Post your spring photos - whenever you have spring!

lovely photos!

Rob, Will try to get full pics of lilacs tomorrow after this rain. thanks BEV Oh! Here is the white one.

My white dogwood.

Love the plox and the Jacob's Ladder semp.

Nice grouping with the dicentra and the bulbs lavender
And dragon fly, the lilac and the dogwood are beautiful.

These are all plants that I've had trouble growing. There is a new lilac now that is supposed to grow well in zone 9 but I'm afraid that I'm clean out of room!

Oh, what beautiful white flowers...love them!

Beautiful dogwood dragonfly, that is the tree I'd really like to find room for. Thanks for the compliments on the photos. I'm looking for a photo of the Jacobs ladder in early spring when it was very rose colored. I posted this photo earlier on the thread for variegated plants. This is "Stairway to Heaven" on April 7 th at it's most colorful.

Here is the same Jacobs ladder about a week latter when the variegation changes to more tricolor and the rose lightens to pink.

Now in bloom the "Stairway to Heaven" foliage is green and white.

What beautiful variegations semp.

Semp: What a wonderful shady garden you have!
The Confederate Jasmine is blooming for me now. This one's on a north wall, about half is in total shade, the other half only gets late afternoon sun, but it blooms very nicely, and that scent! Ahhh.
Deb

Deb,
This afternoon, I had just taken a shot of my Confederate Jasmine when I cought a whiff of a gardenia! My favorite fragrance in the whole world! It took me a few moments to locate it-I always smell them before I see them. I never realized until a couple of years ago how much that scent is tied to my childhood which was a very long time ago!
Melissa

Lussah: I think gardenia is my favorite garden scent. Mine aren't blooming yet, though. Are yours? Yesterday, I was strolling around the garden center at one of the "big box" stores, and followed the scent to a lonely little corner where they had miniature gardenias in full bloom. It was intoxicating. Scent makes a strong connection to memory, doesn't it?
Deb

Ahhhh.....Spring!

Ah Spring indeed! My columbine are starting to bloom. I just put them in last spring so they are sort of sparse but beautiful just the same. Unfortunately they tend to mildew in the late summer. Hate that!

Doss, you're like me, all over the forums!!! This is the left side of the arbor I did last year in another thread. The Stairway To Heaven climbing rose is really taking off, just no blooms yet.

Doug

Ilove the combination of the azalea and the clematis. You are either lucky or very clever to have them blooming at the same time! The rose will be beautiful with it and echo the color of the azalea. It's going to be a very pretty corner - but then it already is.

Deb,
One of my miniature gardenias has several blooms open and many more are ready to pop. The other minis are just about there. I only have one full-size and it's been limping along ever since I bought this house, 5 years ago. I spent 30 minutes today hosing off aphids again and did not see any buds on it. It has never put out very many. But we keep trying! I've had pretty good luck with the minis, though. I spent today working in the yard and every time I smelled them, I broke into a huge grin. All I need now for it to really be summer is some local watermelon.
Melissa

I'm heady with the fragrance of iris in the garden right now. Of course nothing is quite the same as gardenia. I've never had any luck with them though. They seem to struggle along here. Local watermelon sure sounds good! How about some local peaches too.

You guys are making my mouth water!

rob, your cottage garden is lovely--pretty combinations in bloom.

doss, You mentioned the fragrance of iris and I agree...I found a few blooming in the garden and it was heavenly.

semp, you have a wonderful collection of shade plants and I love your stone steps.

I have a new little hardy geranium, the deep pink little flower in the collage, that is blooming nicely in mostly shade. I wish I had the label. It's one I picked up from the dollar table bargain bin last fall.

And I found the little castle in the bargain bin at HD last fall and I'm in the process of making a fairy garden for my nieces with it...(something to fill in the shady areas...

Yep, can't leave out peaches! Hope the last freeze didn't get them. The other summer must have is boiled peanuts, but my favorite nursery started selling them a couple of weeks ago, so I've already HAD to buy a few bags!
Melissa

What an awesome collage!

Doss it was just pure luck for the azalea and the clematis to bloom together. We have had an absolutely perfect spring. Around here I consider it a good spring when the dogwoods and redbuds bloom during the same period. They were georgous this year.

Doug

That must have been stunning Doug. My Niobe clematis blooms at the same time as the white rose it's growing with and I always think that's amazing too.

doss, in one of the first photos on this thread you have a hellbore with a fern. What is the fern? That combination sweped me altogether.

You must mean the lemon button fern (Nephrolepsis cordifolia cv. 'Duffii' ). It would grow happily in your house but it's not hardy below zone 9. It's so fast growing though you might be able to grow it as an annual!

:( I will look through ferns and see if I can find a hardy matching fern.

Sorry about that Enya. Maybe you can find something similar. I looked up the regular button fern but it's only hardy down to zone 8.

That's OK. I just have to keep in mind the combination of the foliage shapes. You have very nice combos through out your garden. In my third year of gardening, I am just beginning to pay attention to details like that :)

My High Bush Cranberry Viburnum is blooming.

Oh, what a beautiful flower, dragonfly! I really like that one!

Those look like brides maids head flowers :) So charming.

There was a thread on textures. This photo would so suit it.
It's a great shot!

Here's my spring finally :)

And here's a closeup I finally got in focus ;)

Dragonfly, those are so pretty, they look like my Hydrangea Serrata! Enya, I love you white flowers, is that trillium? I wonder if they would grow in my zone....

Very pretty ENya. The ferns and the white flowers look so peaceful and you are right that the textures are delightful together.

Thank you Tabasco and enya. Where is the texture thread? I know I have seen it before. Enya, The white tiillium I would think would grow in your zone. I have some burgandy ones in my woodland garden, I would like to find some white ones. BEV

Tillium grandiflorum is native to my area. That shared lot nobody goes to but for twice a year trash collection and garlic mustard removal is really great. It's sort of became and unofficial neighborhood preserve area. I just never was that late in the season to do clean up. It's amazing how much rubbish is blown down that ravine. I usually down there before the ferns unfurl but this year I am behind of a lot of things and I am glad I was :)

Here's a terrific series of threads with plant pictures to die for
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/tw.php?tid=794088
Dragonfly, you absolutely have to post your Cranberry Viburnum photo there.

Tiarella Spring Symphony is blooming for the second time. I love this tiarella. This little bed is half in sun and half in shade so the snapdragons and bearded iris bring extra color to it. The vine on the structure is dying though. I don't know what is wrong with it.

I am coming pretty close to actually having stuff to post here!

Here is Variegated Solomon's Seal with an unusual all white stalk. Does that mean anything bad??

I have been told that most all white sports do not survive, not enough clorophyll to feed the plant. Let us know how it does! It looks very cool!