Post your spring photos - whenever you have spring!

doss, it's a very interesting columnar build up from the Tiarella to snapdragons.
How old is that Tiarella plant? I have two young ones that lack fullness and am wondering how long it would take them to build up the body.

The tiarellas have been there only two years but I planted three in that spot. It also gets quite a bit of light. I have some in pretty deep shade and they tend to be more sparse but the bloom even at that. I bought this cultivar because it was supposed to rebloom and indeed it does!

Three young plants make a terrific large plant. I should stop thinking within
bounds of a pot I bought :) And I had no idea reblooming tiarellas even existed.
Learn, learn, learn....

Here's my very first yellow lady sleeper bloom in the making :)

Things are all over the map this spring. Here's one of the ferns just pushing it's fronds up.

Here's epemediums are almost done blooming. I love them for being happy in my dry shade.

Dicentra Alba White bleeding hearts

Cameo blue and white columbines. The biggest flowers on the tiniest plants!

Syneilesis aconitifolia.
Lovely in the shade, as long as you don't care about flowers.

Wow Weerobin! I had never seen that plant, its beautiful...
Rob

Blue compact columbine goes on my list of musts for my "blue area". Beautiful flowers.

Who needs flowers with leaves like this! Aconitifolia is gorgeous and looks even wispier against flats of hosta leaves :)

What wonderful new sprouts Enya and Lavender. Those blue columbines are really beautiful. I love my columbines but they tend to mildew later in the summer and are unsightly.

Your shredded umbrella plant is very cool weerobin. I hadn't seen that before.

Weerobin, how long did it take for your umbrella plant to get so big? It's gorgeous. I planted a small one last spring and only have one stalk up this year.

Here are a few pix I took today. This one is a shady border with a couple Clementine Red columbines just starting to open.

this one shows Clementine Dark Purple columbine starting to open. (finally got a warm day today!)

And this is a really lovely geranium, Elizabeth Ann, which I love and have put everywhere I can find a not-too sunny spot. Plus it self seeds nicely.

Finally, this isn't a great photo, but I also really love my solomon seal.

Okay, one more. A close-up of Clementine Red.

Wicker, I like that Solomon Seal photo very much. I love that plant, too. Mine are only about 7" high at the moment. They were slow starters this season - not sure why.

Love the columbine and the Solomon Seal - what a nice stand of that. Beautiful shade gardens wickerparker.

melon symphony Osteospermum

wickerparker, your garden looks festive with all those shades of green and flower :)

lavender, these two Osteoperum look with "eyes wide open" at me. I'd crop and frame that shot :)

lol well it could go on my "flower wall". Wicker I love all those plants. What lovely groupings. I have clementine rose blooming right now, and winky purple as well as the cameo. My red star is a giant one and is not blooming yet, but one of my favs coz it blooms into July.

My syneilesis is 3-4 years old, think.

Here are a couple other plants doing suprisingly well.
I enjoy trying uncommon plants. Most are flops, but the ones that do well are really cool.
This is a anemonella thalictroides. I think the cultivar name is 'Cameo', but not sure.
I have to protect it from rabbits, which is why it's in a silly looking cage.
But I think it's worth it.

And this is asarum takoi.
It spreads really nicely.

And a double bloodroot (from a couple months ago).

oh robin, those are really lovely. I really love the first one!

Spring is finally here in Western PA. Now, if it would just STOP RAINING! Very unusal year here as there has not been a frost for almost 6 weeks. I cannot remember a spring like this. My Mom planted these back in 1985. I am planting a white dogwood to the right of this grouping this year. I cannot wait to see them all bloom!

Linda :)

oh my gosh, I found a source for them and they are hardy here. There goes my plant fund again...... http://www.hillsidenursery.biz/plants.htm#a_thalictroides_cameo

Wow that is going to be a stunner Lin, already is....

Thanks - the shrubs were all my Mom. I can't wait. I am planting white and pink dogwoods, hearts of gold redbud, flamingo magnolia and a lilac that I haven't decided on yet. My Mom put in azaleas and rhododendrons along the woods and they are all huge. This one is over 12 feet wide!! The rhodies are just starting to wake up now. They are all bigger than this azalea. I have loved everyones photos. I don't have many spring blooming perennials as the show is in the shrubs and soon to be trees.

I hope you are all sunny and warm. It has rained for 2 weeks and it is supposed to rain all weekend and next week too. I am so ready to plant my hosta gardens. :(

Lin

Stunning Lin. No need for perennials when you have shrubs like that! The trees will be very beautiful.

sigh....acid soil envy here...

Lavender, I checked out the catalog link you provided.
I now see that the cultivar in my post was Shoaf's Double, not Cameo.
They've been easy to grow here in woodland situation, but my rabbits like them also!

robin, I love your asarum takoi. What a cheerful carpet for a shady location! Could not find a source for it though :(

That asarum is delightful. I couldn't find a source for it on the internet either. Did you buy it locally? I have asarum splendens but it doesn't seem to want to spread for me.

Splendens does not spread for me either :( It grows at the same rate as europeanum, which is very very slow. I found a companion to europeanum Polygonatum humile this week end.

This is a beautifully framed Jack in one of the gardens I use as inspiration.

And another picture from that yard. Virginia blue bells with ...?

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Weerobin, I just love that Asarum! I have some in my own garden (not your variety though) and it's lovely....I should post them here so that one of you can id it for me...
That bloodroot is just amazing, I have never seen that plant before...I'm going to look it up! I love white flowers!

Single bloodroot is a beautiful flower, but double and in a patch like this would stop you in your tracks :)
I missed collecting seeds again this year :( I had very good luck starting the single one from fresh seeds so would like to try the double one. Next time shopping I'll look for small mesh bags :)

I just planted lots of woodland flowers this year. I planted some bluebells too...I hope they do well! The roots of the bluebells they sent me look like blobs of wood. lol