Come on, folks - I'm sure there's a lot more in bloom in your areas than here! Bulbocodium vernum started blooming on March 21st, then got buried by 10" of snow, and emerged again on April 4th. Here a little bunch after the latest (dare I hope, last?) melt...
I'm pushing it on this one... New buds on Aethionema oppositifolium. I haven't even washed the dust of winter off these guys yet!
You bet me to the punchline Lori...I was just about to post some pics! Here is my Scilla tubergeniana. I've tried Bulbocodium...bloomed once then disappeared. Our winters appear too wet for it to remain happy.
and my Aethionema oppositifolia IS open!
Erica carnea are out too...this one is Anne Sparkes...great pinkish winter colour on the foliage
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Eranthis hyemalis was THE first to open in the garden..about a week ago.
lots of crocus open and of course snowdrops. Looks the rest of the early bloomers will be missed as I head off to Ecuador for 3 weeks starting next Tuesday.
Harrumph . . .
In the warmest part of my warmest garden, I can barely see some buds coming on Corydalis solida. And my hellebore winter buds(at ground level - not flower buds) are finally breaking.
Here's my 'ole reliable... a draba sp I got from NARGS seed
exchange a few years ago.
And the ever lovely sanguineum canadensis Plena Flora
My double blood root is just breaking the surface....and I think I lost my Draba over the winter...hopefully some seedlings will appear!
my bloodroot in the front yard are just starting to emerge too. Its always
amazing how much difference you can get with the various microclimates.
Here's a little primula seedling - don't know what it is.
Not the best picture but always a welcome sight... a little anemonella thalicroides
As I'm sure you've all noticed, I'm not the best of keeping track of what
I have. Here's little white blooming guy that I am thinking is an androsace.
And a red primula - several in bloom.
Very nice! Your areas are so far ahead of us this year! Well, every year, I suppose, but this year especially with the record snowfall we had.
Tammy, your white-flowered plant is a Brassicaea, as shown by the 4-petalled flowers, so perhaps an arabis (but not an androsace which has 5 petals). My primroses (the deciduous ones) are just emerging, as the snow melted off them the other day... no buds yet on the evergreen ones.
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I've been waiting for this thread to see wonderful alpine plants
of you all!
Epimedium diphyllum
Oh Tod, love that Scilla tubergeniana! So very cute, and it would grow here I'll bet.
Colchicum kesselringii that was planted last year... somewhat underwhelming, as I was hoping it would have the purple stripes on the outside!
Another Colchicum we can't grow...I'm amazed what can survive in Calgary!
Iris Katherine Hodgkin is gracing me for a second year. At one time these spring iris were only annual for me but now they have become firmly perennial.
and good ole I. reticulata
and my fav crocus species, C. etruscus
Interesting - I thought colchicums were all fall blooming.
Todd-- love the little beauties! Are you getting bloom earlier than
typical this year?
Tam
Seems to be a bit early...we have had 2 weeks of temps in the upper 40's to mid-50's and things have really popped!
FINALLY! I have something blooming.
A plain old double Snowdrop.
Todd, why is etruscus your favorite?
The stripping (what little there is) is interesting. And it does have a cool name, though.
The crocuses started to bloom on Thursday, and strangely, the areas in bloom are nowhere near the usual first ones... it's odd what a difference snow cover (which we don't usually have for any length of time) can make!
Crocus chrysantha (and one C. vernus):
hard to say why etruscus is among my favs...maybe because I bought them as plain ole tommies and ended up with a relatively scarece species. The outer striping is also attractive.
However, I guess my overall fav is C. sieberi 'Hubert Edelsten'
Just look at the striking markings on the outside! One of the local NARGS members is a crocus fanatic and parted with a few bulbs for me...glad he did!
First Chionodox sardensis are open. The peak of the Chionodoxa is about a week away. I'll miss the next 3 weeks of blooms while I'm gone....the first dafs should be open when I return. I hope I don't miss all the Kabschia Sax blooms as most are well into bud now.
This is my patch of sanguinaria canadensis flore pleno - it's one of the highlights of this time of year in my garden.
Jeffersonia dubia taken today.
Aquilegia viridiflora - I'm thrilled with this as I grew it from seed.
Pulsatilla georgica
And romulea bulbocodium from today
Wow...you are close to 2 months ahead of me!
is that a camelia in bloom?? And the white littel bloom - epimedium?
Very very nice. You are indeed ahead of us here too
Tam
Here's a better shot of the anemonella thalictroides. My cat Fred put his
paw there for perspective. :-)
I never noticed the stamens on J. dubia doing the Stone Henge thing before. I'll have to check closer on my plants this season.
Wow, the feathering on that Crocus s. is certainly to exclaim about.
Most excellent.
It took me several tries of growing A. viridiflora from seed, each time turning out to be something else, before I got the real thing. Now, seeing that the foliage is so different from other columbines, it's easy to discard them at an early stage.
Yes the foliage is very different on the aquilegia isn't it? And yes that is my Debbie camellia above the sanguinaria - the white plant is Cardamine trifolia. Here is a close up.
ANother new one to me. That's lovely (the cardamine trifolia)!
