What is in full bloom now...April 1 to April 15th, 2010.

Wow mine are up about 3/5 inches and still not opened at all.

Rhododendron Taurus. I love the bright color and the fact that it is so early.

OOOOH!!! That IS a pretty red.

Lilacs starting to open, seeing some buds on Sweet Woodruff I got last year, and a pretty honeysuckle about to pop.

Jan, not only have you caught up to us, you are now ahead of us! Lilacs are still tight bud.

WOW! This week will have more normal spring temps. Thankfully.

Primula, unknown variety, although I do recall it was labeled as a cowslip.

Corydalis lutea. This acts like johnny jump up for me - just shows up where ever it feels like it. Sometimes I let it, other times I rip it out. Another jolly plant.

Finally - my crabapple trees are covered in blossoms.

whoops - the pic

And these little violets

And something I don't know the name of

That's epimedium. Love those.

Thanks Willow - I like that plant, too. :)

Yours looks like the one on the Rainyside plant contest, Epimedium x rubrum.

http://www.rainyside.com/features/special_feature/GuessContest.html

Well, I HAD some beautiful tulips, but looked out at dinnertime and didn't see some, so I jumped up and ran outside - sure enough D#(((((##^&&*$ deer. I'm assuming that's what ate them. No bunny I know is that tall. Now, I'll have to watch out for the lilies. SIGH!

I know that feeling. Mine are missing too.

Argh!

I found out this weekend that we have at least one bobcat in the neighborhood. I'm assuming that's why the dogs have been racing out all hours of the night to bark at the back of the property. I'm hoping that will at least prevent the cats from jumping the fence - they say you need a 6 ft fence and the base of the fence to be buried several inches deep - I don't have that.

The bobcats scare me more than the raccoons for some reason. The article I read says that they don't USUALLY attack people. Nice. A male bobcat can weight up to 40 lbs. Yikes!

Anyway, they aren't eating the tulips. But it does say that you should make sure that all the spaces around and under your house are sealed up so they don't nest there. I think I need a bigger dog . . .

The bobcats we have here have killed dogs and cats. Watch 'em. They gang up on the bigger dogs.

They gang up? That doesn't sound good.

I am worried about my two cats who go outdoors because if the bobcat goes for them there's really nowhere for them to hide, unless it's really small. I do wish I could afford to get the fences raised from 4.5 feet to 6.0 feet.

I guess I should worry more about the dogs - I figure that if we make it known that there's a pack of them right now, when the bobcats are new to the area, then they'll be less likely to want to head into our space. But the neighbor who had one in her yard is on a major road. I'm down at the end of an offshoot in a draw that has acres of woods on two sides . . .

Maybe it is going through and won't like your spot. They may be traveling looking for mates.

I hope so. Part of me thinks that they've been going through and that this time they found a place out by the back to have their babies (which I think they do in April). I love babies, but don't want feeding babies of THIS kind around. :-)

The dogs didn't seem so excitable tonight, though they did seem to check out the yard pretty well when we got out there.

My favorite tulip (Daydream) is now in full bloom. It changes from yellow to orange as time passes. I keep the bulbs in pots now to avoid them becoming critter victims. This is the second year it has done well for me in the same pots.

Oooohhh, that's my favorite tulip too. I think I unfairly maligned it in an earlier post, as clashing with a nearby reddish tulip - but I had mis-identified it. My Daydream's are now also in full-bloom and so gorgeous. They really fooled me by starting out so yellow (and I had forgotten where I had planted what - absent-minded gardners syndrome) but now they are streaking and oranging up and so, so pretty. Thanks for the pic.

Kym, I can well imagine that they don't go very well with red! Glad you have some too. They can be hard to find sometimes.

Julie is enjoying a break with her DH in EWA. We have no internet over there so I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread for her:

NEW THREAD!!!!!!!!




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