Specialty Gardening: Signs of spring- What do you have blooming?, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:

I've got some bloom coming on now...and a lot of weeds and no-IDs that I'm wondering about...yank 'em as weeds or nurse them along and grow a fabulous flower? Just don't know. I guess being able to tell the difference comes with years of experience! )-:

lincolntess, I love your anemone sylvestris--I did not realize they bloom in stpring time...They would be pretty planted with siberian iris, I bet....

Illoquin, you are quite tough about what makes the grade in your garden! I am experimenting with several kinds of columbine this year. I didn't order the Guiness, though, as I tend to agree with you on that one. The hummingbirds like the native red ones, I've read. They never check my blue ones.

Our iris are in bloom, both some bearded and siberian. And I have a little white flower planted around them and I'm not quite sure what it is...perhaps Alyssum maritime...? Anyway, I think it's quite nice for a background filler.

The family went to the Reds baseball game tonight, so I had time to weed out the Obedient Plant that is taking over my butterfly garden. Now I have some space for my wintersowed seedlings! More planting, pinching and shovel pruning tomorrow. Spring has sprung!