Here is the selection of blooms going on right now and right here!
Dahlianut ~ seeing as you were lusting after some blooming photos in the TX forum I want to accomodate you.
Please, no one expect me to know what these plants are. They were all passalongs which I enjoy anew each spring...
These beauties start early and stay late... from the end of Dec and into Feb/
Narcissus or Jonquil
The Daffodils are lovely and always surprise me by blooming in the wooded pet cemetery first. Tis how I mark the graves.
Those in the flower beds open next and are particularly lovely this year.
I have no idea where this one came from.
It always startles me when I spot it in the crowd.
This tiny guy is the size of a quarter. It is incredibly fragrant and has chive like foliage.
The gal that gave me these got them from her dear old Dads' garden. They are vintage as she is now in her mid 60s.
They called these Jack O Quils
If anyone else has springtime bulbs in bloom, please jump in here and post those photos...
Hope y'all enjoyed the tour...
That's all folks! LOL
YIPPPEEE!!!! Thanks everso podster. I especially luv the pet cemetary. It looks so peaceful. I sometimes have an odd bloom that pops up in a grouping with the tulips or daffs. A mix up by the supplier I guess.
Glad you found it... sorry I don't know cultivars but for the first blooms, I still enjoy them. Hope it warmed your tootsies. LOL
Beautiful pictures, Podster. I have several daffodils blooming now and some crocuses (croci?) LOL. Everything is coming up and the garden should be terrific in another 2-3 weeks.
Here are some blooms I saw today in my garden:
Some crocus
An Ice Folly
Here is a Hyacinth - blooming a little early and further along than most - but I find they usually extend and grow to normal height even if some do bloom early. This one was planted last fall and the ones planted in prior years are visible but not so far along.
Here are some daffodils
Here are some more
Here are some yellow crocuses
More Narcissi
One more for now -A wider shot:
Nope, I think you are the one with the beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing them. Lol on Croci! My kind of humor.
I think the "first blooms" of the season are wonderful. I love their fragrance too... I just hate to have to get down on their level to sniff 'em or should I say hate to get back up! Speaking of sniffs, it's not a bulb but I caught a whiff of Carolina jessamine on the breeze this morning. Winter is soon over.
Pod, i luv your 2nd pic. Next dec I will plants daff clumps here and there like you did. Last dec I did one huge bed, but next yr, scattered groupings is what I'll go for
Thanks much... it was far prettier in person than the photo. The morning sun was hitting the blooms and it moved my heart. I do love the springtime surprises.
Heh SteveFtWorth. Happy Spring ^_^ I was wondering how your garden was doing. OH a hyacinth already. Bet it smells incredible. The dutch hyacinths are difficult to grow here. I may try them though in a new bed that is protected.
Well howdy, Dahlianut! LOL I haven't bent down to smell the hyacinth yet but there are many many more just coming up so in a couple of weeks it will be a cool sight! Good luck if you try them again...they are too wonderful not to have. Maybe up against the house?
Here are some more daffs to keep you company until spring....
Thanks. I think daffs are my fav in spring because they are so cheerful. Looks like the your tulips are really coming along too.
It never got really cold here until January--which always slows stuff down; plus we just had our first rainfall last night since prior to Christmas. Early Tazetta's bloomed in December--mid and late season Narcissus are starting to bloom now (some varieties are different down here--only early ones do well, but they don't come along until mid-season's up North.
But Narcissus go good with everything it seems...even Flashy Trout's Back lettuce.
a late Tazetta with weeds
gotta love those winter weeds--easy to pull, if I only had the time
Oxalis obtusa has been on steroids here for a while
another O obtusa--this one's really a richer salmon orange, but I was in a hurry and just put it down on the brick path (they live on a plant shelf in the middle of a brick path all winter--need full sun to bloom)
Hi dmj,
Love the Narcissus in the 2nd pic - Grand Soleil d'Or? I can't do most of the Tazettas well here outdoors - they always come up REALLY early and then the freeze kills them. At least that's been my experience. I had to pull my "Golden Rain" tazettas a few years ago because they always tried to bloom in early January outside and the winter here was not kind to them.
What ARE those "weeds", exactly? I have ones just like those running rampant this time of year.
Steve
I call them "the purple ones" Steve--I ain't into weeds enough to actually identify them. I also have some real short yellow ones in winter and a small clump forming grass with tiny white flowers that super easy to pull too. Unless they are REALLY annoying, like NUTGRASS, it doesn't merit an id.
Actually, that one is 'Avalanche of Gold'--I get a lot of Tazetta's from CA (I have exact same winter conditions--except we usually get more RAIN--something I haven't seen much of since IKE). That's why its up there against that back fence, that's the driest part of the garden. I have real sharp, pronounced drainage from back to front (courtesy of being the first house built on the block, and right in the middle of the block, much to the annoyance of my neighbors whose swales are constantly carrying my drainage away).
http://daffseek.org/query/query-detail.php?value1=Avalanche%20of%20Gold&lastpage=1
Debbie
Also have a Hippeastrum glauscens about to bloom outside--but dead battery on camera. It's charging. Last year it bloomed on St. Patrick's day.
could weed be creeping charlie, aka ground ivy. Very annoying, I have it all over. does have pretty blue/purple flowers. supposed to be a winter weed.
Thanks Nery - nice to know we have company!
its not a ground ivy--they are single weeds and don't creep. super easy to pull if I'd just do it.
Naricissus 'Avalanche'
I have 2 nice clumps of this planted very near each other, but for some reason this clump is always a couple of weeks earlier?
From Bill Welch down in Carmel Valley aka Bill the Bulb Baron. Tough, early, fragrant, perennial, multiplies...don't know why more gardeners in California don't grow this.
Chris
ps Sorry for being an interloper, I just noticed this was supposed to be a Texas forum . I see bulb photos, I get carried away. Same thing happens when I get the fall bulb catalogs!
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That is luvly Chris. I also luv the oxalis dmj sigh.
Lovely blooms all... NO Way this is just a TX thread. I started it for Dahlianut as she was over visiting on the TX forum and begging, pleading, even whining for us to share bulb bloom photos over here! LOL
It's beginning to look a lot like spring!
Leucojum ~ snow drops.... my kind of snow!
All bulbs are welcome ^_^ I was just pestering the TX folks because they are often the first to post bulbs in the spring. ok there was a little whining too.
LOL All bulb "nuts" are welcome too!
Wow nice - I have never seen a Leocojum this early.
Dahlianut you will still be posting flowers and all of ours are finished! ^_^
Well Steve you should have some soon--you were in on the "give-away" last spring.
Debbie
