Wee, I don't know - I think that I am so ready for spring after winter has dragged on and on, that I get more excited about the early spring woodland flowers. Can you sing "Anticipation...." :)
Loved your latest photos too. They always give me inspiration for things to add to my own garden. I've been out of pocket healthwise for a few weeks, and I've missed that beginning photography class twice. Next available one is in two weeks. The closeups I've attempted to take with the new camera haven't turned out very well, or at least not like I wanted them to. Tells me it is not the camera, it is the photographer LOL... There isn't much blooming yet in my neck of the woods anyway.
spring 2014
I don't know Wee, you've introduced me to a few mid/late summer beauties last year. I bought a rabdosia longituba from Plants Delight this spring as a result. I started out with a heavy hand toward summer bloomers but this spring, my purchases have focused on late summer and spring bloomers to beef up where I am weak.
Here are this weekend's installment of Spring '14:
#1 A species peony, P wittmanniana. Blooms very early spring in light shade.
#2 is a diminutive polygonatum humile coming up to make a low shady ground cover.
#3 is a paris blooming, such as it is. Supposedly gets 2-3ft tall, mine are 6 inches...
#4 is podophyllum pleianthum. I just got this plant from Gossler Farms nursery; it's huge!
#5 is epimedium x rubrum 'Sweetheart'.
I have so many things which just come up on their own.
They make great inadvertent combinations.
The first is a dwarf species quince, chaenomeles japonica var alpine Pygmaea.
It's a refreshing bright red quince which naturally stays low to the ground.
Some muscari somehow migrated to the area creating a nice contrast (#1).
#2 is a random mix of volunteer woodland flowers. I didn't plant any of them.
Includes hellebore, trillium, stylophorum, mertensia. Really pretty accidental combo's.
#3 mertensia, hellebore, stylophorum.
This last one is an epimedium which I got from Garden Vision epimediums.
They have the most extensive selection of bizarre epimedium.
This one at first looked like e. fargesii or e. dolichostemon.
But to my surprise it's e. qingchengshanense. Wow!
My double bloodroot is just starting to bloom it as fabulous as ever, Perfection in a small package.
Gary
Very nice Wee! It's great to have so many beautiful volunteers! Nature is wonderful :)
I'm so jealous of your double bloodroot!