Anybody else have anything flowering right now? Here's a couple shots from my coffin. Chives, parrot tulips, heuchera (not open yet),lithodora, another L word flower I forgot. The flowers are electric blue, short perennials.I will show you mine if you show me yours

Those little blue flowers look like forget-me nots. Great pix!

Thanks, I just remembered the other blue ones, they are lobelia

Ok, but just remember, you asked for it.

Here are a few of my tulips.

Nice! Reddish tulips and blue muscari go so well together. I get comments from everyone that sees ours. Too bad the tulips didn't last as long as the muscari, though.

Peach Trumpet Daffs & Bleeding Heart a couple of weeks ago:


Some other shots taken yesterday morning (Saturday) outside my front door:

Nice gardenz! What is that lavender flowered shrub in the last 2 pics?

I'll get pictures up this summer, when the flowers are blooming. BTW, I think that's a lilac.

Thanks for this thread, it is so nice to see spring, even if only in pics.

maggie

ooohhh!!! You guys, this is sooooo inspiring!!

Dave - near the bottom is a dark purple thing. Is this the chive? Like an ornamental chive? I love it!!

Here are my pics - the battery completely died on me so I didn't get ones from the back. I actually have things growing and even blooming on the slope! On the slope are azaleas, geranuims, wood hyacinths, grass, day lilies coming up, other lilies coming up, petunias blooming, pholx blooming, the blue anemone still going. Here's one facing away from all this that I've described...



VERY early spring...


Here's the second year perennial bed. Green halo peony in the front, with fothergilla directly behind it - which had a few blooms on it this year - totally unexpected!! directly behind that is a dwarf red twig dogwood. On the right side are 3 white coneflowers leafing out. There are also resurrection lilies and a a few candy lilies starting to emerge. On the left side, I'm going to put some salvia, and the dark red coreopsis hasn't show signs of coming back to life yet.



Here's another shot with my precious - the sinocalycalycanthus in the back. It's maroon. Last year it had 1 flower! Oh, also the baptisia is blooming this year! There's the purple, and also the white, which hasn't bloomed yet.



Near the downspout and also hear the front are asiatic lilies - taller near the back.

Here's what I've been working on the weekend. Dipper gourds and cukes will grow up the trellis, and a clematis will also be near the side of this bed. You also see the garlic and hints of the big containers behind the steps. On the right, where you can't see, is a new perennial bed in the works.



Finally, here's another member of the family - which unfortunately does NOTHING to help out in the garden. Hiding in carrots.



I don't know what's wrong with me that I can't just post the pics without a dissertation on each pic, but hope you enjoyed the pics nonetheless.

Oh, if I had to make one (more!) comment, I'd say that I'm REALLY REALLY pleased with the perennials this year!! If anyone out there is planning to start a perennial bed, take the advice I got here last year. Someone said, "the first year is for planting, the second year is for growing and the third year is for blooming" or something like that. It really does take time for these plants to establish themselves. This year every plant is probably...3 times bigger, healthier, showier, has more blooms and just looks much better!

Hey Gardenz - I LOVE your stuff as usual!!! I think you're the goddess and you know that!

You know that hedge on the right of your front door? Do you need it? I wonder if it would open up the feel of your house and garden to get rid of it?

Greenish, the flowers look great, and your wall looks great, too.

M

Great pix, everyone!

Greenish, I think the quote on perennials is, "The first year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap". At least that's what mine do!

greenishthumb.. that one tall thing with a purple blossom is an allium family member, but I'm not sure what. But I didn't see any chives in any of the pics on here. But, hey, everything looked so lovely. I just wish my daughter would come home with my digital camera and show me how to up load pics of my blooming chives and columbine in the front yard.

The woods are alive with the cheerful spring yellow of trout lilies: