Whats blooming outside your door

a new one

and some hot tulips !

and the fluffiest little daffodil, which was purchased under the label "summer blooming daffodil" yeah right!!! I like it tho, looks cute by the barberry!

Hello RTP,
Good to see you, how wonderful to see blooming clems! Mine have started leafing but not blooming yet, I think you are about 2 weeks ahead of me....when did yours start blooming? Love them both, we are still have frosty mornings when it is clear.
My tulips are up but also not blooming....daffodils are gorgeous tho....
Happy gardening,
Carla

I have a few Primula, one Tulip, some Helebores and Bergenia blooming near my shady door. This is my fave Bergenia, "Appleblossom" and marks the official start of spring in my garden. Wahoo!

Ooooooh, that Bergenia is beautiful, the blooms are so cute !

Carla - thank you, the clems have been blooming about 10 days and going strong - I didn't take a picture of my big armandii, but that one started about 2 weeks ago.

Alot of my tulips are still closed up like yours - I was surprised to see those hot pinkish-red ones, I don't remember planting them -lol, I'm getting old.!!!

RTP - love both your apple blossom plants. The clematis is amazing.

A5fs - And i just love bergenia, in general. Don't have a white one. that is nice.

Wow! Love the clematis in bloom! Mine are not even close to blooming. And love the bergenia! I must have some of that one. It's one of my favorite all-purpose plants. I was just admiring 'solar flare' today. The new leaves are the brightest yellow, and then against the dark pink flowers it is stunning. We left the camera on the boat or I would have a photo. I'll get one soon. Fabulous plant!
Gordon, is that the morning glory I gave you? Mine is not even close to blooming, but then it is outside.
Tills, can't you just dig up a small patch of the rock cress to propogate it? Yep, slugs like mine. I think slugs like mine. Maybe it's the creeping thyme they like. I can't remember now. There is some short, creeping plant with bright flowers that they try to decimate every year. Now I'm confused!!

My slugs haven't met a plant they don't like - well, maybe the santolina, rosemary and lavendar. But if it has a soft leaf, they're on it.

:o) I wish my slugs would eat my weeds instead of my plants! :o)

Pixy, you have yours outside already? this is from the green elephant swap I think Mellisa brought them, but yeah this is Grandpa ott, has bllomed three times and more buds set.I'm thinking two more weeks before mass planting!

oh Pixy - do post the pic of 'solar flare' when you can, that sounds fantastic! How do I not have any Bergenia, what in the heck is wrong with me?

Gee, even I have berginia!! lol But I have all the plants!! Did you know, if I planted 3,000 diffrent plants in my yard, I still wouldn't have 1% of the total that are known! Makes me feel better when I look in my dining room GH !!

Just noticed this pulmonaria this weekend. It was newly planted last Fall, so it is nice to see it bloom for the first time. It seems to have 2 different flower colors on one plant.

Pixs, Working on it, made a bunch of cuttings, we will see what happens,
TP love the pics, nothing here as yet, but the Hells, and rock cress and the Daffs. I keep looking, and they are slowly trying. I hate it when I drive throgh Edmonds and Lynwood and seeing all these plants blooming, and I have none. Soon o please soon LOL

They aren't in the ground yet,, NW. But all the seedlings are outside. Survival of the fittest, I say. If I have to be outside in this weather, so do they.
I love pulmonaria! I have several varieties. They are the plant of hope. They bloom so early, and don't mind the cold one bit. Such pretty shades of blue, too!

Tils, about the rock cress, I really think it will be fine if you dig up a section of it. I pulled hunks of it off last summer and I can't even tell where they were now. I also dug up a chunk for K59 a month ago, and it didn't even seem to blink. When I gave the bag to K59 it was still starting to bloom. (K59-is it still doing OK?)

Oh, it was awful today! Every time I got my coat on and out the door it would start raining hard, so I'd come back in. Ten minutes later, same drill. Then, it quit raining and got windy-Brrrrr-cold wind....

Sue, this is what umbrellas were invented for :) You have not lived until you have weeded with a trowel in one hand and an umbrella in the other. This weather makes me curse.

Thanks Suzy, It looks so nice and I am a big scaredy cat to mess it up. such a sad pup LOL

Pixy, yes, I was not a happy camper today. I was definitely exercising my not-for-DG vocabulary this afternoon. It was so frustrating!

At one point I said to DH- "Hey, watch this-I can make it rain. All I need to do is go over to the door and think about going [sky darkens, heavy rain squall, almost hailing, starts] outside to work in the yard"...

