What is blooming in Dallas in MARCH/APRIL 2011

Viticella venosa violacea is blooming in the shade

Margaret Hunt..this clematis is setting the bloom record in my garden so far

Yellow Yucca, I moved this into a sunnier location in the xeri bed last fall and I think this plant is thankful!

Pretty blooms Anna. My sweet spire is blooming also, but it gets a bit too much shade I think. Hate that you aren't coming to the RU, we will miss your smiling face.

My Sweetspires are in light shade location and they are blooming some, but they are very small.

My old-fashioned larkspur is really doing well right now, although a little soggy when I took this photo. Hurrah!! Wish there would have been more than one pink one, though. I've had these since my mother first gave me seed 30 years ago. I almost lost them a few years back because I mulched beds heavily during a drought and only a few germinated. After that I started saving seed. I'll have seed to share for planting in the fall. I planted these 10/14/2010 and they were about 10 inches tall during the icy storm.

DNP~Love the larkspur!!

My Texas Gold Columbine has really outdone itself this year. Amazing it can thrive in the wind. This photo is a volunteer plant that came up last year underneath a shrub and I moved it to my new garden section last fall.

Mine are amazing too, such a beautiful flower!!!

Wild strawberry

California poppies & pink pincushion daisy

Moonshine Yarrow

Stephenie, love those California poppies. Maybe we can trade larkspur seed for poppy seed when it is time?
Glenna

Thanks for posting the Moonshine yarrow. I've been dithering about whether the color is as bright as the photos in the catalogs. It looks like just the color I want! I'm easily enabled LOL!

Glenna, I'd be happy to do that if I can figure out how to collect the seeds! LOL I've never had it bloom this profusely and I'm really loving it!

Beautiful. I planted for this season California Poppies set in front of dark blue Larkspur. They are all far from blooming, but your photos are getting me excited!!!

BTW, I ordered my seeds from Johnny's Seeds.

This is the first year they've bloomed like this. They were growing under a butterfly bush, but last fall, I pulled that out and the poppy has flourished!

Asiatic Lily

This Asiatic Lily is popping out between the Cardon plants

Grapes

Roses ... roses ..
white rose: Cassie
pink rose: Caldwell Pink

Hardy Geranium Roxanne

What kind of grapes are those?

OMG I bought them at Sam's Clun 4 years ago.
I remember to just look at the box and I bought them just to see how grapes will do here.
I forgot the box out in the snow in January ... Surprisely the plants survived and made grapes every year.
Forgot the name sorry ... but this is the earlier variety of all my grapes.

Lantana, perennial here

Coneflowers

Sage Limelight (the blue flower) ... sorry kind of blurry

Amaryllis

Purple Bearded Irised

Coneflower close-up

Dahlia Collarette kind

Hydrangea are starting to turn color

some Hydrangea are already pink !

Wow! Those Hydrangea are beautiful!

Last night I thought I would take a photo of Dorothy Perkins. This is her first year to bloom as I planted her as a band about 15 months ago. I had her all tied up nice and neat, but 75 MPH gusts of wind kind of dislodged some of her canes. But still looks pretty and I thought I'd get a picture before the entire fence blew away! (It is still there this morning!)

And for something to remind us that summer is going to be hot....here is Razzle Dazzle, the Fryer floribunda.

This is a spay of Dorothy's daughter Super Dorothy.

drthor, you can see in the background that I a trying out that red plastic mulch for the tomatoes. Some say that the red doesn't make a difference. But, hey, out here any weed takes root verrrry fast--so any weed blocking mulch is good mulch in my book. And it is kind of pretty in a country garden sort of way. I have plenty of grass clippings to cover it once it gets hot.

terri_emory, I am glad that one of us is using the red plastic.
Mine is still in the garage ...
Let me know what you will think about it at the end of the season

Terri, those remind me of one my Grandmother had, it was always in bloom. We used to use one to pretend we were a bride and it was a boquet. LOL!

This is a MUST HAVE plant of this year: "Hibiscus Panama red", OMG !!! burgundy flowers and burgundy leaves !!
Flowers are about 3" large.
I normally don't buy the annual Hibiscus, I rather buy the perennial/hardy varieties.
But last week I went to NHG and I couldn't resist to buy this Hibiscus. OMG ! I think it is the most beautiful plant I have ever seen. Photo doesn't give it justice.
It will grow 4'x4', all burgundy and purple !!!

Daylilies are roses, scabiosa in the back too.