Spring is definitely here in my Connecticut garden and with it some amazing foliage that rivals the flowers in my garden for color and sheer excitement .
Thanks to of Pam Penick over at Digging, I have a special reason, Foliage Follow-Up, to show off Spring in Connecticut…
I sure do love your burgundy and chartreuse combos, Debbie. And those pinecones are outstanding! What a great addition to Foliage Follow-Up.
Thanks Pam. Thanks for hosting.
Like your slideshows. The picea photos remind me of Colorado. The salix reminds me of non-stop growth.
Thanks Greggo. You’re right, that salix does have not stop growth. Some years I will prune it more than once so I get a 2nd flush of new colorful foliage.
Hi Debbie – I love that variegated Pagoda Dogwood (I know my wife would too). I may need to find a place for that in my ever shrinking garden.
I also love seeing you feature Picea orientalis ‘Skylands’ – a definite favorite tree due to it’s grand form, brilliant color and brightly colored young cones. (I’m really trying to sit on my hands so that I don’t poke fun at you for stating that your spruce tree has pinecones. But apparently, I have no self control.) :^)
Ed
Ed, Ok, Ok, if it’s not gumdrops and not pine cones then what is it? New growth?
I like the gumdrops concept! They are cones, it’s just that pines produce pine cones and spruce produce spruce cones, etc. :^)
Hah, you got me. I never ‘thought’ about the word pinecone but I guess a more apt name is conifer cone. I’m still hoping for the tree, conifer for otherwise, that grows gumdrops. I’ll buy an extra for you once I find it!
My list of “must-haves” just grew by at least three.
Ricki, Don’t keep me in suspense… which three??