Spring is in the Air and the Dirt

Show us your Spring. All pictures welcome.

Please post pictures of your spring blooming bulbs and anything else that says spring to you.

Sedum in my rock wall.

Gotta love the bright fresh green of the sedum Except where it "attaches" itself to the base of my other plants-gets in the nooks and crannies!
I don't think I've ever gotten this close to my crocuses before but I did the other day and was amazed at the...stigmas? those center orange things wide open. I thought Chantell and Becky would like this shot.

and wondering if anybody else has these daffs and knows a name for them Tall, early...
Yes Gita, I know, who cares! about official names?!?

Sally, I have never particularly noticed the stigmas of my Crocus but I will be looking. I have a similar daff but I think it is a later blooming daff and of course I have no idea of the name. I would have included another picture but today is a cold rainy dreary day and I'm not going outside until I have too. LOL

Yes sallyg, the feathery looking parts are the stigmas (at the end of a "style"...) Here's a neat page about crocus flower anatomy:

http://www.thealpinehouse.fsnet.co.uk/crocus%20pages/Crocus%204.htm



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Sally - I DO like that shot :)

claypa- thanks- some eye poppin pics there! I guess my Turtle BOTN 101 did its job eh?

OOOHH!! Hostas appearing today!! Not big, not all but still!!

I'm very excited, it is cold and rainy today but I went outside to snoop around and noticed that one of my new Iris reticulata 'Harmony' that I planted last fall is showing some color, if the weather improves like he weather guy said it will I may have a picture to post here this weekend.

claypa, who would have dreamed there are such variations in the center of a crocus, thanks for the link, and to Sally for posting the pic to get this all started.

Here it is! Iris reticulata 'Harmony'

Pulmonaria Mrs Moon, getting ready to bloom.

And my collection of crocus

pale blue that has been blooming a long time.

among the Tinkling toadstools

Lady, I love your Iris reticulata 'Harmony' . Last year I got some from a plant swap. Not sure what variety but they are Iris reticulata. Can't wait for them to bloom.

Yes, I know they are weeds and I am pulling them by the handfuls out of my garden but......

They are pretty

Vinca minor

holly- you and me both on the speedwell! both comments apply

Another picture of my Iris reticulata 'Harmony' . I think I should have clumped them together, but I was hoping they will multiply.

I love those little reticulatas. I need to get me some blue ones. I have purple. Here's some of my daffs.

Pink daffs

Another batch of pink daffs

A miniature daff, a blue grape hyacinth that apparently got lonely over the winter and a Toronto greigii tulip

Beautiful, hart. Love the white daff. I don't think I've ever seen a grape hyacinth flower without foliage before. One of my neighbors has hundreds of those Toronto tulips, they're neat.
Saw this bloodroot flower today:

OOO, pretty! I had a strange little teensy plant show up next to my pond and this spring it has a bloom. It looks just like that and I'm certain it's bloodroot. It either came in with another plant or seeded itself there because I don't think there's any growing anywhere around here.

Here's my perennial Fern's new growth unfurling....

Will take more pictures....gotta run! Be at work by 6AM.....sit there and stare at the walls for 3 hours before the rest of the World wakes up.....

Just a few pics from my new bed.

I can't do anything in the yard without help.

A few of the tulips are comming up.

That's a gorgeous daff, Holly. I like that grey furry thing you're growing too. LOL

That's Bubbles, She is a very old cat, although you would never know to see her and she sure doesn't look like or act like and old cat. She always helps me with my weeding and quite often sleeps on Ric's chest. LOL
Daffs are one of my favorites and I have quite a few different types and just ordered a lot more from the co-op.

Here is the whole bed. Can't really see the different daff from this angle. There are a couple different kinds blooming now and more to come. The clematis are coming up, too. I was very pleased that two of the ones from last year are coming back. I really wasn't sure they were pretty little.

Ooh, I want to play, too!

This is the last daff left blooming in my yard

And this is the last hurrah of my PJM Rhodie

Firespray tulips

Donald duck tulips

Jen where did you get the Donald Duck Tulips? He is my favorite charter, I have Mickey mums. And I love the color too.
And the red one just pop out of the picture, WOW

I ordered them from Breck's about 3 years ago. I know some people don't like Breck's but I've never had a problem with them. If something doesn't grow just call them up and they give you a refund/new bulbs no questions asked.