https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:44:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals/page/2#post-1808866 Tue, 16 May 2017 14:29:27 +0000 JAileen 1808866@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>abc, thank you for sharing your pictures. The plant with the bright pink leaves is especially striking. I love succulents. We used to have them when I grew up in the SF Bay Area. I don't have any now, except as house plants. They are a little forgiving when it comes to watering, thankfully. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals/page/2#post-1808864 Tue, 16 May 2017 13:57:17 +0000 abc 1808864@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Late to the party, but I just got into succulents.  There was a fair downtown about cactus and succulents and we went crazy  We got a few planters already arranged and they're just gorgeous.  We've been working on the back yard since we moved (Feb of this year) and it's coming together.  We've gotten several hanging plants to hang from the newly installed bamboo pergola, and added a variety of plants as well, we plan to put them in the dirt but for now they're just sitting around the patio.  Here's some pics (will add from my phone shortly). I'm loving the succulents for our climate. I even got a couple for my desk, really livens up the office space. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals/page/2#post-1808340 Sat, 13 May 2017 22:03:22 +0000 JAileen 1808340@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Carla, lovely! Thanks for sharing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals/page/2#post-1808270 Sat, 13 May 2017 15:25:07 +0000 Carla 1808270@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A cool spring is preserving the early flowers. We are getting a lot of rain and grey days, but I managed a few pics from my garden. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1808136 Sat, 13 May 2017 00:08:38 +0000 JAileen 1808136@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So right you are, Gaylene. I'm looking at my Audubon guide to NA Trees and the Pacific dogwood's range is the Pacific coast from British Columbia to mid California, or so. I live inland, and they aren't here. In fact, I think we only have one native tree, a Cottonwood. But I grew up north of San Francisco, and that would have been part of its range. Diana is from Southern California, I think, and it doesn't look like its range goes that far south. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1808123 Fri, 12 May 2017 23:00:35 +0000 Gaylene 1808123@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Dogwoods are actually pretty common in many areas of Canada and Europe as well as throughout the States. The red osier dogwood is often planted as a windbreak on Prairie farms in Canada. The Pacific dogwood is the provincial flower of British Columbia. </p> <p>You are right that the Cornus florida dogwood isn't found in the western half of the States, but a dwarf variety of dogwood is found in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. It's a pretty versatile species. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1808054 Fri, 12 May 2017 18:21:41 +0000 JAileen 1808054@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They grow in Canada but not in Minnesota. That's very odd. I wonder why that is? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1808039 Fri, 12 May 2017 17:21:54 +0000 Diana 1808039@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do you know, before I moved to the east coast I thought dogwoods were a South-only thing, but apparently they are native to the entire east coast.&nbsp; But they seem to not grow at all in the western half of the US.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.usanpn.org/nn/Cornus_florida">https://www.usanpn.org/nn/Cornus_florida</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1808010 Fri, 12 May 2017 15:32:45 +0000 JAileen 1808010@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I thought your last picture was of flowering fruit trees. We drove the Blue Ridge Parkway once and the dogwoods were in bloom. It was a gorgeous drive. I don't think they grow around here. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1808006 Fri, 12 May 2017 15:13:05 +0000 Diana 1808006@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, that is a dogwood. They are all over my neighborhood at the moment and are some of my favorite trees. The last photo I posted is actually of a white one and a pink one next to each other. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807983 Fri, 12 May 2017 14:27:31 +0000 JAileen 1807983@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gaylene, you lucky duck! We were there a decade ago. It was spectacular! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807862 Fri, 12 May 2017 05:47:58 +0000 Gaylene 1807862@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>JAileen, I'm lucky to be living about 20 minutes away from Butchart Gardens. It's an amazing place to go in every season. And Victoria is lovely in the spring. Here's a picture from a few weeks ago when all the cherry trees were in bloom: </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807854 Fri, 12 May 2017 04:54:37 +0000 JAileen 1807854@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Diana, your orchid is beautiful. Pattern mixing! Is 3 a dogwood? I think we're a little ahead of you too. Our crabapples were blooming a week or two ago. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807842 Fri, 12 May 2017 04:03:12 +0000 Diana 1807842@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sadly I don't have a garden right now because I live in an apartment building, but my orchid plant is blooming! Other pics are various things in my neighborhood. (I liked the pattern mixing in #4!