Lovely! Wow, your tiarella's blooming already?! Hm... that just reminded me I haven't seen mine pop up yet. I hope it hasn't been swallowed up by aggressive neighboring plants.
That dicentra 'Candy Heart' has an interesting look to it. Did you cut off the spent blooms of your pieris?
It looks like your garden's about a week ahead of mine this spring. My Phlox divaricata is still a few days from opening up and none of my hostas have fully unfurled yet. I love seeing the succession of blooms on here.
FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING 2015 'Mid Spring'
greenthumb, your woodland natives are so unique and lovely! I have never been able to keep Virginia Bluebells alive, but after seeing yours I want to try again.
ssg, my Phlox divaricata and Tiarella aren't blooming yet either. BTW, I checked on my Cannas today and they're not up yet. I think they're about a month behind this year, like everything else.
I have not even planted my cannas yet----seems there is so much going on--
I just let things slide....
Need to start my Caladiums, Cannas, and see how some of the ohter
potted, dormant bulbs are doing in the Shop.
This cold snap sure put a glitch in gardening... G.
SSG and Muddy, what species of Tiarella do you have? All our T. wherryi are blooming away, while our T. cordifolias have yet to break bud.
Edited to add that our Phlox divaricatas that are in bloom are all the straight native species of local provenance. We have several cultivars, Blue Moon, Chattahoochee, etc. that are behind. Just as all apples are the same species, different cultivars bear fruit at their own schedule, so do different cultivars of other species as well.
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Greenthumb, I got my tiarella from you, and I'm pretty sure it's a T. wherryi. The blooms look exactly like yours. I just may need to rescue it from very aggressive ground covers nearby.
Very interesting how the straight species of native phlox blooms earlier than the cultivars!
In similar fashion, you have the straight species of Monarda didyma and cultivars such as 'Raspberry Wine', 'Marshall's Delight', 'Jacob Cline', etc, displaying variations in bloom time.
SSG; My T. cordifolia borders Galium odoratum (sweet woodruff) and it has no problem holding the line against the aggressive woodruff. Tiarella is a pretty tough plant. What are yours running up against that you think they're getting swallowed?
GT, you've got some pretty things in those pics. I WS'd Virginia bluebells and have a few seedlings. Hopefully they will develop into nice plants as they are so pretty. I bought a Kerria 'Pleniflora' this year from Forestfarm, hopefully it will look nice like yours in a few years.
wow greenthumb, just wow. I wish I could see it all in place...
your Downy wood,mint seems to have spread, and the Bradbury's Monarda
All my M. bradburiana has sprouted and the wood mint I bought last year is growing too. It's a weird bugger though as it all flopped from last year so hopefully it grows into a decent plant.
Sally, we have lots of plants, so we have a good number in bloom at most any time, but they are spread among numerous beds rather than all in a single planting.
Seq, the tiarella is wedged between a shrub and strawberry begonia. The SB forms a nice, solid mat.
Oh, ic. Are both sides at a stalemate? I would think it'd spread to the other side of the shrub.
Stalemate's a good way to describe it. I like slightly-aggressive ground covers (they compete with weeds, which just love the constantly moist soil in this part of the yard), but I sometimes need to rescue perennials that get swallowed up.
Yeah I like slightly aggressive plants in general because I like the naturalized look. I don't like the plant here, plant there type of organization that many gardens have. And being a slightly aggressive ground cover, it can take care of itself while providing something more fun to look at than mulch.
Anyone have an extra or two of the monarda bradburiana?
I love the mint family and how easy it is to propagate since whereever a stem or tip touches the ground (flops down lol) there will probably be a new plant. I've actually pinned some of the outer stems into pots of soil. Am doing this now with Lysimachia congestiflora ( think creeping jenny) 'Persian Chocolate' semi evergreen, sun to part shade, ground cover or spiller in containers.
http://plantlust.com/plants/lysimachia-congestiflora-persian-chocolate/
Judy, does the same concept work for blephilia ciliata? I planted mine last year and it all laid over. I think it's rooting in but I haven't wanted to yank on the stems too hard to find out.
It's been hard to get photos because of this @#%$ wind. The plants keep swaying!
#1 Phlox divaricata (from Aspenhill) is starting to bloom.
