What does your pond look like ... Today?

[sissy]

They look like grape hyacinth .I have some they are a bulb if that is the same as mine .Mine are long past there bloom already .

 

[paintguru]

They look huge. We never do well with hyacinths.

 

[demosaki]

Start of another season

New season

• demosaki
• May 4, 2015

 

[sissy]

They are actually very small plants and are for the ground in the spring .Hyacinths for the pond are different .

 

[JBtheExplorer]

What are the flowers in pic #1? Those are awesome for so early in the year.

As Sissy said, they're Grape Hyacinth, also known as Muscari. Very easy to grow in ground. They won't grow in a pond. They're the earliest flowering plant I have. The flowers get about 3", and the plants themselves are small, maybe get around 8" tall at the tallest flowers. I grow mine along the outside edge of my bog. The grassy leaves look really nice along a bog or pond in Spring.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Rainy day but its good for the plants and the pond is full!

 

[tbendl]

I now have 2 bloomers... Wooohooooo

 

[rodsboys]

Pretty....... I am still months out from that. Snowing today. : (

 

[tbendl]

Oh no. When does your weather start warming up??

 

[rodsboys]

It has already, we are just not completely in the safe zone yet. June- September are usually decent.

 

[tbendl]

Wow, that would be tough for me, I'm definitely not a cold weather gal. I bet when it's warm that it's beautiful though. Sending sunshine rays in your direction for sure.

 

[milhousebarks]

I now have 2 bloomers... Wooohooooo
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Congatulations! Your hard work has paid off. If you haven't fertilized them yet, give them a bit and they'll keep pumping out the flowers all summer long. And if you've already fertilized I'm sure you've got a bunch more buds already on the way.

 

[tbendl]

I can see them coming up from the bottom like gangbusters. I am searching for night bloomers now since they close up right about the time I get home..lol I didn't think I'd ever get blooms.

 

[addy1]

Train them to bloom on your days off.

 

[tbendl]

Ha I will become the lily whisperer