Is it spring anywhere?

BP - we're getting 31. Pulled in my annuals, which were still in pots, and covered my regales and those I gave to a neighbor who isn't home. I learned the hard way a few years ago that those are a bit tender. Covered my remaining Amethyst Temples too.

My plants made it thru last nite, but for tonite we have a freeze warning and can expect 30 degrees. My potted plants are in the garage those growing in the garden well I just hope they are tough enough to make it as there are too many to possibly cover.

Hi Daylily,

It may work out - I have had annuals in the ground through frosts like this and they were a bit damaged, so they took some time to recover, but they may well be OK. The perennials, unless they are the tender type, will probably be fine.

Hi DonnaMack,
I was talking about perennials hope the lilys be ok. I plant very few annuals in the ground and never this early, most of the annuals here get potted up...Betty

Looking out, I think all my things are ok. They usually are. Thank goodness for hardiness!

Went down to 34 only. Our last frost date is one week away. Fabulous! I take it that it was a false alarm for everyone?

Please?

33.1 here. unscathed!

'Tis spring here. The daffodils and tulips are always nice, but I never feel quite 'safe' until everything greens up and other things start blooming.

Donna, your arabis looks great - that is something I have never tried. Almost looks like you could use it as a groundcover? I wonder how it would do down here?

BP and Rita, wonderful irises. Rita, your TB iris is not too far after mine in bloom time. I love the blue color.

Good luck to all of you with your upcoming frost warnings. I hope everything makes this through unharmed.

Moby, your garden looks beautiful. First time I have ever seen you post pics of spring bulbs! Love the contrast with your so-green yard.

Found this blooming yesterday...

And this, in my new bed...

Everything is well here today too. Whew, I'm so glad. I have way too many beds to bother trying to cover....

Lovely lilies, Stevie!! Who are they? :)

Excellent that everyone seems to have escaped the frost.

Steve, arabis (and I edited the threads above because it only has one U), is a great plant to throw in a place where you need attractiveness and steady coverage. Mine stays evergreen in winter - amazing. I have read that it struggles in zones 8 and 9. I put in a patch on both sides of the yard and it is doing really well, and spreading, in a section of my yard I can see from my window. All I do is cut it back when it becomes scraggly. At first I bought it but then I realized that I could grow it. Once established, it creeps beautifully.

Ah, those lilies of yours! So wonderful!

I did notice that out in the newer bed some of the lilies got a little scorched. But they should come out of it.

Wind has slightly dammaged a very tall lily.
Bent but not broken from winds for 3 days,gusts 55 mph

Donna, a lot can change in a week!

Magnolialover, it's great to find nothing got touched!

Moby, beautiful yard! What a great bed around the tree!

Steve, beautiful and beautiful serene colors!

Ge, I am so sick of wind. our's is out of the east , but has stayed a breeze. We have rain chances.

Yesterday, I worked all afternoon on weeding out tiny speedwell sprigs from around flowers. Grrr, I'm so going to Preen today!! It's supposed to be an annual. It needs to go! It's all over the lawn, but DH sprayed it and it's dying. If only the seeds were dead too, but I doubt it.

We had a freeze here last night. The lilies have that dark green watery look. Not happy!

Oh no! I hope not. That is so sad. Do you have a lot of them?

Thanks for your sympathy bp! I am just sick. It isn't just the lilies. The iris, tree peonies, etc. Anything that is in bud. I don't have anywhere near as many lilies as some of the folks on this forum, but about 75 that are up. I realize this probably won't kill them, but if I gardened just to see green, I would have all grass. :( I am not trying to be sarcastic, I am just heartbroken. Another of Mother Natures reality checks.
I am hoping some of them that don't show the buds yet will be able to bloom this year.
Time will tell. Maybe I'll get lucky but they are calling for frost tonite & Wed. night too. I am glad that my new lily bulbs from the co-op are not up yet!

I don't think you are overreacting. I remember one year when things were not really going well in general, and we had a sharp frost and I looked outside to see that all of my regales were trashed and I started boohooing like crazy. You do this to create beauty in your yard, and while the bulbs aren't dead it means nothing for this year.

The only consolation I have for you is that they will store up extra energy from not blooming, and when they return next year they will be wonderful, stronger than ever for getting a year off.

I'm so sorry this has happened.

Donna

Buggy Crazy's dwarf blue camassia, would would turn their nose up to spring at the sight of this?

And here is another Buggy camassia, this time in pink ;) I have them scattered throughout my flower beds and they are just adorable.

Let's hope for no more cold weather! Just a nice mild start to a pleasant and beautiful gardening season.

Tracey,

I have camassia quamash and semiplena, but that pink camassia is truly something special - adorable is a good term!

