Winter pansies looked quite dead during our February freeze but have bounced back nicely.
Primroses always look better if kept under cover but even with a little rain damage, their bright colors are welcome this time of year.
Muscari armeniacum aka Grape hyacinths.
Iris reticulata 'Katherine Hodgkin'
The galanthus flowers will soon begone but we'll get to enjoy the grassy foliage for a short time before it, too, is a memory.
Camellias
Hellebores
Stachyurus praecox
Edgeworthia chrysantha
Arctostaphylos something or other
Arctostaphylos something else altogether
Species tulips have returned in the parking strip but haven't increased since they were planted a year ago.
Rosemary
Inherited lawn crocus.
Crocus tommasinianus planted a few years ago are spreading like wildfire.
Euphorbia wulfenii
Virbunum x bodnantense 'Dawn' whose blooms and fragrance have brought pleasure since autumn.
Lawn violets that appeared from nowhere and are slowly spreading. I still laugh about a flier left by a lawn spraying company at my door which listed violets as one of the weeds in my lawn. If they only knew...
Lonicera fragrantissima
Daphne odora
This is cheating as this Aristolochia californica (Califronia Pipe Vine) just came home with me from a plant sale.
Out in the greenhouse this salvia, labeled Salvia dombeyi is blooming but it looks as if it may have been mislabeled.
Fewer flower spikes this year on one clivia and the other has none. Hmmm. Maybe I should feed them and pot them up.
Yeah for five days ! Lovely spring blooms !
ReplyDeleteLet's hope that spring doesn't hold any cold surprises!
DeleteI am hoping that dividing and repotting will get my Clivia to bloom - yours is gorgeous! Those crocus are breathtakingly beautiful, and I am envious of your Grape Hyacinths photo. I have found it very difficult to get a clear photo of mine. Of course, my dog constantly running over them and me doesn't help. (Any time I bend over or hunker down to get a photo, she thinks I want to play!)
ReplyDeleteHappy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
Dogs know best - It's always time to play!
DeleteOh so many beautiful things to enjoy today at your garden. Alas, not at mine despite the date. One area of snowdrops are half up and one lone Hellebore is pushing a bud out of the ground but that is it. There was a famous incident here a number of years ago when one of those lawn spraying companies got their addresses mixed up. They sprayed a lawn that was a prairie not recognizing intentional planting from a weedy lot. What an uproar.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Spring will eventually make it your way! Wow, that spraying incident was unfortunate!
DeleteYou have a lot of lovely blooms in your garden, and it isn't even Spring yet. I particularly like how the crocus and viola bloom in the grass, but my favorite though it the Spanish moss that "borrowed" the salvia flowers for the occasion. Great combination.
ReplyDeleteThe Spanish moss does go well with that salvia.
DeleteSo many wonderful blooms in your garden! I sometimes think it would be nice to put Crocus in my lawn, but I might have to dismiss my lawn care company, they'd mow right over them without a thought. And I really hate that chore, so it won't happen. Love to see yours! My Muscari are still tiny little nubs, so interesting the difference between us caused by 600 feet of elevation.
ReplyDeleteThe Muscari are a cheat as they came in pots from Molbak's recently. However, those in the ground at my school in Milton are in bloom.
DeleteI do miss the Winter Honeysuckle and 'Dawn' viburnum in my former garden. I figured they would take up too much real estate here but perhaps I should reconsider. I love seeing your camellias!
ReplyDeleteSeems to be a trend to prune the 'Dawn' viburnum into a standard which would free up space beneath for other plants and the winter honeysuckle can take a lot of pruning. Neither is very interesting during the summer though.
DeleteThat white camellia is absolutely beautiful! So many other lovely blooms in your garden, too. I kept my clivias in the house this winter because the foliage didn't look as good when I kept them in the greenhouse, but that does mean the blooms are off-schedule and will probably be a bit funny this year. I'm determined to dig and divide my Galanthus this year after they finish blooming!
ReplyDeleteWe're so lucky to live in a climate where camellias thrive except when you plant new ones in the summer and forget to water them. Oops!
DeleteYour early spring garden is wonderful despite your nasty bouts with old man winter. Those crocus are heartbreakingly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that what we most admire in other gardens is what we can't grow in our own climates.
DeleteI love the lighting (golden hour?) on many of your blooms. Yes, I'm one of those with snowflowers only, so I gravitated right to your camillas and hellebores. Please, send spring our way!
ReplyDeleteI put spring in the mail addressed to you so it should arrive shortly:) The lighting is courtesy of the polarizing filter on my camera lens.
DeleteThose Camellias are gorgeous! My Camellias were full of buds but yesterday there were two hail storms in a matter of hours and many buds were broken and their foliage looks like it's been throug a shredder!
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about your hail damage!
DeleteYour blooms are gorgeous. I am amazed at how many you have what with the freeze and snow not so long ago. Your garden has recovered admirably. My poor garden is still thawing out. Not so much blooming but I am lovin every one.
ReplyDeleteI'm always impressed with how resilient most plants are.
DeleteThe garden is ramping up, hurrah!
ReplyDeleteIt's exciting!
DeleteYou have a wonderful selection of early blooms! I was enjoying the primroses and daffodils and the glossy yellow ranunculus glowing in the sun as we worked outside this afternoon. I found the first violets blooming too. and a Bewicks wren was carrying nesting material into a bird house over the potting bench.
ReplyDeleteSpring is in the air! I get to play in my garden all day tomorrow and am overjoyed!
DeleteIt must be fantastic to have so many things coming along. The hellebores in themselves could carry the garden through March but the crocus and everything else sure do add to the fun.
ReplyDeleteI'll accept your sympathy regarding the frost flowers.... that's all we've got right now...
Sorry Frank. Snow this late in the season would drive me crazy. Oh wait, I'm already there.
DeleteLooking quite lovely in the Garden du Outlaw...
ReplyDeleteMerci mon amie.
DeleteSo many lovelies in your garden, Peter. I covet your Stachyrus praecox. I have the S. salicifolia, but now that I know there is one that blooms on bare branches, I kind of wish I had that one instead!
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side S. salicifolia has foliage that looks grand year round while S. praecox is glorious with blooms on bare branches for a few months but the leaves are a bit unremarkable during the summer
DeleteWow, spring has really arrived in Tacoma. I'm green with envy (actually, there is no green, I'm mainly brown with envy). Love your lawn Crocuses!
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