Spring Bulbs - What's Blooming? IV

And some humulis tulips..

What's blooming? Everything!

Guess what tulip this is supposed to be. Something is amiss!!

"Jack Frost" with his friend "daff"

way cool!

Purple and more purple

Twins..

that's a fantastic color echo Bea!

Hi Beahive, missed you on Thursday? at wooden shoe? Joann

cross posted... I love the blue centered pansy with the blue pansies.

Joann,
It was raining here early in the morning and so I let my daughter take the car to school. The field report was not the best when I checked it. I will try again for this thursday. I want to take some photos, so I hope more is in bloom next week. Been to Wilco yet this season? I am so bad..two trips already. I did find the yellow wallflowers that I was looking for last season. Yeah!

Tulip & a rose bush

Bea, your photos are always so pretty. That purple combination above is awesome. Well, I will be there next Thursday too; seems like they are scheduling me on Thursdays. One day a week is enough for me too. I have been to Wilco several times; I found an orange - red delphinium. It is only supposed to get 15 inches tall but I couldn't resist. And they had two new corydallises(is that spelled right?)-they were in the pink tones. Beautiful. I succumbed again. I always am checking them out. Joann

An orange red delphinium sounds great. Hope you post a picture when it blooms.

I love the muscari too, enjoying all the pics. The foliage can be a bit much sometimes, but that's the way it goes. I always wonder how much I can get away with trimming it - they probably get more fertilizer than they need from being in this bed.

Muscari and 'Jack Snipe'

another...

I'll move some muscari to the driveway side this summer. These tulips got a little more color this afternoon after the sun came out.

It's going to be in the twenties here tomorrow night and I'm a little worried about the tulips. Some sites on line say they can freeze, others say above twenty degrees they will be okay.

A couple 'Avalanche' narcissus are ready to roll. These are very fragrant.

Last one for now, this is the side yard.

claypa...wow....I want to see that tulip bed in another week or two. Must be spetacular. Nice muscari bed too. I was looking at Avalanche today. Think its among the most fragrant? No problem in our zone I gather.

I've had vases of freesias all over the house for almost a month. Another couple of weeks and they'll be gone but not forgotten:

A large pot of three colors of freesias - white, purple and red - turned out to be a mistake. The white hybridized with the purple, creating this odd bi-colored effect:

In another bed, red freesias mingle with silvery-green Stacchys byzantina:

My dark purple bearded iris bloom sporadically all winter and are evergreen. I have three clumps of this deciduous bearded iris, which is a paler blue-violet, and scented just like Juicyfruit chewing gum!

Bea, so many pretties! LOVE the purpleX3 pic! You have one of the most effective plantings of mixed bulbs I've seen, just lovely!

claypa, Jack Snipe with Muscari is gorgeous!

jkom, I love seeing the west coast spring bulbs, a lovely contrast from those from us cold zoners. I envy anyone who can grow Freesia, the room with those vases must smell divine! Your colorful vases remind me of my days working as a floral designer, Freesias were always a favorite to work with- vases like yours would have retailed for $40-50 each. Love the red ones with the Stachys.

jkom - oh I can smell the spicey scent of those vases of freesias! I have two pots of them
from a big buy Neal got several years ago. I get a few small bouquets each year to bring to
the office.

Claypa - love the muscari edging! I hadn't realized its supposed to get so cold here.

tam

I too envy those in warmer climates, jkom. Freesia, ranunculus, anemones - I think I love them more because we cannot grow them here (outside, at least).

Claypa, I'll bet those tulips can take the cold you have coming - be sure to post a pic when they open - I'll bet it's spectacular.

Beautiful gardens and blooms, everyone! It is so nice to see our nothern friends' gardens coming along so nicely!!!

Anyone recognize this hyacinth? I bought all the 'leftovers' at a local store last November to put in my border garden. I thought I got 12-13 each of Fondant, Jan Bos and Carnegie. I alternated them all along the border. This color is blooming now (though kinda 'stumpy') and I think I see Carnegie starting to emerge. The third is still just a nose, sticking out of the dirt.

My bulbs along the curb, by my fence. I built the fence last year to slow down the traffic of kids, dogs and adults who want access to the creek that runs the length of my yard. For added protection, I put in coral barberry and a pair of very thorny rambling roses. All this has cut the traffic somewhat, but I still get some who climb the fence and fight the thorns!

The Princess Irene tulips in my urns are starting to bloom - I'm not sure why they're so stumpy though...

My urns in the back yard are still 'coming'.

Pretty urns! What will you plant them with after the tulips?

I'm not sure if that hyacynth is blue or pink. Sorry

Tam

Back yard across a salt marsh from me. They owners are restoring a house from the 1830s. The area with the chionodoxa was overgrown a year ago. I had noticed the blue color in the spring, asked the owners what it is and they said come on over, take some pictures and tell us what it is...we have no idea.

Chionodoxa must be salt tolerant. We do get surges in this salt marsh. Sure at least a few times a year, some of where the chionodoxa grows is under very brackish water (this lot is half a mile up the Indian river from Long Island Sound).

That's interesting DP. Great shot. They must be really salt tolerant as they sure seem to be naturalized. Leawood sometimes I get stumpy tulips from the Chinooks here when the tulips start in a warm spell and then it gets very cold again. Did you have rollercoaster temperatures this spring? Dutch hyacinths don't do well here for that reason too.

Here's one of my alliums, but I can't find the label (darn squirrels), so I'm not sure which one it is. Have to do some research on it.

Edited to say this is not an allium but my Camassia leichtlinii. I had it marked, but couldn't find the tag. Sorry for the confusion, folks.

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Here's Allium `Purple Sensation' just budding out:

Here are some parrot tulips which moved into my yard in two different clumps:

Tulipa `Don Quichotte' from Lowe's:

That fringed tulip is nice, my neighbors grow a bunch of those.

David_Paul, the 'Avalanche' is very fragrant, but it's not obnoxious to me like some paperwhites can be indoors. My only problem with it is the leaves emerge in fall, about two inches high or so, and invariably the tips of the leaves turn brown from the cold. I believe the bulbs are planted deep enough, but maybe not.

Chionodoxa pic taken at work last week -