Countdown to spring! One garden photo per day

Now that the brutal weather has set in, we are all looking forward to next year's garden season. As a way to make it go faster, I want to count down the days by viewing some of our best photos. Let's stick to one per day - for a few reasons. First - it won't get out of hand. Second - during the season when we post many photos, I think we don't always give the individual ones their just due.

So one really nice photo per day. Try to ID it if possible. I'll start with a crocus, since it is one of the first real signs of spring.

98 more days!

Great idea for a thread Victor. OMG 98 days! That seems so long to wait. I hope to see one of these little guys maybe a bit sooner.

98 days seems sooo far away...

Yellow garden cosmos...one of my last blooms.

98 days!!? ackkk...

This not one of my 'Greatest Shots', I just like the feeling, it's one of my true personal favorites. (Despite composition & 'photo techno' rules and stuff.) I like the 'free, airy & relaxed' feeling I get when I look at it, always have from the day I took it.

Looking forward to this if I can get it sent properly.

Nice shot, WC. I like it too. All pretty shots.

Well, you're going to have to put up with all iris pictures form me, 'cause that's what I've got.

Kimono Silk, Japanese.

Nice crocus! Such talented photographers here.

This picture I took last year, not photo cred, but to capture my hard work after bringing this 20+ year old azalea back from the brink. I think it liked all that manure :-) It is not even mine. It belongs to the blue house next door but kinda sits on the property line.

Thanks Victor, love the dramatic lighting on yours, all wonderful shots actually, - Everyone! ☺

Love them all too!

Polly I really like the blue in that Iris!

WC no such thing as "photo rules" as far as I'm concerend!! Lovely shot!

Very pretty, Polly and Joyce.

I'm on my laptop so no pics on here but will prob post Monday

Joyce, that azalea is outstanding---I'd love it---all my spring & summer photos went with my fried computer, so here's a fall photo.

Thanks all.

98 days is doable. Great pictures everyone.

Lucy, love that iris, is it one of your intros? In case anyone here doesn't know---you probably all do---- our Lucy and her husband are famous hybridizers in the bearded iris world.

Certainly not famous, but it keeps us busy. Yes, that is John's plant. 'Quogue' a miniature dwarf. He thought it looked foggy so named it after a Long Island town which is the same. Pronounced Qwog.

Have to do better with the computer. Finally got it posted & then tried the iris forum & it told me that it couldn't find the file. Come ON machine!!

They sometimes use my garden in OH as a test garden.

Sorry to disagree there Lucy. I sure knew your name before I ever met you on DG.

I ove Quogue!

I have a few myself, jumper2, and I'm not even related, LOL.

Wonderful pics everyone. Helps with the cold morning. This is a pass along old fashioned peony, sorry no name. They smell lovely and are such a welcome sight every June.

This is my Spring pic
I cant wait to see FoamFlower with Heucheras

Siberian iris Coronation Anthem, Nepeta Six Hills Giant and Calamagrostis Overdam.

Great way to count down the days, Victor.

So nice and airy Polly. Like it.

Hunka burnin love for the nepeta

Very pretty shots, Pat, Jo and Polly. Will be nice to look forward to each day's offerings.

Here's spring's first pioneer - the snowdrop.

Cant wait and scillia too.

That looks like porcelain Victor. Very nice shot.

Thanks, Joyce.

Terrific shot of spring shade blooms JoAnn.
Polly that sib. iris is gorgeous with the catnip or anything else I suspect.
Victor I agree with Jadajoy that looks like a china flower sculpture. Great stuff all.

Nice snowdrop, the lack of detail on the petals makes the shot uncomplicated, it focuses the eye towards the center, like Jada said it has a nice porcelain effect! Cool!

Last yr it seemed like eons until the snowdrops appeared. The great amount os snow held them up.

Mine were new,I hope they appear ontime this year.
Of course that nwill be 4 months from now.

Holicow I just checked and my pic is from Feb Thats 2 months.
Summer is almost here

Very nice shots that are warming me up and bringing sunshine on this dreary rainy day!

Bowl of Beauty Peony

Wish I had saved room for peonies here.
We have 1 big white one.
Clay soil is impossible to grow them.
Yours is a beauty

Snow drops and peonies. Hard to beat that on a grey day in Dec. Nice.

Beautiful Peonies Luvs, I'm still trying to get a flower from mine, planted Fall of '08, may have to move them and see if a 'change of address' works! lol!

Tulipa 'Mona Lisa'... and an unexpected guest.

Thanks Jo Ann Presley, and everyone.

Great spring pictures to dream on.

Just discovering the Feb Galanthus has brightened this rainy day.

Beautiful photos for a snowy day! although it could change to rain at any moment.