In Bastrop, where I live off a creek, my yard is colder than most in town. Blooming right now are:
baby's breath spirea - the few blooms that didn't get burned by that late February freeze
Mexican buckeye
redbud
Mexican plum
agarita (almost done)
Lady Banks rose - only a few blooms so far
Carolina jessamine - just starting
cemetary iris - a spike just coming up
red yucca - sending up two bloom spikes, which will not open for a while
salvia microphylla - Graham's sage - returning now after frost bite in February
pink salvia greggia -just starting
Walter's viburnum - in full bloom
leatherleaf mahonia - almost done, with blue berries starting
Frost bitten with no blooms to come I fear: mock orange
What's blooming in the pasture:
one corydalis
crow's poison
henbit
chickweed
dandelion
Texas dandelion
senecio - squaw weed - just starting
Texas poa grass - blooming and setting seed - beloved by chipping sparrows
What's Blooming in Your Garden Now?
Is Texas poa grass Poa arachnifera?
Yesterday, two season's firsts...Mountain Laurel is finally blooming (yea!)and the pink primrose had its first bloom. Otherwise, a few petunias and pansies, bitterweed, one milkweed and a few Cilantro plants are starting to bloom. But I definitely think that spring is here! Lots of things are leafing out or will bloom soon.
winter sowed stocks here...they smell devine...with some poppies (red and heirloom whites from india), dianthus, and snaps on the "verge" of blooming....
the poppies about to pop....
Grape Hyacinths, Aneomones, & Daffodils & Redbud
LOTS and LOTS of azaleas...sooo pretty
Rose of Sharon...
Tulips, Hyacinths, Daffodils, Roses....
what else...red unidentified flowering bush (in identification forum)
Pink Jasmine and potato vine...oh and pansies. :)
Dutch iris, wisteria and roses. Among the trees, redbud, plum, aprium, pluot, tangerine and lemon. The pawpaw buds will be open in a couple of days. Yuska
Texas poa grass is poa arachnifera.
New blooms in yard: Cramisoir Superiore (sp?) rose, Old Blush, Martha Gonzales, Winecup
The red buckeye is budded out. I hope tonight's cold weather doesn't get the blooms.
White salvia greggii and Moonlight salvia greggii started blooming.
Added blooms in the pasture:
3 bluebonnets so far
10 petal anemone
hairy vetch
Texas toadflax
wild verbena
pink evening primrose
a few dewberry blooms
bluets
Peach & redbud trees have blooms.
Historic irises: white, yellow, & 2 purples
white & hot pink dianthus
Dutch iris, white, light blue, & dark blue/purple
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poppies
Texas Gold Columbine, Phlox, roses have buds & blooms, hyacinths, salvia greggii(Moonglow & Raspberry) and Seto orange in my garden. Oh, and the Bradford Pears that are going bye-bye are blooming too (they've been replaced by an Alta Magnolia & an Eve's Necklace). My Bluebonnets didn't come back this year. :(
And a russelia that never seems to stop blooming
A close up of my Mexican Plum, isin't it gorgeous?
sure is Josephine--those blooms are a memory down here now! as well as the red buds.....I'm beginning to wonder when the dormant season for a rusellia down here is. Framing a tomato plant.
And these sweet peas are probably going to be gone soon too.....
azaleas
bougenvilla
brugmansias
beaumonti grandiflori (murtoni) aka easter lily vine, heralds trumpet
butterfly clerodendrum
Cestrum (yellow)
clivia
daturas-
four oclocks -already
impasiens
Rose silk morning glories, blue morning glories, wild orange morning glories
Salvia
Spider wort
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Picture is of morning glories growing in the cestrum
RJ--I would like to see that clerondendrum. Last frost nipped mine back to the ground (it's over 8' at end of season--mine's inground) and its budded out at ground level--about 3" high now. I'm assuming your talking clarendendrum ugadanese (blue butterfly shaped flowers).
