Ice Follies on left and little daff on right
FIRST FLOWERS OF SPRING 2015 'Mid Spring'
I love those mini daffs Sally.
I'll add you to my list Jeff.
I have a lot of this other one I call 'half pint', to me the flowers are a bit too big for the leaves. I think it is actually Topolino, but not sure. Also early.
I used to call the 'little daffs' Minnow but these don't look like Minnow. I seem to have lost my Minnows.
Thanks Sally! The Minnow daffs are terrible. I got mine fall of '10 and every year, they flower less and less. It's not due to overcrowding for sure, they just stink. I'm going to be removing a large patch this weekend and chucking them in the trash.
Some pics from the weekend. It took me a little to look up some of the names and I still don't have them all because some were hard to figure out from what I purchased.
Algarve Tulip
Blueberry Ripple Tulip
Suzy Daff
Candy Apple Delight Tulip
Orange Emperor Tulip
All NOIDs except pic one. That is Exotic Emperor Tulip. Pics 2 and 4 I have written down in my spreadsheet but I will need to wait until more bloom and I can get more pics to make my determination. That's what happens when you buy a couple that could look alike.
Anemone nemorosa - surprised any sprouted as a squirrel dug it up and I shoved it back in the ground
More spring bulbs pics 2 & 3
Pretty Princess Tulip
Veronica pectinata
wow so many tulips! So pretty!
Just beautiful Sequoia, Hate to see your blooming Spring Bulbs makes me think of what I am missing. When Sally and SSG post pic I think well they are farther south than me. But when you post them I know my yard is doing the same thing. Just love that Pretty Princess Tulip.
The last tulip in your NOIDs. Is it short and blooms early?
Exotic Emperor tulip is my favorite. What a beauty! The last one of your NOIDs looks like my Tulipa tarda.
Yes, the last of my NOIDs is very short and has red streaks in the leaves. It's blooming now but the blooms last a while so it may have started a week or more ago.
Epimedium with very bright pink flowers.
Here's my Tulipa tarda.
Korean Spice viburnum
Candytuft that I winter sowed several years ago.
Lookin' good SSG. I can't wait to get my Epi's from Lazy SS. My candytuft is always a slacker plant for me. I'm surprised it's still alive but there is some coming back. Yours looks very nice though!
SSG... that's more than T. tarda in your photo... I'm not sure what the one is that's solid orange-red... the T. tarda is the one with white pointed petals, yellow egg-yolk center. The orange one with a dark center is 'Little Princess', and the magenta one is 'Little Beauty' (both T. humilis). Maybe you planted a mix of species or botanical tulips?
Love the pink epimedium! making a note of it... :-)
Jill, I had no idea! I got a mixed bag of what I thought was just T. tarda. Thank you for the ID!
I wish I could find the tag for that pink epimedium. I have no idea what it's called. I'll let you know if it turns up. :)
What a perfect spring day! Spent most of the day outside but worked in just one portion of the yard, seeing less than 20%. Strange to realize one spent hours out but missed most of what was going on. Still, took a few photos.
1 - Aqulegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns'
2 - decorative foliage of Hieracium venosum - Rattlesnake Weed
3 - White Dwarf Bearded Iris
4 - Ajuga reptans 'Chocolate Chip'
5 - Geranium maculatum - Wild Geranium
Nice GT, I love wild geranium! Hopefully my 3 little seedlings do well and I'll be able to plant them out later in the season.
Lots of blue in the garden now. Too bad I can't replicate this color later in the year.
Woodland phlox from Aspenhill.
Variegated Solomon's seal.
Ajuga with a very strange muscari. I had no idea they would bloom like this. I don't think I paid attention to the picture on the website!
I thought this last one was jacob's ladder, but I might be wrong.
One blue bloom that's missing is variegated brunnera. Mine died over this winter.
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hat a nice stand of Solomons Seal. Mark liked that when we saw it at ..Cylburn?
That last one is charming and unfamiliar to me.
Love that Muscari, that from Jill's co-op last fall?
Sally I think I have some Varigiated Solomons Seal to share would you like some?
Yes, the muscari is from JIll's co-op last year. I actually prefer the look of standard muscari.
I love solomon's seal! I want it to spread, but it's spreading the wrong way, towards the oakleaf hydrangea, instead of where there is bare dirt.
I'm wondering if #4 is indeed jacob's ladder but with the blooms closed. The picture was taken early in the morning.
