Your hyacinths are beautiful
09 Mar 22 by member: smithe2383
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My kind of exercise. If it ever really warms up, I need to get some landscape work done as well. Nice Work!
09 Mar 22 by member: SLYONE 22
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I have roses 🌹 too and when it gets aggressively pruned. I always get payback from them, getting impaled by these scary thorns. After the pruning I say to my self LOVE HURTS.
09 Mar 22 by member: PinayRN
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Thanks, smithe! Erquiaga, arent they evil? 😁 That one is my easiest, most healthy bush! It gives a huge bounty of yellow flowers! Tim, I remember you saying that. 😁 And I have a perfect bush for you... Long stem, beautiful red on red striped... And nary a nasty thorn!
09 Mar 22 by member: melissatwa
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Thanks, SLYONE! I have a ton of work still I need to be getting done outside. PinayRN, I'm pretty strict with myself... forcing myself to prune pretty harshly. I have a couple I'm allowing to get taller. I only pruned back about half their hight this time, but everybody else gets whacked. I suffer cutting back wonderful, healthy canes, but it is best for sure! Do post some pictures of your blooms when they come!!
09 Mar 22 by member: melissatwa
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I love seeing pictures of your gardening work and your flowers, Melissa. As a big city resident, in an apartment that doesn't have a single balcony, and with zero plant care skills, I appreciate this window into your garden.
10 Mar 22 by member: SieteTresEva
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Even without flowers they look healthy.
10 Mar 22 by member: davidsprincess
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The hyacinth flowers have a stunning color. 🌷💕
10 Mar 22 by member: Brigit123
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I am trying to smell those flowers. We are having a cold spell again...Prairie winter has been rough
10 Mar 22 by member: liv001
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10 Mar 22 by member: erikahollister
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Beautiful! I can’t wait to get back to my garden. Another couple weeks and the snow/frost will be gone 🤞I wasn’t able to do a fall cleanup last year because of my injury. I’m ready to get back out there now! Gardening is good for the soul and the body.
10 Mar 22 by member: celticbutterfly
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Dear Eva, I wish you had a little space to grow things. Maybe someday! Thank you for your kinds words, everybody! For the first time, this year I felt zero motivation to work with my bushes.... I was dreading it. I got started and now I feel so much better and can't stop looking at them and wondering what gifts they will give me in the months ahead.
10 Mar 22 by member: melissatwa
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Spring will come for you guys waiting! Thank you for enjoying my flowers with me. They do smell heavenly, and I feel so blessed they haves such a cool color and they come back healthy year after year. I have a long stretch of working every day now for a while... I won't have time to enjoy much more time in my yard. I'm glad I got some work done!
10 Mar 22 by member: melissatwa
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Thanks for the reminder. As soon as the 6" of snow melts, I'll get out to pick up sticks and do some dormant pruning. I only have a few roses, but they are rewarding. I just planted a native Rosa Virginiana rose last fall in my natives garden, so I hope it weathered the winter okay. It will have humble simple pink blooms.
10 Mar 22 by member: erikahollister
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Hate those thorny rose bushes too💙🌹
10 Mar 22 by member: sk.17
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I was inspired when I saw the way you trimmed your roses last year. I have already started trimming here but need to finish. You just inspired me again... Thanks!!!
10 Mar 22 by member: John10251
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Good idea to mix your hyacinth bulbs among the roses 🌹 I should plant more hyacinth. The few I have are in an area not as visible as my daffodils. I thought about planting more Crocus, but their blooms are more short lived. I need to be ruthless pruning my roses. I don't have as many as you, but they would probably do better.
10 Mar 22 by member: SherryeB
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Your green thumb is greener every season. Beautiful!
10 Mar 22 by member: caraken
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Joe just finished pruning our bushes out back. I noticed our plum tree is full of flowers! It's beautiful!
Keep posting your beautiful flower pics! I really enjoy them!!
10 Mar 22 by member: Diana 1234
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It’s funny how the thorniest bushes seem to put out the prettiest flowers!
11 Mar 22 by member: TomLong
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