SSG, I can't believe how much further along with spring your garden is, when you live only 20 minutes away from me! :-D I have a lot of sprouts with my reticulated iris, but no blooms yet except the crocus.
Photos, photos please! :-)
FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING!!!! Post your pics!!!!
Catmint, I have a strange microclimate in my backyard. My brick house emits a lot of heat, and it's sun-up-to-sun-down full sun in the winter/spring when the trees are bare.
I have reticulated iris on the east side that are not blooming yet. They get 5 hours of sun, but still nothing.
I need to go out there and get pictures!
garden yoga lol. yes, gardening counts as physical activity!!
it got really cold here again today....buuuuuuurrrrrr
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I have Crocus scattered in my lawn near the bed they clumps are in.
Must be some way they get blown around...
G.
LOL Gita! The thing that amazes me about my 'volunteer' crocus is that I planted them in the *front* yard under the dogwood, and this one popped up in the *back* yard near the rose bush!! :-D
lots of pretty flowers starting up there, you all!
My dutch crocus are popping out now, purple, lavender, white.
My Katharine Hodgkin Irises are blooming as well as my crocuses
Gorgeous cwsomm!! I love that iris!
Mine always seem to bloom late.
cwsomm, Nice to meet you. We aren't that far apart! Beautiful pictures. The colors are so intense that they almost hurt my eyes! :)
I was in Hamilton, Baltimore City this afternoon for a dentist appointment for my son. Saw this HUGE patch of snowdrops in the yard of a ramshackle bungalow. I crept a bit into their yard so I could take this picture quickly and ran back out.
I just stood there in awe for a minute.... amazed. And I started thinking about how many people probably just walk right by these flowers and don't even notice? And so I climbed back into my car feeling kind of sad.
Hi cwsomm!
Wow never seen so many snowdrops at once
How lovely, a little spot of beauty
Getting my fix on all your lovely pics. Sooo ready for some color!!!
Typ, that is so cool that you noticed those snowdrops and actually stopped to take the picture. I am so unobservant on pretty much everything except for flowers and home decorating type stuff. There is something romantic and heartwarming, even if it is kind of sad, when you see beauty in the midst of a run down or abandoned place. There is a run down house on a road near me that has a single rose bush that blooms year after year. Even closer to home, on the easement there is a one room house, now in complete rubble, that has daffodils planted all around it. The house is long gone, but those daffodils still bloom their hearts out every spring. Like you said, how many people don't even notice...
You're right, Aspen, it is a little romantic. Someone at some point cared enough to plant all those tiny bulbs and cultivate them. Perhaps someone will again soon. :)
You should stop by that school house rubble and take some pictures this year with your new camera. I'd love to see that!
Me too daffodil with rubble sounds kike great fuel for compo.sition.
Theres a very 1930s looking house near here with asbestos shingles and painted a godawful peachy pink color. Awful color for ahouse but one year I noticed that it matched a peachy colored camellia in the yard. that house is for sale now. Bett the new owners never notice. I just picture some husband picking out the color to
match hiw wifes flowers.
Im thinking the snowdrops.started out decades ago and had a perfect place to multiply.
Reticulated iris yesterday and today.
That's a gorgeous patch of Spring, ssg!
My Reticulated iris are blooming, too. Looks just like ssg's. Woohoo!!!!!
They're so pretty, SSG!
I think I'm going to have to get myself some of those iris...they're beautiful!
Been meaning to share these, just keep forgetting. They're not from my own garden, mind you, but from work. (I get to help with them too, so they're sorta mine! ;)
First one: One of our Hellebores - had to lay on my belly for this pic, got some funny looks!
Second one: Some (?) Daffs(?) I'm pretty sure!
Nice speedie! I can't wait until our hellebores wake up from their slumber. They must break through the freeze burnt tips first though :(
What a pretty hellebore! Which one is it?
I have some but mine don't seem to bloom at this time. They bloom later.
To be honest Catmint, I'm not sure; it was planted long before I started working there. I'll try to remember to ask though! :)
My double pink Hellebore is so close to blooming....it has grown about 8" high
and the buds are all in the 'almost open" stage.
Of course--this cold has everything on hold....I need to go outside and look..
maybe it has popped? This one is amazing--got it once in a trade....
Here is the white one--just now--almost ready to open up.
Another of the same--slightly open
And--my dbl. pink one--partially open already.
4--What the pink double hellebore will look like...Anyone know the name?
G.
ooooh so pretty, Gita.
So beautiful, Gita!
Yes-it sure is!
Glad that it is thriving where it is.....not a perfect place--and right next to some stone edging.
But--as the saying goes: "Bloom where you are planted"! G.
A close up of same--.March, 2013.
Such a pretty cultivar, Gita!
That is a gorgeous one Gita, love it!!
Gorgeous Hellebore, Gita!!
I have very little to show, not even flowers from the crocus yet. The only one blooming is the Cornelian Cherry Dogwood tree.
Gorgeous and unusual, donner!
No crocus yet? Crazy, it's late for them not to be starting. That cornelian cherry is pretty sweet though! I was considering getting one of those but was a little concerned that it would be too close to a small tree rather than a large shrub.
Nice blooms all.
There are some double Hellebores being offered here
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1354203/
I'm enjoying the Helleborus foetis that have been blooming on my route
Sequoia, mine is a spindly little tree about 10' tall now. A large shrub would be nice.
This tree doesn't grow very fast. There are pictures of gorgeous big Cornelian Cherry Dogwood trees online. I don't know if I will live long enough to see mine get to that size, LOL!
Haha...good thing I decided to go with two amalanchier alnifolias instead! I didn't like the idea of owning a member of the dogwood family anyway. No offense to dogwood owners; they are very pretty trees, but just not for me.
LOL, Donner, it will get there!!
I love both my dogwoods:
A pink flowering dogwood (Cornus florida f. rubra)--larval host for spring azure butterflies, special value to native bees, supports Conservation Biological Control, and attracts birds with its fall fruit, plus lovely pink blossoms in April that look so pretty with my azaleas.
A red twig dogwood (Cornus sericea 'Arctic Fire')--larval host for spring azure butterflies, and attracts birds with its fall fruit. oh, and I just love the red twigs which are such a nice spot of color between November and March.
Love my dogwoods! A photo with the dogwood branches in it:
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Gorgeous Catmint! Oh how I long for that point in time where flowering trees will be seen again! Only a couple weeks now I suppose. I hope a lot of stuff starts blooming next week as (for us) it will be in the low to mid 60s. I feel like everything is ready but just waiting for those coveted few nice days in a row.
thanks, Jeff! Yes, I keep looking at all the tightly closed buds on the trees and thinking how late spring is this year...