Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING Frost..What the??, 4 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
Muddy, I think you're right about the consistent moisture for Jack Frost. On the shady side with just a little sun, plus moist. It does well under my Dogwood, where it gets the dappled sun through the early summer.

Aspen, my Jack Frost has performed like yours--looks consistently great until about midsummer, when I'm glad the leaf remains are by then hidden behind some later season annuals. :-) For me, it's very similar to my Jacob's Ladder, which I have planted on the other side of the same tree where it gets a little less sun--lovely blue flowers that bloom and bloom till about midsummer when it becomes unsightly and I start needing those annuals to cover the remains. ;-)

Latest blooms this morning:
(1) My bergenia is opening! I was afraid the buds wouldn't make it through the recent frosty mornings, but it looks like they did.
(2) My muscari doesn't look quite like the photo SSG linked to :-D but I'm happy with them. They seem to do well in a range of full sun to part sun. I planted them in part sun, but they're also doing well in the full sun spots that the squirrels planted them in.

Frost survivors:
(1) The hyacinth in my former firepit survived the frost well. Other hyacinth did not. So, this must be a warm spot in my yard.
(2) Not sure about my red tulips. They've looked like this since Monday, and this morning the outer part of the blossoms looked a little brownish. :-( I will be so disappointed if they don't open for me!! They would have been so big and beautiful! :-(