Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, April 2016

Emerson wrote, "The earth laughs in flowers." (Full poem here.) In spring,  the earth seems positively hysterical.  This abundance of blooms makes the gardener giddy.  Too many flowers to show them all but here are a few.

Euphorbia wulfenii

Forget me nots came into my garden by themselves and grow around.  Some find them weedy but who can resist those sweet little blue flowers?

 Poncirus trifoliata

Paeonia delavayi puts on a brave face in it's hot dry position in my hell strip but would be much happier with a gardener who'd give it a nicer home.

Paeonia lutea var. ludlowii  is really too large for my garden and should also go live with someone else.

NOID tree peony.

Ribes speciosum

One of a few different Ceanothus.

Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha 

 Berberis darwinii

A hardy geranium. 

Dianthus 'Rainbow Loveliness'

Native mahonia.

 Erysimum

Species tulips 

These nice orange Darwins are making a repeat performance this year. 

Tulips and Euphorbia 'Fireglow'

Pinky purple impulse buy tulips put in this year.  

Hey, a rose already!

A trio of weedy thugs: our native dicentra, scilla hispanica, and lunaria annua.  At least the latter is easy to pull and provides interest again in the fall.

Viburnum × bodnantense ‘Dawn’ has been blooming since November or December.  It'll finish soon. 

 The last of the mid-season daffodils. 

Epimedium wushanense.  Lots of other epimedium are also blooming. 

The first camellia japonica of spring is continuing to put out blooms.

It's been joined by many others.  Just a couple here. 

Bleeding Heart (dicentra) has a fancy new botanical name but I'm too lazy to look up the spelling. 

The undersides of the leaves of Rhododendron 'Wine and Roses' are an incredible wine color.  Mine is planted in an elevated pot so I can appreciate it by walking under the plant.  The flowers are nice.

 Crinodendron hookerianum buds growing larger.

Rhododendron 'President Roosavelt'

Some magnolia or other

 Choisya ternata 'Sundance'

Trillium sulcatum 

Pulmonaria

Always the first fuchsia to start blooming, this nearly white one blooms well into autumn and is now large enough to create a lovely arch above the path to the bamboo grove. 

On the fifteenth day of each month, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is sponsored by Carol at May Dreams Gardens .  Click here to check out what's blooming in gardens around the world.  Happy GBBD all!