Spring growth

Bummer, Celeste.

lookie lookie....

'Tete-a-Tete'

Nice! Lucky you. Nice tetes!

Thanks!

I think I see one bud on my daffs so far......

This just bloomed. The Niger helebores are just peeking.
I cant get down far enouge to take a full face view.
Everyone knows how they look anyway. Share my thrill at seeing them.

Yay Ge!!!
I can't believe how many blooms are popping up everywhere! (except Maine)

Maine will look so good when it's blooming.

I do have house plants that give me a smile...this is Purple Shamrock 'Mijke' in bloom, Black & Blues Saliva foliage and a begonia bud.

your b & b looks better than mine... I hacked it back and hope it springs back... my pineapple sage is done for

Love the purple shamrock!

onewish, I'm not sure that iris is too deep; they don't have much of a stem. They bloom seems to be about 1 inch from the ground. Mine are seldom more than 4 inches high.

Yours is very pretty. Expect the leaves to grow quite a bit higher than the bloom.

thanks!

My bleeding heart is appearing......took a walkaround today, & sorry I did....one of my huge rhodos is half dead, a main stem to my crape myrtle broke off, & my only David Austen rose, Strawberry Hill, was totally crushed by snow falling off the garage roof ....I'm really bummed :(...

sorry marilyn

Thats a real downer,sorry Marilyn

Ugh. Sorry to hear.

:(


I don't have them but the Forsythias are blooming down here

i have jm's blooming in containers in the garage

You mean leafing out?

Sorry to hear that Robin, im still afraid to do a walk around. By this weekend I should be able to check out most of the yard, it will be another week before I can get to the back forty.

"leafing out" might be the technical term - i prefer to believe jm's bloom in the spring

Thanks, guys.....I'm feeling better today, more optimistic anyway!

Onewish, it's been nasty out, so I hadn't looked at the gardens. Today I spied some of those reticulated irises and noticed that the stems are taller. Let's see, I'm about 5'2" — do you think I could add to my height as easily?

sure... heels!!

OMG thats a riot.

2nd year for these, I'm liking them

me too - only have leaves here so far

think I need more as well

i planted a bunch last fall from different coops will do more again!

Keep saying I will get some! I really like them.

They are easy to plant.Mine didnt go into deep holes and made it to bloom.
I am waiting for K.Hodgkins to really open.Maybe today its going to nearly 50*

planted a bunch of k. hodgkins too

Hope mine bloom this week.Its always so exciting to see the first year for new bulbs.

I ordered white ones, Natascha, for next Spring.....should look good with my deep purple ones....

K.Hodgkins is opening
https://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/March30Blooms

RD Natasha doesn't stay around after a year. I would look for other light colored ones next fall.

Good thing you mentioned that Iris, I was looking at planting some white ones too

Do the reticulatas multiply like crocus?

Japanese maples bloom before the leaves come out. The blooms are strange things with stems.