Spring Blooms - Part 4

Very nice, Al. It's great when they're massed like that.

I'll take a pic of the leaves, it's more narrow than a rhodie but not as small as an azalea, I need to do some research on it. They were here when we bought the house. It blooms about a month earlier than my other rhodies.

Viola: Sorbet Coconut Twist
(cheating, i bought these last week...)

oops.

and another...

a couple more emperors, in the back...
All of these are returns from last year that i totally didn't expect. i think they have multiplied, at least in front.
i don't like how open they are in the daytime, but at night they close up to a pretty tulip shape!

Hey look! My first color tulips opened on Thursday. These are from the bag of 40 Darwin mixed i bought for i think $3.50 at HD late last year...
i didn't think i had room to plant that many, but we found some! Eric planted these - 20 in front, and 20 in back by the transformer.

pretty tulips

thanks!
^_^

found this most awesome website...
Info on early blooming rhodies
http://www.5min.com/Video/Small-Leafed-Rhododendrons-Big-Early-Color-3635771

Wonderful pictures, everyone. I'd be posting some, too, but hubby is away on biz and has the digital camera! Victor, about your Coppertina ninebark, I bought one last year and also love it. Am thinking about moving it to a more prominent (and less deer-vulnerable) place. Question: how big a spread do you think it will have when it's all grown up?

This is my first ever magnolia...planted it late last year, so, the blooms are my first. Here is: Magnolia x Loeb. 'Leonard Messel'

This small shrub I was told was a type of Witch Hazel...although, I've never seen a Witch Hazel bloom like this...I love the yellow blooms, they hang on the shrub like 3-4" long yellow catkins.

This is one of the Hellebore I bought last year, it's a different species than the 'Lenten Rose'...not sure if it's the augostofolia (sp?) or the foetidus (sp?) The leaves have a 'toothy' edge to them.

Ok, I was close on the spelling, sort of, if counting the first letter counts toward spelling...lol.

This pic is of Helleborus argutifolius

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Another Daff...not sure of the cultivar...Daffs just make me happy :-)

This is a horrible pic, BUT, I planted 4 Martagon Lilies 2 years ago, last year, only 2 came up, this year...all 4...YEAH! They should be blooming in the next several weeks.

Hem that Magnolia is beautiful!!!! I just orderd 2 but they won't be here until May so I won't see mine bloom this year either.

Your Witch Hazel looks more like some type of Fosythia to me!

Great shots everyone! Daisy - they're supposed to reach 8-10 X 5-6 wide, though you can prune them to keep them lower. I have a number of them and some will have to be pruned smaller.

Thom, that's not foetidus.

Thom Victor is right. Now that I'm a DG thread watcher I don't think it's foetidus. Foetid has clusters of bell shaped flowers and--- get this ,a new term for me ----palmate leaves.
I'm so proud. Jo Ann

Very good Jo Anne! Though other hellebores have palmate leaves too.

Thanks for the Copperina info, Victor. I like asking people who live in the same climate about these kinds of things...I keep and read the information tags and all, but I find our corner of the world to have its' own special challenges, so its nice to be able to get the scoop from another Northeasterner...actually....Hudson Valley-er!

No problem. It's one of my favorite plants now.

Victor-I'm gonna have to go through my shoebox...lol. It must be ther other one then. Is the foetidus the one also called "stinking hellebore?"

Yes.

My chinodoxias are blooming so prettily! I'm disappointed, though, because I had ordered the mixed blend (blue, pink, white) and only got the blue. I'll have to dig up my order form, to find where I bought them from, and write a little e-mail!

HOW ABOUT 1920'S DOUBLES

These doubles may even be older and traced into three generations back to West Virginia. I found them along a railroad behind a place of business I knew took down a house in the 1950's. A little more digging about led me to the possible age and original planting. If this is true these cutie pies are truely antique over a hundred years old and still in perfect condition.

A NEAT LITTLE SPOT IN OUR GARDENS

This planting and hardscape evolved. Our birds love it and so do the mice, chippies and voles. On occasion the deer and bear come in for a drink. That would be in a dry spell because it is a bit close to the house for their comfort. More often a coon will upset the smaller bird bath. Yes we are in the heart of nearly woodland on the edge of the mountains in Northcentral Pennsylvania.

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Nice Dwaine. I like plants with history!

Dwaine< I love that feathery evergreen in the foreground of your pic! What a nice tableau.

some from me... Victor this one is really making up for the lack of blooms in the past... and I see one of my co-op hellebores is putting out a bud now too

kind of short?

tiny primrose

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love the bright ones

last one for now... more to come soon

Nice, Allison!

Peach opened today!

Viburnum carlcephalum - planted yesterday.

JM - 'Aconitifolium'.

Euphorbia cyparissias. Sharon was asking about this the other night.