Definitely an interesting muscari! Most of my muscari didn't come back from last spring...don't know why. What's that last one? I've never seen something like that. Definitely not Jacob's Ladder.
My Jacob's Ladder, Polemonium reptans taken minutes ago, looks the same to me.
I have some of that muscat also. I like the standard muscadine better, too.
I enjoy seeing our gardens transition.
Wow GT, any Jake's Ladder I've grown never looks cool like that. Mine usually are annuals too. Perhaps they don't like me.
Sequoia, what specifically were you planting? A different species, or a cultivar of the straight species?
As I ran out to get the above Jacob's Ladder photo I shot a few other plants as I passed:
1 - Polygonatum multiflorum 'Variegata' - Eurasian Solomon's Seal
2 - Polygonatum humile - Dwarf Solomon's Seal
3 - Viola triloba - Three-lobed Violet, grows a showy 12" mound of variably shaped leaves.
4 - Euphorbia cyparissias - Cypress Spurge - Don't put this one in the ground!
I'm not sure GT. They died so it doesn't matter. Mine just grew straight up and the flowers were on a straight stalk. They never laid over like that. I had two but I can't find any pics.
That wasn't P. reptans, perhaps P. caeruleum, it grows as a stalk. I have that too, but I bet the straight native species P. reptans will work for you. See https://www.google.com/search?q=polemonium+caeruleum&biw=1600&bih=784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=nT9CVaulO8yWNqzogegL&ved=0CIwBEIke
Yes, you hit it right on the head GT. I guess I'll have to try P. reptans then. I pretty much gave up on Jake's Ladder but if this is a native, I bet it would work. I definitely like the flowers on yours and SSG's, very pretty.
GT, that tri-lobed violet has always been one of my favorites in your garden.
I haven't been taking any pictures yet, will need to do that this weekend. The P. reptans that I got from GT and ecnalg is blooming now in my garden too. It is nicely self seeding about too - not aggressively, but definitely more than most of the perennials I have.
That fluffy double-flowered muscari is 'Fantasy Creation'. I love it! I think it needs to go with Rembrandt tulips or something else that's sort of blowsy. An even fluffier and somewhat later blooming one is Muscari plumosum, which blooms more lilac-pinkish-purple rather than the usual blue-violet. I'm also really liking 'Dark Eyes', but the neighborhood kids are enjoying the heck out of the standard muscari -- they were using the tiny ball-shaped flowers in fantasy "restaurant" creations yesterday. They picked about 2 cups of blooms before I said I thought that was probably enough, LOL, but they really didn't make a dent in my little "river" (more of a rivulet!).
Dibs on a seedling or two of your P. reptans, Terri! :-) That's such a pretty plant. Is that the one that was seedling around the slope near your foundation? I'm really having fun planting up the part-shade areas in the back while the daffs are going to town in the rest of the garden.
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Critter, this was the first year I've had any muscari - I got them from our fall ADR bulb buy. I'm really, really, liking them (notice the emphasis on really, really LOL). They are now one of my favorite spring time bloomers! I had ordered 4 different kinds - I need to go back and tag the blooms so I know what is what. I think my favorite so far is the one that seems to be a two toned purple. I know you mentioned starting to think about this year's fall ADR bulb buy - lots more muscari are at the top of my "wish list".
Critter, we cross posted. Yes I can definitely share some of the P. reptans. Not sure what you saw seeding about the slope near the foundation - there is lots of phlox divaricata there. The P. reptans is in those beds on both sides below the landing of the front steps.
I think the 2-toned purple one is probably M. paradoxum... that's one I'd like to add after seeing it at your place (prettier in person than in the ADR photo, where it just looked odd).
Yes, as you look around this spring, definitely think about what you'd like to plant this fall! I'll start a thread soon in the group buy forum for fall bulbs and amaryllises. :-)
That 2-toned muscari is on our wish list for fall now, having seen the clumps you have growing, Terri. What a cool spring flower. I like your exploding muscari, too, SSG.
Dwf iris
mix under trees
peach grown from composted pit
Sally, what are the yellow flowers? Corydalis?
What a lovely peach tree! How long did it take to flower?
Sally, what is that purple flower behind the corydalis? Nice cory btw, is that the same kind you gave me?
Edited to say "Duh!". I must be getting old, I had downloaded the photo and tried enlarging it to see the leaf margins in the plants behind the Cordalis. I completely missed the same plants in the foreground that clearly show serrated edges. It is Lunaria - Honesty.
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