I've so enjoyed following everyone's springtime developments. Very sorry to hear about the cold and wind damage though. My annuals and tender things are still in the garage till it's warmer, but in general I'd say this has been a banner spring so far. Very lush, with exciting things to come from clematis and climbing roses in particular. So far I've got a couple of lily no-shows that I'm sure about -- at least one from Buggy, an oriental, "luxurious" -- only two out of three have shown up. And looks like I'm losing one new Sumatra from the cold, I guess, though can't say for sure what's done it in. Also it looks like a few longer established North hybrids haven't made it thru the winter. And then there are the lilies that are too close to the fence, or to each other. If I'm worried about anything gardenwise it's the lilies. But it's always the lilies!

Love love LOVE all the spring photos. Such beauty!

I'm on the Lily page with you Wickerpicker. They are most important to me.

Sumatra is pretty cold hardy, are you sure it's not there? We had a pretty nice winter here, so it would really surprise me that you lost it to the cold. Sometimes they shoot over a bit "off" from where they were planted. It can drive you nuts, especially when you label them and it blooms next to a different label. Lol. And the North hybrids are some hardy little bulbs. 'Karen North' comes up later here, is up now, but not as far as many others. She always catches up though ;)

I hope you find all your lost beauties. They just gotta be there, they just gotta ;)

Sumatra's there, but it flopped and the stem is bent. I've got it propped up in hopes that it'll be okay, but it's looking pretty pathetic. The other two are aok though. I can't remember where I planted most of my new lilies last fall, as I did a major overhaul, moved everything around, and couldn't deal with labels. But I left a clump of North lilies where they were, and I'd be shocked if they showed up this late, just 'cause everything, even the latest emergers, are pretty big now. Seem to have lost some LA lilies in the same spot. Must've got too damp there this winter.

Those "luxurious" lilies, by the way, are scary fat. Oh, Buggy!

Laura, we need pictures of your newly arranged gardens!! :)

Hi Diann! Oh it's just the lilies that I relocated. Everything else is still pretty much the same. Except that I've stuck a clematis wherever I could squeeze one in.

Well, that is still worthy of pictures. :)

Mattsmom, my heart would be heavy too. You wait all year for the special flowers and not to have a bloom is very disappointing. I'll bet you do have some blooms. Oh no! I really hope the weather guys are wrong!

Donna, exactly. We do boo hoo and we mean every tear!

Magnolialover, beautiful Camassia! I love those lilac blues and pale pinks together! The all pink are just as pretty! They're something I've considered, but I'm not sure why I don't have them :o) usually it's due to agressive spreading or they need acid soil.

Wickerparker, I agree, it's the lilies I get most heartbroken over if they die or dwindle. I think my Sumatra is showing. I've only had it a couple of years now and need to move it. It's another that was placed quickly and never got it's own place yet.

Ditto Ge!

Ticker's right! Pictures, even if it's last years!

Last year's Sumatra wit daylily Bonanza

oooo... can't wait for Sumatra! So pretty with the yellow.

I'm sure I won't be shy with the pictures once things start popping. Can't wait for the lily forum party to get into full swing.

billyporter, they have no need for acidic soil and they are not aggressive. They are a spring treasure, nothing more, nothing less ;)

OK, Tracey that makes sense. My camassia quamash is on fairly alkaline soil and doesn't sread. Semiplena is sterile.

Wickerparker, Thanks! I'm having to rely on old pictures right now. It's been too windy to even take any lately.

Magnolialover. I sure do like them. I'll have to look into it next year. I have a lack of spring bulb color because gardener that I am, I dislike planting when it's windy and cold :o) I also don't have a place I can dig deep enough to get a bulb in, much less three. That's what this year is for. Reform!

I see in the last few posts I made, all over Dave's, I missed a key on a lot of words. I usually proofread better than that because I don't type well!

Dizzy, an Oriental, was a freebie from Dutch gardens in 2007

Ah, it's enthusiasm with the typos. I just LOVE that old edit key!

Ok, I went out and looked at the lilies in the new bed tonight. The Asiatics seem to have done fine. The Orienpets and Trumpets are pretty sad looking and I doubt that they are going to do much if anything now.

Oh, Diann, that does look sad. Is it just in this one bed, I hope?

Those TB iris that bloomed for me must have been the extra early ones. I have been waiting for others to open up but not yet.

I aquired some from a iris farm yesterday

Donna, that's true, enthusiasm!

Ticker, you're just that much farther north than me. What a shame!

Rita, I hope they wait for a warmer day to open so you can enjoy them better.

Ge, beautiful!! Any names to go with them?

It's another cloudy breezy chilly day with a chance for rain. May is going to be wasted :o(