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807830 Fri, 12 May 2017 03:22:10 +0000 JAileen 1807830@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anna, so pretty! I love driving by fields of flowers like that.</p> <p>BTW, thanks for clarifying that the acres of daffodils and tulips aren't yours.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807810 Fri, 12 May 2017 01:56:09 +0000 annagybe 1807810@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not my flowers</p> <p>#1-3 Daffodil fields in Skagit Valley in March<br />#4-6 Lusio light exhibit at a local conservatory<br />#7-10 Tulip Fields in the Skagit Valley in April<br />#11&nbsp;Balsamorhiza in Eastern Washington</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807807 Fri, 12 May 2017 01:45:30 +0000 JAileen 1807807@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gaylene, your flowers are lovely! Are you near Butchart Gardens? How lucky! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807795 Fri, 12 May 2017 00:58:53 +0000 Gaylene 1807795@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My rhodos were lovely this year. And this is a picture of Butchart Gardens a few weeks ago--springtime blossoms and tulips everywhere. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807725 Thu, 11 May 2017 18:30:43 +0000 JAileen 1807725@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Cat, I'm glad your tulips survived! When we lived in the mountains, we had violas (Johnny Jump ups) flowering in the snow. They seemed to do okay. Our neighborhood was called the 'Banana Belt' because we got less snow than other neighborhoods, but we got lower temperatures. Nearby they measured -45F once. Too cold for me! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807693 Thu, 11 May 2017 16:42:23 +0000 The Cat 1807693@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Last week was relatively warm here. On Saturday we actually enjoyed around 20 C (68 F), which is characterized as summer temperature in Scandinavia. Though this week has been cooler, it was indeed a surprise to wake up to snow and only 2 C (35 F) this morning!</p> <p>By now (early evening), the snow has disappeared, and the tulips&nbsp;are looking OK.&nbsp;It seems that tulips and several other flowers are able to survive snow. Frost, however,&nbsp;can be worse ...</p> <p>I adore the beautiful flower pictures from you, JAileen, and others here.&nbsp;Thanks for sharing!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807671 Thu, 11 May 2017 15:46:41 +0000 JAileen 1807671@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Cat, wow! Snow in May! How do the tulips do in the snow? Are they okay or does it kill them? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807651 Thu, 11 May 2017 15:09:11 +0000 The Cat 1807651@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is what I woke up to this morning (May 11) outside Oslo, Norway:</p> <p></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807482 Wed, 10 May 2017 21:47:33 +0000 JAileen 1807482@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Emily, really nice! Thanks for sharing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807476 Wed, 10 May 2017 21:38:36 +0000 Emily K 1807476@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jenn--your paper flowers are AMAZING! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807475 Wed, 10 May 2017 21:38:10 +0000 Emily K 1807475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A sampling of the flowers in my front garden, now. &nbsp;They are: &nbsp;#1, Ajuga reptans "Mahogany"; &nbsp;#2, Allium "Purple Sensation" in front of Sweet Woodruff (marauding everywhere); #3, The greater garden area with allium, sweet woodruff, and Geranium phaeum "Samobor"; #4, On the other side of our entry path with Ajuga genevensis, Ajuga reptans "Mahogany", purple foliage contributed by Salvia lyrata "Purple Volcano", and Geum "Banana Daiquiri". &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807213 Wed, 10 May 2017 03:11:03 +0000 Anonymous 1807213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, Jenn!&nbsp; Those are amazing.&nbsp; DDIL would have loved #3 for her bridal bouquet.&nbsp; The wedding had a bookish theme.I am sorry that your lilacs did not make it through the freeze.&nbsp;many were already blooming here and our Korean Lilacs in bud are blooming now.&nbsp; Our grape vines did not make it though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807173 Wed, 10 May 2017 00:17:11 +0000 JAileen 1807173@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa, I know. Our oak tree leaves are just now opening. I guess we're a couple weeks ahead of you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807167 Wed, 10 May 2017 00:04:13 +0000 Anonymous 1807167@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm just teasing you &nbsp;;) &nbsp;My huge apple tree is about a week away from blooming and I cannot wait!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807162 Tue, 09 May 2017 23:48:49 +0000 JAileen 1807162@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa, I'm sorry. At least you have something to look forward to. The lilacs were a volunteer in the backyard that my husband transplanted. They must have liked our super wet winter because I've never seen them so loaded with blooms.</p> <p>Jenn, I was fooled at first. Your artwork is so beautiful! Wow! I'm sorry your lilacs were killed by frost.</p> <p>Delurked, I love bougainvillea. So so pretty. We can't grow it here, unfortunately. Do you eat the kumquats? What do they taste like?</p> <p>Meredith, your phlox is lovely. I wish our yard had a little more shade. It's all sun, all the time. Sounds good, but can be torture in July. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lets-see-your-florals#post-1807111 Tue, 09 May 2017 21:36:48 +0000 Meredith 1807111@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Our yard is too shady for many spring blooms, but the woodland phlox I planted last spring smells amazing. </p>