Showing posts with label corydalis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corydalis. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

In bloom this week: April 4, 2018

Flowering currant

March was a little chilly but surprisingly not too wet and the flowers seem to like that. My giant flowering currant bushes are reminding me why they're my favorite shrubs.

April showers are going to bring a mud pit to my back yard with contractors starting on retaining wall replacement tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy the spring flowers!

Forget-me-not
Chionodoxa
Chionodoxa
Corydalis
Grape hyacinth, moved into a pot right after I took this photo
Rosemary has bloomed all winter
Rock cress, all in front were planted from seed last year
Rock cress
Daffodils!
Daffodils, love these long trumpets
My current favorite daffodils
Or maybe this is my favorite
Forsythia
Oregon grape
Flowering currant
Flowering currant 
Can't get the whole flowering currant jungle in one picture
Saxifraga 'Touran - Deep Red'
Fritillaria meleagris
Probably Helleborus x ballardiae Gold Collection 'Maestro'
Helleborus 'Pink Frost'
Shooting star, not sure which dodecatheon this is
Tulips
Tulips, these are now in a planter to avoid the construction too
Kinnikinnick
Daisy, bellis perennis 'Tasso Red'


Some of the daffodils had to move all the way inside to get out of the way of the construction:



Thursday, March 15, 2018

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - March 2018

Hyacinth

Happy Ides of March! After record warm temperatures on Monday, it's definitely feeling like spring. A lot of winter blooms are still going strong, but spring is ready to shine. I seem to acquire a lot of blue and purple flowering plants, and this week the bulbs have been really glowing in the sunshine (and not phased by the rain either).

Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting this monthly roundup of blooms. There are plants blooming somewhere every month but now they're really taking off.... at least in the northern hemisphere. 

Hyacinth
Crocuses are starting to fade
Crocuses
Grape hyacinth popped out suddenly
Newly planted corydalis
Rock cress just starting to bloom
Helleborus x hybridus 'Black Diamond'
Helleborus x ballardiae Gold Collection 'Maestro'
Fading camellia 'Yuletide'
Fritillaria meleagris
Newly planted Saxifraga 'Touran - Deep Red'
Sunset maple
Cyclamen coum
Sunny daffodils

Daffodil
Forsythia in front of pieris japonica
One of my baby osoberry bushes has a bloom!


Indoors, one amaryllis is blooming for the second time this year. Also my Christmas cactus has had a few blooms at a time since January but I keep forgetting to get a picture. 


What's next? Flowering currant and Oregon grape are so close, plus a lot more daffodils.