First Blooms

Is that what I have here? I love this and it is so cheerful!!

Here are some large daffodils and grape hyacinths..love the combination

Here is my first Iris bloom, an heirloom iris from a great aunt...

JanetS, I think your pale 6 petal flower is Ipheion uniflorum Spring Star Flower. Nice clump and I love that you have an iris from your Great aunt. Patti

Janet: I love daffs with grape hyancinths. For some reason, my gr. hyancints are blooming earlier than the daffs this year. :(
Steve: Great bunch of daffodils!
Deb

Ipheion uniflorum ‘Froyle Mill’ (Tristagma uniflorum) is the name of the six petal blue flowers...I had forgotten that I "found" them the other day and had to look it up again...lol they are very sweet and about two inches across...

Thanks I love Daffodils, here are some of the others I have blooming at this time...

uh oh. I bought 30 tulip clusiana from ebay seller rarebulbs and not a hint of them coming up. They were planted with daffs, which are blooming right now. pics later. I notice he's still selling 100 and 30 bulbs packs. Isn't it too late?

everybody's pics are lovely.

My tulips are not up yet either, I think some things are really confused by our strange "end of Winter" weather.

Becky, sorry I didn't check this thread earlier. Glads are very easy out here in the SF Bay Area, as are dahlias. In fact, I consider glads, callas and crocosmia to be weeds -- impossible to get rid of, once established!

Don't forget to try hardy glads as well as the traditional glads -- a nice change!

here is a closeup of n. Replete. These are planted in my property located in z8. The center is not as pink as shown in catalogs, they are more peachy-like. No matter to me, I'm still thrilled they're so beautiful. I do have narcissus growing in my house in Houston, but not blooming yet. N. Pipit from last year are coming back (in Houston/Richmond)

Vossner, your Replete is much more interesting than the ones that are all peachy/pink with no yellow. I love the ruffled yellow in it. I reminds me of a well basted pink egg yolk that has just been broken. Very nice. Patti

Vossner: That's really lovely!

Here's Daff. Sweet Sue, first one to really open so far. (A little dark; it was late when I got home.)

Deb

My goodness, your photos are making me drool!!! Y'all got some great plants. Beautiful flowers. Such show-stoppers!

My bulbs have all bloomed and wilted. Now just the usual flowers in my garden are coming up. I am waiting on my daylilies and Siberian Iris to bloom. But the show is over for me in my zone now. :-(

voss, your Replete looks flatter than mine were, but I did have some green on one, they are so variable. Yours is interesting and much nicer.

Deb, such a lovely rich colour Sweet Sue!

I went over the road last night to get some sunset pics, there's a couple of bunches of narcissus on the road side so I got a shot.

I have some large ones opening in a big tub, this is a huge yellow, possibly King Alfred

Crocus Prins Claus, taken 5 days ago, it's starting to bulk up now after a few years.

Wallaby: That's an amazing crocus. I've never seen that one before. So pretty!
Deb

First open blooms for my fosteriana tulips 'Red Emperor' aka 'Madame Lefeber' --this is their 3rd year of blooming.

I got home from my vacation to find these little beauties blooming. They even beat the crocus. It's fabulous to leave for a couple weeks in the winter and come home to spring!

oooh! Beautiful!

I don't think we got this one yet : Eranthis hyemalis.
I cannot show you the effect of a large group as I only have a couple of bulbs planted in a pot (because of lack of space).

Bonitin: what a pretty little thing! I don't think I've seen one before. Thanks!
Deb

I have so much enjoyed spring through all the photos you all have shared . It has finally come to my garden my first flower.

Such lovely photos! I love the blue flowers, gardengus. Are they Siberian Irises? I have planted some that haven't bloomed yet. They are mixed in a garden bed with some lemon yellow daylilies. I can't wait until they all bloom.

I can't get over the vivid colors of all of these first bloom Spring flowers! Sure wished they were repeat bloomers! :-)

Iris reticulata-it grows from a small bulb. I don't know the other name I planted them years ago,they are always such a beautiful spring surprise.

Gardengus: Beautiful!

They are all lovely shots! I. reticulata is always a welcome show.

My Hyacinth Pink Queen have about fully opened, we had gale winds yesterday (and today), a plant fell on them but they are still OK.

Love those and they smell so lovely too! Here's a pot of mine as well....I have more things coming in now..will have to take more shots today!

Lovely deep blue Janet, do you know the name?

Narcissus Rip van Winkle

No, I afraid I do not know the names of my Hiacynths....I have some white, pink, and blue, and I think I got them in a mixed bag a long time ago...actually before I even realized they had names..LOL I didn't pay much attention to the names of things before 2004, when I got on Dave's...lol I was actually doing well to just know "what" they were ie. Tulip, Iris, etc. now of course I am labeling a lot of the newer things I put into my gardens, but most of what I receive from others is heirloom type iris or daylilies with no names known, just colors....lol

Wallaby: I like that Narcissus. Very exotic-looking.
Deb

Here are a couple of photos of some of my crocus, nicely in bloom now.

Donna

Another clump different color

One more

Donna: Lovely! I think the white ones are my favorites. :)
Deb

My Pansies are finally looking nice on the front porch...I love these colors, they had a terrible time with bugs, but now several of them are doing well..

My named Narcissus are beginning to emerge, they are not labeled, but they have names...lol I will try to find the names, here is the first one now...they smell lovely!

The Frit imp. rubra is nearly there!

Another one "in my dreams" in this climate Janet! Quite lovely--and a "stocky" looking plant too--looks like it would hold up well to most of mother nature's sometimes abuses. Is it "finicky"? =)

I'm having trouble posting, lost the close up on this, then did one on the glad thread which couldn't be displayed, I refreshed and got back to this!

It's supposed to be finicky, but it seems to be happy as I've grown it so I will find out next year. It was planted in September I think.

I'm posting, then see if I can post a close up!