What is blooming in your garden now?

Everything is so beautiful, and I appreciate everyone's pictures even though I have none to offer of my own right now (too swamped with exams and papers...aaagh). My Osmanthus burkwoodii is in bloom, and smells so good right now. I love it. I want to plant another between the kitchen window and the back door, so I can have the lovely aroma waft inside.

My beds here are looking good. I've been out weeding on every good day. I have the old front beds all weeded and some new plantings done. The beds were covered with old dead and rotten iris tubers. Had two garbage cans full. I left just the very end tuber in a wandering row down the middle of the bed so I can see what colors are there. I started on a backyard bed yesterday. I was dreading it because it looked so bad, weedy and rocky but I started lifting up the soil with a pitchfork and all the weeds came out quite readily. I weed here with a smile on my face. GREAT SOIL! My young neighbor came over and said she likes to weed. I told her she could come over anytime and indulge herself. Hope if she does she knows to get out the roots not just the top parts. LOL

Maury, the editor of Conde Nast House & Garden, Dominique something-or-other, wrote something really beautiful once about how she was too depressed to care for her garden after a divorce.

The garden kept doing its thing, getting a bit overgrown but still shielding her & offering beauty. "I had taken care of my garden for so long," she wrote. "And now it was taking care of me."

Service Berries

Rodies and contorta

My 2nd year for JM coral bark.

A few plants from the WSU plants sale in Pullman
This site is like living in the stone age ATP is much faster. Wish you guys would move over there.

lets try 2.

Three will not post so two is my limit. Hope everyone is well. Post more love to see what everyone is doing.

Your garden is so pretty. Love your primroses too.

Love the gazebo in the sky, spring!
So far I find ATP to be confusing to navigate.

That's next door. There is a hill behind me. Funny!
Thanks both of you, love spring.

Springcolor, you have some beautiful gardens with great colors and textures!

Kosk, I love the closeup of the red flowering currant buds about to pop.

Willow, I'm so glad you are feeling more at home in your new garden. See what a little springtime (and great soil) can do for a person?

Welcome suzyq, I don't think I've seen you post before, although I easily might have missed something in the last year.

Summerkid, That is a really touching quote about a garden taking care of you. Special, thanks for sharing it.
I also find ATP a bit confusing, and kind of overwhelming with extra stuff (words and visuals) and advertising, also, My friends are here, so I decided to stay here.

Thanks for the pics SC, all lovely. I've poked around on ATP a bit. Didn't find a PNW forum, closest thing was a Pacific Coast forum which seems to be primarily California. I also like the tools feature of DG for keeping track of my to do list and to journal my garden. I don't particularly consider it a blog although I guess others can follow it if they like, it's mostly for my own use. Would be hard to transfer that information. I 'do' FB but am not enamored of it - way too much silliness, but it's a good way to share photos with the family. I also follow a couple garden blogs but on a daily basis. It's easy to become scattered.

Back to topic: Iberis just opened, fruit tree buds are very swollen, the forget-me-nots are popping up wherever they like, and I'm daily finding new perennials shooting out of the ground. Seems there is such a small window to move things while they are still small and manageable. Has anyone tried to relocate Joe Pye? I think his roots are set in concrete! I'd like to move a whole patch of it from inside my herbs to just outside the fence and let it spread out into the field grass. It's such an extremely tall plant that I find it a bit difficult to place appropriately.

Your Joe is fantastic! Welcome suzyq.
I bought a new Iberis 'Masterpiece' It is should bloom all summer. We shall see

I have a beautiful red camillia in the front yard. The apple tree is showing color. The masses of grape hyacinths are beautiful and I have English blue and white bells all over. The wisteria has hundreds of buds. I am finding baby starts of yews, hazelnut, quince, lavender, lots of fun stuff. I'll get more pictures maybe I'll be able to post them.

Thanks for the welcome Maury and Spring. I've posted before...but its been a long while since I had let my membership lapse. :-) I was going to post a few pics of what I have blooming but I can't get it to work. Will have to try again later.

Yes, do!! Love to see pictures.

Looks like I can only post one pic at a time. I have this pretty little trillium blooming still.

Pasque flower!

Omphalodes..love this little plant.

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Bleeding heart just starting to bloom.

A few different things going on here :-)

Daffys still blooming

Cute little ranunculus ficaria. It disappears, leaves and all after it warms up. Pulmonaria in the background.

Very nice pics, Suzy! Thanks for posting.

my pic: Saxifraga with muscari, tulips, violas

Just beautiful!! Kosk love those colors.

Here is a pot I made using volunteer Johnny jump ups. Aphids in the greenhouse slowed down the growth, but I think I cleared the infection and it should be covered in glorious purple blooms pretty soon. I bought 3 of these pots for about 5 bucks on clearance. Made two others with violas and pansies that I started from seed. One with a trailing pansy 'Waterfall' or something and another with bronze colored violas.

Any tips on aphids in the greenhouse? I'm using Dr. Earth garlic infused spray pretty aggressively....it's working. But I sure wish they weren't there at all. They only went after (so far) my pansies/violas and hyacinth beans. And a few alyssum, too.

I bought some lady bugs one year. Then when it was summer and the greehouse was empty I opened the door. I also have good luck with insecticidal soap.

This way nice Monday. The hostas are showing.

Kosk - love your spring scene. I have a few similar saxifrage. Just love them! Spring - your hostas look good. Mine are all leaving out this week. Things are looking up in the garden! I have my first open clematis. Will try and snap some photos tomorrow.

Fothergilla 'Jane Platt' in bloom. I added three fothergillas last year (2 Mt. Airy, 1 Jane Platt) after learning about them on this DG Pacific NW forum!

Spring prep is complete with the accompanying May 1st flowers. I dug out via pickaxe a pampas grass and replaced with the red dwarf Japanese cedar; it turns green in warmer weather. And all my dahlias are now planted and sprouting.

I like that. Neat and tidy. Love the red cedar too.

My favorite rhodie...Blaney's Blue!

That is a beauty.

It is about 15 years old and I have never pruned it. Probably about 7 foot tall.

Things are really growing now that we had this wonderful stretch of warm weather.

Hi Beahive, That pond is so pretty. Did you make it yourself?

That iris is so pretty it makes my heart hurt to look at it. Love the blue flowers.

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