This year's first blooms

I have to admit right away that I don't know the names of most of these anymore. The combination of bad weather and burrowing cats has left me with many illegible or nonexistent tags and labels. I do know, and so will you, that this is a Gentiana of some sort, however.

It's probably easier to identify if you can see more of the foliage, so there it is. The little white blooms are an Anemonella thalictroides, which was recently renamed Thalictrum thalictroides.

Here's a nice Pleione.

This is Iris suaveolens.

This one -- I don't have a clue, but it's a sweet little thing.

Here's another one I can't identify:

This is most certainly a Lewisia, probably cotyledon:

Another Lewisia:

Yet another Lewisia:

And one more:

Lots of fancy double Primulas are blooming right now. This one is Dawn Ansell:

I don't know the names of the rest anymore, but I love this color:

Another double:

Another, in a delicious berry shade:

Here's another blue one:

And another delicious looking one:

Here's a different sort of Primula:

Edited to say these next few are Primula sieboldii.


This message was edited Apr 7, 2007 2:45 AM

Same sort, different color:

Two nice Primulas:

I know Pacific Coast Hybrid irises aren't alpine plants, but they're in bloom at the same time and they're small, so I always throw a few into these threads. Here's one that's blooming now:

And here's one more PCH Iris:

I can't resist posting some more Primulas. These are nothing fancy, just run of the mill Primulas, but they're so gorgeous.

I love this color combination:

Another great combination of colors:

This one looks sporty to me. It must remind me of denim.

Here's a demure one:

And this last one is Easter colors. Happy Easter, everyone!

Those are wonderful Zuzu!!! So nice to see so much color.

Could the white blooming one earlier (before the primula) be a sanguinaria
canadensis? blood root?

I have a cute little aster alpina blooming in my greenhouse but its a wildly
cold spring here now so not much beyond crocus and early daffodils etc
blooming here.

Tam

I'd say definitely bloodroot. Thanks for the pics Zuzu!

In your second pic, what are those large peltate leaves growing long with Thalictrum thalictroides?
T. ichangenese or koreana?

Happy Easter to you too! and thank you so much for all of the beautiful Easter-colored beauties!

Gorgeous primulas! You have some lovely plants!

Tammy, of course it's a Sanguinaria. Thank you. That's exactly where I planted one a couple of years ago. I never saw it again until now. This year's cold winter has had an amazing rejuvenating effect on some plants (and the opposite effect on others, of course).

Leftwood, that other one is Anemonopsis macrophylla. The Dodecatheon next to the Gentiana is just starting to bloom too. It has such a bizarre bloom.

Here are the blooms on the Dodecatheon. I kept taking pictures and they were getting lost in the background, so I had to take them from this strange angle and use the persimmon tree as a backdrop. The plant really isn't as tall as it looks in this photo, of course.

And here's another of the double Primulas blooming now:

Zuzu - wonderful photos :-) I've never seen those pretty double primulas before - you sure have a lot of pretty colored ones! Those red ones are just gorgeous - remind me of miniature roses ;-) Those iris are gorgeous too - especially the first PCH one - amazing colors!

Happy easter :-)

Rannveig

Thanks, Rannveig. That's one of my favorite PCH irises. I keep buying it every time I see it. Here's a picture of one I haven't even removed from the nursery container yet.

Zuzu, I have only seen Anemonopsis macrophylla as a mature blooming plant. Of course, it is quite tall, and I would have assumed that even young plants would initially send up a stalk similar to a bracken fern or sarsaparilla. Silly, aren't I. I never realized they had peltate leaves either.

Zuzu, that's a wonderful display! You are only 2-3 months ahead of me!

Zuzu - I have my own sanguinaria to add. Spring has brought us some bloom...
and lots of weeds and grasses. I need to clean out the beds so please ignore
this part of the pictures!

(Notice my erythronium are up and will be blooming soon!!!)

Tam

A very happy group of primula veris getting bigger each year
next to the spring