Iris Part II.

Apache Carpet (Chapman 2001)

Beat! Beat! Drums! (Tasquier 2011)

Hola (Tasquier 2010)

Joyful (Gatty 1977)

Keep Off (Black 2012)

Maui Sunrise (Aitken 2008)

My Dearie (Jim & Vicki Craig 2008)

Perfection

Cisza Przed Burza (Komarnicki 2003)

Crave (Blyth 2008)

Goddess Of Yellow (Niswonger 2000) IB

Prince of Burgundy (Niswonger 1992) IB

Summoned Spirit (Chapman 2002)

Witty (Black 2012) IB

Cote De Nacre (Tasquier 2010)

Luc Si Mer (Tasquier 2010) IB

Nenette (Ransom 2004)

Compère Guilleri (Tasquier 2013) MTB

Ink Line (Sutton 2008) SDB

Michael Paul (Jones 1979) SDB

Iris Part I.

Impulsive Imp (Blyth 2004)

Pure Allure (Ritchie 1987)



Dapper (Blyth 2002)

Flirting Again (Aitken 2002)

Sigh (Black 1989)

Honey Money (Sutton 2009)

Ni Hao (Tasquier 2009)

Easy Violet (Tasquier 2013)

Mickey Like it

Star Baby (Smith 1992)

Worry Wart (Black 2012)

Eramosa Skies (Chapman 1996)

Tweety Bird (Black 1991)

True (Johnson 2006)

Calamus (Tasquier 2012)

Forever Blue (Chapman 1996)

Olive Spot (Spoon 2006)

Out Burst (Sobek 1990)

Serendipity Elf (Niswonger 1992)

Tasquier C164D: (Under My Thumb x Cassis)

Actor (Black 2012)

Wise (Spoon 2004)

Shy Di (Tasquier 2010)

Cri Cri (Bianco 2003)

Melting Pot

Soft Air (Warburton 1972)

Sweet Bite (Black 1995)

 

Chubby Cheeks (Black 1985)

Nénette (L. Ransom 2004)

Magnetic Storm (Vernon Wood 2006)

Tinby (Tasquier 2013)

Little Sprinkle (Chris Vizvarie 1992)

Warm And Fuzzy (Johnson 2010)

Rubitano (Blyth 2004)

Jolie Môme (Tasquier 2012)

Spring blooms in my garden

 

 Every spring in my garden make me feel very special. So much amazing blooms, green leaves and live. Today I worked in my garden. When I pulled weeds near haskap bush, which is full of blooms I enjoy sound of many bees in it. Love that sound. It look like all colony of bees work in there. Take a pause and looked how they do it. I love to enjoy simple things. So there is one of it: One bumble bee fly and land on flower. Maybe that bloom is few days old, and when she did that, she just lie down with bloom. Maybe she is too heavy for that bloom. I just stare and look what she do next. Bee found other bloom, land and that doesn't pop-up. Then visited more flowers and then goes to other flowers.

Today I feel not in mood. School things make me feel not good, but now, after garden therapy, I felt great. So take a lot photos then, pulled out weeds and listen sounds of spring. This year near my garden is a lot birds, which like to sing a lovely songs when I am in garden. I feel like in that story of SThe ecret Garden, where little girl enjoy gardening, and talk

 with bird who shows her secret garden. My garden is full of live. So many blooms. Month back, there was tons of snow, now, tons of blooms. So I will share few of them:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This tulip is my favorite. I found this in seedling bed, when I try to cross tulips 5 years back. But I think, that this is not a seedling, but simple variety with broken color. Love those tooth's on it.

 

This is great yellow tulip. Sad, that it doesn't have multi blooms, as have first year. When on one stalk it have more than 3 blooms, what is unusual for tulips. But color, which is yellow, which green marks is great and I like it very much.

This is my dad favorite tulip. He say, that it looks different than others, because it have shape and heavy color, which in shade is more purple.

