Spring Blooms - Part 8

Wow, now there's a lady bug hard at work!! Looks like you're going to have a show here before too long.

Vulcan Red Rhododendron getting ready to bloom

Yup, I can't wait RC!

Doggie rummaging in tulip bed

Dordogne (sp?) tulips. I'm so glad these came back.

'scintilation' rhododendron in background getting ready... maybe tomorrow? This one smells sooooo good.

'Wallflower' from Michaela/Seandor from last year's RU. I thought they were annuals! They stayed green all winter.

Old azalea under cherry tree, among pink petals.

i love that picture of the azalea!!! Scenes like that always make me think that I need more cherry trees!

I brought almost all the houseplants out to the deck this weekend.

RC, the petals are EVERYWHERE!! They get stuck to the prickers on all my cacti.

Puppydog, hostas and more petals

Finally...she showed me her legs!

Here is my first, of the season, pink lady slipper!

Great shots, Harp! Love that tulip. My pink rhodie is about to bloom too. Here is an iris whose name I forgot.

Great slipper, Thom - congrats! Another view of the iris.

Columbine.

Winter King hawthorn.

Some unknown geraniums I traded a small colony of lady slippers for last year...

Geranium 'Ingwersen's Variety'.

Phlox.

Iris pseudocorus.

This is the Variegated Weigela I bought last year...for some reason I thought the flowers were white...this is gonna be some show...pink flowers on a yellow/green variegated plant!

This is a new Caladium I picked up shopping today...just a little shopping...

Harper I love the fallen petals. It's the original garden art.

great shots everyone today... keep em coming

I first posted this last week. Anyone remember what it is??

campanula?

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/95459/

Don't know. Whatever it is, it disappears in a short time - I think the foliage as well. Thanks, Allison.

Victor....Pink Lily of the Valley?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/40258/

I don't think it has the wide foliage, but I'll double-check tomorrow. Thanks.

Victor I have this one.... the foliage is about 2 foot tall now... looks like it will have flowers soon... funny the tag said mid summer

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/78851/

Thom, that caladium is fantastic!

Great shots Victor and Thom! I love those irises Victor. Mine aren't anywhere near bloom time yet.

Nice. Given my horrible record with campanula, it would surprise me if it was one. Planted another one in the fall from GC - no sign of it at all!

Thom I was looking at that same Variegated Weigela today! Didn't buy it, but I did get a 'few' plants. LOL Congrats on the Lady Slipper, I haven't seen one around in a long time. I loved them as a kid and now they have all but disappeared. It's so sad!

Victor I love that Columbine, have a name?

Harper tha pink petals and azalea is great!
I think I need pink petals....

I don't remember it, Celeste, but will try to find out.

Yeah, the pink petals are really fun at this time.

sorry to hear it.... i have a few.... the ones in the front of my house don't have a long bloom time.... hope that blue one does

that's the best guess i have.... maybe someone else will come up with something better

Thanks, Allison.

Victor......I sort of think that you have a pink version of this plant. Which I'm sure has another, far more common name than this http://www.ecobulbs.nl/hyacint%20blauw.htm this has been getting to me since a friend of mine has lots of it in her garden and every fall gets rid of some w/o offering it to me :-p

Ok.... now the correct spelling, reveals much better results. Hyacinthoides hispanica "rosea" this is just a link to a google search

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Hyacinthoides+hispanica&js=1&ei=utf-8&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=21&ni=20

The other name I've always known it as is Scilla Hispanica.


and this is a picture that I hijacked off of flickr somewhere. Shhhhh......

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Taking a trip back in time:
2 Salome daffodils 4-30-08.
(The centers were supposed to be pink. Go figure...)

oops... even further:
Thalia daffodil (one of only 2 that came up) by landlord's bright colored (?) bush on 4-23.