Spring Blooms part 11

These need to be thinned also...they are not my favorites!

This one is 'Hi'

I do believe this Poppy will pop today!

Sandwort

This tulip is still blooming.....love the inside!

I love poppies at that stage CelesIt' such a surprise when you look half an hour later and the whole flower is completely open.

Very nice tulip, Celeste!

Pixie, I have a similarly colored double impatien. Nice in the shade.

I like that Sandwort too. Here's more of the 'Gnome' Poppies.

Firecracker Flower opening up.

Thanks, sjms for confirming that for me. I really love it, as well as many of the old fashioned plants. They need little care, and do their thing proudly and magnificently. Some years they incredibly bright blue, and I'm a sucker for blue anyway. They chose to fill in this neglected space on their own, and I couldn't be happier!

Celeste:

We just purchased Sandwort this year and already I am in love with it. Tell me, does it spread much?

Shirley:

That's so wonderful that the Forget-Me-Nots did that for you. What a pretty picture!

Indeed, Candyce - it's nice when someone helps with the chores! If they hadn't moved in, the ivy would have. How they managed to push that out I don't know, but I'm very glad!

Candyce...not sure about the sandwort, just got it myself!

Oh well. Can't blame a gal for trying to find out the scoop on a new plant baby. I guess we'll both find out together and compare notes.

Clematis Reiman opening. This photo does not really capture the color or the texture well enough. It's a velvety rich purple.

Side view of the front. Still have spots to fill in. The area in the forefront is tough. The plow always dumps a huge pile in this area so it can remain wet for a long time. The soil itself is well draining and even a bit sandy. It's all-day sun and not usually irrigated much. So my approach has been to use drought-resistant type plants, but depending on how long the pile of snow/ice is there, it can look bad come spring.

New growth on a green seedling JM.

Summer Wine surrounded by Spirea thunbergii 'Ogon', one of my favorite multi-season shrubs.

Current view if you sit down on my front walkway.

Neighbor's rhodie.

very nice shots all

Celeste - what is that deep blue iris?

First Durandi bloom.

Miss Bateman

Nelly Moser

Very nice, Deb. I don't think I have any of those.

Viburnum Blue Muffin.

P. Coppertina and visitor.

Another one fully opened.

C. Huldine on my JM.

Same, but with a mass on top. Not thrilled with this look. Kind of freaky to me and detracts from the JM. If they were distributed throughout it might be better. And after the blooms are over, it will just be this mass of foliage up there. So next year I will either try to guide the stems throughout the tree - not easy, or move it.

My first bloom on the tree peony I bought last fall. The flower is almost as big as the whole plant - and my nieces face!!

Here's the same flower close-up. I hope I kept the tag because I don't recall the name - but it's such a beauty I'd love to get another.

Wow - what a collection tonight of gorgeous flowers!

Pixie - I'll be all over those yellow and white iris's if you are able to bring some to the RU! I also love your bright blue iris and the sandwort you and Candyce have!

Miss Fab - Congrats on your lupine bloom.....how exciting!

Deb - your durandi is gorgeous!

Dyane - like your colorful gnome poppies!

Victor - love that coppertina (never heard of it!) and that side front view of your yard is spectacular! You have a perpetual autumn look there.....love it!

I finally have a few blooms to share.....the first one is trollius/globe flower:

Songs - that tree peony is fabulous! I'd love to have one of those!

Here is bleeding heart......

flowering crabapple........

and finally, the few lilacs that the deer couldn't reach.......

I love Flowering Crab ! And your globe flower is huge...mine looks like a pee-on in comparision!!