freeze in the next month plus (frost free date for Philadelphia is after May 1) the tree won't bloom. This amazingly only happens about two of three years, so we get a great show about every third year. I'll post photos if frost holds off. This tree is more than 60 years old, as am I, which is about the only thing that keeps me from cutting it down. 
