What is in full bloom in your yard now? From 3-15 to 3-31-10

Wow, then I do count myself lucky. I haven't checked the roots, but I'm sure that this one is ready to go in - I just have to decided where. I'm guessing that Molbaks' price would have rivaled the price you just quoted. It sure pays to look at the tags.

I paid 80 for mine but my neighbo went halfies with me and we planted it on the property line.

This daffodil was just glowing yesterday with the sun shining on her. Hate to see what she looks like after todays wind and rain.

I have some like that and they are standing up well in the rain. They seem exceptionally sturdy.

Pretty Willow. Your helebores in the backgroud are lovely. Found these shooting stars blooming yesterday.

a "pink"centered daffodil

The Fritillarias are up and some are already blooming: F. meleagris, F. uva vulpis. Both in bloom right now.

This spring is so wierd. I actually feel as though I'd like to rip out some of the bulbs (but I won't) because they are all coming into bloom at the same time, making for a bit too much color all at once. It looks a little overly busy and actually 'garish' in some spots, with too many competing colors for my taste. I don't remember that happening before.

Huh. Melissa, I do think that many bulbs didn't respond as dramatically early as other plants - maybe that accounts for the timing.

Bea and Willow - love your pictures!

Stanley Plum is in bloom. Not too showy, but delicious fruit.

Here's a more intimate picture of Stanley.

That overlapping of the wrongtimings is a real problem here this year - I have my sweet little yellow jetfire daffodils stealing the scene from almost everything else. I keep thinking the same thing - wrong place, wrong contrast - but actually it is 'wrong timing' this year. I'll wait one more before reaching for my trowel - but I am just going to move some allium purple sensation before they blossom, they can always go back to their real spot next year.

Spent yesterday evening, (the last one before the clocks changed this morning) out sowing seeds in the greenhouse. Listened to the absolute thrum of a spring shower with hail - a little unnerving when you are under all that glass: Sunflower Moulin Rouge - I love this deep velvety burgundy sunflower. Grew it last year in the vegetable beds and have sown 3x as many for this year. Planning on interplanting it in the asparagus beds amongst all the frothy fernery growth that has to be let grow after the solistace - looking forward to the combination. Potted on 3 trays of Anthriscus Raven's wing and 6 trays of a tiny little digitalis called 'Tinkerbell' - gosh I love that plant - little tiny fairy hats of the nicest, palest, butter yellow - just a whisper of pinky lipstick on the lower pout. Only 18" tall, it puts up racemes in summer and if deadheaded goes on until late august in full or part shade. Comes true from seed, easy, especially from an autumn sowing, when it will Blossoms first year. True periennial. Tolerant of drought. Love it.

'Tinkerbell' sounds wonderful.

Sorry you have wrongtiming seasonal clash. :( Do allium move well?

Glad I am not the only one with the urge to rip out some things. I've got 'JetFire' blooming as well, and I do love that one, but it does tend to overshadow everything else. I also have N. 'Minnow' blooming and it's a little more sedate a yellow. But in the birch bed there are hyacinths, the 'minnow's , snakehead fritillaries all at the same time. One can hardly appreciate the delicate coloring of the fritillaries among all that other springtime riot of color.
Laurie, I'm planning on some of those 'moulin rouge' sunflowers this year. I think I am going to direct sow them because I have been singularly unsuccessful at starting them from seed. They do well in the pot, but once they get into the garden, they tend to languish. I also have the 'anthiscus 'Raven's wing' going, and ordered that seed from Special Plants in England. I think the seed was not fresh enough as the germination rates on mine have been quite low. I'm going to try them again as I think I have only one plant going. Not nearly enough for that fabulous foliage. The little 'Tinkerbell' sounds delightful. I'm doing one called 'foxy' this year, which is a dwarf version that blooms the first year. We'll see how they do.



Also blooming now:
Fritillaria multiflora (Yea! It came back! I love this tiny bulb.)
Primula marginata
Ranunculus 'Brazen Hussy' (started blooming March 12, Julie)


Here are some recent photos.
Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot) started blooming last week

Hi Sue! Allium move nicely. Bulb clash is a small price to pay for the glorious spring we're having. (not so much poor Laurie, with her hail. Yikes!)

This started blooming in the greenhouse, right on schedule. Epiphyllum 'Blue Paradise', at least I believe that is the cultivar.

Hepatica triloba. The ferny leaves are from some seed that must have been in the pot with the Hepatica. Makes a very nice smallish white umbellifer, so I left it.

This plant. Corydalis ? based on the flowers. But it's not C. lutea. I planted it. Can't find the tag. Seems well behaved enough so far.

Primula marginata. Love this one

Hi Pix! Is that corydalis 'Canary feathers'?

