Spring Flowers without Showers? Got any?

This Louisiana iris is in the bog filter of my pond, so the lack of rainfall hasn't had any effect on it. Still it was my first one of the season and was properly covered with tree pollen. This pic is from a couple of days ago. Its second flower is opening this morning but my pictures of it just looked black, a tribute to its name Full Eclipse.

What's blooming for you?

I've stopped allowing myself to plant azaleas b/c I kill so many, but once they are established, they're pretty tough.

I don't know the difference between a jonquil, a daffodil and a narcissus, but this is one or more of those! I bought three of them after the season last year at Lowes for 50 cents. I was sure they would just rot, but they came back and all three bloomed! They would have looked a lot prettier if I'd been more diligent about weeding the area. Next year! This one is almost spent, but it's the only pic that I've taken that wasn't blurry or overexposed.

This pink pincushion daisy started blooming just before all the rains came. I got it from Tanarae at last year's north Texas RU.

My Texas Sage survived the winter and has started blooming. I really thought these liked the warmer weather! LOL

I have Eastern Red Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis in bloom now
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=AQCA
The plant;

The Blossom;

The part of the blossom that points down;

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Ooooh that columbine is beautiful!

Stephanie, I'm jealous of your sage! Mine always get buggy. I'm trying a new one now though, a burgundy one, so far so good and it's next to a purple one that's full of bugs already. Neither is blooming.

It finally rained today, not very much though, so I'm hoping for more and chanting "rain, rain come today; go away another day; my plants need the spray."

Ive got ice plant, azaleas, bearded iris and grape hycanith in bloom. My freeshia is up but no blooms yet and my Lady Banksia (not spelled correct I know) rose has buds but no color showning
I just glanced out the window while typing this and discovered chickadees have decided to nest my cowboy boot birdhouse. WHOOO HOOO!!!! Ive had that thing for about 15yrs now and this is the first time anything has used it!!! I bougth it when I lived in Michigan but guess cause it was a cowboy boot the northern birds wouldnt use it.. took a Texas chickadee to appreciate it!...lol....

I have a few grape hyacinth that escaped our previous landscaping project, fringe flowers, and some creeping phlox, but that's it. Never got above 37 here today.

Josephine, what a pretty columbine! My Texas Gold Columbine has lots of buds, but no blooms...YET! I'm excited to see them again!

Thank you, I will try to save seeds for next year.

How beautiful early blooms everyone. Elphaba, I've the same azaleas as yours. By any chances you know the name? I didn't plant mine, they were here when I moved to the property years past. Thanks.
Kim

Our climate is similiar; currently I've late blooming flowering quince in blooms:

Lily_love, they are George L. Tabor azaleas. Here's the link: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/65299/.

Blkraven -- congrats on the chickadee nest! I built a nest box for wrens and put it near the hanging plants that they always try to nest in. They have not found it and it's driving me nuts! I hope it doesn't take 15 years.

My Lady Banks is just starting to pop.

Thanks Elphaba, now I know what my azaleas is after so many years. For yellow blooms, I've a sparse blooming shrub 'Yellow Rose of Texas' or Kerria japonica. This small devision was shared last year. I hope to prune it in shape for a more floriferuous next year.

Here's another spring favorite, a wild violet. I accidentally mowed over her friends. Darn it!

We've have many wild violets here as well. Are they a hostplant any any butterfly? Oh, we've some showers here in Al. I can send some down to Tx. ^_^

Here is a colorful flowerbed in my front yard, while the warm season - grass still in dorman.

OMG! That's so beautiful! Wow! We've had showers too! Whoohoo! Two inches of rain so far. We were 7" behind though.

Thanks Elphaba, it's my family tradition to create a spring bulbs bed every year comes Fall. These blooms remind me that spring isn't too far away dispite many frosty days still ahead of us. Now zone 9+ perhaps you're over with the late frost date?

That picture is just stunning!

It's pretty much spring here now. We've had March freezes before, but they are pretty rare. The last one that I remember was about 6 years ago. Unfortunately though, the winters are too warm for most tulips unless you plant as an annual which seems like a lot of work to me. They're so pretty though.

I'm trying to do an all bulb bed of bulbs that bloom at different times of year. I wanted it to be pink and yellow. I bought a "Hardy Pink Amaryllis" at Lowes. It bloomed at the end of last month and was a very bright red. It was pretty it just doesn't go at all with the other colors in the garden. I wished that I still had the receipt so I could have returned it. Oh well, I'll find somewhere to grow it. Does this look pink to you?

Most so called hardy amaryllis by my observation is the equevalence to the common name St. Joseph Lilies. They are red (like yours, and they're hardy here too in my zone, I've a few of them. They multiply like mad. Only I interplanted them with a bunch of roses, now I can venture back among the roses to dig out those St. Joseph lilies. :((