Are your daffs and crocus starting to show green? (Part II)

Continuation of Tabasco's thread for posting pictures of things as they come up:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/568724/
Wallaby shared some nice early-spring blooming bulbs such as Cyclamen, Helleborus, and Galanthus. We are also anticipating more pictures of SteveFtWorth's Scilloids and Narcissus as they continue to open.

Today, I stopped by the house of the woman who taught me the foundation of my gardening skills and knowledge. She moved into her house less than three years ago; a blank slate. After a much needed remodeling, she started what I think is the best Garden in Grand Junction, CO.

Here is her lawn beginning to bloom with Galanthus elwesii and Crocus sieberi 'Firefly.' Soon, it will also have C. chrysathus and C. vernus cultivars. The lawn was seeded September 2004, and most of the bulbs were planted in October of that year.
This is a general idea, I will try to get a picture when the crocus are fully open.
K. James

C. chrysanthus cultivar coming up through Sagina subulata 'Aurea' between flagstone pavers in her front yard; a delight to more observant passersby.

Here is part of the garden that wraps around her Elms in her back yard. Her Helleborus are budding out, and in the summer there is an Athyrium 'Ghost' fern growing in the crack between the basalt boulders. I must boastfully mention that I collected and installed her rocks for her. Imagine her out in the desert between sagebrush, waving a BLM rock permit:

"Oh Oh! I want that one"
"There is already a quarter ton in the pickup."
"We'll get it on the next trip."
"I'll visit the Chiropracter after the next trip..."

The opposite side of the tree. Galanthus have already naturalized within the few years they have been there reseeding. That biggest rock brings back a memory involving a broken wheelbarrow.

To finish bragging on her, Here is her version of a turfless yard:

Finally, what have YOU got coming up, if only green nubs? Please post pictures.

What a wonderful garden foundation! I'd love to see pics as the season progresses in her garden. I especially love the rocks; the crocus and moss between the flagstones is great.

Only a blanket of white here today, with more falling. Cold and lovely, but I'm staying inside and sowing more seeds and transplanting seedlings and thinking of the warmer days of spring.....
Neal.

I have Tulips, Daffs, Day lilies coming up since we have had such a warm January but then snow not a lot here but enough to give an inch or so of cover now. Just before the last snow last weekend I couldn't resist and dug up a big clump and potted them up and placed in the greenhouse and in the last few days they are blooming now..It's so nice to go out there and see some pretty blooms, there are about 3 so far that has bloomed out. I just don't know how the others in the garden will fair since I really don't know where they came from since I did not plant them there.
Vickie

awesome, kenton. will definitely stay tuned to see more photos.

neal, that's what i did (sow seeds) when corte madera was a soggy mess.....now that it has warmed up a bit, and no rain for another week, my seedlings are out. mostly brugmansias.

vickie, is that a brug? (green pot).

more brugs....but upper right black nursery pot has JONQUILS about to bloom. brugs are tattered and ugly this time of year because of the wind and rain. i keep them out there to keep them stronger. lol.

more daffs...they had markers, but my son had some fun and took them all out one day.

a couple of dirty blooms....these are on the right side of my "meandering path"....lined with lilies, too.

EDITED TO SAY:
not much to show, but it's a start. thanks for looking.

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I wondered where you all went! I didn't watch this part II for some reason!

Today we're expecting a big snow storm (8-12") so I went out to fill the
bird feeders. Guess what I found? A winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis).
Blooming. I had visited Norm Deno's property during a Garden Conservancy
Open House a number of years ago. (He's a pioneer in seed germination
theory and happens to live in the town where I grew up). He gave me
the seeds but warned me that they were very difficult. I threw them in this
spot and low and behold... I have blooms.

congrats, tammy!

Great, Tammy!

And how fun that you got some seeds from Norm Deno! Very cool. t.

And now that beautiful little yellow gem is buried in 12-15" of snow!

Yes that is my Adora Pink cutting, they are all growing like crazy. My big ones went dormant at the start of winter since we were late getting the greenhouse built but the last 2 months in there they have started growing their leaves back and all the cutting have really good root systems now and getting bigger so I can't wait to see my first blooms..
I also found a crown of thorns at Lowe's that was on their clearance rack that looked bad when I got it but now has several buds on it and looking really good. I love having the greenhouse especially on days like this when it's snowing out side and very cold and to go out in there and it's 75 in there. I also have tomatoes, lettuce and a variety of flower seeds that are starting to grow that I planted late Dec. and Jan.
Vickie

Gee Tammy 12" of snow..we only have about 3-4" here and everyone goes nuts because we don't get much snow fall here and no one seems to know how to drive so about everything shuts down. Maybe we will get lucky and have another snow day tomorrow.
Vickie

Congrats, Tammy.
And look at all those brugs everyone has!

