Video -whats blooming 4/28/12

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Blue & white silla, tarda tulips, euphorbia, chinidoxia & silla, Ohio Buckeye in bud,db bloodroot, prairie smoke, pulmonaria
Kelsey crab, Kiesonia Primrose.

Video of What's Blooming in Karon's Garden on April 27, 2012
Juneberries that birds planted in front yard.
Daffodil bud
Tulips that Marlene & I picked up at Bakers Nursery last fall.
Euphorbia that looks like leafy spurge
Tiny yellow flowers of draba that I got from Carolyn.
Buds on fern leaf peony.
Greenhouse with first plants of the season.
Bergenia
Double Bloodroot
Red Trillium
Pansy in gutter garden
Flowering quince
Double flowering Kelsey Crab that was grafted onto Dolgo root in class at UMC
Alpine current.

Blooming today in Karon's garden 4/22/2012

Honeyberries & Magnolias blooming along with the little rock garden plant draba and panseys that were just planted.  Lots of buds on Trilliums, lilacs, crabapples/apples, and fren leaf peony.

Lonicera caerulea   Honeyberry 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Dipsacales
Family:	Caprifoliaceae
Genus:	Lonicera
Species:	L. caerulea

Lonicera caerulea (Blue-berried Honeysuckle or Sweetberry Honeysuckle) is a honeysuckle native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere.
It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1.5–2 m tall. The leaves are opposite, oval, 3–8 cm long and 1–3 cm broad, glaucous green, with a slightly waxy texture. The flowers are yellowish-white, 12–16 mm long, with five equal lobes; they are produced in pairs on the shoots. The fruit is a blue berry about 1 cm in diameter.

Lonicera berry diversity

• Haskap: an ancient Japanese name of the Ainu people (also spelled phonetically as Haskappu, Hascap, Hascup) but still used today in Japan and in North America.
• Blue Honeysuckle: descriptive translation from Russia.
• Honeyberry: coined by Jim Gilbert of One Green World Nursery, Oregon, and fairly common in North America.
• Sweet Berry Honeysuckle: an old common name from the 1940s.
• Swamp fly honeysuckle: a common name coined by botanists who found it growing in swampy areas.
• Known in Russia as "Жимолость съедобная" ("Edible Honeysuckle").^[1]

Distribution and habitat

The species is circumpolar, primarily found in or near wetlands of boreal forests in heavy peat soils. However, it can also be found in high calcium soils, in mountains, and along the northeast coasts of Asia and North America. Interestingly, it is absent on west coasts. It has not been found in Norway nor Alaska nor British Columbia.^[1]

Cultivation and uses

Russia has the longest history of collecting from the wild and breeding this crop. L. c. var. edulis has been used the most in their^[who?] breeding efforts but other varieties have been bred with it to increase productivity and flavour. In Japan (Hokkaido Island) and in the Oregon State University Haskap breeding programs, L.c. var. emphyllocalyx has been the dominant variety used.^[2] The University of Saskatchewan Breeding Program in Canada is also emphasizing L.c. var. emphyllocalyx but is also hybridizing with Russian varieties and L.c. var. villosa.^[3]

bridge

The Bridge is being sealed with boiled linseed oil and turpentine.