I'm really enjoying my reading nook with these cheerful guys. The blue faces look so earnest and the violet ones fade almost to cream. Can you see the tree pollen in the 3rd picture?
Pansies are a newly acquired taste for me. I never paid much attention to them before Maureen brought them to my notice. They have since grown on me (ha!) with their cheerful little faces and stalwart blooming nature, in fact I planted them all around the moss maiden.
Hi there. I love those highlander bovine. Caroline planted pansies last year and they all came back for us; she tells anyone that will listen that she has "special perennial pansies" because they came back this year. As far as the tree pollen goes, I've had a couple of asthma attacks and poor Caroline is on antibiotic eye drops because her sinuses were so full, the gunk was excreting from her eyes. According to her doctor, she had a severe allergy that lead to infection and it most definitely was not pink eye. I think, with all the weird weather and earlier blooming of some types of trees in conjuction with the normally blooming trees, there is so much pollen floating around that even people without allergies are suffering. Wow, it must be getting late at little chatty this evening. :-)
M: I'm sorrry to hear that Caroline has had such a bad time with pollen allergy. In a week or so the trees will be finished with that. We had an unusually snowy winter and I think all that moisture has encouraged every growing thing. I don''t have allergies but I've been sneezing too. I bought the pansies in March but they did nothing until recently. Miracle-Gro helped, duh.
I have always loved pansies and they sure are not pansies when it comes to cold weather, they are so hardy, always the first to be planted and last all summer long. I have a few that come back every year, they are also called Johhny jump ups right? Well thats what Rays mom called them when she saw them in my garden. Hope you got to sit outside and read this weekend, today is blustery, brrr
I'm really enjoying my reading nook with these cheerful guys. The blue faces look so earnest and the violet ones fade almost to cream. Can you see the tree pollen in the 3rd picture?
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Pansies are a newly acquired taste for me. I never paid much attention to them before Maureen brought them to my notice.
They have since grown on me (ha!) with their cheerful little faces and stalwart blooming nature, in fact I planted them all around the moss maiden.
PS. I love the color of your lavanderish/pinkish pansies
Hi there. I love those highlander bovine. Caroline planted pansies last year and they all came back for us; she tells anyone that will listen that she has "special perennial pansies" because they came back this year. As far as the tree pollen goes, I've had a couple of asthma attacks and poor Caroline is on antibiotic eye drops because her sinuses were so full, the gunk was excreting from her eyes. According to her doctor, she had a severe allergy that lead to infection and it most definitely was not pink eye. I think, with all the weird weather and earlier blooming of some types of trees in conjuction with the normally blooming trees, there is so much pollen floating around that even people without allergies are suffering.
Wow, it must be getting late at little chatty this evening. :-)
M: I'm sorrry to hear that Caroline has had such a bad time with pollen allergy. In a week or so the trees will be finished with that. We had an unusually snowy winter and I think all that moisture has encouraged every growing thing. I don''t have allergies but I've been sneezing too.
I bought the pansies in March but they did nothing until recently. Miracle-Gro helped, duh.
Yes, pansies do come back. I have one little one that made it through the winter and is about to bloom.
I have always loved pansies and they sure are not pansies when it comes to cold weather, they are so hardy, always the first to be planted and last all summer long. I have a few that come back every year, they are also called Johhny jump ups right? Well thats what Rays mom called them when she saw them in my garden. Hope you got to sit outside and read this weekend, today is blustery, brrr
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