March

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c506e1egerbq.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" ><B>My Garden in 2003</B></FONT><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>|    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Garden in 2003"><U><B>My Garden in 2003</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="January"><U>January</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="February"><U>February</U></A>   |   March   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="April"><U>April</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="May"><U>May</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="June"><U>June</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#339900" TEXT="#080000"> <div> March 2: The weather is wonderful.  While it gets down to the high 30's at night, we experience 60's during the bright sunny days.  Spring has truly sprung, and bulbs are either blooming or pushing their heads up.  In my white garden, the freesia are profuse - I'll probably have the best scented garden around!</div> <bR> <div> Mid-month update 16 March!</div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#99CC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> March</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0c3902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here's a shot of the "white garden".  There are lots of freesia stalks, loaded with flower buds.</div> <div> See below for how those buds have opened up!</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0a9c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0abc8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The calla lilies, also in the white garden, didn't take much frost damage, but the bugs have found the leaves yummy.  There's another shot below.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0adc8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0afc8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0b196c80.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0b396c80.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> I have more freesia in the "color garden" by the driveway.  They are lilac-colored, white and lots of yellow - the red should bloom in another week, I hope.  I've also got anemones - fuchsia (as shown), blue and red in bloom, while the white  hasn't shown up yet.  And my first tulip - a transplant from the early tulips which bloom out back: I was weeding last fall and there were so many doubled bulbs, I decided to put some out front.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0b9c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0b7c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> These two shots are from planters under my front window - I don't know the name of the red flowers, but the blue are Dutch Iris.</div> <bR> <div> Out back</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0bb96c80.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0bd96c80.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0bfc8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here's something strange: The left picture of blue iris are the traditional "bearded iris" which grow from tubers and usually don't bloom until May-June.  These are special hybrids, developed by my deceased friend Scott's grandfather Rae Marshall, who was a horticulturist in Burbank, CA.  When we sold Scott's house, I took several irises from her garden to put into the gardens around my yard.</div> <div> The two other shots are blue and white Dutch iris, blooming along the back fence.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0c1c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A final shot from the first weekend in March: a profusion of jonquils, some of which are scented, in bloom in my north east corner out back.  The whole are is a mass of greenery, with wild chive and tulips, iris and gazania not yet in bloom sending up their leaves and the ivory blooms proudly above them.</div> <bR> <div> The jonquils are all gone by mid March, but the white tulips are starting to bloom.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0c5fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0c7fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here are two more shots from the "white garden".</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0c9fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0cbfabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0cdfabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0cfe12c0.jpg" border=0 width="225" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> These are all shots from the "color garden" on the east side of the driveway.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0d1fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0d396c80.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here are more shots of the iris out back - blue and white Dutch iris on the left, and the last bearded blue on the right.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0d5fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> "Butterfly flowers" in with forget-me-nots.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>