Debbie
Okay Debbie-..mine is about 8 feet too. I can take a picture tomorrow. I only have last years pictures right now. I propagated a couple of branches - in case it froze. I cover it with a frost cloth if there is danger of frost.
The location is next to the deck steps on one side, and a pond on the other- 9 foot fences..so it/s protected pretty good.
Must be nice RJ! I love that plant and now I'll be waiting until May-June for it to bloom....Don't you love the fact that its almost a "no care" plant? (unless you have to hack it back like I am going to have to do tomorrow!) But it has sprouted out sooner than I've ever seen it do in the past--its usually April. I had five plants freeze back but all are resprouting in record time (hamalia patens, my beloved clerondendrum, cigar plants, rangoon creeper, and my panama rose).
Debbie
Yes I do love it- it literally has bloomed non stop since last april. As a matter of fact, that clerodenrum has me collecting the other clerodendrums- they are all so different from each other.
Do you ever throw frost cloths over them? Its amazing how 20-30 miles means the difference between a hard freeze and no freeze!
My clerodendron is blooming now, the wind tore it up pretty bad a month or so ago, but it's putting out new growth. I saw a solandra maxima blooming in Brownsville today, should have taken a picture.
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You have alot of beautiful things blooming. I have been watching your posts in tropicals I think-
I like your interesting varities. I saw a bunch of solandra maxima in Hawaii last week.. actually Kauai- I have some cuttings from Edinburg TX I/m propagating..and have 2 small ones planted. I can/t believe how HUGE those plants get. I think I/ll have quite a while to wait for mine to bloom.
Just saw the first bloom on the peach tree today. Also blooming are Golden Groundsel, Redroot and Squarebud Primrose. They're so pretty!
Okay Debbie,
this is the clerodendrum ugadanese this morning. Wow - what a display of blooming, several Brug trees are blooming, white, yellow and pink...it smelled spectacular last night. These are the moments when all the love and attention starts showing!
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yep--that's the plant! I just love mine!
My poor little specimen....what's left.
Debbie
Oh man..are you sure the main branches are gone?
Sure were when I "hacked" them back today! lol! It does this every year I'm just jealous that yours and Cala's are still huge! Here's the before shot...
Wow pretty good size..I think the branches are even thicker than mine are.
Wow, RJ, yours has more blooms than mine.
I came home today and could smell the citrus groves a mile away. It was wonderful. My peach tree has big buds but no flowers yet. I saw leaves coming out on the crepe myrtle Pride of India(things go dormant here even without the cold temps) My night blooming jasmine is blooming again, it smells so good in the evening.
Really...!? your night Jasmine is blooming?? Thats the earliest ever ..Ive heard of it blooming. I noticed some of mine was starting to bud.
The Brugs were definately having they/re night last night...I had unexpected company, and so they were loving it. I didn/t have the heart to tell them that they lucked out!! The scent was so heavenly..sometimes I really have to force myself to go to bed...
The night blooming jasmine has been blooming off and on all winter. We only had a couple of cool spells this winter. Some of my passifloras are still flowering.
Yes...our winter was really spring I think...I saw my passiflora blooming too yesterday..I almost stepped on it in the garden. I/m using it as a ground cover for something different.
I wonder why my jasmine is blooming...although I noticed there are slightly different types- some blooming more than others. I took a cutting from a friends place a couple years ago, and that jasmine blooms 4 times as often as the other I have in the yard. It/s totally root bound and needs to go in the ground. long list..
My aromatic sumac has started...little blooms. The ox-eye daisies and the Mexican Buckeye just started...soon it'll be ready for a photo. But here's my Squarebud Primrose, looking so cute I halfway think it's flirting with everything that comes near it.
Cool Linda....my first Louisiana iris bloom; and I think its absolutely perfect.
that/s a cool looking flower...quarebud primrose..never heard of it.
I'm jealous, my LA iris are not blooming yet!