What's blooming in your garden?

Okay. Just wanted to get us started for spring. Here's a sample of what's blooming at my house, starting with Prunus cerasifera (purple leaf plum):

This is good old dependable Forsythia.

Here's Spirea thunbergii, breath of spring:

Iberis sempervirens starting to bloom.

Of course, winter daphne, the queen of spring:

Here's Bergenia `Tubby Andrews' with flower stalks forming, not yet blooming, but soon:

Hellebores:

Violas and tulips (which look surprisingly more like daffs):

Your Hellebores look much happier than mine do. They're particularly anemic this year for some reason.

I have Spring Snowflakes. :)
Deb

Peach Tree is about to pop.

..and of course....the Bradford Pear. :)

Also blooming are a few Azaleas, some Grape Hyacinths and Daffs., a couple of Iris, and even a Clematis.

Hate to think what this freeze is going to do. :(
Deb

Me, too, Deb, but I'm trying to think about how good all the rain has been for the plants :-)

Beautiful shot of your blooms, especially the peach tree with your visitor.

Well Hells Bells!! No wonder my forsythia doesn't bloom in the summer. I keep looking at that little clump that one of my patients brought to me from his wife's garden...waiting..waiting..for it to bloom. I thought it bloomed in the summer!! It is off in a corner that I don't really look towards or notice..but I do remember to check every single summer ...but I thought it was just sterile or had the wrong conditions for bloom. If it wasn't raining so hard, I'd go check right now.

Your daphne leaves have white edges --mine are solid.

My Daphne has white/yellow edges, too. It's variety Carol Mackie, Deb's could be the same. I love it, I can smell it all over the yard.

Did you see it's going to be really cold again tomorrow? They're forecasting 25F for my area.

Ha! Missingrosie, that's very funny. Thanks for the laugh. Yeah - check on that lil ole Forsythia in spring this year. :)

I should look on the bright side because we did get 4" of rain in the last 24 hrs.

I forgot to add, that the lonicera (Al. Crimson) is blooming, too, but no pics yet.

Deb

Once again, gals, the daphne is compliments of my mother, who never thinks to find out the cultivar, and with the daphne, I don't mind. It makes up for that minor fault with its divine fragrance!

We had 4" of rain here too, it was wonderful. The temp never dropped like it was forecast to, we stayed above 40. The birds are singing and it is time for spring!

I've still got many camellias blooming; I purposely bought early blooming varieties so I would have some in December and they never start until mid February. Go figure.

The azaleas are starting to put on their show.

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A few ground orchids - Bletilla maybe?

A very sad Kalenchoe. Their flowers fade badly when it is unusually cold.

I can never remember the name of this one. It is not a favorite plant.

Lovely, ardesia!

Is that a white camellia beside the Bletilla?

Yes thanks, it is Nuccio's Pearl. I took a picture of the whole bush, it was covered with flowers but they all came out like white spots, no definition. My cameral skills are sorely lacking. I'll have tot ry again.

ardesia - I think your yellow flower is a bush daisy (Euryops).

One more cold night here (15F) and then it's supposed to warm up. I just hope nothing gets too badly frozen. Here is one of my hellebores in the snow.

Here are a few from last week, before the snow.

Crocus ...

another crocus...

Daffodil 'Monal'

Ya gotta love Crocus. So cheery!

Ditto on the crocus and we rarely see them down here, they must not like the salt or the humidity.

You are right Tom the plant is Euryops, it's no wonder I can't remember that name. Good grief, who comes up with these monikers.

I've got some creeping Phlox. :)

Some pale pink Azaleas, too.

Narcissus "Avalanche"

sigh

every year I forget to take a photo of my early Marieke daffs. (large yellow upturned trumpet). They started blooming as I was leaving for Texas. Just got back and I've lost the camera. They're almost out.

but I found a bulge on an SDB iris today! my first. guess it was the two snows. Hyacinths in full bloom. Neighbors' forsythias are in bloom, not mine.

All my TB irises are looking very very happy. can't wait for late April

I just bought this... it's one of the Forever & Ever hydrangeas called "Peppermint". I thought I'd take it's picture while it's pink. It will turn blue soon like all the others in my garden.

I forget about this azalea every year until it bursts into bloom.

Dogwood blossoms. This one is prolific with it's offspring. I've been digging them up and planting them about the yard.

I always think the sedum looks like flowers when they first emerge.

Pot of "left for dead" pansies from Lowe's. They were 50 cents and they've recovered well.

B&J: Don't you just love that? Some of my best plants have been dead-looking sale plants at Lowe's, my hydrangea `Blaumeise,' for example:

Jenny, I think you had better bring that Hydrangea peppermint to my house. It will stay pink here. :-)