And this is my first iris blooms this year. This is not usual, but iris specie. I am not sure what it is real. Some say it is I.Juno, others I.Junono, and others some absolutely different name, which is hard to remember. But not the name is important. Beauty is what I like. If I cross these, then I need all data of it, but now, when I use it only for ornamental gardening, it works well without tag.

 

This is my new plant. Last summer I get bulbs and gardener say, that this is stinky plant. Something from Arum, I though. So now wait when it start to show leaves and blooms, then I will be sure what it is. I am interested in unusual plants for gardens of Lithuania. I have not much special plants, but this will be one of them.

Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald n Gold'. A lot gardeners say, that this plant doesn't grow well after winter, when they grow it on ground and all covered with snow. My is all off from snow and it looks great. Maybe it is because I live in city and take care of it every year. I doesn't pinch it before fall to leave it and give some energy to make stalks wooden. And every spring it looks bigger and better. Love this plant, and wish to have it in so good condition for years.

Primula 'Valentina'. My variety. I get it from simple cross, but flowers of it is special for me. All petals have heart broke shape on edge. So in that case I give name Valentina, which mean love and girl name for me. But what is funny, it grows so close to each other, that I can't to make more of it. Only this one tussock.

So this is all my nice day, with amazing flowers.
Take care and enjoy small things.
Edvinas

Hard days

    In my last blog, I write, that I plan to remove my daylilies. So that I did this weekend. 4 days of hard work. First two days I dig out all daylilies, label them and place in boxes. Second day evening I went in grandmother garden, take a look on row, and start to add compost and make few beds for my special daylilies. Third day. In first bed I planted only seedlings, in second two named varieties. I have work until evening, when I feel so tired, that I can only go home to eat. But after dinner I get more energy and go out to make few beds for seeds. So in this photo(right) you can see covered beds with seeds. Oh, one in left (center of photo) a half is superb daylilies from FloydCove Nursery. I cover them for beginning, because I worry, that they don't like sun at first days. And all next is seedling beds. So at last one day (today) I sowed seeds, but I felt so tired, and I don't sowed all seeds today. So take all left one home in Kaunas. I will sow them there and then in summer will replant and plant in grandmother garden. For today, I think, it is enough.

   And there I show few photos as a result of few years work in large space garden. I love, when I can do not limit my creativity and plant as far as I want, and do not think, how to plant 10 fans in small place. There is even better. In photo at left is only my and my friends seedlings. Major part is my own, but also a lot of William Marchant, AHS International Seed Bank and few from Claudia Conway. Now I sowed a lot from W. Marchant, C.Conway and very much from Mick Morry. Those seeds are my best gene poll for future works. For now I have plenty my own, and will look what good they can show this year. Bottom bed covered with agro-film is my good friend and mentor - Claudia Conway seeds bed. I love all of those crosses and can't wait when they sprout. Also in there is Nina Waters seeds, which must to germinate faster, because I sown them in ground by fall. Still no marks of growing, but spring is late in there, so I doesn't expect it now. But I love, that other seedlings was so big, and green now. They are only second years old, but some have more than 4

 fans.

   In right is new bed, which I make few days ago, and yesterday planted seedlings from all over the world. There is a lot of my mentioned people seedlings, but most important was from John Kulpa and Louise Niquet. They are big enough to show blooms for me this summer. So I wait for it. I hope that rain will come fast to grandmother garden, because when I leave it and take those photos, all water, which I pulled this morning was gone. But inside of ground is a lot of water, so I think, that this is not very bad. Also grandmother can to water too. Bottom photo is how all my rows of seedlings and named varieties looks like. I love this result. Now I wait for summer when they be green and start to show scapes. Then result will amaze me. I hope.

   This work is hard, but I love it. Work in garden with my favorite flowers make me feel good. All energy from them goes to me. And at last after long winter I can work in ground, play with dirt and etc.

Good luck,

Edvinas