Today I notice quie a few changes, it was 50F, we had abour 1/2" rain night before last, my Rhododendron dauricum has buds all over, and 1 flower open.

I did notice a whole bunch of yellow crocus open today, and another Helleborus orientalis 'Red shades' flower opening. Also a self set lovely light violet crocus has opened. My Crocus purpureus grandiflora are showing purple, it is lovely, really glossy, need to get the rest of the leaves off. That should have been done today, and I was going to take some pics but it didn't happen, perhaps tomorrow.

Here is one I took a couple of days ago of the first yellow crocus open, they are always first. It is a bit blurry, too close.

Nice, Wallaby, we look forward tonew pictures.
Thanks to Moby, I noticed from the other thread that I didn't answer your question about ferns. Colorado has plains, mountains, and high desert. The mountain regions support a few odd and hard to find wild ferns, but they cannot take high temperatures. My valley is high desert. 0-105 F temperature range,

One lone purple crocus:

A primrose - one of the only ones to ever return reliably:

I know that last one wasn't a bulb - sorry - a very blurry shot of daffs,etc
edited to say: it's blurry because I was shivering - at dusk, it still gets very chilly!

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2zeus - I love the primrose!

(adding to spring nurery list: Primula)

This isn't the regular kind - this is a more old-fashioned variety - the blooms aren't as large, but the other ones never return for me, I don't know why.

My primulas have stayed green all winter! Not blooming, though. ;-)

This picture of them was taken on Jan. 17th.

I have some primroses that have done OK, but the ones you buy as hybrids tend to get weaker until they nearly disappear. The Wanda Hybrids here are supposed to be longer lived. The taller polyanthus can do well, the older types much better than hybrids. I have a few edging a bed that come back really robustly, dry years can knock them back a bit. They are in red and pink shades, but a bit later flowering. I took a pic today of one I have in a pot in a shady place, it was a really large purple flower and has returned, the slugs eat the flowers. It has seeded in the pot and the violet one is a seedling. If I divide it and give it good treatment it might replenish itself. A bit tatty, but flowers! Taken today

Here is the little pale violet crocus, the colour just wouldn't work on the camera close up, it was probably the ultraviolet confusing the cameras ultraviolet sensors! This is the Cyclamen coum again, with crocus in background. This C. coum is a very deep, bright pink, can't quite get it's colour.

A bunch of yellow crocus on the bank

Another yellow looking down it's throat, so 'yellow' and no altering, the camera loves the yellows

tazzy was over spotted these i have not cleaned yard or bed yet..they are bright yellow did not know were in that bed...

The same crocus

hope, they are lovely the yellows aren't they, so bright. You must be pleased to have some you didn't know about! i haven't done much either, my partner has had the 'pleasure' of most of that so far, i don't seem to be able to find much of that stuff called 'energy'!

Here's a C. purpureus 'Grandiflorus', they have such large, glossy flowers. leaves still around those, uggghhhh.

A single snowdrop, they are so hard to get the white so it doesn't glare, even when it's dull

The whole snowdrop bed under shrubs and fuchsias

Oh, I love the snowdrops! And of course, I envy your zone... :-)

This is a Tritelea Wisley Blue, not at all like the picture showed. Been there a few years now, winter 2001/2 I think was very cold, a squirrel or something dug out a whole big patch, there was a big hole, and ate most of the tulips there too. Some seemed to either recover elsewhere or set seed, it is slightly scented

kbaumle I am really starting to appreciate that I live in a zone capable of growing a wide range of plants, I guess we can't have all the tropicals, and the summers are not that great at times, but somewhere in the middle of all extremes is not such a bad thing!

Here's a cyclamen coum silver leaf form that i grew from seed 7 years ago, I only got 3 and this is the biggest, it took 5 years to flower, and this is about now a mature plant

My Helleborus Queen of the Night finally opened fully so I could get a good photo, it is also difficult in any light to get the colour, but this is very close