Thought I would post these in a separate thread rather than take Betty's over :-) Feel free to add lots of your own!
Crocus
A few spring flowers to cheer us
More crocus
And more crocus
My Eucrosia is in bloom finally, but not before I learned that it REALLY likes to be dry.
Unknown volunteer - very pretty blue flower and grass blade-like leaves. It appeared last year for the first time.
Wild Ginger with its low growing brown blooms
Forsythia and Mini-Daffodils
Lenten Rose 'Blue Lady' - Finally blooming for the first time.
Blue Hyacinth
Magenta Hyacinth
Purple Violet
White Trout Lily budding up. The pink has already finished blooming and the yellow species is just leafing out now.
Last one. Scilla - really a very pale blue but the colour is washed out in the sunlight in this photo.
And just for a contrast .. the crocus in TBay !!!
~M~
Very nice pics ginnylynn. A real cheer-up since we have to most awful weather the last few days. Marilynne, great humor!
How exciting!!! Beautiful photo's!!!
There's no point in me posting a pic. It would just be white on white LOL
All the pics are so beautiful .. AND .. the grass to the south of the house 'GREENED' up yesterday .. it was almost magical !!
My Oriental Poppies are poking through and my Sliver Mound is also starting to come back .. so .. all is NOT lost :-)
Patience "A virtue that doesn't grow in MANY gardens' !!!
Cheers all
~M~
Patience indeed - I find it to be a highly over rated virtue.
My first tulips of the season - Eastern Star
First Lungwort of the season - no idea which one, it was a gift plant.
New purchases from garden centre. I don't have the tags in front of me so please bear with me and my lack of description.
Phlox that DH fell in love with.
Shooting Stars.
Fancy Pine tree.
your volunteer could it be an anemone??
Actually, I suspect it might be one of the Sisyrinchiums. It seems to have spread a tiny bit this year, so I'm hoping for many more in my future :-)
I could always post my 'plastic' ones...
How beautiful your plants are..you are teasing us on this glorious day..and nobody can ever hijack my thread..always open to anyone, any discussion, photo's galore..always nice to see people share....more photo's please..
I'll try to make my plants oblige by flowering more quickly :-)
How about some of my indoor seed starts and my winter sown seedlings?
Now that's an idea..I'll be on the lookout when I get home tonight..need something to post..now what will it be?
Sorry about not posting those pics last night Betty. Time got away from me again, and I won't be getting home until late this evening either. I'll try to get some up this weekend for you.
Nice pictures Ginny.
Here is a picture of my Woodstock hyacinth.
I find that it's hard to get the true deep colour as the light from the sky bounces off the flowers and shows up as white.
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Yes, it is difficult to get the true colours, isn't it? And each camera will pick them up differently as well. I think your Woodstock is the same as my magenta. All of my spring bulbs (except the new tulip bed) were purchased long before I became a "real" gardener and I didn't worry about the names of anything. If I still have the tags I have no idea where they might be...wait...I think I do know where they are...I'll check them...
They *are* Woodstock, and the blue ones are Blue Jacket :-)
Joan .. what an AWESOME Hyacinth .. the colour is wonderful .. and I would imagine it has an aroma to match it .
Was wondering what everyone does with their Crocus after they bloom ?? Leave'em or dig them up and put'em to bed ..
~M~
Thank you MarilynneS
I only wish you could see the true deep magenta colour of it.
My crocus stay put so they'll hopefully just keep spreading for me.
Thanx Ginny .. I always left my Tulip bulbs and ended up with more the following year ..
~M~
Nice thread gunnylynn - here are a few things in my spring garden
Wanda primulas are my fav
and some Ice Stick tulips - it's been so cool these tulips have been beautiful for weeks
and my Brunnera, 'Jack Frost ' - super reliable plant!
I have 3 varieties of Hellebores: Blue Lady, some whites and a pink mix that I never knew the name of when I ordered them from DSH 3 years ago - but they are my fav
excuse the 'pose' but I loved this shot of my Mother's daffodils on the front porch
