Here are a few things that are blooming now.
My Autumn Sage
Snow Bells
white lantana
snap dragons
My Mexican Flame vine is blooming but I forgot to get the pix.
March Blooms
Lucky you! Such pretties in the garden!
Do the Snap Dragons come back or did you buy them? I love them but never get around to buying them in the fall. If they come back I would definitely plant some :)
Beautiful pictures :)
On the snapdragons I saved the seed and sowed in the fall.
Could I trim my salvia greggii now? It's getting lanky.
I trimmed mine back in December. I was afraid to trim very much at once but it certainly seemed to help it bloom more.
Here's my flame vine. It's only a year old and covered in aphids right now. I had a few ladybugs.hatch out inside my house and I released them onto it. Also here is my redbud just beginning to bloom.
My yellow lantanas are blooming. They were rescues from the 75% off table last year and were almost dead. I need to find them a home this spring.
Marty, these are the bulbs I was thinking of for you. They are Golden Dawn, heirloom for the south, but they are narcissus not daffs. They have started blooming this week.
Is this a petunia? In a pot of something else in the greenhouse, very dark fuscia.
This is a terrible pic of an interesting wildflower/weed. The flowers are very small especially for the foliage.
And my yellow irises are trying to recover from the ice storm. Most of the blooms are ruined, but one or two are starting to show.
Yellow flowers are the harbingers of spring. The Indian Paintbrush are now popping up and small patches of bluebonnets can be seen. Won't be too long now.
Love that narcissus, Joy! Thanks. Yep that's a 'tunia. It looks like one I have.
Two words: Zone Envy.
When you grow your peonies, fuchsia and fruit trees, we can envy you.
LOL Marty!!
1) wild blackberries, 2) Vetch, 3) Caroliniana anemone, 4) swamp buttercup-ranunculus, 5)wild verbena aka henbit
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My blackberries have buds on them! I noticed them yesterday. Hope they don't freeze with the cooler weather that's back in town.
wild blackberries are happy here, soil and temps suit them, but I dont see the dewberries like I did in Okla...2)False garlic- no smell, 3)wild thangs,caution! ticks and chiggers are where these spring up 4) not a hops clover, these make little soft burr hitchhikers to cling to socks,(name escapes me at this minute, 5)dont know this plant-appears to be a lespedeza, but with tiny flowers and a love affair with this type of spooky critturs hangin around them. Never saw a ladybug so spooky...
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I think #4 in your first post is that wild cabbage weed that's choking out all the wildflowers. I think it's called Bastard Cabbage Weed.
flowers are different, but it prob is a wild mustard or ranuncula of which I didnt get pic.
Here are some more from my garden. 1 azalea, 2 cherry sage, purple verbena and my multiflora petpunias in the background, 3 fleabane, 4 my first yellow iris. My LA irises are blooming too but it was very windy, hard to get the flowers to be still so I stopped.
My unknown lily turns out to be a Caroliniana anemone- kudos to plant id forum, and Jo's descriptors in plantfiles since there were no pix avail. The wild onions, arent - no scent whatsoever, so I have more researching to do, and I am definitely going with bastard cabbage weed for the yellows. New shots of anemone, not much better, but...it was trying to open for me
Kitt, I was at a loss too as to what it was. I actually have two in my front yard first time ever. I will try and dig one up that is near a dog path to save it. Thanks Kitt.
Kitt I think your unknown yellow flower above is Ranunculus hispidus, swamp buttercup.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/80262/#b
And your 'wild onion' looks to me like the Crows poison I have wild all over my yard. Don't eat it.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55467/#b
The blackberry blooms are getting all kinds of love from the bees huh? Lol love it! I wish I had a patch of them.. The things I would bake! What's in the pic just after the one of your 'wild onion' (the one I think is crows poison)? Pic 3 (the one you said something about chiggers and ticks). Are those boar tracks? Yikes! I never thought about them bringing in ticks and chiggers, but that's something to consider since we have a problem with wild boar recently and ticks freak me out!
The next plant, pic 4 is actually a medicago, bur clover. I have been battling these ever since we moved to this property. They suck to remove from your dogs coat and between the crevices in their paws. Ask me how I know. Lol!
Plant 5 looks like vetch. Not sure which one. You have all the same 'weeds' as me. Weird.
Edited for spelling :)
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Steadycam your flame vine is GORGEOUS! I don't usually like orange flowers but I'll be keeping my eye out for this plant this year! I love all your potted plants.. I saw a pic online where someone had arranged all their potted plants tight in one group and you couldn't tell it was all potted plants, looked like a real full flowerbed. I'll try and find the pic to post it, I've always wanted to copy that idea!
Ok I will edit. finally found decent pix of the bastard cabbage and leaf and flower are different than this.agreed Jo on the ranunculus, false garlic on the wild onion, and that is actually a deer track- tho feral hogs are horrid here as well they roam the Trinity River bottoms more frequently than here by the Interstate.
I need my phone to quit sleepin on me! Back to edits...
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Zone Envy! lol
ok my bloom looks a little funny but I took the photo this morning.
Ooh ooh I finally have something blooming!! Fringed puccoon, grows wild alongside the road. Saw it on my way to the mailbox :)
1)This is the stuff the ladybugs were coverin up. 2) swamp buttercup thru my sunglasses as filter.The sun is out and I will pu more pix later on. I love the puccoon! And the fleabane and the huge bloom that bf is tryin to warmup on!
My Jessamine and the tiny weed wildflowers are keeping the bees going just now.
Some more bloomers
My LA iris but the color in the photo is darker than it really is.
#5 is more the true color but blurred. my bad.
2 is bridal wreath
3 my yellow iris (wind not blowing today) It has 3 more blooms on the stem waiting
4 my yellow snapdragons.
I have a bloomer! The four nerve daisies have started blooming.