I was reading Garden Compass yesterday (*!@#$blasted rain & wind) and they had Bergenia 'Tubby Andrews' as a pick A Star Is Born ... clearly God is sending me a sign that I need to order one immediately..

woo hoo....
my little purple sand cherry is starting to bloom. eventually it will be a small 10 tree, sorry kinda fuzzy

a close up of the sand cherry

had a visitor on my mint bush yesterday! its about ready to bloom too, cant wait! dont; feel bad guys, its raining down here too.... grrrrrr want to play!!

RTP--I absolutely love your Apple blossom clem. I can't believe you have 2 blooming ones and mine are in tight bud. I am way farther south then you and on the coast. It has been an unusually cold winter here, though. But, clematis Montana is supposed to be the earliest. (I thought) Still waiting for it. I guess they would just get poured on anyway.
Also love the other apple blossom plant, the bergenia. I don't have berenia, either, and that is a beauty. Wondering if it gets floppy later??? The leaves look on the smallish side, which would be okay for me.
Here is what's blooming for me.
Sue

shokami2, that's also called Photinia x fraseri or Red-tipped Photinia. I have 4 of them in pots. This what mine look like, they're just now starting to bud.
Susan

And, this---Primrose Paragon

Just emerging! ^_^ I love 'em!
Susan

Oh, it's great to see everyone's pictures... especially on such a gray day. Sat / Sun are supposed to be sunny, we can look forward to that !

Sue - it's doing fantastically. And I don't think it saw the sun until Saturday and that for only a minute. It's very healthy. I keep thinking I'll put it here, and then decide I'll put it there - will have to divide it, I guess. Thank you. Right now, I'm thinking the majority of it will go at the edge of my rose bed when that's done.

Beebonnet - I have clematis Montana and it is tough. It gets cold in Woodinville and it hasn't been phased.

Love to see everybody's pictures. I'm in Corvallis this weekend. They are predicting 70 - 75 (depending on which station you watch) in Portland this weekend!! And I won't be home. Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.

Hey, Katie, Glad to know it's happy. (See, Tils, told you it would be OK (whew!!) )

Funny that you're planning to put yours near roses...That's where mine were-until I yanked the roses...
Part of the problem was actually that the rock cress is evergreen and just dense enough and tall enough that the rose leaves fall off and into the rock cress so they were hard to clean up-they just sort of disappear. That of course would include leaves infected with black spot that I missed removing.... So, my black spot problem was getting worse no matter what I did. (the roses were also too crowded, contributing quite a bit to both problems-black spot and clean-up.) So, you might want to keep them from forming a complete groundcover under your roses. It did look great, though...

Okay, here is a photo of Solar Flare, but it doesn't do the plant justice. I just put these in, so they are not mature yet, and it was almost dark when I took the photo. Next year these are going to be outstanding! Love that yellow color!

Here's another bergenia, this one I got from Soferdig at a plant swap and I cannot remember the name. It has smaller leaves and a shorter flower. I love these daffs. They are 'Calgary'.

I am liking this Primula vulgaris I got in another plant trade last year on DG. It was an 'extra' the person included and I almost didn't plant them, but then figured 'what the heck'. I can never have too many primulas and I really like the way these turned out. Just a nice, white flower in the spring.

some Dutchman breeches.

A nice patch of trillium.

Whoops! No, that isn't a nice patch of trillium! That's the photo I took of the leaves of my crocus, which apparently have become someone's dinner. Any ideas who is eating the tops off of them? Possibly the cats, although I haven't noticed them on the crocus.

Here's the trillium. I have some other varieties that have not bloomed yet.

thanks gardener... i dont know latin names very well, so i leave that up to you guys!! mine is only about 20-24 " right now. they seem kind of a slow grower. but i love to watch the show.

Pixy---Beautiful trillium. The blossoms look as though they have wings. My newly planted trillium is just poking up. I put it under the Japanese Maple (tall variety) and near the antique water fall we bought at an estate sale. Should look great there. I'll try for pics when it gets big enough.
PS--This is a great thread.

shokami2, yes they are and they're gorgeous in the fall. We had ours in pots before and planted them in one spot then transplanted them and THEN decided to replant them back in pots. Are we crazy or fickle? YES!!! LOL!
This was taken on the 27th of Jan. It's snowing now but it isn't going to stay around as it's wet and warming up so it will turn to rain. But that's ok since DH fertilized the hay field.
Susan