#2 Polemonium reptans (Jacob's Ladder)
#3 Tiarella cordifolia 'Running Tapestry' on the verge of blooming
coleup look no further, this is my third spring at least with that Monarda from greenthumb, and I'm sure I can spare some
A number of shrubs are beginning to bloom the past day or so:
1 - Azalea noID
2 - Azalea noID
3 - Syringa vulgaris 'Alba' - White Lilac
4 - Syringa vulgaris - Purple Lilac
5 - Cornus floridia - Dogwood
More woodland plants appearing;:
1 - Hydrastis canadensis - Goldenseal
2 - Claytonia virginica - Spring Beauty
3 - Thalictrum thalictroides - Rue Anemone
4 - Arisaema triphyllum - Jack-In-The-Pulpit
5 - Bloodroot foliage (appears after flowers)
Some more of our many different violets:
1 - Viola pallens - Northern White Violet
2 - Viola striata - Cream Violet
3 - Viola pedata bicolor - Bicolor Bird's Foot Violet
4 - Viola pensylvanica - Smooth Yellow Violet
5 - Violet noID
More Narcissus and Muscari:
1 - Narcissus 'Sir Winston Churchill' - very fragrant
2 - Narcissus 'Lemon Drops'
3 - Narcissus 'Tahiti'
4 - Muscari armeniacum 'Valerie Finnis'
5 - Muscari noID
holy moly, so many flowers, and you even keep the violets straight!
I was happy to see the first blooms ever on a young dogwood here. I was not happy that this cold snap has robbed me of smelling one of my favorite rare scents, an old crabapple.
Assorted flowers:
1 - Iberis sempervirens - Candytuft
2 - Epimedium x rubrum - Bishop's Mitre
3 - Stylophorum diphyllum - Wood Poppy
4 - Disporum flavum - Yellow Fairybells
David--
I wan to thank you for adding the common names to all your plants .
It really helps.....
Thanks for caring..... Gita
I love those woodland plants. I just remembered that I have a Groundsel somewhere; knowing what it looks like will help me spot it!
Muddy, groundsel goldenseal....
Groundsel goldenseal??? Golden Groundsel = Golden Ragwort = Packera aurea = Senecio aureus. https://www.google.com/search?q=golden+groundsel&sa=X&biw=1600&bih=784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=FHE7VcmwIYanNu2EgZgG&ved=0CC0QsAQ
Beautiful pic GT just love the Yellow Fairybells don't think I have seen those before.
I've never heard of yellow fairy bells or the Disporum before. What an interesting plant.
And I love that Lemon Drop daff!
Terri shared that lemon drop daff with us last year and I was so delighted to see it blooming this year. Wish we had more of them, but these will likely spread.
And no frost here last night, thankfully. David did cover several things and others came back in overnight.
The golden groundsel I got from North Creek last spring should start blooming any day now. It really does spread easily from seed so I'm going to take the seed heads and spread them other places in the yard this year
I just thought Muddy mis typed...
Is your golden grounsel booming now? I got something new from ...someone at aspenhills swap, in tiny green round pots...the name escapes me but it was evergreen and it spread over summer, fall and winter and is blooming now.
I misread, had a brain freeze or both: I saw greenthumb's photo of Goldenseal, but my mind processed it as "Groundsel".
I should know brain freeze, I have enough of it.
I have some pics to post but will be doing that from phone. Bear with me if photo description does not post immediately, I may add them as an edit. You all know how bad my phone typing can be.
I took some pictures today--not new to spring--but newly open in my garden.
--Kwanzan Cherry tree
--Forget-me-nots,,,,everywhere now!
--Tahiti daffs--close
--Brunnera--Jack Frost
--Yellow Salome daffs--all around my not-yet emerged KK Hibiscus.
All your plants look wonderful GT and Gita!
ditto.
I am surprised at how much bloom you still get on that Kanzan cherry, Gita
My phone pictures have not come through. What a pain- not that I could compete with the above. The casual area under the trees in back looks, I think, fairly charming, with yellow corydalis, grape hyacinth, money plant, and daffodils sprinkling it with color.
I have my first ever flowers on Golden groundsel, Packera, they aren't especially pretty, but they're bright, native, on evergreen spreading plants.
Sally--
No matter how "dead" the Cherry tree appears when not blooming--
it marches on. I think it will always grow branches. I even prune them back
as they interfere with the mail man delivering my mail.
Yes--the Starlings have claimed the "condo" again. They are already roosting....
G.
Here are a couple more pics of my 'little daffs little dafs' near my woodpoppies, that I will share with David and coleup. These bloom early, among my daffodils, and are about 8-12 inches tall, no more. (seems like when I think a plant is eight inches, it's always taller so that's why I posted that range)
I can also try to add a pic from my phone with this daff bloom next to an Ice Follies.
For David, looking for an ID. This was almost certainly bought from a bag or box at big box store, hardware store, feed store etc. About ten -15 years ago