Laurie's suffering from bulb clash this year, I think. My turn was last year-and I wish I had moved some allium then. Ah well...if it was the same every year, would it be as interesting???

And, yes, wonderful spring. Your epiphyllum is beautiful, and I do like the margin on those primulas.....

Yes! Thanks, Sue! I will now put that in my database.
I'm suffering the bulb clash as well but, like Laurie, I am keeping my hand off the trowel, hoping that nexxt year will be different in terms of timing. ON the other hand, I hate to wish for that because it's been such a glorious spring so far. Maybe I'd rather just move the bulbs...

Isn't the epiphyllum a grand plant? I got that from a cutting from a friend about 15 years ago. I never even knew what it was, or that it was supposed to bloom (didn't think much of it, I guess), until about 5 years ago my kids knocked the pot over and broke it. I had to move it out to the greenhouse to repot it and ended up leaving it in there. I guess it needs the cool nights to set bud. It bloomed the following spring and I decided I had better figure out what I had!

Also blooming today:
Epimedium 'Roseum'
plus another one I got from Kayte, I think, that has no name. It's small and white flowered with a delicate yellow center.

These finally bloomed. Planted three years ago.

The Fritillaria are also blooming.

rain chased me inside - RATS! I need another few hours to move some things. Maybe next weekend...

Amelanchier has been in bloom for 2 weeks now, and I'd say it was 2 weeks early.
My pink Ribes is going strond for the past week.
Can't remember if I said previously that my Thermopsis is blooming along with Centaurea 'Amethyst Dream' or something like that...
Euphorbia 'Tasmanian Tiger' still blooming - almost 4 weeks now.
Pears - yes; Apples/Plums - starting; all Pieris, one of my roses had set bud - way too early & I hadn't pruned yet, but that is no longer an issue as I pruned more today.
Ceanothus is budded out & almost ready. Many of the Clems, too.
I hope we have some dry weather for a bit during the daylight hours - I'm sure many of us need to play catch-up.

definately 'bulb clash' - is this what gardener's get instead of fashion anxiety? "does my bulb look too big in this?"

^_^

OOH, so THAT'S how fashion anxiety feels! Who knew??

Yeah, never put plaid on a big bulb.

Okay, Willow. That's not funny. I just read your comment and ended up with my iced drink in my nose. Yeowch.

Sorry.

I'm recovered now. The image of some kind of "big bulb" covered in plaid was just too much. ;-)

two bulbs?

Anything like twolips?

2cheeks?

on another note - my trilliums made an appearance on Friday; just popped up & out.
But my yellow trilliums are not above ground yet.
More lilies, or so i thought. They were up about 3 inches last Friday. Saturday i went out to move them & they had been eaten from underneath. I so despise voles...
Too wet/cold to go out & move the rest. I hope the voles are on diets this week...

Weird how they're not eating the Trilliums. It sounds like the vole problem is only getting worse. It's supposed to be cyclical.

My most mature T. ovatum had only one blossom last year and this year has two. The several I moved from the woods next door are all up now, but appeared at different times fully 2 weeks apart. Some that had two blossoms when I moved them will only have one this year. Interesting.

Two of my new T. sessile (got them for a good price at Flowerworld last year) are up - don't know what color they are. I'm still waiting on two. My Cypripedium is coming up though.

And my May apples appear to like it here. They are both about 1/2 way up. No blossoms yet.

I'm seeing life in my Peltoboykinia watanabei, too.

Oh Kayte, you have my pity. I so understand vole hatred. I try not to hate, really I do.
I just got an email from SnowPeak Iris and Daylilies. Last month I had placed a good sized order for some nice daylilies. Two of the varieties, one of which was the one I wanted most, have been taken out by gophers. Sounds like a large version of a vole to me.

just backing up, plaids on bulbs got me too - very funny.

Gotta watch that Willow. She's so quiet and then she throws out those comments when you're not in the least ready for them. :-)

Still chuckling here, too. Trying to think of a comeback, but I can't top that. ^_^

My grape hyacinths are starting to bloom and a lone purple hyacinth that I received for Mothers' Day last year fromn the grandkids. Pieris looks pretty nice. Cover your eyes, Laurie - the F________ still looks great!

Driving home the back way last night through an older neighborhood, the whole street was dressed up in blooming magnolias. Lovely!

Just spotted my first bearded iris bloom, will try for a pic when I get home from work. Also had my first hummingbird investigate the porch last evening. I don't get the year-round ones, only the migratory ones. Must dust off the feeder and get it hung out. Not sure what thread this was on, but I use just plain sugar and water and don't boil it, it seems to dissolve fine otherwise. I go back and forth with the food coloring - I do like the color but have read it can be bad for the birds. Maybe a splash of red juice would do the trick.

Now every time I put on my plain flannel shirt I will think of plaid bulbs...hilarious!