Spring Bulbs - pictures & discussion: Part VI

A small patch of Ipheion is small for only a short time.

Her 'Golden Bells'

I have one clump of this one, and I love it! It's a Tazetta daffodil, 'Martinette'... adorable clusters of small blooms, and fragrant too!

edited to add variety name... good eye, Kenton!

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'Princesse Charmante'
I added this to PF.

LOL Kenton.... I really will look up the names, just not tonight!

I don't know the name of this yellow one... my mom has had clumps of these for years, and they came from her. So pretty with the blue flower (is that scilla? planted it the first year here, and forgot!) and the new green on the thyme....

What good taste you have!

Dicentra Spectablis 'Alba'

This one is also a noid... it just popped up with the yellow ones above... delicate little double flowers arising 3-5 to a stem...

That is a Scilla siberica.
I like the bright green of that Thyme. Do you know its name?

That one Narc looks like my Narc. Martinette:

oooohhhh.... so pretty!

I'll counter with a non-bulb photo of my own! ;-)

Here's some pink phlox subulata with 'Translucent Golden Thyme' in the tiny rock garden at the bottom of the driveway....

The bright green of the thyme in the previous photo is just because it's new growth, I think... From the scent (I have several varieties of creeping thyme and didn't label every place they've gone), I think it may be 'Orange Balsam' thyme.

Here's a species tulip, 'Little Princess' with Phlox stononifera (I think)...

This thread is getting long. It is even taking time with a internet cable.
(Mild Hint)

Just a picture:

Love the new fronds on that Japanese Painted Fern!

Here's some other things coming up in that bed alongside the driveway...

I liked these red tulips with the red-edged new foliage on this Knockout rose.

I think they're probably an Emperor variety... my aunt sent them as a memorial for my uncle... they put on a lovely show last spring, and I'm happy to see most of them returning!

Again, what excellent tastes!
Bergenia.
'Little Princess' is grand in its own minunte way.
What mottled (or what division) Tulip is that? I like how dark it is.

N. Fortune. I didn't know I had it and barely had record of planting it.

I may be stretching it, calling it a bulb, but I am near conviced it is a sort of corm.

Musa basjoo.

T. 'Ballerina' just won't go away.

I don't know if I like how Narc. 'Limbo' does this waxy fading bit.

Anf guess who is darker than T. 'Queen of the Night.' Her sported "son:"
Tulipa 'Black Hero.' The darkest part is in the interior petals when it ages.

Finally, Muscari latifolium.

Kenton

Yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!

By the way, Kenton, the lily is up. :-) And the Zs have two leaves each now. :-)

Good job on those! I think that continued, diluted fertilizer should keep them out of dormancy to build bulb size. It is working so far with my Zant seedlings. You've succceded in an endevour that many consider to be expert.
(I have not forgotten my project for you; I will work on it when school ends; too much art right now as it is!)

Are you serious? I've managed to so far succeed at something difficult? :-o

Oh boy, the pressure's on now!!

Yep, that's Bergenia in the mixed planting above with the single daff bloom... Those fat, spotted leaves next to it are a bit of a mystery... I *thought* that was where I had planted a clump of Chalochortus 'Venustus', but now that I look up its description (it was a new-to-me variety from B&B last fall), I see that Chalochortus leaves are quite different... This looks more like the leaf of one of those early greigii tulips... maybe I got a mislabeled bag, or maybe I just have no clue where I ended up planting what! They're developing fat buds now, so hopefully I can figure it out once it blooms. :-)

I went back and added a couple of daff names, above....

There's a bit of a story with the 'Little Princess' tulips... I'd ordered a bunch of 'Little Beauty' tulips to put alongside a new paver walkway, but the supplier had a labeling mixup, and they came up orange rather than magenta, definitely 'Little Princess'. I'm not especially keen on orange flowers, and they really clash with the walkway... Aaron sent me replacements, which I put in last fall, and those are blooming true now as 'Little Beauty'. I thought I had managed to dig up all the 'Little Princess' bulbs, but clearly I missed a few (they really multiply!)...

So now, near one corner of the walkway, I have 'Little Beauty' (magenta, purple center, at top of photo), 'Little Princess' (orange), and right on the corner, there's a deep orange bloom that I do rather like and will mark so I don't dig it up... It must be a sport of 'Little Princess', and I'm curious as to whether it will continue to bloom this color...

JamesCO, thank you for the compliment and your photos are also gorgeous. The 'Charmante' is glorious. How kind of you to make a photo CD for your friend. One of my great pleasures is to look over my past photos of flowers and shrubs, you can see the growth (and sometimes, decline!) over the years and seasons, and it makes you glad to be a gardener.

In answer to your question about the weather, this has been one of the rainiest, wettest springs we've ever had in the San Francisco Bay Area! We have been wetter than Seattle, and that hardly ever happens, LOL. Last year was unusually cold even through the summer months, and we are all hoping that was just an unusual, not-oft-repeated thing. It never gets very warm here (we still get the edge of the fog belt off the ocean) but this winter and early spring was quite cold overall, so the energy bills are hurting many folks.

One of the warnings about global warming was that conversely, the coastal areas would get cooler because more fog would form when the cool ocean air currents meet the hotter inland area temps. We will see if this starts becoming our "normal" weather -- yikes!

Oh now I know why we have had such lousy weather since spring last year!

So many great pics everyone! Critter love the Phlox stolonifera, phlox are always a welcome plant.

Just one for now, been busy and worn the self out! My Dracunculus vulgaris with it's little baby by it's side. You can see a little 'wing' on one side of the leaf, I first saw it yesteday! Notice the 4 different patterns on the stem sheaths.

shall we go to Part VII?

Part VII http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/592722/